Microsensor Program

SRI's Microsensor Program offers sensor and microfabrication expertise to solve our clients' needs in the area of microsensors and microsystems. Areas of expertise include:

• Assessing the technology and its markets by means of market-oriented analysis of in-house and outside activities
• Exploring new sensing or transduction principles
• Altering device design without modifying an existing technology
• Combining established technologies to meet special needs
• Modifying device fabrication procedures to reduce size or cost
• Identifying new sensor products and applications
• Field tests in environments ranging from underwater to the arctic
• Optical and infrared instrument development
• Fiber-optic and electro-optic devices
• Imaging, video, and camera systems
• Experiment design, data collection, and analysis

Sensors can provide important benefits in health care, the food industry, agriculture, environmental monitoring, and on-line process control:

• In the health-care industry, sensors allow continuous monitoring of critical parameters and better bedside monitoring, thus improving patient care.
• In the food industry, biosensor technology applied to quality control can save a significant amount of money that is currently lost through product quality failure.
• In agriculture, sensors can determine the quality of soil in terms of moisture, p-H, electrolytes, and other biorelated compounds.
• In environmental monitoring, sensors can provide inexpensive monitoring of air and water quality.
• Optical and infrared instrument development
• Fiber-optic and electro-optic devices
• Imaging, video, and camera systems
• Experiment design, data collection, and analysis

The Microsensor Program staff have in-depth experience in all of the above-mentioned areas, and many of our projects have led to patentable concepts.