Digid, a pioneer of nanoscale sensing technology, has announced that its patented printed electronics fabrication technology has been fully qualified for volume production of temperature and force sensors as small as 1µm long.
Digid says its sensors are believed to be the world’s smallest, and are set to become even smaller: The company’s technology roadmap forecasts future production of sensors that are just 10nm long.
The company says this nanoscale sensing technology provides the key that will unlock the potential of multiple emerging markets, including physical AI and humanoid robots. Digid offers the opportunity for machines to mimic human sensory capabilities: its nanoscale printed sensors can be applied to surfaces such as a robot’s shell in arrays of up to 16 x 16 sensors.
Dr Konstantin Kloppstech, Chief Technology Officer of Digid said: “With the start of mass production of Digid sensors, the opportunities to embed sensing on almost any surface or in almost any device have become limitless. Our sensor is so small that it cannot be seen with the naked eye. Now it is up to the imaginations of design engineers to dream of uses for sensing where sensing has never before been possible.”
For each design project, Digid supplies a custom sensor and sensor assembly backed by hardware and software integration support. The sensor provides either a voltage or resistance measurement output via an I2C interface. Digid signal processing software converts the raw measurement outputs to useful temperature or force data.
