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Briefs: Wearables
This on-skin electronic device provides a personal air conditioner without electricity.
Briefs: Medical
This device could give doctors a new therapeutic option for treating patients with conditions such as heart failure.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
This diagnostic device allows doctors to detect cancer quickly from a droplet of blood or plasma.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Protocol Improves Storage Efficiency and Output Speed of Computer Systems
This approach enables computer systems to retrieve data much faster.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A highly sensitive, CMOS-compatible, broadband photodetector was created by tailoring material defects.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new way of making polymers adhere to surfaces may enable better biomedical sensors and implants.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
It can be used both in small, portable devices for field inspections and in very large detectors that use arrays of crystals.
Briefs: Defense
These “developable mechanisms” are built into the surfaces of structures.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This technology could help control driverless cars and automated warehouses.
Briefs: Imaging
This technology cancels out the vibrations of a satellite by vibrating the solar panels in the opposite direction.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Special light sources and sensors see around corners or through gauzy filters, enabling reconstruction of the shapes of unseen objects.
Briefs: Energy
Applications include powering portable electronic devices and sensors, and harvesting waste mechanical energy for aircraft, automobile, and other transportation equipment.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The technology could help in elder care with sensors throughout a home.
Briefs: Wearables
A wearable energy harvesting device could generate energy from the swing of an arm while walking or jogging.
Briefs: Motion Control
Hardware and software tweak microwave patterns to discover the most efficient way to identify objects.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The newest PLCs can directly access Internet resources, much like a mobile device, to obtain information for improving operations.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This work could accelerate the development of flexible electronics.
Briefs: Imaging
The lasers are small and efficient enough to fit on a microchip.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Applications include homeland security, vehicle anti-collision systems, telecommunications systems, and industrial instrumentation.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
In the middle ground between microwaves and visible light lies terahertz radiation, and the promise of “Tray vision.”
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers have developed new nanoscale technology to image and measure more of the stresses and strains on materials under high pressures.
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.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Drones, smartphones, and sensors could provide a lifeline to the world’s growing elderly population at risk of falls.
Briefs: Wearables
A mobile, wearable device the size of a Band-Aid could allow babies to leave the hospital and be monitored from home.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The technology could enable remote control of drug delivery, sensing, and other medical applications.
Briefs: Aerospace
These materials can be used in aerospace vehicles, automobiles, clothing, helmets, and chemical sensors.
Briefs: Medical
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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