Tech Briefs

Electronics & Software

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

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Briefs: Data Acquisition
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: Motion Control
This technology could impact new directions in robotics design.
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Briefs: Materials
An engineered surface treatment can reduce waste and improve efficiency in many processes.
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Briefs: Materials
This system protects workers on lightning and telecommunications towers, and on oil and gas platforms.
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Briefs: Aerospace
The sensor makes it easier to detect and manage ice accumulation on aircraft wings.
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Briefs: Imaging
This system places virtual objects within real-world backgrounds on cellphone screens and lets people interact with those objects by hand as if they were really there.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The functional transistors are integrated with ferroelectric RAM.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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: Green Design & Manufacturing
This controller minimizes the burden on the power grid.
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Briefs: Communications
Wraparound Self-Structuring Leaky-Wave Antenna (WSS-LWA)
This system has applications in the smart grid and military.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
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: Materials
Hybrid organic-inorganic materials transfer ultra-small, high-aspect-ratio features into silicon for next-generation electronic devices.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
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: Software
This program enhances images and videos for smartphones, tablets, and PCs.
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Briefs: Materials
The flat structure morphs into another shape when temperature changes, enabling self-deploying tents or adaptive robotic fins.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The system provides three-dimensional imagery of potential threats at closer ranges.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Fiber-optic cables could help scientists study offshore earthquakes and the geologic structures hidden deep beneath the ocean surface.
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Briefs: Software
CAESAR Plug-in for MagicDraw
Users can maintain the consistency of a flight system design.
Briefs: Communications
This atom-based receiver has the potential to be smaller and work better in noisy environments than conventional radio receivers.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
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: Communications
Software portal solutions can connect legacy control systems and field devices to the cloud.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This mechanical gyroscope can advance motion sensing capabilities in consumer-sized applications.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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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Briefs: Motion Control
Such machines, only a few tens of micrometers across, could be used in the human body to perform small operations.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A new laser-based system offers an efficient way to detect fires in challenging environments such as industrial facilities or large construction sites.
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