Sensing & Measurement Books

About Time
by David Rooney
Review
Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond
by Ashley Jean Yeager
Review
Particle Detectors
by Hermann Kolanoski and Norbert Wermes
Review
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
by Bimal Bhattacharya, George P. Petropoulos, Heiko Balzter, Prashant K. Srivastava, Prem Chandra Pandey
Review
Organic Electronics
by Stephen R. Forrest
Review
Robots in Space
by Dr Ezzy Pearson
Review
Introducing Photonics
by Brian Culshaw
Review
AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by Peter Dauvergne
Review
Introduction to Computer Holography
by Kyoji Matsushima
Review
Photonics and Fiber Optics
by Tarun Kumar Gangopadhyay, Pathik Kumbhakar and Mrinal Kanti Mandal
Introduction to Quantum Electronics and Nonlinear Optics
by Vitaliy V. Shtykov and Sergey M. Smolskiy
Review
Principles of Medical Imaging for Engineers
by Michael Chappell
Review
Modern Optics Simplified
by Robert D. Guenther
Review
The Smallest Lights in the Universe
by Sara Seager
Review
Optical Communications
by Martin Sibley
Review
Handbook of Lasers
by Marvin J. Weber
Review
The World According to Physics
by Jim Al-Khalili
Review
Optical WDM Networks: From Static to Elastic Networks
by Devi Chadha
Review
Multiphoton Microscopy
by Espen Hartveit
Review
The Contact Paradox
by Keith Cooper
Review
Introduction to Optical Microscopy
by Jerome Mertz
Review
Optical Inspection of Microsystems Second Edition
by Wolfgang Osten
Review
Wavefront Shaping for Biomedical Imaging
by Joel Kubby, Meng Cui, Sylvain Gigan
Review
Handprints on Hubble
by Kathryn D. Sullivan
Review
Holography: Principles and Applications
by Raymond K. Kostuk
Review
Computer Holography
by Tomoyoshi Ito and Tomoyoshi Shimobaba
Review
Harold Edgerton: Seeing the Unseen
by Deborah Douglas, Gus Kayafas, Ron Kurtz
Review
Optical Effects in Solids
by David B. Tanner
Review
Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All
by Arthur Holland Michel
Review
Imaging Optics
by Joseph Braat and Peter Török
Review
Graphene Photonics
by I-Tan Lin, Jia-Ming Liu
Review
More Things in the Heavens
by Michael Werner and Peter Eisenhardt
Review
The Crowd and the Cosmos
by Chris Lintott
Review
Lightwave Communications
by George C. Papen and Richard E. Blahut
Review
Neurophotonics and Biomedical Spectroscopy
by Lingyan Shi and Robert R. Alfano
Review
Vortex Laser Beams
by Alexey P. Porfirev, Victor V. Kotlyar
Review
Lasers, Death Rays, and the Long, Strange Quest for the Ultimate Weapon
by Jeff Hecht
Review
Sun and Moon: A Story of Astronomy, Photography and Cartography
by Mark Holborn
Review
Principles of Solar Cells, LEDs and Related Devices: The Role of the PN Junction
by Adrian Kitai
Review
Quantum Nano-Photonics
by Baldassare Di Bartolo, Luciano Silvestri, Maura Cesaria, andJohn Collins
Review
Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science
by Robyn Arianrhod
Review
Professor Maxwell’s Duplicitous Demon: The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell
by Brian Clegg
Review
The Laser Inventor: Memoirs of Theodore H. Maiman
by Theodore H. Maiman
Review
Einstein’s Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable
by Seth Fletcher
Review
Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution-and Why America Might Miss It
by Susan Crawford
Review
Understanding Optics with Python
by Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, Hassen Ghalila, Ahmed Ammar, and L. Srinivasa Varadharajan
Review
Fundamentals of Optomechanics
by Daniel Vukobratovich and Paul Yoder
Review
Self-Organized Lightwave Networks: Self-Aligned Coupling Optical Waveguides
by Tetsuzo Yoshimura
Review
Engineering Optical Networks
by Sudhir Warier
Review
Fiber-Optic Sensors for Biomedical Applications
by Daniele Tosi and Guido Perrone
Review
Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality
by Bill Kilday
Review
Optical MEMS, Nanophotonics, and Their Applications
by Guangya Zhou and Chengkuo Lee
Review
The Consolations of Physics: Why the Wonders of the Universe Can Make You Happy
by Tim Radford
Review
Applications for Modern RF Photonics
by Preetpaul Singh Devgan
Review
Handbook of Optical Engineering, Second Edition, Two Volume Set (Optical Science and Engineering)
by Daniel Malacara-Hernández and Brian J. Thompson
Review
Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices
by Zhigang Rick Li
Review
Thermoplasmonics: Heating Metal Nanoparticles Using Light
by Guillaume Baffou
Review
Single and Multicomponent Digital Optical Signal Analysis (IOP Expanding Physics)
