Until recently phased array radar has been very expensive, used only for military applications where the cost of survival weighs in the balance. With the advent of low-cost microwave devices and ...

ORNL buildings researchers, from left Philip Boudreaux, Rui Zhang, Stephen Killough and intern Mercy Sammy, demonstrate how a microwave radar system can detect moisture in a wood panel. For homeowners ...

In the days before integrated circuits became ubiquitous, providing advanced functionality in a single package, designers became adept at extracting the maximum use from discrete components. They’d ...

Microwave radar sensors gained popularity before and during World War II for object detection. Radar sensors are non-intrusive equipment that transmits electromagnetic signals and receives echoes or ...

Radar, at its simplest, involves sending out pulses of radiation that reflect off an object. The reflected signal is detected, and the time of flight is measured. The time of flight is then translated ...