Sensors

From basic research to applications

Diabetessensor — Sensor in printed electronics Photographer: Thor Balkhed

Extensive research is being conducted into sensors used to monitor water, air and other environmental factors, both chemical and optical. This research covers also various types of biosensor. Leading research is also carried out into sensor fusion, with many practical applications.

This research area covers everything from pure basic research to applied research and spin-off companies.

Examples of sensors that are studied are various types for gas measurement, monitoring emissions of NOx and sulphur dioxide, particle detectors, graphene-based sensors, and much more.

Research is also carried out into sensor systems connected to the internet of things, for environmental control both indoors and outdoors.

Sensor fusion is a further area in which LiU leads the field, with applications such as directing autonomous vehicles, navigating in smoke-filled corridors, and preventing the poaching of extinction-threatened animals in Africa.

Biosensors

Biosensors are another field in which research at LiU has a strong position. One of the results of this research is a blood-sugar gauge of credit-card size for people with diabetes. The goal of this research is to develop biosensors that make life easier for people with various types of disease, and that provide greater independence and a greater degree of individually tailored medication. Biosensor are also studied for the development of biological pharmaceuticals and diagnostic agents.

Highly praised research is also being conducted into chemical and optical sensor systems built into a chip, known as “lab-on-a-chip”. A disposable test stick can act as a complete tiny laboratory, and the results can be sent to the caregiver by, for example, mobile phone.

Several spin-off companies have arisen from this research, such as SenSIC AB (environmental monitoring), Wiotech AB (systems connected to the internet of things) and SenionLab AB (indoor tracking).

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Edwin Jager, IFM, along with his co-applicant Nils-Krister Persson at Swedish School of Textiles

Continued funding for textile muscles

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New technology to secure future harvests

Wars, natural disasters and climate change bring huge challenges for the agriculture industry, which must at the same time provide food for a growing population. Future high-technology solutions can increase food production in a sustainable manner.

Research

Organic Energy Harvesters

Our vision is to create the next generation of green, cheap, reliable energy devices for the coming revolution of internet of everything. The emphasis is to combine energy conversion and mechanical compatibility for flexible and wearable electronics.

Nucleic Acids Technologies Lab

The Nucleic Acids Technologies Lab explores the use of nucleic acids as biorecognition molecules to develop highly specific and sensitive systems, with various detection modalities.

Laboratory of molecular materials

We are a multidisciplinary team with a passion for science. Our research is focused on design and development of molecules, soft materials and hybrid nanoscale components and devices for a wide range of biomedical applications.

Strategic research

Advanced Functional Materials - AFM

Advanced Functional Materials, AFM, is an interdisciplinary research environment conducting studies in advanced functional materials. The initiative is based on a government investment with strategic research areas as its foundation.

Security and emergency management

Our vision is to establish a world-leading platform for strategic interdisciplinary research in crisis management, security and the protection of public infrastructure.

Automatic control

The research illustrates the wide scope of the control field with projects ranging from theory development to industrial applications, covering both core control design and system analysis approaches as well as control-related estimation problems.

Electronics

Excellent electronics research is conducted at LiU within several important areas for society: energy supply, future health care and the internet of things. At Campus Norrköping, there is a fully equipped EMC lab for testing electronic equipment.

An organic electronic ion pump (OEIP). The device uses electrophoretic transport through thin polymer films to deliver ions, neurotransmitters, plant hormones, and other small charged molecules into living tissue.

Organic Bioelectronics

We investigate the transduction between electronic signals and ionic/molecular signals in electroactive surfaces, iontronic chemical delivery and circuitry, biosensors, mimicking neural function, next-generation medical therapy, and many other areas.

Sensors

From basic research to applications

Biosensors