Sentor Technologies Inc specializes in the design and development of functional and smart solid-state devices. The firm provides systems based on electroactive ceramic, polymer, metallic and composite materials displaying electrical, ionic and photo-conductivity, electrostrictive, magnetostrictive, ferroelectric/piezoelectric and shape memory type phenomena. Sentor has the ability to create, induce or enhance the desired effects of these materials on the atomic or molecular scales using nanotechnology or employing appropriate modifiers selected from a range of electroactive and optoelectronic ceramics, polymers, metals and composites. Smart systems and devices have sensors, actuators, electronic controllers integrated into the structure and are able to exhibit new functionalites, like mechanical movement. For practical, economic and technological reasons, it is necessary to build as much of this functionality into the material of the device as possible. As a result, focus has increasingly been put on materials whose characteristic functionality can be manipulated to permit desirable responses to external stimuli. This input stimulus can be electrical, magnetic, optical, thermal or mechanical, and the output response could be mechanical (actuation), electrical, optical or thermal (sensing)
