Communications

Access our comprehensive library of technical briefs on communications, from engineering experts at NASA and major government, university, and commercial laboratories.

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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This system encodes information in twisting beams of light.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Smart adaptive clothing can lower the body temperature of the wearer in hot climates.
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Briefs: Automotive
A quantum material could offset energy demand of artificial intelligence.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Using integrated photonic chips fabricated at EPFL, scientists have demonstrated laser-based microwave generators.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Electrical cables are used in services such as power delivery, automation signaling, and communications.
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Briefs: Communications
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: Electronics & Computers
Applications include imaging, sensing, wireless communications, and medical treatments.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The technique could be used to improve navigation for robots, drones, or pedestrians.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A team is exploring new materials for telecommunications and LIDAR applications.
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Briefs: Medical
This device could give doctors a new therapeutic option for treating patients with conditions such as heart failure.
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Briefs: Communications
Laser Radio Transmitter
This device transmits data via a semiconductor laser, opening the door to ultra-high-speed WiFi.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The technology could help in elder care with sensors throughout a home.
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Briefs: Communications
This method could lead to the transmission of data at the rate of 100 gigabits per second.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Housed in a chip, it lets IoT devices communicate with existing WiFi networks.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The newest PLCs can directly access Internet resources, much like a mobile device, to obtain information for improving operations.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Applications include homeland security, vehicle anti-collision systems, telecommunications systems, and industrial instrumentation.
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Briefs: Software
In the middle ground between microwaves and visible light lies terahertz radiation, and the promise of “Tray vision.”
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Using 3D components on a standardized 2D microchip manufacturing platform uses up to 100 times less chip space.
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Briefs: Communications
The technology could enable remote control of drug delivery, sensing, and other medical applications.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A wireless sensor small enough to be implanted in the blood vessels of the human brain could help clinicians evaluate the healing of aneurysms.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Wraparound Self-Structuring Leaky-Wave Antenna (WSS-LWA)
This system has applications in the smart grid and military.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The system provides three-dimensional imagery of potential threats at closer ranges.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
This atom-based receiver has the potential to be smaller and work better in noisy environments than conventional radio receivers.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Fiber-optic cables could help scientists study offshore earthquakes and the geologic structures hidden deep beneath the ocean surface.
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Briefs: Aerospace
CAESAR Plug-in for MagicDraw
Users can maintain the consistency of a flight system design.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
In some cases, radio frequency signals may be more useful for caregivers than cameras or other methods to collect health and behavioral data.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Software portal solutions can connect legacy control systems and field devices to the cloud.
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Briefs: Communications
This electronic pill can relay diagnostic information or release drugs in response to smartphone commands.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Loosely connected disc-shaped “particles” can push and pull one another, moving together to transport objects.
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