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: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Wearable electronic components incorporated directly into fabrics have been developed that could be used for flexible circuits, healthcare monitoring, energy conversion, and other applications. Graphene...
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Briefs: Energy
Many technical processes only use part of the energy consumed. The remaining fraction leaves the system in the form of waste heat. Frequently, this heat is released into the...
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
3D nanometer-scale metamaterial structures hold promise for advanced optical isolators.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Optical Signals can be retrieved from inherent background noise using Talbot effect to amplify them.
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Briefs: Wearables
A hybrid method enables 3D printing of self-powered wearable devices.
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Briefs: Materials
Metamaterials that manipulate microwave energy can be fabricated using low-cost inkjet printing.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This method prints 3D structures made of metal and plastic, paving the way for 3D electronics.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
This method fabricates 3D nanostructures for electronics, manufacturing, and healthcare.
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Briefs: Energy
The method enhances the battery's safety while it is being used, without opening the battery cell.
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Briefs: Energy
Pyroelectric energy generates energy from heat that would otherwise be wasted in a catalytic chemical reaction.
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Briefs: Energy
The battery is smaller than a traditional lithium-ion battery due to the elimination of dendrites.
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Briefs: Materials
The material enables lithium-ion batteries to be safely recharged within minutes for thousands of cycles.
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Briefs: Energy
The flexible, washable microgrid uses the human body to sustainably power small electronics.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The material improves connectivity while maintaining recyclability and low cost.
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Briefs: Wearables
Artificial skin reacts to pain just like real skin, paving the way to better prosthetics, robotics, and noninvasive alternatives to skin grafts.
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Briefs: Wearables
The mobile, wearable device could allow babies to leave the hospital and be monitored from home.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
The high-bandwidth, high-resolution ISAR technology can be used to study subsurface structures.
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Briefs: Energy
The device combines with body power to treat tendon disease and damage, and sports injuries.
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Briefs: Software
The new computer simulation method can equip engineers and doctors with better information.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The advance could accelerate engineers’ design process by eliminating the need to solve complex equations.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
The system guarantees the security of virtual machines in the cloud.
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Briefs: Software
This schedulable, predictable, high-performance data transfer service is designed for largescale scientific computing facilities.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Columbia researchers are reducing both the size and the power consumption of a visible-spectrum phase modulator, from one millimeter to 10 microns.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Researchers successfully demonstrated the use of the human body as a medium for transmitting and harvesting energy to power wearables.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
Researchers have created an electronic microsystem that can intelligently respond to information inputs without any external energy input, much like a...
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The method could support the semiconductor industry and facilitate development of next-gen devices.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Applications include power and energy, communications, and sensors.
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Briefs: Energy
In-wall capacitors power lights, phones, and laptops without wires.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The material could potentially provide a platform for error-free quantum computing.
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