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Briefs: Imaging
University of Colorado researchers have described a new silicon chip that improves the resolution and scanning speed needed for a lidar system.
Briefs: Energy
Drop-in replacements for lithium ion batteries would not pose a fire danger.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
These sensors monitor electrical loads from household appliances to support grid operations.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The sensor has applications in fields such as robotics, healthcare, and security.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
New safety relay modules follow updated standards to give designers more options for a tailored electrical safety implementation.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This approach could lead to entirely new and more efficient logic switches for computer chips.
Briefs: Imaging
An ultrafast image sensor with a built-in neural network can be trained to recognize certain objects.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The technology could lead to production of fuels, building materials, and other products in a carbon-neutral way.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The method determines whether circuits are accurately executing complex operations that classical computers can’t tackle.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Biologically inspired ultrathin arrayed camera captures super-resolution images.
Briefs: Lighting
This work potentially opens the door to advances like more energy-efficient electronic devices.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Using integrated photonic chips fabricated at EPFL, scientists have demonstrated laser-based microwave generators.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Quantum computer circuits that will no longer need extremely cold temperatures to function could become a reality.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Linking multiple copies of these devices may lay the foundation for quantum computing.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The multitasking device could advance development of an electric circuit for faster, next-generation electronics like quantum computing technologies.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Inspired by the octopus, the structure senses, computes, and responds without any centralized processing.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This system can amplify a faint signal from a neighboring system even when that signal’s amplitude is as small as ten trillionths of a meter.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The flexible device harvests heat energy from the body to monitor health.
Briefs: Aerospace
A ceramic sensor could be embedded into structures such as bridges and aircraft to monitor their health.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The AI system can help shorten the time required for 2D material-based electronics to be ready for consumer devices.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
This instrument has applications in medical equipment, robotics, and satellites.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Applications include optical data transfer, infrared and night-vision systems, environmental sensors, and breath analysis for medical diagnosis.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The material combines two polymers with different properties.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
This diagnostic device allows doctors to detect cancer quickly from a droplet of blood or plasma.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
It can be used both in small, portable devices for field inspections and in very large detectors that use arrays of crystals.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A highly sensitive, CMOS-compatible, broadband photodetector was created by tailoring material defects.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
This method uses fiber optic probes for measurement of semiconductors, optical coatings, magnetic read/write heads, and precision machines.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new way of making polymers adhere to surfaces may enable better biomedical sensors and implants.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Next-generation devices made with a “peel and stack” method could include electronic chips worn on the skin.
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