A Monitoring System for Carbon Dioxide in Honeybee Hives: An Indicator of Colony Health.

Non-dispersive infra-red (NDIR) detectors have become the dominant method for measuring atmospheric CO, which is thought to be an important gas for honeybee colony health. In this work we describe a microcontroller-based system used to collect data from Senserion SCD41 NDIR sensors placed in the crown boards and queen excluders of honeybee colonies. The same sensors also provide relative humidity and temperature data.

Static and Dynamic Optical Analysis of Micro Wrinkle Formation on a Liquid Surface.

A spatially periodic voltage was used to create a dielectrophoresis induced periodic micro wrinkle deformation on the surface of a liquid film. Optical Coherence Tomography provided the equilibrium wrinkle profile at submicron accuracy. The dynamic wrinkle amplitude was derived from optical diffraction analysis during sub-millisecond wrinkle formation and decay, after abruptly increasing or reducing the voltage, respectively.