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Technology Leaders: RF & Microwave Electronics
Low-power radio design is enabling new connected IoT products for consumer, commercial, industrial, and medical markets.
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Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Tech Briefs spoke with NASA’s Keith Comeaux, Deputy Project Chief Engineer, to learn more about the helicopter heading to Mars.
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Facility Focus: Energy
Rensselaer Engineering focuses on solving the “grand challenges” facing humanity.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This system can amplify a faint signal from a neighboring system even when that signal’s amplitude is as small as ten trillionths of a meter.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
Mini-magnets could enable cloud computing systems to process data up to 100 times faster than current technologies.
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Articles: Materials
Nature-Inspired Energy Tech, Superelastic Tires, Wearable Supercapacitors, and more...
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NASA Spinoff: Materials
Wool from special sheep keeps astronauts and emergency responders safe.
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Articles: Aerospace
Tech Briefs spoke with NASA’s Ken Williford, Mars 2020 Deputy Project Scientist, to learn more about the science capabilities of Perseverance.
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Briefs: Imaging
Optically Reconfigurable Charge-Transfer Liquid Crystals
These re-writeable materials have applications in data storage and encryption, energy transducers, and optical display technologies.
Articles: Imaging
Perseverance will have the ability to land in more challenging terrain than Curiosity, making more rugged sites eligible as safe landing candidates.
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Briefs: Materials
Heat predictably and precisely changes the surface structure of a particle of liquid metal.
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Briefs: Materials
The multitasking device could advance development of an electric circuit for faster, next-generation electronics like quantum computing technologies.
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Briefs: Energy
This method of producing clean syngas could be used to develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to gasoline.
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Q&A: Robotics, Automation & Control
A robotic finger has a sense of touch that can be localized with high precision over a large, multi-curved surface.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
This method can be used to protect stored building materials and to remediate in-service wood and wood products.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The flexible device harvests heat energy from the body to monitor health.
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Briefs: Energy
This green process produces pristine graphene in bulk using waste food, plastic, and other materials.
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Briefs: Materials
A novel plate-cell architecture reaches the theoretical limit of performance.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These composites could improve how unmanned vehicles dissipate energy.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Industrial PCs, power modules, processor blades, and more.
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5 Ws: Photonics/Optics
Bacterial pathogens can live on surfaces for days. What if frequently touched surfaces, such as doorknobs, could instantly kill them off?
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Articles: Aerospace
Learn about the four goals of the Mars 2020 mission.
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Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Read our special series on the Mars 2020 mission, featuring interviews with NASA experts and designers of the Perseverance rover.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This technology supports CO2 emissions reduction in cement manufacturing.
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Briefs: Energy
The rainproof, stainproof technology turns clothing into self-powered remotes while turning away bacteria.
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Briefs: Materials
Inspired by the octopus, the structure senses, computes, and responds without any centralized processing.
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Products: Test & Measurement
The K6PM provides continuous, remote thermal monitoring of critical components such as high-voltage control panels, transformers, and hydraulic equipment.
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INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
The next generation of exploration rovers will need to be good at climbing hills covered with loose material and avoiding entrapment on soft granular surfaces. Built with wheeled appendages that can be...
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