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Articles: Materials
To make fusion power not only physically possible but also economically possible, we need to develop high-performance fusion reactors. However, these reactors call for high-performance materials.
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Articles: Energy
Recent advances in integrated circuits, machine learning, and computing have opened up several possibilities to make informed assessments and decisions regarding the health and operational performance of modern power conversion systems.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Learn about the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest's Sustainable Technology Finalist: Maui Innovation Group Inc.'s leakproof valve.
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Articles: Internet of Things
Moving to a smarter manufacturing industry requires new technologies, including initiatives such as TSN for using Ethernet in real-time control applications.
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Articles: Semiconductors & ICs
As the automotive sector continues to transition to a significant portion of their portfolio being electric, they must either build the needed test facilities to support this transition or update their current facilities.
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Articles: Photonics/Optics
While the promise of smaller, better, faster, lighter devices enabled by integrated photonics technologies is indeed the ultimate goal for AIM Photonics, the actual path to high-volume manufacturing isn’t necessarily a smooth ride for PIC designers, developers, and engineers.
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Articles: Semiconductors & ICs
Efficient and complete chamber cleaning processes are critical for the success of CVD/ALD processes.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Despite recent supply-chain disruptions, semiconductor buyers are increasingly spoiled for choice when it comes to chip manufacturers.
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Articles: Internet of Things

This article is a marked departure from my annual reporting on the past year’s performance of the health of the MEMS industry vis-à-vis my MEMS Industry Commercialization Report Card. [1] ...

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Articles: Automotive
Increasingly powerful integrated circuit and system-on-chip devices are growing in importance to vehicle design.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Self-healing materials, quick disconnects, and eco-friendly micro-supercapacitors.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
As light-duty and commercial-purpose battery electric vehicles (EVs) catch on, better, faster, and smarter battery recharging is on the way.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The main Photonics West exhibition opens on Tuesday, January 25.
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Articles: Design
Semiconductor companies are looking for better tools and practices to maximize the efficiency of their design-validation processes.
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Articles: Imaging
See top suppliers and manufacturers in over 20 categories, including high-speed cameras, sensors, and optical components.
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Articles: Materials
Silicon Carbide (SiC) optics are becoming more and more prevalent in high-energy laser (HEL) designs, and manufacturers must be aware of the potential risks
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Freetouch turns a smartphone into a touchscreen remote control.
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Articles: Semiconductors & ICs
Drive and control platforms provide the vital protection of people and machines in automated manufacturing efforts.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new high-speed sensor pushes the boundaries in light-starved conditions.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Demand for wireless IoT cloud-connected devices is growing rapidly, yet deploying Wi-Fi battery-based products is difficult.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
These common pneumatic circuits can be used alone or as building blocks in larger pneumatics systems.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Designers who must sense motor position, speed, or acceleration have a lot of choices, including resolvers, optical encoders, and Hall-effect devices.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
Faster inline CT inspections makes it possible to inspect far greater numbers of circuit boards.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Conductive cellulose, composites testing, and a light-emitting tattoo.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
As ICs continue to become smaller and chip complexity increases, manufacturers still need to ensure reliability to their customers.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
With PrintIC technology, sensors, actuators, energy supplies, and ICs can be printed on the same substrate, avoiding assembly cost.
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Articles: Photonics/Optics
See what kinds of applications are possible when you can literally see light propagating through space.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A "TPSI" process makes it possible to distinguish between the front and back of optical surfaces, and to characterize the quality of both in a single measurement.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A smartwatch that tracks medication levels, a flexible LED, and NASA's "Micro-Organ" device platform.
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