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Access our comprehensive library of technical briefs on sensors and test, from engineering experts at NASA and government, university, and commercial laboratories.

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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Engineers have developed a new scanning technique inspired by the natural world that can detect corroding metals in oil and gas pipelines.
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Briefs: Communications
A team is exploring new materials for telecommunications and LIDAR applications.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This technology could help control driverless cars and automated warehouses.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This technology cancels out the vibrations of a satellite by vibrating the solar panels in the opposite direction.
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Briefs: Imaging
Special light sources and sensors see around corners or through gauzy filters, enabling reconstruction of the shapes of unseen objects.
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Briefs: Energy
Applications include powering portable electronic devices and sensors, and harvesting waste mechanical energy for aircraft, automobile, and other transportation equipment.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The technology could help in elder care with sensors throughout a home.
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Briefs: Wearables
A wearable energy harvesting device could generate energy from the swing of an arm while walking or jogging.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Hardware and software tweak microwave patterns to discover the most efficient way to identify objects.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This work could accelerate the development of flexible electronics.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The newest PLCs can directly access Internet resources, much like a mobile device, to obtain information for improving operations.
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Briefs: Imaging
The lasers are small and efficient enough to fit on a microchip.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Applications include homeland security, vehicle anti-collision systems, telecommunications systems, and industrial instrumentation.
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Briefs: Communications
In the middle ground between microwaves and visible light lies terahertz radiation, and the promise of “Tray vision.”
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Briefs: Materials
Researchers have developed new nanoscale technology to image and measure more of the stresses and strains on materials under high pressures.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A wireless sensor small enough to be implanted in the blood vessels of the human brain could help clinicians evaluate the healing of aneurysms.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Drones, smartphones, and sensors could provide a lifeline to the world’s growing elderly population at risk of falls.
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Briefs: Wearables
A mobile, wearable device the size of a Band-Aid could allow babies to leave the hospital and be monitored from home.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Magnetic Shield Using Proximity Coupled, Spatially Varying Superconducting Order Parameters
This magnetic shielding design can be easily incorporated into a wide range of electronic sensing applications.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
The technology could enable remote control of drug delivery, sensing, and other medical applications.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
These materials can be used in aerospace vehicles, automobiles, clothing, helmets, and chemical sensors.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Blood Test Detects Multiple Types of Cancer
The test can screen for numerous types of cancer with a high degree of accuracy.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This vibrometer has uses in analyzing spasms in humans, as a breath analyzer for diagnosis of cancer and other diseases, and as a preventative healthcare sensor.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The device retrains patients with spinal cord injury to sit more stably and gain an expanded active sitting workspace.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This system protects workers on lightning and telecommunications towers, and on oil and gas platforms.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
This new understanding can help chip manufacturers find ways to better diffuse the heat that leads to device damage and decreased device lifespans.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The sensor makes it easier to detect and manage ice accumulation on aircraft wings.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This system places virtual objects within real-world backgrounds on cellphone screens and lets people interact with those objects by hand as if they were really there.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
This system autonomously prepares samples for online automated analysis.
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