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Photonic Communication Comes to Computer Chips

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2018 Create the Future Design Contest Special Awards Section
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Answering Your Questions: How Good are Automotive Sensor Simulation Models?
Blog: Materials
Researchers Convert Plastic Bottles into Aerogels that Insulate and Absorb
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Here's an Idea: Asteroids
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Imaging Innovation for Spinal Care
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Will Stretchable, Printable Solar Cells Catch On?

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Products: Test & Measurement

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Briefs: Electronics & Computers

Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Materials Created Using Artificial “Superlattices”

Question of the Week : Energy
Will Stretchable, Printable Solar Cells Catch On?

A Rice University lab is making solar cells that are stretchable, printable, and paintable. Watch the demo on Tech Briefs TV.

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INSIDER : Green Design & Manufacturing
Light it up: Purdue NSF-funded Technology Flips the Switch on the Future for Sustainable Smart Homes and $1.3 Trillion Market

IoT devices need a wireless means of communications to be truly seamless so they can be easily integrated in...

INSIDER : Internet of Things
A Step Toward Personalized, Automated Smart Homes

Developing automated systems that track occupants and self-adapt to their preferences is a major next step for the future of smart homes. When you walk into a room, for instance, a system...

INSIDER : Sensors/Data Acquisition
Enabling “Internet of Photonic Things” with Miniature Sensors

A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis was the first to successfully record environmental data using a wireless photonic sensor resonator with a...

On-Demand Webinars : Software
Calibration of Nonlinear Structural Material Models

Structural mechanics simulations often use nonlinear material models that need to be calibrated to experimental data. In this webinar, guest speaker Jorgen Bergstrom from Veryst Engineering will demonstrate how these material models can be calibrated and used in multiphysics simulations. Jorgen...

On-Demand Webinars : Materials
Next-Generation Technologies and Materials for Advanced Mobility Applications

As automotive manufacturers embrace the transition from internal-combustion engines to e-mobility and fuel cell propulsion systems, they face new challenges in areas such as thermal management, power efficiency, friction reduction, weight reduction, compact...

INSIDER : Materials
Laser-Activated Silk Sealants Outperform Sutures for Tissue Repair

Tissue repair following injury or during surgery is conventionally performed with sutures and staples, which can cause tissue damage and complications, including infection....

INSIDER : Imaging
Invention Opens Door to Safer, Less Expensive X-Ray Imaging

New lead halide perovskite nanocrystals developed by researchers from NUS Chemistry could soon mean cheaper X-rays and computerized tomography (CT) scans involving lower levels of...

INSIDER : Energy
Solar Cell Does Double Duty for Renewable Energy

In the quest for abundant, renewable alternatives to fossil fuels, scientists have sought to harvest the sun’s energy through “water splitting,” an artificial photosynthesis technique...

Products : Imaging
New Products: November 2018 Photonics & Imaging Insider

Telecentric Lenses

Edmund Optics (EO) (Barrington, NJ) has introduced TECHSPEC® MercuryTL™ Liquid Lens Telecentric Lenses. These integrated lenses utilize the unique features of telecentric lenses, such as eliminating parallax (or perspective) error and combine them with a...

Blog : Imaging
Modular Robots Change Shape – Depending on the Task
Professor Hadas Kress-Gazit tells Tech Briefs about the "great promise" of autonomous modular robots.
Webinars : Medical
New Developments in Catheter Shaft Components

This webinar is focused on catheter shaft componentry with a deeper dive into polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) liners and fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP). Information provided will contain a mix of polymer material science, specifications of extruded fluoropolymers, engineering considerations for...