The Si114x infrared (IR) and ambient-light sensors are claimed to be the industry’s most power-efficient (less than 1 mA system power), most sensitive, and longest-range (50-cm sensing range) ...

Light-emitting diodes -- LEDs -- can do way more than illuminate your living room. These light sources are useful microelectronics too. Smartphones, for example, can use an LED proximity sensor to ...

The User Interface (UI) implementation has evolved over the past few years. The addition of electronics to implement capacitive user interface has enabled system designers to create differentiated ...

Vishay has introduced a surface mount proximity sensor that can pick up objects 200mm away. Called VCNL30204, the 4.85×2.35×0.83mm devices includes lenses, an IR emitter, PIN photodiode, a 16bit ADC ...

[mircemk] shows how to create a simple non-contact proximity sensor using little more than an Arduino Nano board, and a convenient software library intended to measure the value of capacitors. The ...

Thanks to the iPhone 4S teardown at iFixit, there may now be an explanation for why Apple restricts the Siri intelligent assistant feature to the iPhone 4S. Apparently, it is indeed a hardware related ...

Editors' Note: There is a photo associated with this press release. ZMD AG (ZMDI), a Dresden-based semiconductor company that specializes in enabling energy efficient solutions, today announces the ...

LEDs are used in all manner of projects and devices from living room lights to microelectronics. One example in a common device is the use of an LED proximity sensor in many smartphones. That sensor ...