Electrical/​Electronics

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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A nanostructure design lends extraordinary strength to a promising storage ingredient.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A metal-organic framework does not contain cost-intensive raw materials and can be produced in bulk.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This method could benefit next-generation electronics.
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Briefs: Power
The new battery technology could improve electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft and supercharge safe, long-range electric cars.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
These non-reciprocal devices on a compact chip pave the way for applications from two-way wireless to quantum computing.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Fully integrated flexible electronics made of magnetic sensors and organic circuits open the path towards the development of electronic skin.
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Briefs: Wearables
People could monitor their own health conditions by picking up a pencil and drawing a bioelectronic device on their skin.
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Briefs: Materials
This approach could engineer quantum materials atom-by-atom for new electronic, magnetic, and sensing applications.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The algorithm provides an extra layer of safety and security against hackers of electronic devices.
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Briefs: Energy
This battery would enable a 10-minute electrical vehicle recharge.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The tiny unit is significant for the miniaturization of optoelectronic systems.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
“EasyPass” would enable smart warehouses, automated factories, and more to operate without delays.
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Briefs: Energy
Perovskites could be the active ingredient that makes the next generation of low-cost, efficient, lightweight, and flexible solar cells.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
To make electronic components smaller, semiconductor 2D materials are combined with new types of insulator materials.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Neuromorphic computing uses memristors that could function and operate like real brain synapses.
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Briefs: Software
Open source microcontroller technologies in industrially hardened form factors address critical applications.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Applications include high-speed communications, networking, and sensing.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Flat-panel technology could transform antennas, wireless, and cellphone communications.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
In place of flat breadboards, 3D-printed CurveBoards enable easier testing of circuit design on electronics products.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
A new encapsulation technique protects electronic properties of sensitive materials.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
Pop-up miniature electronics based on the Japanese art of kirigami can be repeatedly compressed.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Aerogels based on cellulose nanofibers can effectively shield electromagnetic radiation over a wide frequency range.
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Briefs: Communications
Additive manufacturing creates cooling solutions with sizes and shapes not previously possible.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This method provides a key step toward quantum computers, sensors, and distributed quantum information.
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Briefs: Software
This high-strength material could be used to improve safety and reduce the cost of producing cars.
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Briefs: Wearables
This neurostimulator could deliver fine-tuned treatments to patients with diseases such as epilepsy and Parkinson’s.
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Briefs: Imaging
The material was designed specifically for biomedical or wearable technologies, since sweat and volatile organic compounds evaporate away from the skin.
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Briefs: Materials
Bioactive inks printed on wearable textiles can map conditions over the entire surface of the body.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The ultra-light robotic insect can be folded or crushed, yet continues to move.
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