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Browse a wide range of solutions for challenges facing design engineers working with communication platforms that include applications in laser, acoustics, optical, tactile, and wireless communications. Find the latest technical briefs, articles, white papers, and webinars.

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White Papers: Connectivity
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Critical Challenges of BBU and PSU Design in OCP-based Data Centers
Modern data center architectures, particularly those aligned with the Open Compute Project (OCP), demand far more from power delivery systems than ever before. As compute...

Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Rugged/Hi‐Rel Electronics - June 2025
How advanced packaging is transforming mission‐critical electronics…a new era of high‐speed data transmission in defense…fully rugged PCs provide a decisive edge on the battlefield. Read about...

Special Reports: Communications
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RF & Microwave Electronics - May 2025
Shape‐shifting antennas poised to transform communications…cutting‐edge drone killer radio wave weapon…researchers use ancient Japanese method to create tunable antennas. Read about these and other...

Articles: Connectivity
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is working to provide best practice guidelines to help manufacturers use wireless systems. Read on to learn more about it.
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Special Reports: Connectivity
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Connected & Automated Vehicles - March 2025
In this compendium of articles from the editors of Automotive Engineering and ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Engineering, we look at the next generation of driver assistance and AV technologies, and...

INSIDER: Unmanned Systems
New NASA technology works within satellite swarms. This technology, called Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy (DSA), allows individual spacecraft to make independent...
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White Papers: RF & Microwave Electronics
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Master the Spectrum: Uncover and Mitigate RF Interference with Confidence
Ensure seamless wireless communication with Anritsu’s cutting-edge solutions for RF interference management. The Field Master™, Site Master™, and...

White Papers: RF & Microwave Electronics
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eBook: The Fundamentals of RF Inductors
Explore a variety of technical articles that answer foundational questions about RF inductors and address topics such as solving RF isolation issues with RF inductors, comparing the benefits of wirewound...

Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Space Technology - January 2025
Engineering NASA's next great space telescope…how to build a better rocket…the groundbreaking material that could propel future space travel. Read about these and other exciting advances in this compendium of...

Quiz: RF & Microwave Electronics
Radio equipment marketed or sold into Canada must be certified with ISED Canada, the Canadian equipment authorization regulator. Radio transmitter equipment must be certified to the latest issue of Radio Standards Specifications (RSS). How well do you understand RSS-102 Issue 6 updates and its implications? Take this quiz to find out.
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Briefs: Communications
A research team led by Rice University’s Edward Knightly has uncovered an eavesdropping security vulnerability in high-frequency and high-speed wireless backhaul links, widely employed in critical applications such as 5G wireless cell phone signals and low-latency financial trading on Wall Street. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
In a paper published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, a team of Caltech engineers reports building a metasurface patterned with miniscule tunable antennas capable of reflecting an incoming beam of optical light to create many sidebands, or channels, of different optical frequencies. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Wearables
A group of University of Arizona researchers has developed a wearable monitoring device system that can send health data up to 15 miles without any significant infrastructure. Their device, they hope, will help make digital health access more equitable. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Connectivity
Researchers have developed a new method for predicting what data wireless computing users will need before they need it, making wireless networks faster and more reliable. The new method makes use of a technique called a “digital twin,” which effectively clones the network it is supporting. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
Researchers have achieved data rates as high as 424Gbit/s across a 53-km turbulent free-space optical link using plasmonic modulators — devices that uses special light waves called surface plasmon polaritons to control and change optical signals. The new research lays the groundwork for high-speed optical communication links that transmit data over open air or space. Read on to learn more.
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INSIDER: Communications
Dangling from a weather balloon 80,000 feet above New Mexico, a pair of antennas sticks out from a Styrofoam cooler. The antennas are listening for signals...
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Special Reports: Test & Measurement
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RF & Microwave Electronics - October 2024
How a tiny filter could have an enormous impact on wireless communications…RF interconnects play key role in hypersonic missile development…a laser clock could transform satellite navigation...

Special Reports: AR/AI
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Special Report: Smart Factory/IIOT - October 2024
Factories are getting "smarter" and more automated by the day, thanks to advances in AI, robotics, microelectronics and sensors. In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech...

Special Reports: Aerospace
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Space Technology - September 2024
Next‐gen spacecraft electronics…engineering future space habitats…manufacturing in orbit…how to launch it before you build it. Read about these and other exciting advances in this compendium of articles...

On-Demand Webinars: Communications
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As space missions become more sophisticated and far-reaching, communication systems and technologies must evolve to successfully transmit data both close to home and beyond our solar system.
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
My opinion: There is much to learn that is useful, practical, and important by studying swarms.
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Briefs: Communications
The researchers anticipate that with multiplexing techniques (where more than one channel can be used) and more sensitive receivers, the data rate can be increased to 1 terabit per second, ushering in a new era of near-instantaneous global communication. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A new groundbreaking “smart glove” is capable of tracking the hand and finger movements of stroke victims during rehabilitation exercises. The glove incorporates a sophisticated network of highly sensitive sensor yarns and pressure sensors that are woven into a comfortable stretchy fabric. Read on to learn more about the smart glove.
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Briefs: Communications
With a goal to revolutionize cellular communications, Penn engineers have developed an adjustable filter that can successfully prevent interference, even in higher-frequency bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. Read on to learn more about the matter.
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Briefs: Software
Scientists have pioneered a method for using semiconductor technology to manufacture processors that significantly enhance the efficiency of transmitting vast amounts of data across the globe. The innovation is poised to transform the landscape of wireless communication. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Communications
After announcing a ferroelectric semiconductor at the nanoscale thinness required for modern computing components, a University of Michigan team has demonstrated a reconfigurable transistor using that material. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed an optical amplifier that they expect will revolutionize both space and fiber communication.
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INSIDER: AR/AI
Communities could reduce costs and cut vehicle emissions — all in the name of shortening your trip.
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