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White Papers: Aerospace
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Your Guide to Sourcing Precision Metals for Bellows Manufacturing
From medical devices to automotive, aerospace, and cryogenic systems, bellows demand material that performs under pressure. Ulbrich supplies precision rolled strip and foil...

White Papers: Connectivity
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Henkel’s Next Generation Gap Filler Case Study
Discover how Henkel’s next-generation gap fillers helped a leading Tier 1 automotive supplier solve complex heat management challenges while improving performance, accelerating production, and...

White Papers: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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The Inside Story on Thermally Actuated Valves
As aerospace and defense platforms face tighter space and weight constraints, power limitations, and increasingly high operating temperatures, engineers are turning to passive temperature control...

White Papers: Electronics & Computers
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Automotive Relays Across Transportation and Industrial Systems
This white paper examines the critical role of automotive relays across industrial equipment, modern vehicles, off-road machinery, and commercial transportation. It highlights how...

Quiz: Manufacturing & Prototyping
How much do you know about extrusion tooling? Find out with this quiz.
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White Papers: Electronics & Computers
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eBook: The Fundamentals of RF Inductors
Explore a variety of technical articles that answer foundational questions about RF inductors and address topics such as solving RF isolation issues with RF inductors, comparing the benefits of wirewound...

White Papers: Robotics, Automation & Control
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Rightsize Your Servo Linear Actuators Accurately To Avoid Costly Design Failures
Relying solely on motor-based force/speed curves often leads to undersized actuators and costly system delays. This white paper explores the critical gap between...

NASA Spinoff: Software
NASA-funded hybrid power system makes drones more capable in disasters.
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White Papers: Defense
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The Critical Role of EMI Shielding in Drone and UAV Systems
As drones and UAVs become increasingly central to commercial, industrial, and defense operations, the electromagnetic environment in which they operate grows more complex....

On-Demand Webinars: Software
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The automotive industry is undergoing a transformative shift with the rise of electrification, connectivity and software-defined vehicles (SDVs). This webinar explores...
Blog: Design
An international collaboration has developed a flexible and stretchable OLED that could put the technology on track for new applications.
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White Papers: Transportation
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Engineering Insights for Zonal and Centralized Compute Designs
As software-defined vehicles reshape automotive design, electrical and electronic architectures must keep up. Engineers now operate in an environment where compute consolidation,...

White Papers: Test & Measurement
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Application Brief: Metrology Engineer Standardizes on Vitrek 4700 for HV Measurement Accuracy & Traceability
This case study highlights how a metrology and quality engineer standardized on the Vitrek 4700 Precision High Voltage Meter to improve...

5 Ws: Software
One of the 2026 CES Innovation Awards honorees in the robotics category is AEON — a humanoid robot developed to address labor shortages as industries adapt to ageing populations and shifting workforce demands.
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Podcasts: Defense
On this episode of the Aerospace & Defense Technology Podcast, we learn about a new tool that could help manufacturers optimize the way they design and create new drones. Austin Spiegel, CTO of Sift, is the guest to explain their "unified observability platform" and how drone manufacturers can leverage it to optimize their design, validation, manufacturing, and overall engineering processes from prototype to operations.
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INSIDER: Test & Measurement
Viavi Solutions Inc. has integrated the "RF Viewer" augmented reality (AR) application into its OneAdvisor 800 Wireless test platform. Designed to address telecommunications, network...
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INSIDER: RF & Microwave Electronics
A new transceiver invented by electrical engineers at the University of California, Irvine boosts radio frequencies into 140-gigahertz territory, unlocking data...
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INSIDER: Aerospace
The U.S. Navy has awarded Data Link Solutions, a joint venture between BAE Systems and Collins Aerospace, a $248 million production contract to deliver hundreds of Multifunctional...
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Products: Information Technology
See the product of the month: Altech Corporation's C-TEC Series of uninterruptible power supplies (UPS).
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Articles: Information Technology
To address the staggering power and energy demands of AI, engineers have developed a revolutionary new thin-film material that promises to make AI devices significantly faster while dramatically cutting energy consumption. In this interview, Alamgir Karim, who is leading the research, discusses the new approach, its benefits, and how Nobel Prize-winning chemistry enabled this discovery.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
See the products of tomorrow, including a new nanoscale optical device that works at room temperature to entangle the spin of photons (particles of light) and electrons to achieve quantum communication; a dust sensor for use in space environments; and more.
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Products: Information Technology
See what's new on the market, including COMSOL Multiphysics® version 6.4; Novotechnik's Vert-X 26 Series of non-contacting magnetic angle sensors; HMS Networks' N-Tron NT110-FX2, an unmanaged Ethernet switch with two fiber ports; Littelfuse's MMIX1T500N20X4 X4-Class Ultra-Junction Power MOSFET; and more.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Researchers at NASA have developed new methods to manufacture carbon materials (e.g., nanotubes, graphene) with holes through the graphitic surface of the particles. The methods generate materials with increased accessible surface area, increased functional groups at damage sites, and improved through-surface molecular transport properties.
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Briefs: Materials
Researchers in Korea have successfully developed a new material that significantly enhances the efficiency of green hydrogen production while reducing costs. Read on to learn more about it.
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Briefs: Wearables
MIT researchers have developed an autonomous programmable computer in the form of an elastic fiber, which could monitor health conditions and physical activity, alerting the wearer to potential health risks in real-time. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Materials
In two papers, one released in Nature Materials and a second in ACS Nano, researchers describe a new methodology for fabricating targeted 3D nanoscale structures via self-assembly that can find use in a variety of applications, and they provide a design algorithm for others to follow suit. And it’s all based on the most basic biomolecular building blocks: DNA. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Design
Using mechanisms inspired by nature to create new technological innovations is a signature of one Virginia Tech research team. The group led by Associate Professor Michael Bartlett has created an octopus-inspired adhesive, inspired by the shape of octopus suckers, that can quickly grab and controllably release challenging underwater objects. Read on to learn more about it.
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Briefs: Materials
Dr. Mustafa Akbulut, Professor of Chemical engineering, has teamed up with Horticultural Science Professor Luis Cisneros-Zevallos to engineer longer-lasting, bacteria-free produce. Read on to learn more about it.
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