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By Sarah Small

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A Penn State-led team of researchers has literally put pencil to paper to create an accessible, affordable, waterproof and wearable sensor to monitor multiple vital signals. The team published the details of the pencil-on-paper sensor in Chemical Engineering Journal. 

By Matthew Carroll

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Drawing inspiration from nature, Penn State scientists have developed a new device that produces images by mimicking the red, green, and blue photoreceptors and the neural network found in human eyes.

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Geanie Umberger, Associate Vice President for Research; Director, Office of Industrial Partnerships, Penn State Sudhir Gopalswamy, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Advanced Solutions Group, onsemi Daniel Lopez, Liang Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Director of the Nanofabrication Lab, Penn State Catherine Côté, Vice President and Chief of Staff to the CEO, onsemi Tracy Langkilde, Dean of the Eberly College of Science (front), Penn State Justin Schwartz, Executive Vice President and Provost (back), Penn State Scott Allen, VP of Univ

By Jamie Oberdick

Semiconductors are a big reason as to why you are reading this. This is not a reference to your interest in semiconductors as a subject, but the actual production of this website. Even if you are reading the print version of this article and not the online version, semiconductors played a role in creating that hard copy via word processing, graphic design, digital photography, and even the printer that printed the pages. Such is the ubiquitousness of semiconductor chips in our current society.