by Rishikesh Kulkarni and Pramod Rastogi
Review
Physics of Digital Photography (IOP Expanding Physics)
by Andy Rowlands
Review
The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job
by Emily Lakdawalla
Review
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
by Simon Winchester
Review
Seeing: How Light Tells Us About the World
by Tom Cornsweet
Review
Nonlinear Optics: a student’s perspective: With python problems and examples
by Mark G. Kuzyk
Review
Inventing a Space Mission: The Story of the Herschel Space Observatory (ISSI Scientific Report Series)
by Vincent Minier, Roger-Maurice Bonnet, Vincent Bontems, Thijs de Graauw, Mike Griffin, Frank Helmich, Göran Pilbratt, and Sergio Volonte
Review
Handbook of Optical Metrology: Principles and Applications, Second Edition
by Toru Yoshizawa
Review
Light Sources, Second Edition: Basics of Lighting Technologies and Applications
by Spiros Kitsinelis
Review
Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
by Priyamvada Natarajan
Review
Tuning Semiconducting and Metallic Quantum Dots: Spectroscopy and Dynamics
by Christian von Borczyskowski, Eduard Zenkevich
Review
Universe: Exploring the Astronomical World
by Phaidon Editors
Review
Silicon Nanophotonics: Basic Principles, Present Status, and Perspectives, Second Edition
by Leonid Khriachtchev
Review
The Photomultiplier Handbook
by A G Wright
Review
Cosmology for the Curious (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)
by Delia Perlov and Alex Vilenkin
Review
Quantum Communications in New Telecommunications Systems (Networks and Telecommunications)
by Malek Benslama, Achour Benslama, and Skander Aris
Review
Quantum Photonics (Graduate Texts in Physics)
by Thomas P. Pearsall
Review
The Search For Earth’s Twin
by Stuart Clark
Review
Neuromorphic Photonics
by Paul R. Prucnal and Bhavin J. Shastri
Review
High-Resolution Electron Microscopy
by John C. H. Spence
Review
Planet Hunters: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
by Lucas Ellerbroek
Review
Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics (Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School)
by Claude Fabre, Vahid Sandoghdar, Nicolas Treps and Leticia F. Cugliandolo
Review
Where The Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics
by James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti
Review
Universal: A Journey Through the Cosmos
by Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw
Review
Introduction to Fourier Optics
by Joseph Goodman
Review
Handbook of Visual Optics, Two-Volume Set
by Pablo Artal
Review
Information Photonics: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Applications
by Asit Kumar Datta, Soumika Munshi
Review
Hyperspectral Imaging Remote Sensing: Physics, Sensors, and Algorithms
by Dimitris Manolakis, Ronald Lockwood, Thomas Cooley
Review
Observatories and Telescopes of Modern Times: Ground-Based Optical and Radio Astronomy Facilities since 1945
by David Leverington
Review
Computational Liquid Crystal Photonics: Fundamentals, Modelling and Applications
by Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed, Nihal F. F. Areed, and Salah Obayya
Review
Quantum Optics: Including Noise Reduction, Trapped Ions, Quantum Trajectories, and Decoherence (Advanced Texts in Physics)
by Miguel Orszag
Review
A Course in Classical Physics 4 – Waves and Light (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)
by Alessandro Bettini
Review
Statistical Optics (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics)
by Joseph W. Goodman
Review
Introduction to Organic Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Second Edition
by Larry R. Dalton, Sam-Shajing Sun
Review
Computational Liquid Crystal Photonics: Fundamentals, Modelling and Applications
by Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed, Nihal F. F. Areed, Salah Obayya
Review
Optical Tweezers: Principles and Applications
by Philip H. Jones, Onofrio M. Maragò, and Giovanni Volpe
Review
Organic Electro-Optics and Photonics: Molecules, Polymers, and Crystals
by Larry R. Dalton, Peter Günter, Mojca Jazbinsek, O-Pil Kwon, and Philip A. Sullivan
Review
Holograms: A Cultural History
by Sean F. Johnston
Review
Fundamentals of Photonics and Physics: Volume 1
by David L. Andrews
Review
Advanced Functional Materials (Advanced Material Series)
by Ashutosh Tiwari, Lokman Uzun
Review
Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age
by Bruce Watson
Review
Light Sources, Second Edition: Basics of Lighting Technologies and Applications
