This micro accelerometer will change the way gaming and wearable devices are designed in the future

Accelerometer is one of the important parts on many electronic devices, including smartphones or game consoles. So the creation of micro accelerometers promises to change the way such devices are made.

The accelerometer in smartphones is often used to measure the direction of the device, so creating a micro-accelerometer promises to help extend the scope of application of this important part.

Accelerometer in smartphones brings many important applications in life today.

The researchers used graphene, a highly conductive material, to create the world's smallest accelerometer. The new technological achievement created by researchers at the Royal KTH Institute of Technology is believed to be a potential breakthrough for body sensors and navigation technology used on mobile devices and game consoles.

Accelerometer in smartphones brings many important applications in life today. They are made up of sensors, including microscopic crystalline structures that are stretched by the acceleration force, so they can determine the speed and direction.

Acceleration sensor allows changing the camera on your smartphone from horizontal to vertical by moving the smartphone. It also allows mapping applications to calculate the speed you are moving and other motion-based features.

Now the latest advance in nanotechnology has enabled scientists to create a micro accelerometer, made of graphene , the material being used to make seawater filters.

Graphene promises to be the material of application for many new technologies of the future

A research team from the Royal KTH Institute (Sweden), RWTH Aachen University and AMO GmbH Research Institute have succeeded in creating a new accelerometer that can be used in cardiovascular disease monitoring systems and devices. be worn.

Xuge Fan, a researcher at the Department of Micro and Nanoscience at KTH, explains graphene and its unique properties help him and his team create this micro accelerometer.

Fan said: "Based on the surveys and comparisons we have made, we can say that this is the smallest accelerometer in the world".

He also compared the advancement of nanotechnology with the creation of smaller devices and computers. The benefits of nanotechnology clearly make it easy for smartphones to navigate, play games, count their steps and a variety of heart disease monitoring systems, ultra-small motion tracking wearable devices.

Other potential uses of this technology include micro sensors and actuators such as resonators, gyroscopes and microphones.

The team expects to commercialize this technology soon in the near future. Along with enabling the production of this micro accelerometer technology, graphene will continue to be a potential metamaterial in the future.

Research on the micro accelerometer has been published in Nature Electronics recently.

Refer to Interesting Engineering