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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Incorporating semiconductor components, microscopic robots are made to walk with standard electronic signals.
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Briefs: Lighting
This paves the way for innovative and more energy-efficient printed electronics.
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Briefs: Energy
With this advance, so-called “flextronics” move closer to reality.
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Briefs: Energy
The technology could be key to lighter, less expensive, and long-lasting batteries for future electric vehicles.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Growing large-area graphene on optical substrates enables use in photonics devices.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The process produces rapid, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly material.
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Briefs: Materials
Fano Resonance Optical Coatings (FROCs) can both transmit and reflect the same color simultaneously.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The approach achieves near 100% light emission efficiency at all brightness levels.
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Briefs: Software
The model helps researchers fine-tune battery performance.
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Briefs: Energy
A new anode for aqueous batteries uses seawater as an electrolyte.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This evaluation tool for low-altitude air traffic operations can be used by the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
High-voltage direct current cables can more efficiently transport electricity over long distances.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
The method could be applied to carbon waste streams.
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Briefs: Imaging
An already ubiquitous material in outdoor photovoltaic modules could be repurposed for indoor devices with low-capacity batteries.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The electricity can be used to power wireless devices or to charge energy storage devices such as batteries and supercapacitors.
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Briefs: Wearables
Implantable chips visible only in a microscope point the way to developing chips that can be injected into the body with a hypodermic needle to monitor medical conditions.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Monitoring urine sugar levels is important during early stages of diabetes, and diaper sensors represent an attractive solution.
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Briefs: Energy
The soft and stretchable device converts movement into electricity and can work in wet environments.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The reaction converts 90% of plastic to jet fuel and other valuable hydrocarbon products within an hour at moderate temperatures.
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Briefs: Materials
This work could help severely injured people, such as soldiers, regain the ability to control their movements.
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Briefs: Aerospace
This fuel cell could power a variety of transportation modes such as unmanned underwater vehicles, drones, and eventually electric aircraft.
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Briefs: Aerospace
Synthesis of fiber-metal laminates is performed using RF plasma spray deposition.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A folded plastic bladder could store and pump the fuel.
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Briefs: Motion Control
The soft robot harvests energy from a laser beam and can crawl on horizontal surfaces and climb vertical walls and an upside-down glass ceiling.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A skin-like device can measure small facial movements in patients who have lost the ability to speak.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The wearable antenna bends, stretches, and compresses without compromising function.
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Briefs: Materials
A new imaging method allows researchers to see inside complex semiconductors, without destroying them.
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Briefs: Materials
The new battery is degradable, recyclable, non-toxic, and safer than lithium-ion batteries.
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Briefs: Transportation
The membrane prevents dendrite formation, at least doubling the lifetime of a lithium-metal battery.
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