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Briefs: Materials
The instrument has uses in photography where the goal is to image a dim object near a bright one.
Briefs: Materials
This eye-on-a-chip can help treatment of dry eye disease.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The newest version of these combs could revolutionize clocks, telescopes, and telecommunications.
Facility Focus: Propulsion
Stennis now is testing RS-25 rocket engines for the Space Launch System (SLS) that will carry humans back to the Moon.
Briefs: Medical
Smartphone App Detects Early Signs of Eye Disorders in Children
The CRADLE app allows parents to screen their children for eye disorders more often throughout their development.
Briefs: Wearables
Smart devices measure electrical signals from the skin, indicating stress levels and emotions.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
The sensor could provide a way to detect communication signals over the entire radio frequency from 1 to 100 GHz.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Laser light induces ultrasonic vibrations in a sample that can be used to image cells, blood vessels, and tissues.
Briefs: Materials
Biomaterial Shields Against Harmful Radiation
A new form of melanin can protect human tissue from X-rays during medical treatment or spaceflight.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
See how one company reached out to NASA with an offer to develop a custom sensor for the Mars 2020 mission rover.
Briefs: Communications
Applications include high-speed communications, networking, and sensing.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This technique can be used by people who are paralyzed or have neurodegenerative diseases.
Briefs: Data Acquisition
This method of machine learning could make communications in the unlicensed bands much more efficient.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Flat-panel technology could transform antennas, wireless, and cellphone communications.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
In place of flat breadboards, 3D-printed CurveBoards enable easier testing of circuit design on electronics products.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
A new encapsulation technique protects electronic properties of sensitive materials.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Pop-up miniature electronics based on the Japanese art of kirigami can be repeatedly compressed.
Briefs: Materials
This material could be used for artificial muscles that power bio-inspired robots.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Aerogels based on cellulose nanofibers can effectively shield electromagnetic radiation over a wide frequency range.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This process could lead to tiny, self-powered devices for environmental, industrial, or medical monitoring.
Briefs: Medical
Inspired by parasites, the tiny needles could help eliminate painful shots.
Briefs: Energy
Additive manufacturing creates cooling solutions with sizes and shapes not previously possible.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This method provides a key step toward quantum computers, sensors, and distributed quantum information.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This system encodes information in twisting beams of light.
Q&A: Electronics & Computers
Prof. Jacob Robinson developed an implantable neural stimulator the size of a grain of rice.
Articles: Software
Tech Briefs posed questions to machine learning/AI industry execs to get their opinions on platform selection, data interpretation, and more.
Articles: Materials
With accelerated time from design to production, specialized foil sensor arrays will be expanding to many new areas.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Self-powering, color-changing humidity sensors are applicable to various fields including smart windows, health care, and safety management.
Application Briefs: AR/AI
Predictive maintenance is poised to become much more widely adopted, and that will help to boost productivity in a time when we really need it.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Empa researchers were able to demonstrate real-time acoustic monitoring of laser weld seams.
Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Smart sensors for hazardous areas monitor essential assets, such as motors and pumps.
Special Reports: Test & Measurement
Test & Measurement - September 2020
See how the latest test tools and methodologies are enabling new applications in aerospace, electronics, robotics, healthcare, and other key industries. This compendium of recent articles is presented by the...Briefs: Energy
A remote forest fire detection and alarm system is powered by nothing but the movement of trees in the wind.
Special Reports: Transportation
Inside the New C8 Corvette - September 2020
The eighth generation Corvette achieves a rare benchmark: a 200 mph supercar that can sprint from standstill to 60 mph in less than three seconds while offering long-distance comfort, ample cargo...Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Choosing the right battery will save trouble and expense in the long run.
Special Reports: Unmanned Systems
Power Electronics - September 2020
This compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology looks at the latest advances in power electronics and energy storage for a range of applications...Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
These sensors will improve autonomous technologies in the industrial environment, like AGVs or forklifts.
Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Aerospace & Defense - September 2020
In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology, you'll learn about the technology driving the Mars 2020 rover, how NASA will use GPS to navigate...Products: Electronics & Computers
Safety-critical MEMS, absolute pressure sensors, thermal imaging cameras, and more.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Designed to assist in robotic surgeries, biomedical devices can be printed in and on the human body.
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Learn the USB3 and GigE vision standards, how they keep pace with imaging technologies, and how augmenting the cabling is critical for optimal performance.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A new type of motion capture technology accurately tracks an athlete during the push start phase of performance.
Briefs: Data Acquisition
Researchers tackled the problem using a geophysical measurement called seismic anisotropy.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
One unexpected application for spider silk is its use in the creation of biocompatible lenses.
Briefs: Imaging
University of Colorado researchers have described a new silicon chip that improves the resolution and scanning speed needed for a lidar system.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Learn how to obtain large signals from hyperspectral imagers.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The COVID crisis is propelling the camera industry toward disruptive transformation.
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Thin films and engineered surfaces are used in a myriad of applications including semiconductor electronics, data storage, and precision optics. In many cases, surface roughness and...
Products: Photonics/Optics
High-temp infrared emitter, single-frequency SWIR lasers, hazard testing systems, and more.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Real-time terahertz imaging with a single-pixel detector.
Products: Materials
InnoSenT introduced the IMD-3000 radar system as an alternative to pushbutton switches.
Briefs: Software
This high-strength material could be used to improve safety and reduce the cost of producing cars.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The robots could fly silently for covert operations and stay steady through turbulence.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Ultra-Sensitive Device Detects Magnetic Fields
The magnetic device is inexpensive to make, works on minimal power, and is 20 times more sensitive than many traditional devices.
