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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Optoelectronic engineers in China and Hong Kong have manufactured a special type of liquid crystal display (LCD) that is paper-thin, flexible, light, and tough. With this, a daily newspaper...
Technology Leaders: Electronics & Computers
If you are testing devices and components that will last a decade or more, and you have to plan technology updates and obsolescence events for test systems that might live even longer,...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) Coating of High-Precision Components Produced by Selective Laser Melting (SLM)
Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) is being used as a means of coating various substrate materials with a variety of metallic and ceramic oxides for corrosion and thermal protection. The technology necessary to develop a state-of-the-art,...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Real-Time Radiation Monitoring Using Nanotechnology
NASA has patented a unique chemical sensor array leveraging nano-structures for monitoring the concentration of chemical species or gas molecules that is not damaged when exposed to protons and other high-energy particles over time. The nanotechnology-enabled chemical sensor array uses single...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Real-Time Radiation Monitoring Using Nanotechnology
NASA has patented a unique chemical sensor array leveraging nanostructures for monitoring the concentration of chemical species or gas molecules that is not damaged when exposed to protons and other high-energy particles over time. The nanotechnology-enabled chemical sensor array uses single...
Briefs: Aerospace
Scientific Balloons as Solar Sails
Existing scientific research balloons such as those launched from Wallops Flight Facility could be placed in near- Earth space where they would perform as solar sails, providing relatively inexpensive propulsion systems for interplanetary missions. The balloons would accelerate at rates comparable with the ion...
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Behrokh Khoshnevis University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
Contour Crafting (CC) is a computerized construction method that 3D prints large-scale structures directly from...
Articles: Imaging
Nearly all electro-mechanical equipment becomes anomalously warm before it fails, making infrared (IR) cameras extremely effective diagnostic tools in the manufacturing environment....
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Designers of medical pumps often have to deal with the challenge of implementing precise, yet low-cost motion control. For most medical pumps, there are three basic technology...
Articles: Software
You may not realize it, but many of the bells and whistles in the products that you engage with on a daily basis are actually powered by software.
Application Briefs: Lighting
Las Vegas is best known for the bright lights of ‘The Strip’ but thanks to new LED fixtures from GE Lighting, the city’s surrounding streets are starting to take on a...
Briefs: Software
System-of-Systems Technology-Portfolio- Analysis Tool
Advanced Technology Life-cycle Analysis System (ATLAS) is a system-of-systems technology-portfolio-analysis software tool. ATLAS affords capabilities to (1) compare estimates of the mass and cost of an engineering system based on competing technological concepts; (2) estimate life-cycle costs of...
Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A build-out-of-the-box approach to turn, tail, and stop lighting applications on vehicles significantly reduces engineering and development costs. With recent improvements to Snap LED, an...
Application Briefs: Software
PHX ModelCenter® softwarePhoenix IntegrationWayne, PA610-971-9603www.phoenix-int.com
Phoenix Integration’s PHX ModelCenter® software has been used by NASA to create a robust,...
Application Briefs: Software
Autodesk® Revit® Architecture and Autodesk® Revit® Structure softwareGeneral Dynamics SATCOMAutodeskSan Rafael, CA415-507-5000www.autodesk.com
NASA Ames Research Center at...
Application Briefs: Lighting
A Manchester, NH T.J.Maxx shopping plaza parking lot has been retrofitted with BetaLED luminaires. CBT Development of Greenland, NH was incurring high costs for parking lot maintenance from frequent...
Articles: Motion Control
Environmental friendliness, economy, and individuality are the fundamental ideas associated with the topic of eMobility (electromobility). The increasing scarcity of resources and constantly rising prices...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Fiber optic interconnects have enjoyed a relatively long history in long haul telecommunications due to their ability to transmit large quantities of data across great distances. As our...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Embedded vetronics (vehicle electronics) subsystems for rugged deployed ground vehicles have long benefited from the reduced risk, faster time to market, and long lifecycle support offered...
Eye on Innovation: Software
We often hear a common story from small and mid-size manufacturers. The VP of sales nails a really big order that will secure the company’s future — if the...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
The proliferation of FPGAs into the embedded computing industry has opened up many new pathways for designers to design cost-effective systems that will withstand technology upgrades, changes in...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
The production of many electronic devices begins with wafer processing. In addition to complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuits (ICs), this can include such diverse...
Articles: Energy
Selecting power source technology for mission critical devices is crucial to ensure success. Whether it is a monitor at the bottom of the ocean, a drill system at 30,000 feet into...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
By Steve Luby President & Chief Executive Officer VISTAGY, Inc. Waltham, MA
Today, every company is searching for a sustainable competitive advantage, and getting great products to market quickly...
Briefs: Software
Program Analyzes Spacecraft/Ground Radio Links
A versatile computer program analyzes the link-design control table necessary for designing the telecommunication subsystem of a spacecraft in orbit around the Earth or on a deep-space mission. The program helps to calculate all the important parameter values for spacecraft-to-ground telemetry links...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
One of the key advantages of fiber laser technology stems from the high conversion efficiency of the multimode pump radiation into high-brightness, single-mode laser light within the doped fiber...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Coherent, Inc., Santa Clara, California
Q-switched, diode-pumped solid-state lasers with an end-pumped cavity design are now widely used in micromachining, materials processing,...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Lasers are now used to micromachine virtually every type of material, including metals, plastics, glass, and ceramics. Micromachining is a highly diverse market that uses flash-pumped,...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
Stern Pinball of Melrose Park, IL, is the only manufacturer of coin-operated pinball machines in the world. Today, Stern’s pinball games are designed using...
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