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: Semiconductors & ICs
The material could pave the way for better, safer solid-state batteries.
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Briefs: Materials
These “living machines” hold potential for applications from medical treatments to improving the environment.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A new fabrication technique helps improve the performance of flying micro-robots.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A new fabrication methodology addresses the need for a thin, double-sided circuitry board.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Vibrating transducers create tunnels in a thin layer of oil to transport droplets across a chip without leaving a trace behind.
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Briefs: Materials
The sulfolane-additive process yields easy fabrication, low cost, and long operating life.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Sensing is incorporated directly into an object’s material, with applications for assistive technology and “intelligent” furniture.
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Briefs: Energy
The synthetic material is soft but can withstand heavy loading with minimum wear and tear for engineering applications.
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Briefs: Wearables
Textiles and items of clothing can be converted into e-textiles without affecting their original properties.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This combination of technologies could enable developments for many optical applications.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Applications include aircraft-mounted and space-based interferometers, electronics fabrication, and military optics.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This new design overcomes a long-standing LED efficiency problem and can also transform it into a laser.
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Briefs: Materials
Fano Resonance Optical Coatings can both transmit and reflect the same color simultaneously.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Mechanical control and modulation of light on a silicon chip could enhance LiDAR.
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Briefs: Lighting
Using ambient light, the reflective screen keeps energy consumption to a minimum.
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Briefs: Imaging
In an airport, the scanner could eliminate the need for passengers to remove shoes at the checkpoint, speeding the screening process.
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Briefs: Energy
A machine learning method promises to predict battery health with 10 times higher accuracy than the current industry standard.
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Briefs: Wearables
The biofuel cells can power wearable electronics purely by using human sweat.
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Briefs: Wearables
The device is stretchy enough to wear like a ring, a bracelet, or any other accessory that touches the skin.
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Briefs: Energy
The battery charges faster than a lithium-ion battery and is fire-safe and eco-friendly.
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Briefs: Materials
A new design could extend the shelf-life of single-use metal-air batteries for electric vehicles, off-grid storage, and other applications.
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Briefs: Energy
Activated carbon made from corn stover filters 98 percent of a pollutant from water.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
The method replenishes lithium in electrodes while keeping the existing structure intact.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will usher in a new era of laser communications.
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Briefs: Imaging
Large machines can breathe in and out cooling blasts of water to keep their systems from overheating.
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Briefs: Automotive
These elastomers have a wide range of uses for the building, automotive, and electronics industries.
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Briefs: Weapons Systems
Better detection of microwave radiation will enable improved thermal imaging, electronic warfare, radio communications, and radar.
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Briefs: Communications
The suit can be controlled with a double tap to the chest or via an app.
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Briefs: Aerospace
Applications include avionics, data storage, process control, reconfigurable manufacturing lines, and civil and structural engineering.
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