Briefs: Energy
Side-Mounted Solar Modules Enhance Energy Sustainability
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Circuit Generates Clean, Limitless Power from Graphene
Facility Focus: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Facility Focus: Stanford University School of Engineering
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Biocontainment Unit for Virus-Sized Particles
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Next-Generation Computer Chip Has Two Heads
Briefs: Materials
Energy-Harvesting Device Turns Wi-Fi Signals into Usable Power
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Supercool Mini-Thermometer
Q&A: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Q&A: 3D-Printed Polymer Lattice Strengthens Concrete
Brian Salazar and his UC Berkeley team have developed a new way to reinforce concrete with a polymer lattice, an advance that could rival other polymer-based enhancements and improve...
Briefs: Aerospace
Liquid Sorbent Carbon Dioxide Removal System
Briefs: Energy
Supercapacitor Based on Manganese Oxide
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Autonomous HVAC System Measures Facial Temperature
Briefs: Data Acquisition
New Method Makes Computer Memory from Titanium Oxide
Briefs: Medical
Handheld Device Measures Cancer Biomarkers
Researchers have created the prototype for a handheld device to measure a biomarker for cancer. The device works much like the monitors that people with diabetes use to test their blood-sugar levels...
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Wearable Device Measures Cortisol in Sweat
Articles: Wearables
Products of Tomorrow: January 2021
Briefs: Wearables
Painless Paper Patch Tests Glucose Levels
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Solid-State Technology Enables Smaller, Safer Batteries
5 Ws: Sensors/Data Acquisition
5 Ws of the SoundWatch
Technology Leaders: Electronics & Computers
Processor Power and Energy Efficiency
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Photonic Wireless System Powers Medical Implants
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Handheld Device Diagnoses Skin Cancer
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Pill-Sized Heating Device for Diagnostic Testing
NASA Spinoff: Energy
Water-Powered Engines Offer Satellite Mobility
Articles: Semiconductors & ICs
Software-Connected Wafer Level Reliability Test
Application Briefs: Imaging
Cameras Capture Asteroid Debris Retrieval
Briefs: Test & Measurement
“Stethoscope” Monitors Machine Quality and Functionality
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Cavity-Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy (CEAS) for Ozone Detection
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
New on the Market: January 2021
Briefs: Energy
Generating Renewable Hydrogen Fuel from the Sea
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Mobile Bedside Bioprinter Prints Skin Directly into a Wound
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Platform for All-Optical Computing
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Microstrip Circuit and Material Characterization System
Briefs: Packaging & Sterilization
Inexpensive Method Decontaminates Personal Protective Equipment
Briefs: Unmanned Systems
Lithium Metal Battery Allows Cold Charging
Products: RF & Microwave Electronics
Product of the Month: January 2021 Tech Briefs
Special Reports: Photonics/Optics
Optics & Photonics Innovations - January 2021
An ultrafast camera that takes up to one trillion pictures per second...using light alone to levitate objects and propel spacecraft...the groundbreaking optics enabling the world's most powerful...
Special Reports: Electronics & Computers
Vehicle Electrification - January 2021
See how Ford, Volkswagen, Cadillac, and other manufacturers are pushing the boundaries of battery & EV design to compete with Tesla in a rapidly growing market, plus learn about the latest EV...
Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Would You Use a 'Twining' Robotic Gripper?
Our lead INSIDER story today focused on a twining robotic gripper that its inventor says is especially effective at grabbing thin objects like pencils, paintbrushes, and even a straightened paperclip.
White Papers: Robotics, Automation & Control
Precise Positioning: Choose the Ideal Table for Your Equipment
The positioning mechanism you choose must perform with accuracy and precision while offering the right attributes for your application. Your options for positioning tables...
White Papers: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Learn Why Eddy-Current Sensors Are Now Replacing Inductive Sensors and Switches
Particularly where pressure, dirt, oil and high temperatures are present, inductive sensors based on eddy currents from Micro-Epsilon are suitable for all...
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Experts Weigh In: How Will a Robotic Future Impact Nature?
White Papers: Motion Control
Load Simulation for Test Benches
When designing a test bench, Particle brakes made by Merobel™ provide an excellent solution , because of their ability to generate a torque that is precise, variable and easy to control - at a reasonable...
White Papers: Robotics, Automation & Control
Cost Effective High Precision Linear & Rotary Axes
Andantex USA offers modular system building blocks consisting of Racks, Pinions, Planetary Reducers, and lubrication systems to build linear axes of any length and move weights from 100 to...
Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Will Robotics and Automation Lead to a Greater Appreciation of Nature?
