Electrical/​Electronics

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Briefs: Transportation
Fuse devices enable circuit safety in high-power applications, such as motion control and alternative energy generation, in addition to electric vehicles.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
These carbon-based fillers can be used in thermally conductive clothing such as liquid-cooled garments.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This work could accelerate the development of flexible electronics.
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Briefs: Transportation
Applications include homeland security, vehicle anti-collision systems, telecommunications systems, and industrial instrumentation.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This method could lead to the transmission of data at the rate of 100 gigabits per second.
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Briefs: Communications
Housed in a chip, it lets IoT devices communicate with existing WiFi networks.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These electrode implants will allow people with a dysfunctional inner ear to hear again.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The bus is designed for high-frequency, high-temperature operation in electric drive systems and next-generation power electronics.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This cost-saving piping insulation has uses in refrigerated containers that protect food, medicine, and other perishables.
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Briefs: Aerospace
Magnetic Shield Using Proximity Coupled, Spatially Varying Superconducting Order Parameters
This magnetic shielding design can be easily incorporated into a wide range of electronic sensing applications.
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: Materials
These thin films hold great promise for solar cells and LEDs.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This new understanding can help chip manufacturers find ways to better diffuse the heat that leads to device damage and decreased device lifespans.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This technology could impact new directions in robotics design.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The functional transistors are integrated with ferroelectric RAM.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The switch is a major new step toward building a computer that uses light instead of electricity to process information.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This controller minimizes the burden on the power grid.
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Briefs: Materials
This coating acts as a spontaneous air cooler and can be fabricated, dyed, and applied like paint.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This innovation could lead to better drones, satellites, and biomedical devices.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Hybrid organic-inorganic materials transfer ultra-small, high-aspect-ratio features into silicon for next-generation electronic devices.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Filaments with embedded circuitry can be used to print complex shapes for biomedical and robotic devices.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These materials may replace metals as lightweight, flexible heat dissipators in cars, computers, cellphones, and refrigerators.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The flat structure morphs into another shape when temperature changes, enabling self-deploying tents or adaptive robotic fins.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The system provides three-dimensional imagery of potential threats at closer ranges.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
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: Electronics & Computers
This technology could be used to create smartphones that don't scratch or shatter, metal-free pacemakers, and electronics for space and other harsh environments.
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Briefs: Transportation
This mechanical gyroscope can advance motion sensing capabilities in consumer-sized applications.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The robot is built entirely from smaller robots and can form a robophysical system that can move by itself.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This robot “blood” stores energy, transmits force, operates appendages, and provides structure, all in an integrated design.
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