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Briefs: Wearables
The smartphone-based device could reduce the pressure on testing laboratories during a pandemic.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This testing method ensures that an exoskeleton and the person wearing it are moving smoothly and in harmony.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The test uses a smartphone microscope and could deliver results in about 10 minutes.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing and potentially help patients recovering from post-surgery breathing changes.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This system would extend the life of CubeSat satellites.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The tool diagnoses a stroke based on abnormalities in a person’s speech and facial movements.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The lenses enable the painless diagnosis or early detection of ocular diseases including glaucoma.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new technology uses nanoscale sensors and fiber optics to measure water status just inside a leaf’s surface, where water in plants is most actively managed.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new technique for measuring the performance of lithium batteries uses thermal waves to measure local lithium concentration as a function of depth inside battery electrodes.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A software makes industrial robots nimbler and almost as sensitive as human hands.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
A new fabrication methodology addresses the need for a thin, double-sided circuitry board.
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.
Briefs: Materials
Sensing is incorporated directly into an object’s material, with applications for assistive technology and “intelligent” furniture.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Applications include aircraft-mounted and space-based interferometers, electronics fabrication, and military optics.
Briefs: Unmanned Systems
Mechanical control and modulation of light on a silicon chip could enhance LiDAR.
Briefs: Imaging
The camera captures pulse and respiration signals from a video of a person’s face.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The camera could have uses in faster disease diagnosis and thinner cellphones.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
In an airport, the scanner could eliminate the need for passengers to remove shoes at the checkpoint, speeding the screening process.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Holographic lenses render visible and infrared starlight into either a focused image or a spectrum.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The "AOM" performs complex observations with ten observation modes and 175 strategies.
Briefs: Aerospace
NASA's NEID tool delivered its first batch of data on the nearest and best-studied star, our Sun.
Briefs: Packaging & Sterilization
The built-in nanosensors glow to alert patients when a wound is not healing properly.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Better detection of microwave radiation will enable improved thermal imaging, electronic warfare, radio communications, and radar.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The sensor technology could also be used to create clothing that detects a variety of pathogens and other threats.
Briefs: Imaging
Biological insights of fruit fly eye movements could enhance robotics.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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: Wearables
Speakers such as Amazon Echo and Google Home can monitor regular and irregular heartbeats without physical contact.
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