Sensors

Usually sensors work better the bigger they are.

Mechanical steric testing is an exception that enables AP Technology and is most obviously used in nanomechanical computation like rod logic.

This holds for current day as well as for future AP sensors.
With growing size sensors can better average out noise.
For especially high resolution or minimal sensor size cooling can push that noise down, <vr> but not further than to the Quantum mechanical uncertainty limit
on both sides of the Heisenberg see saw at the same time.

Sensors via future diamondoid nanomechanics

• Sensors for electrical fields could be made by polarized disks on beared axles.
• Sensors for pressure or sound waves can be simple pistons. Here cooling can't be used to remove noise because the air would liquify.
• Sensors for acceleration might look quite similar to current MEMS accelerometers and Gyros.
• Sensors for radiation of isotopes with long half live time need to be gigantic relative to molecular scale such that they can pick at least one decay event in a reasonable time-span. Alternatively the masses of individual atoms can be determined in the nanoscale but this requires the material to be measured to be in a specific molecular well handlable form.

• Todo: add notes on: magnetism, radiation, strain/force, distance, velocity, acidity, moisture, gasses, ...

Related

• Multi limbed sensory equipped shells
• Levitation
• Isotope separation
• APM and nuclear technology
• Surveillance and sphere of privacy