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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This device fits on a computer chip but can analyze infrared light in the same way as a conventional spectrometer.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The chip could provide low-voltage power for small devices or sensors.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The chip combines two functions — logic operations and data storage — into a single architecture, paving the way to more efficient devices.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Applications include monitoring the temperature of processor chips in superconductor-based quantum computers, which must stay cold to work properly.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This supercapacitor promises storage, high power, and fast charging.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The material, commonly found in house paint, can be used in a device to more efficiently process information.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Computations are done solely with beams of light.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
The system enables measurement of active or passive microstrip line devices with DC probing capability.
Briefs: Motion Control
This partially superconducting machine can be used as a motor or generator.
Briefs: Lighting
Invisible displays on walls and windows would be bright when turned on but invisible when turned off.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Printable organic photodiodes can distinguish wavelengths and enable data transmission by light.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The technology detects the presence of one or more specific chemical components in a liquid.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Tests show magnetoelectric power is a viable option for clinical-grade implants.
Briefs: Materials
With low-cost materials called perovskites, stable, continuous lasing is achieved at room temperature for over an hour.
Briefs: Materials
See how tantalum disulfide is supporting new kinds of optics, and potentially new kinds of application for VR and self-driving cars.
Briefs: Imaging
Applications include low-light conditions such as on orbital satellites and VR applications where the lens needs to be larger than a pupil.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This method could benefit next-generation electronics.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
These non-reciprocal devices on a compact chip pave the way for applications from two-way wireless to quantum computing.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The tiny unit is significant for the miniaturization of optoelectronic systems.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
To make electronic components smaller, semiconductor 2D materials are combined with new types of insulator materials.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Neuromorphic computing uses memristors that could function and operate like real brain synapses.
Briefs: Materials
A nanostructure design lends extraordinary strength to a promising storage ingredient.
Briefs: Materials
A metal-organic framework does not contain cost-intensive raw materials and can be produced in bulk.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Fully integrated flexible electronics made of magnetic sensors and organic circuits open the path towards the development of electronic skin.
Briefs: Materials
The material was designed specifically for biomedical or wearable technologies, since sweat and volatile organic compounds evaporate away from the skin.
Briefs: Lighting
Applications include high-speed communications, networking, and sensing.
Briefs: Medical
This eye-on-a-chip can help treatment of dry eye disease.
Briefs: Communications
The newest version of these combs could revolutionize clocks, telescopes, and telecommunications.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A new encapsulation technique protects electronic properties of sensitive materials.
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