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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Applications include aircraft-mounted and space-based interferometers, electronics fabrication, and military optics.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This new design overcomes a long-standing LED efficiency problem and can also transform it into a laser.
Briefs: Materials
Fano Resonance Optical Coatings can both transmit and reflect the same color simultaneously.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Mechanical control and modulation of light on a silicon chip could enhance LiDAR.
Briefs: Energy
Using ambient light, the reflective screen keeps energy consumption to a minimum.
Briefs: Imaging
In an airport, the scanner could eliminate the need for passengers to remove shoes at the checkpoint, speeding the screening process.
Briefs: Energy
A machine learning method promises to predict battery health with 10 times higher accuracy than the current industry standard.
Briefs: Wearables
The biofuel cells can power wearable electronics purely by using human sweat.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The device is stretchy enough to wear like a ring, a bracelet, or any other accessory that touches the skin.
Briefs: Power
The battery charges faster than a lithium-ion battery and is fire-safe and eco-friendly.
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.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Activated carbon made from corn stover filters 98 percent of a pollutant from water.
Briefs: Energy
The method replenishes lithium in electrodes while keeping the existing structure intact.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will usher in a new era of laser communications.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Large machines can breathe in and out cooling blasts of water to keep their systems from overheating.
Briefs: Materials
These elastomers have a wide range of uses for the building, automotive, and electronics industries.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Better detection of microwave radiation will enable improved thermal imaging, electronic warfare, radio communications, and radar.
Briefs: Communications
The suit can be controlled with a double tap to the chest or via an app.
Briefs: Imaging
Applications include avionics, data storage, process control, reconfigurable manufacturing lines, and civil and structural engineering.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
An ultra-small actuator has nanometer-scale precision.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The engine is approximately 10 billion times smaller than a car engine.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The device combines with body power to treat tendon disease and damage, and sports injuries.
Briefs: Imaging
Biological insights of fruit fly eye movements could enhance robotics.
Briefs: IoMT
The tabletop diagnostic yields results in an hour and can be programmed to detect variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Diamonds’ atomic flaws are converted into atomic sensors that watch a quantum world of materials under extreme pressure.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Engineers have developed a sensor system and manufacturing process for smart contact lenses. The sensor system contains a photodetector for receiving optical information, a temperature sensor for...
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Biobots based on muscle cells can swim at unprecedented velocities.
Briefs: AR/AI
The fiber contains memory, temperature sensors, and a trained neural network program for inferring physical activity.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This robot can run, jump, carry heavy payloads, and turn on a dime.
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