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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The system can recharge the internal battery of devices without invasive surgery or risky penetrative procedures.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This simple and inexpensive design achieves high-quality ozone measurements.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Computations are done solely with beams of light.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This subsystem is used in free-space optical communications and fiber-optic communications.
Briefs: Aerospace
Method Tests Microscopic Aeronautical Materials
This process breaks the temperature barrier in small-scale materials testing.
Briefs: Aerospace
This technique for optical data transmission from satellites uses laser arrays to provide fine pointing capability.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The camera collects the spatial and spectral information required for self-driving cars, machine vision, corrosion detection, and other applications.
Briefs: Lighting
Invisible displays on walls and windows would be bright when turned on but invisible when turned off.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Any high-performance communication systems operating in RF or optical frequencies may benefit from this system.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Applications include characterizing additively manufactured components and baggage screening.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Printable organic photodiodes can distinguish wavelengths and enable data transmission by light.
Briefs: Energy
Adaptable automation reduces manufacturing time and costs.
Briefs: Energy
The system is effective in urban environments where there are tall buildings on all sides.
Briefs: Imaging
The sensor enables detection of items for security screening, intrusion detection, forensics, and medical imaging.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Cancer treatment could be dramatically improved by precisely locating the edges of tumors during surgery to remove them.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
With low-cost materials called perovskites, stable, continuous lasing is achieved at room temperature for over an hour.
Briefs: Automotive
See how tantalum disulfide is supporting new kinds of optics, and potentially new kinds of application for VR and self-driving cars.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
MIT engineers are envisioning robots more like home helpers.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A NIST method employs a neural network to detect patterns like geometric objects in imaging data.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A metal-organic framework does not contain cost-intensive raw materials and can be produced in bulk.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This technology can work with multiple wavelengths of light simultaneously.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Applications include low-light conditions such as on orbital satellites and VR applications where the lens needs to be larger than a pupil.
Briefs: Aerospace
Tiny aircraft that weigh as much as a fruit fly could serve as Martian atmospheric probes.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This approach could engineer quantum materials atom-by-atom for new electronic, magnetic, and sensing applications.
Briefs: Automotive
This method could impact optical technologies such as smartphone cameras, biosensors, or autonomous vision for robots and self-driving cars.
Briefs: Energy
Traditional spark plugs are replaced by an optical pumping source.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The tiny unit is significant for the miniaturization of optoelectronic systems.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This method can be used in astronomy, surveillance, and optics manufacturing.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
The newest version of these combs could revolutionize clocks, telescopes, and telecommunications.
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