Briefs: Materials
Features include unusual color changes and high touch sensitivity.
Products: Electronics & Computers
Foam gasket tapes, data analytics software, ceramic tape, and more.
Briefs: Wearables
This neurostimulator could deliver fine-tuned treatments to patients with diseases such as epilepsy and Parkinson’s.
Briefs: Materials
Liquid-Repelling Substance Works on All Surfaces
The new coating can eliminate complex disinfectant procedures for protective face shields.
Briefs: Data Acquisition
The “E-dermis” will enable amputees to perceive through prosthetic fingertips.
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
In 2019, NASA engineers test-fired a 3D-printed rocket engine combustion chamber.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
This technology provides rapid results, improving hospital workflow and patient care.
5 Ws: Wearables
People who use sign language could communicate directly with non-signers, without needing someone else to translate for them.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The material was designed specifically for biomedical or wearable technologies, since sweat and volatile organic compounds evaporate away from the skin.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Bioactive inks printed on wearable textiles can map conditions over the entire surface of the body.
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
An A/C alternative, AI that sharpens blurry images, and a NASA energy harvester.
Briefs: Motion Control
The ultra-light robotic insect can be folded or crushed, yet continues to move.
Podcasts: Imaging
Before delivery drones start carrying packages (and passenger drones start delivering ourselves), engineers will need to keep refining an unmanned aircraft's ability to navigate and...
Blog: Photonics/Optics
A Cornell team developed paramecium-sized robots that can be controlled with lasers.
Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Are You OK With a Robot Taking Your Vitals?
The "Spot" robot, developed by Boston Dynamics, can measure skin temperature, breathing rate, pulse rate, and blood oxygen saturation in healthy patients, from a distance of 2 meters.
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new modeling tool from USC engineers generates automatic indicators when data and predictions from AI algorithms are trustworthy.
Blog: Transportation
A reader asks our expert: When it comes to autonomous vehicles, what’s best: Radar, LiDAR, or cameras?
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Like biological fat reserves store energy in animals, a new rechargeable zinc battery integrates into the structure of a robot to provide much more energy, a team led by the...
INSIDER: Power
Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have created next-generation solar modules with high efficiency and good stability....
INSIDER: Materials
Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that asymmetric stresses within electrodes used in certain wearable electronic devices provides an important clue as to how to improve...
INSIDER: Materials
A team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) developed a novel, integrated approach to track energy-transporting ions within an ultra-thin...
Question of the Week: Energy
Will 'Biomorphic' Batteries Support a Future of Tiny Robots?
A Tech Briefs TV video highlighted a rechargeable zinc battery from the University of Michigan that integrates into the structure of a robot to provide much more energy. The “biomorphic” battery, according to researchers, could provide 72x more energy for robots.
INSIDER Product: Test & Measurement
Machine Vision Cameras
Teledyne DALSA (Waterloo, Canada) announced its new Falcon4-CLHS M4480 and M4400 cameras, based on the Teledyne e2v Lince 11.2M monochrome sensors. The new Falcon4-CLHS interface cameras have been...
INSIDER: Materials
University of North Texas professor Anupama Kaul straddles the line between electrical engineering and materials science, which puts her in the perfect place to develop new...
INSIDER: Research Lab
New research from the University of Southampton has discovered a way to bind two negatively charged electron-like particles which could create opportunities to form novel...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Almost all satellites are powered by solar cells – but solar cells are heavy. While conventional high-performance cells reach up to three watts of electricity per gram,...
Blog: Software
The new approach could help pave the way for smaller battery packs and greater driving range in electric vehicles.
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
As Brazil begins mass-producing a NASA-developed ventilator, a Tech Briefs reader asks why NASA didn't go open-source.
Question of the Week: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Can Courtesy Be Programmed Into Self-Driving Cars?
During a recent webcast, a Tech Briefs reader raised an interesting question about self-driving cars:
Blog: Automotive
New software from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) wants to predict all traffic possibilities, so that self-driving vehicles will never get into accidents.
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
For planned robotic and crewed missions to the Moon and Mars, NASA is developing and testing precise landing and hazard-avoidance technologies. A combination of laser sensors, a camera, a high-speed...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
MIT startup Realtime Robotics invented a solution that gives robots the ability to quickly adjust their path to avoid objects as they move to a target. The Realtime controller can be connected to a...
Question of the Week: Transportation
Do Software Advancements Make You Feel Safe in an Autonomous Vehicle?
Our lead story today features self-driving car software that prevents accidents by understanding and anticipating safe traffic behaviors.
Blog: Transportation
A new composite from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) increases the electrical current capacity of copper wires, providing a new material that can be scaled for use in ultra-efficient, power-dense electric vehicle traction motors.
Blog: Imaging
Thermal cameras detect heat radiation and can be used to identify the surface temperature of objects and people. So what's their limit, asks a reader.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Blog: Power
Using Street Lamps as EV Chargers
INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs
Scientists Create Superconducting Semiconductor Material
Blog: Materials
This Paint Can Cool Buildings Without Energy Input
Blog: Software
Quiz: Power
Webcasts
Upcoming Webinars: AR/AI
The Real Impact of AR and AI in the Industrial Equipment Industry
Upcoming Webinars: Motion Control
Next-Generation Linear and Rotary Stages: When Ultra Precision...
Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
SAE Automotive Engineering Podcast: Additive Manufacturing
Podcasts: Defense
A New Approach to Manufacturing Machine Connectivity for the Air Force
On-Demand Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Streamlining Manufacturing with Integrated Digital Planning and Simulation
On-Demand Webinars: Automotive