by Spiros Kitsinelis
Review
Photonics and Electronics with Germanium
by Kazumi Wada and Lionel C. Kimerling
Review
Optics Essentials: An Interdisciplinary Guide
by Araz Yacoubian
Review
Nonlinear Optical Systems: Principles, Phenomena, and Advanced Signal Processing (Optics and Photonics)
by Le Nguyen Binh and Dang Van Liet
Review
Silicon Photonics Design: From Devices to Systems
by Lukas Chrostowski and Michael Hochberg
Review
Guided Wave Optics and Photonic Devices (Optics and Photonics)
by Shyamal Bhadra and Ajoy Ghatak
Review
Polarons
by David Emin
Review
Light Localisation and Lasing: Random and Quasi-random Photonic Structures
by Mher Ghulinyan and Lorenzo Pavesi
Review
OLED Fundamentals: Materials, Devices, and Processing of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
by Daniel J. Gaspar and Evgueni Polikarpov
Review
Nonlinear Optics and Photonics
by Guang S. He
Review
Military Laser Technology and Systems (Optoelectronics)
by David H. Titterton
Review
Light Years: The Extraordinary Story of Mankind’s Fascination with Light
by Brian Clegg
Review
Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials
by Detlev Ristau
Review
Birefringent Thin Films And Polarizing Elements (2nd Edition)
by Martin W. McCall, Ian J Hodgkinson, and Qihong Wu
Review
Neutron Interferometry: Lessons in Experimental Quantum Mechanics, Wave-Particle Duality, and Entanglement
by Helmut Rauch and Samuel A. Werner
Review
X-Ray Diffraction: Modern Experimental Techniques
by Oliver H. Seeck and Bridget Murphy
Review
Galileo’s Telescope
by Massimo Bucciantini, Catherine Bolton, Franco Giudice, and Michele Camerota
Review
Eye of the Beholder – Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
by Laura J. Snyder
Review
Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
by Philip Ball
Review
Phasing in Crystallography: A Modern Perspective
by Carmelo Giacovazzo
Review
Photochemistry and Photophysics: Concepts, Research, Applications
by Vincenzo Balzani, Paola Ceroni, and Alberto Juris
Review
Optical Devices in Ophthalmology and Optometry: Technology, Design Principles and Clinical Applications
by Michael Kaschke, Karl-Heinz Donnerhacke, and Michael Stefan Rill
Review

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Why Do Humanoid Robots Still Struggle With the Small Stuff?
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Memristor + touch sensor for energy-efficient memory
GPUs Dominate AI Compute, FPGAs Move Into the AI Data Path
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New Tech Reduces False Positives from Breast Ultrasounds
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A flexible lens controlled by light-activated artificial muscles promises to let soft machines see
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Scientists Shine a Laser Through a Human Head
Cyborg Beetles May Speed Disaster Response One Day
Indian startup Pixxel to develop hyperspectral and infrared satellites for defense
AI Cameras Change Driver Behavior at Intersections
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Revolutionizing High-power Lasers with Large-scale Glass Faraday Elements
A smarter stethoscope improves diagnostics in a noisy world
Argonne Team Uses Aurora Supercomputer to Investigate Potential Dark Energy Breakthrough
Synthetic Data Paves the Way for Self-Driving Cars
MMX mission – The journey to the Martian moon Phobos
Feeling is believing: Bionic hand ‘knows’ what it’s touching, grasps like a human
When cells crack under pressure, these molecular machines step in
New Quantum Sensors Promise Precision and Secrecy
MIT engineers help multirobot systems stay in the safety zone
How AI Will Improve Agriculture in India
Imagia Processes Images with Zero Power Using Metasurfaces
Synchronized movement between robots and humans builds trust, study finds
New “E-nose” Samples Odors 60 Times Per Second
Life-seeking, ice-melting robots could punch through Europa’s icy shell
Chinese boffins build soft robot finger that can take your pulse
Cat’s Eye Camera Can See Through Camouflage
Google is funding an AI-powered satellite constellation that will spot wildfires faster
Photonics Could Reduce The Cost Of Lidar
A new system lets robots sense human touch without artificial skin
Photonic Chip Cuts Cost of Hunting Exoplanets
Autonomous Vehicles Can Make All Cars More Efficient
The Best Bionic Leg Yet
Toward Autonomous Driving by Musculoskeletal Humanoids
Human-Like ‘Bio-Skin’ Gives Robots a Much More Nuanced Sense of Touch