NASA Tech Briefs - March 2017 - Vol. 41 No. 3

Features

• Application Briefs

  Autonomous Driving — In a ‘Flash’

  ViDAR Optical Radar Provides New Maritime Search Capability

• Who's Who

  Darmindra Arumugam, Senior Research Technologist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

• Articles

  High-Power Fiber Lasers

  Finding the Right Chip-on-Tip Camera Technology

  Thermal Imaging: How Does It Work?

  Six Questions About Today's Camera Market

  Infrared Cameras Support Advanced 3D Printing Efforts

  The Heavy Impact of Advanced Lightweight Materials

  WCX17 World Congress Experience

  Products of Tomorrow: March 2017

• NASA Spinoff

  Temperature-Regulating Fabrics Keep Babies Comfortable

Tech Briefs

• Manufacturing & Prototyping

  Hot Isostatic Pressing of 60-Nitinol

  Logistics for Building Radiation Storm Shelters and their Operational Evaluation

  Vapor-Barrier Vacuum Isolation System

  Silicon Micro-Emitters for Microfluidic Electrospray Propulsion Systems

• Software

  BPTables DTN Bundle Filtering Framework

  A Systems Engineering Approach to Architecture Development

  Timeline Builder Assistant

• Mechanics & Machinery

  Development of the Orion Crew-Service Module Umbilical Retention and Release Mechanism

  Micro-Lid for Sealing a Sample Reservoir for Micro-Extraction Systems

  Single-Fluid-Pumped Radiators with Increased Turn-Down Ratio and Control in the Stagnation Regime

• Electronics & Computers

  MRAM Alternative Uses Less Energy than Conventional Chip

  Reconfigurable Chaos-Based Microchips

  Supercomputer Cooling System Uses Refrigerant to Replace Water

  Computer Chips Calculate and Store in an Integrated Unit

  Printed Circuit Board Design Software Helps Create New Energy Solutions

  Electron-to-Photon Communication for Quantum Computing

  Material Combination Enables Transistor Gate Length of 1 Nanometer

• Photonics/Optics

  2.2-Micron, Uncooled, InGaAs Photodiodes and Balanced Photoreceivers up to 25-GHz Bandwidth

  Fourier Transform Spectrometer System

  Large-Area, Polarization-Sensitive Bolometer for Multi-Mode Optics

• Aerospace

  Nodal Averaging Program for CFD Planes

  Transformable and Reconfigurable Entry, Descent, and Landing Systems and Methods

  High Speed Idle Engine Control Mode

  Blended Cutout Flap for the Reduction of Jet-Flap Interaction Noise

  Method and System for Air Traffic Rerouting for Airspace Constraint Resolution

  Hybrid Flow Control Method for Simple Hinged Flap High-Lift System

• Environment

  Vulnerability Assessment Tool

  Algae Bioreactor Using Submerged Enclosures with Semi-Permeable Membranes

  Three-Band Cloud and Precipitation Radar

• Energy

  High-Voltage Supercapacitors for Improved Energy Density Hybrid Power Sources

  Fuel Cell Power Management

  Solid-State Lithium Sulfur Battery

  Standardized Heating Method to Trigger and Prevent Thermal Runaway Propagation in Lithium-Ion Batteries

Products

• New Products: March 2017 Photonics & Imaging Technology

  Product of the Month: March 2017

• Briefs

  Piezoelectric Field Disturbance Sensing System and Method

  Intelligent Displacement Sensor Deployment Using MTConnect Protocol over Ethernet

• Articles

  CERTIFICATES AND SIGNATURES: How to Ensure Authentication in the IoT

  Researchers Turn iPhone Camera into Optical Sensor

  SOLVING THE INTERCONNECT CHALLENGE: How to Bring Flexibility to Wearable Design

• Products

  New Products: March 2017 Sensor Techonology

• Applications

  A New Clinical Challenge: Making Sense of Heart Failure

  NASA Navigation Sensor May Land in Applications Beyond Mars