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Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Satellite communications offer mobility and communications for military operations in remote locations where terrestrial-based connectivity is not available, or is too...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The ubiquitous techniques of fluorescence and Raman imaging and spectroscopy rely heavily on spectrally precise, high-quality and high-throughput optical filter technologies. As both fluorescence and Raman-based...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Inertial-Optical Head-Tracking System InterSense Billerica, MA 781-541-6330 www.intersense.com
Under NASA funding, InterSense is developing and testing an inertial-optical head-tracking system for...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Vibration isolatorsMinus K® TechnologyInglewood, CA310-348-9656www.minusk.com
Minus K Technology was chosen by ITT Space Systems, LLC, a subcontractor to Northrop Grumman Corp., to...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The Piston Group (Redford, MI and Liberty, MO) builds cooling modules for seven different vehicles. These cooling modules are built on five different...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The idea for the automotive crash test dummy first came to life in the 1950s when U.S. Air Force flight surgeon Col. John Stapp realized that more of his fighter pilots were dying...
Application Briefs: Software
Frontier Grid Platform for distributed computing Parabon Computation Reston, VA 703-689-9689 www.parabon.com
Access to complex climate modeling and simulation models from NASA’s Earth-observing...
Application Briefs: Medical
BioConnect® bag and tubing assemblies Cole-Parmer Instrument Vernon Hills, IL 800-323-4340 www.coleparmer.com
BioConnect custom bag and tubing assemblies supplied the materials and...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
With high-profile data breaches making headlines regularly, organizations are carefully evaluating their options for protecting mobile data. For years, software full disk encryption, (FDE), has...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A turbine manufacturer wanted to get more power out of hundreds of turbines that were originally built and installed in the 1950s. The basic idea was to use the original outer casing but upgrade...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Design data management system DKB Resources Santa Barbara, CA 805-963-8709 www.dkbresources.com
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) contracted DKB Resources to support the design...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Genesis HighSpeed data acquisition products HBM Marlborough, MA 800-578-4260 www.hbm.com/highspeed
In order to protect the space shuttle from lightning strikes while it is outside the Vehicle...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Widely Tunable Mode-Hop-Free External-Cavity Quantum Cascade Laser
The external-cavity quantum cascade laser (EC-QCL) system is based on an optical configuration of the Littrow type. It is a room-temperature, continuous- wave, widely tunable, mode-hop-free, mid-infrared, EC-QCL spectroscopic source. It has a single-mode tuning range of 155 cm-1...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This design constitutes a self-resetting (gain quenching), room-temperature operational semiconductor single-photon-sensitive detector that is sensitive to...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A method of determining the refractive and absorptive properties of optically transparent materials involves a combination of theoretical and experimental analysis of electromagnetic...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Fiber reinforced polymer composites are revolutionizing the design of large, high-performance structures in the aerospace, marine and power generation industries due to their...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Fiber reinforced polymer composites are revolutionizing the design of large, high-performance structures in the aerospace, marine and power generation industries due to their...
Application Briefs: Imaging
MEMS-based deformable mirrors Boston Micromachines Corp. Cambridge, MA 617-868-4178 www.bostonmicromachines.com
Boston Micromachines has been selected by NASA's Small Business...
Application Briefs: Software
ANSYS® fluid dynamics software ANSYS Canonsburg, PA 724-746-3304 www.ansys.com
ANSYS fluid dynamics software has helped researchers at the University of Alberta interpret...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The benefits of aquatic physical therapy and rehabilitation for those who have difficulty with weightbearing activities due to arthritis or injury, or those who are overweight, have...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Wireless connectivity is merging with technological advancements in silicon, signaling, mass storage and software to meet the high-performance, ultra-low power requirements for next-generation...
Application Briefs: Imaging
People whose bodies cannot produce effective or sufficient insulin are said to have diabetes. This chronic disease has several serious long-term effects that are well documented:...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
High-Flex Cables Cicoil Corp. Valencia, CA 661-295-1295 www.cicoil.com
Cicoil has provided a custom-formed high-flex cable to the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), scheduled to...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
TTEthernet TTTech North America Carlsbad, CA 760-603-9393 www.tttech.com
TTEthernet, a high-bandwidth databus developed by TTTech and Honeywell, will be deployed on Orion, the...
Application Briefs: Lighting
3M, St. Paul, MN www.3m.com OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, Sunnyvale, CA www.osram-os.com
Micro projectors from 3M that can be connected to mobile phones and cameras include LEDs from OSRAM Opto...
Application Briefs: Lighting
www.cree.com
Last July, Ric Richards — a fast-food franchisee — opened the first green McDonald’s in North Carolina, proving that it can be affordable and effective to build a sustainable fast-food restaurant....
Application Briefs: Imaging
The TDM-to-packet network transformation has been underway in transport/ telecommunications networks for some years now, fueled primarily by two trends: (a) the advent of triple-play (voice, video, data)...
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
QE65000 Spectrometer Ocean Optics Dunedin, FL 727-733-2447 www.oceanoptics.com
An Ocean Optics QE65000 spectrometer has contributed measurements to the Lunar Crater Observation and...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
InGaAs shortwave infrared (SWIR) cameras Sensors Unlimited, Goodrich Corp. Princeton, NJ 609-520-0610 www.sensorsinc.com
Shortwave infrared (SWIR) cameras from Sensors Unlimited...
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