Electrical/​Electronics

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

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Briefs: Energy
Drop-in replacements for lithium ion batteries would not pose a fire danger.
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Briefs: Energy
The battery design increases the number of possible cycles from tens to more than 100 with little degradation.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Lithium batteries made using this electrode type could be much safer than typical lithium metal-based batteries.
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Briefs: Energy
Using ceramic material and graphene, the toughness of solid-state lithium-ion batteries can be doubled.
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Briefs: Materials
A new roll-to-roll production method could enable lightweight, flexible solar devices and a new generation of display screens.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
New safety relay modules follow updated standards to give designers more options for a tailored electrical safety implementation.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This technology shows potential for the detection of subtle human motions and the real-time monitoring of body postures for healthcare applications.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This approach could lead to entirely new and more efficient logic switches for computer chips.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
An ultrafast image sensor with a built-in neural network can be trained to recognize certain objects.
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Briefs: Wearables
These biosensors could lead to improved glucose monitors for millions of people who suffer from diabetes.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Smart adaptive clothing can lower the body temperature of the wearer in hot climates.
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Briefs: Materials
The technology could lead to production of fuels, building materials, and other products in a carbon-neutral way.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The method determines whether circuits are accurately executing complex operations that classical computers can’t tackle.
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Briefs: Automotive
These are important traits in electronics and electrical systems including electric cars, industrial drills, and electric grids.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This technology offers the possibility to both bolster computer power and create smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient computer memory technologies.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
These sensors monitor electrical loads from household appliances to support grid operations.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Quantum computer circuits that will no longer need extremely cold temperatures to function could become a reality.
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Briefs: Aerospace
This method creates a thin-film electrode for a bio-nanobattery.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This work potentially opens the door to advances like more energy-efficient electronic devices.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A quantum material could offset energy demand of artificial intelligence.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
This method provides a fast way to assess rocket engine performance in a variety of operating conditions.
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Briefs: Energy
Solid-State Lithium Battery
This thin film battery can be used for on-package power in mass market electric vehicles (EVs) and electronic devices.
Briefs: Materials
Scientists have reinvented a 26,000-year-old manufacturing process into an innovative approach to fabricating ceramic materials widely used in batteries, electronics, and extreme environments....
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Linking multiple copies of these devices may lay the foundation for quantum computing.
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Briefs: Energy
A new design enables artificial photosynthesis to generate fuel that can power homes and vehicles.
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Briefs: Motion Control
This type of energy source could be the basis for robots that seek out and “eat” metal, breaking down its chemical bonds for energy like humans do with food.
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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: Electronics & Computers
Mini-magnets could enable cloud computing systems to process data up to 100 times faster than current technologies.
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Briefs: Materials
Heat predictably and precisely changes the surface structure of a particle of liquid metal.
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