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Products: Test & Measurement
Foam gasket tapes, data analytics software, ceramic tape, and more.
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Facility Focus: Energy
Stennis now is testing RS-25 rocket engines for the Space Launch System (SLS) that will carry humans back to the Moon.
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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Smart sensors for hazardous areas monitor essential assets, such as motors and pumps.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
An A/C alternative, AI that sharpens blurry images, and a NASA energy harvester.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
This method of machine learning could make communications in the unlicensed bands much more efficient.
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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics

Carolin Frueh is among only a handful of researchers who have persisted in using a complex technique that can diagnose a problem from thousands of miles away based on how a...

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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Using integrated photonic chips fabricated at EPFL, scientists have demonstrated laser-based microwave generators.
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Blog: Communications
NIST engineers are working to make the cellular network standard even faster.
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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Learn abut Bosch Sensortec's “Light Drive” system.
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Technology Leaders: Communications
Low-power radio design is enabling new connected IoT products for consumer, commercial, industrial, and medical markets.
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Briefs: Communications
Applications include imaging, sensing, wireless communications, and medical treatments.
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Briefs: Defense
The technique could be used to improve navigation for robots, drones, or pedestrians.
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Briefs: AR/AI
This device could give doctors a new therapeutic option for treating patients with conditions such as heart failure.
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Articles: Materials
A cryptographic ID tag, a high-reliability NASA switch, and a stretchable thermoelectric generator...
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Special Reports: Aerospace
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RF & Microwave Electronics - April 2020

In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Aerospace & Defense Technology and Tech Briefs, read about how advances in RF electronics are enabling new applications in space and ground...

Briefs: Test & Measurement
In the middle ground between microwaves and visible light lies terahertz radiation, and the promise of “Tray vision.”
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Increase battery life and reduce data loads with an analog-first processing architecture.
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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
An interview with Mike Horton, CTO of ACEINNA, Inc. (Boston, MA).
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Articles: Connectivity
To clear up some of the confusion about what the industry means when it says 5G, here’s a guide to what it’s all about.
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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Facility managers, real estate owners, as well as commercial and industrial businesses are looking to deploy IoT.
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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Beta Technologies is putting their Electrical Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft (eVTOL) prototype through the wringer.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Using 3D components on a standardized 2D microchip manufacturing platform uses up to 100 times less chip space.
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Briefs: Materials
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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The technology could enable remote control of drug delivery, sensing, and other medical applications.
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Question of the Week: Communications
Do the 5G Benefits Outweigh the Risks?

A feature article in this month’s Tech Briefs explored how the fifth-generation mobile network known as 5G will support the creation of increasingly “smart” factories – ones that allow manufacturers to further improve factory automation, human/machine interfaces, and mobility.

Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
5G has the potential to provide connectivity for a range of different uses in manufacturing.
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Briefs: Communications
This atom-based receiver has the potential to be smaller and work better in noisy environments than conventional radio receivers.
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Briefs: Software
Software portal solutions can connect legacy control systems and field devices to the cloud.
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Blog: Connectivity
Here are five technologies that aim to add intelligence to the most surprising household objects.
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