Sentences with phrase «convert electronic signals»

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And converting starlight efficiently into a detectable electronic signal was crucial for transit photometry.

Measuring just microns across, these tiny devices convert light into electrons, whose subsequent movement generates an electronic signal.

This chemical reaction is then converted into an electronic signal, allowing the police officer to read off the result.

Similar to the way a grandfather clock's pendulum ticks off the seconds before signaling the gears to turn its hands, frequency combs count oscillations and convert them into useful electronic signals.

When hooked up to an electronic sensor, the pad converts signals from the sensor into small pulses of electric current across the grid, which the tongue «reads» as a pattern of tingles.

They also changed the electrode setup and added another layer of flexible electronic devices, known as ring oscillators, which convert the electrical signals emerging from the touch sensitive pyramids to a stream of digital electrical pulses.

Much as a pendulum in a grandfather clock requires gears to record its swings and slowly turn the clock's hands, an optical atomic clock uses an optical frequency comb to count the oscillations of light and convert them into a useful electronic signal.

«Because light does not easily interact with itself, information sent using light must be converted into an electronic signal, and then back into light.