Our lead INSIDER story today focused on the environmental impacts of robotics and automation.
White Papers: Robotics, Automation & Control
Improve Performance and Reduce the Costs of Your Pneumatic Grippers
Pneumatic grippers are an integral part of pick-and-place, material transfer and part ejection applications, but traditional designs come with limitations. Fabco-Air SPG...
White Papers: Government
Critical Techniques for High-Speed A/D Converters in Real-Time Systems
To help define the meaning of “high-speed A/D” used in this handbook, we will be focusing primarily on A/D converters with sampling rates higher than 100 MHz. We will...
White Papers: Test & Measurement
High-Speed Real Time Recording Systems
In today’s world of high-speed A/D converters operating in the gigahertz range, real-time signal recording has become a challenging task that requires specialized hardware and intelligent application...
White Papers: Electronics & Computers
Putting FPGAs to Work in Software Radio Systems
FPGAs have become an increasingly important resource for software radio systems. Programmable logic technology now offers significant advantages for implementing software radio functions such...
White Papers: Electronics & Computers
High-Speed Switched Serial Fabrics Improve System Design
Well into its third decade of widespread deployment, VME adopted the new VXS gigabit serial interface, clearly representing the most significant leap in backplane data transfer rates...
White Papers: Defense
Software Defined Radio Handbook
SDR (Software-Defined Radio) has revolutionized electronic systems for a variety of applications including communications, data acquisition and signal processing.This handbook shows how DDCs (Digital...
White Papers: Defense
Putting VPX and Open VPX to Work
Before the advent of OpenVPX, designers of embedded systems took advantage of the extreme connectivity offered by VPX (VITA 46), but were faced with a virtually unlimited number of possible implementations....
White Papers: Data Acquisition
Strategies for Deploying Xilinx’s Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC
Xilinx’s new RFSoC brings a powerful and unique solution for addressing some of the most demanding requirements of high bandwidth and high channel count system. This paper provides...
White Papers: Data Acquisition
Development Tactics and Techniques for Small Form Factor RF Signal Recorders
This paper describes the engineering considerations and design techniques used to develop a small form factor rugged recorder that can handle the extremely high...
A phenomenon first detected in the solar wind may help solve a long-standing mystery about the sun: why the solar atmosphere is millions of degrees hotter than...
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Combining Electronic, Photonic Chips Enables Super-Fast Quantum Light Detection
Researchers from the University of Bristol’s Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QET Labs) and Université Côte d‘Azur have made a new miniaturized...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Large-Area Flexible Organic Photodiodes Can Compete with Silicon Devices
The performance of flexible large-area organic photodiodes has advanced to the point that they can now offer advantages over conventional silicon photodiode...
INSIDER: Data Acquisition
New Products: January 2021 Photonics & Imaging Insider
MidOpt® (Palatine, IL) introduced the BP450 Indigo Bandpass and the BN450 Narrow Indigo Bandpass, two new filters designed for multi-application use. The...
Blog: Automotive
CES 2021: How COVID-19 Turned the Car into a Personal 'Second Space'
White Papers: Robotics, Automation & Control
Choosing the Best Type of Encoder For Your Application
This white paper describes the advantages and disadvantages of different types and configurations of encoders with a focus on devices using an Ethernet/IP interface.
White Papers: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Safeguard Your Supply Chain and Get to Market Fast!
The arrival of COVID-19 left many companies unable to fulfill market demand for weeks or months as they were impacted by supply shock, demand shock, or both. In some cases, new...
Podcasts: Materials
Here's an Idea: RepelWrap
Blog: Materials
A New Way to Cure Adhesives on Demand? Magnets.
Question of the Week: Transportation
Has the Vehicle Become Your “Second Space?”
"Honestly, the car has become an office for some people just so they can get away from the noise of their house," said Carla Bailo at CES 2021 last week. "The sound [in the car] is great, and you can connect from anywhere."
White Papers: Aerospace
Enhance Corrosion Resistance of Metal Parts with Electropolishing
For critical metal parts made of stainless steels and other alloys, electropolishing is the preferred method for enhancing corrosion resistance.
White Papers: Motion Control
Advanced Power Conversion Technology Delivers Unrivaled Density, Efficiency and Performance
When converting 3-phase AC input power to an isolated and regulated DC output with power factor correction, the most common design methods use...
White Papers: Power
Increase Medical Equipment Safety & Reliability by Preventing Overloads & Short Circuits
Circuit protection devices serve two main purposes that are essential to medical equipment, safety and reliability, by disconnecting power in a circuit...
Blog: Photonics/Optics
A Squid-Like 'Muscle' Senses Light and Changes Shape
White Papers: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Laser Restructuring Enhances Electrode Performance and Durability
A new surface modification process enhances the properties of the metal alloys used for implantable medical electrodes. Called laser restructuring, this patented process...
White Papers: Test & Measurement
Electrical Safety & Compliance Testing for Appliance & Consumer Product Manufacturers
Electrical appliances, computers and peripherals, power tools and other devices found in the home and office environments must be tested to confirm...
White Papers: Test & Measurement
Vitrek Cable & Connector Test System Facilitates Multi-Point High Voltage/Current Testing
Hipot testing is critical in assuring compliance with a host of electrical safety standards and in confirming the assembled product is free from...
White Papers: Photonics/Optics
Advanced Light Cure Adhesives
Breakthroughs in adhesive technology enable light curing adhesives to cure under a visible light wavelength of 405 nanometers. Learn how these environmentally friendly adhesives can improve worker safety and...
White Papers: RF & Microwave Electronics
Electrically Conductive Adhesives Make the Right Connections
As electronic circuits become more complex, engineers are finding new ways to assemble and package them. Electrically conductive adhesives provide durable bonds with conductive...
White Papers: Defense
Flame Retardant Epoxies and Silicones Meet Critical Safety Requirements
Used in aircraft applications, epoxies and silicones must maintain their primary role as adhesives or coatings while exhibiting resistance to heat and flame in...
White Papers: RF & Microwave Electronics
Thermally Conductive Epoxies Optimize Electronic Assemblies
The use and selection process of thermally conductive epoxies can make or break your application. Too much heat can lead to component malfunction or premature component failure...
White Papers: Power
Potting Compounds Protect Electronic Circuits
Potting and encapsulation compounds are designed to completely enclose a component, module or PCB, which effectively shields the unit while providing structural support. There are a variety of...
White Papers: Materials
Protecting Chip on Board (COB) Devices with Glob Top Encapsulants
Glob top encapsulations are often preferred for their ability to protect chips without damaging fragile wires. They are formulated to exhibit specific physical properties such...
Question of the Week: Test & Measurement
Will We Make Vibration-Free Helicopters?
A Tech Briefs TV video features a test technology from the Army that’s informally known as a “Shaker.” The Multi-Degree of Freedom (MDOF) system will study the causes of vibrations in a helicopter’s many components and subcomponents. The Army researchers hope to use the conclusions of their study...
On-Demand Webinars: Automotive
Reducing the Cost of Quality in Automotive BiW
Automotive production relies on quality to maintain an automaker’s brand image within its customer base. But in the production process, suboptimal dimensional quality can lengthen lead...
Blog: Automotive
Self-Heating Battery Addresses Key Barrier to Electric-Vehicle Adoption: Range Anxiety
If you're concerned that electric vehicles don't have the reliability to get you where you need to go, Penn State engineers are working on a battery for...
White Papers: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Unique Method for Orifice Production
To produce accurate, repeatable orifices, all the variables that might influence the Cd Value (Coefficient of Discharge) must be controlled during production. This includes the orifice hole length, edges,...
White Papers: Design
Looking Out for Loops: Inductive Ground-Bounce Basics
Once your project rolls off our assembly lines, you are likely to do a bit of testing as you bring up your board. But a combination of bad design practices combined with bad testing...
INSIDER: Motion Control
T-REX Rover Looks to the Dark Side
The Tethered permanently shadowed Region EXplorer (T-REX) rover, designed and built by a team of Michigan Technological University students – is designed to provide reliable power and data to other...
INSIDER: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Chemically Driven Wheels “Morph” Into Gears
University of Pittsburgh researchers have utilized a catalytic reaction that causes a two-dimensional, chemically coated sheet to spontaneously “morph” into a three-dimensional...
White Papers: Electronics & Computers
Corrosion Protection Without Anodization: Sol-gel Coatings for Aluminum Alloys
Aluminum and its alloys are widely chosen materials for several industrial sectors including automotive, aerospace, household appliances, marine, architecture,...
White Papers: Electronics & Computers
Degraded Visual Environment (DVE) Meeting the Challenge
Degraded Visual Environments (DVE) introduce fundamental challenges to the safety and operational capabilities of pilots and ground vehicle crews. Overcoming DVE challenges will demand...
White Papers: Data Acquisition
The Ultimate Guide to PCB Hardware
From managing space to conductivity in your application, there are lots of factors to take into consideration when building electrical solutions. This guide will help you when designing data cabinets, home...
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