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The Inside Story on SOSA
SOSA is chartered with creating a common framework for transitioning sensor systems to an open-systems architecture, based on key interfaces and best practices established by industry-government consensus. The...
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This LED Can Be Integrated Directly Into Computer Chips
Light-emitting diodes — LEDs — are important in many more applications than just illumination. These light sources are useful in microelectronics too. Smartphones, for example,...
Articles: Communications
Executive Roundtable: Facility & Network Security
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Niobium Titanium Nitride Thin Film Coating
Articles: Data Acquisition
Integrating QC Measurement Data into Manufacturing Systems
Researchers from the University of Bristol’s Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QET Labs) and Université Côte d‘Azur have made a new miniaturized...
White Papers: Electronics & Computers
Critical Techniques for High-Speed A/D Converters in Real-Time Systems
To help define the meaning of “high-speed A/D” used in this handbook, we will be focusing primarily on A/D converters with sampling rates higher than 100 MHz. We will...
Special Reports: Imaging
Optics & Photonics Innovations - January 2021
An ultrafast camera that takes up to one trillion pictures per second...using light alone to levitate objects and propel spacecraft...the groundbreaking optics enabling the world's most powerful...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Cascaded Offset Optical Modulator
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Tethered Drones Improve Cellular and Internet Networks
Briefs: Communications
Toroidal Radiation Pattern Patch Antenna
Briefs: Aerospace
Fine-Pointing Optical Communication System Using Laser Arrays
Briefs: Communications
Terahertz Receiver for 6G Wireless Communications
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Vortex Radiometer for Wireless Communications
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Miniature Antenna Enables Robotic Teaming in Complex Environments
Application Briefs: Propulsion
Wave Energy Modeling for Safer Space Travel
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Self-Assembling Robot Cubes Form Various Structures
Facility Focus: Photonics/Optics
Facility Focus: Rochester Institute of Technology
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New on the Market: November 2020
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Long-Range Wireless Sensor Network
Briefs: Communications
Continuous and Stable Lasing Achieved From Low-Cost Perovskites at Room Temperature
INSIDER: Communications
Undergrads Improve Cybersecurity of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications
Students at Rochester Institute of Technology created a wireless testbed that future research teams can use to investigate secure V2V communications.
Products: Electronics & Computers
New on the Market: October 2020
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
“One-Way” Electronic Devices
Briefs: Communications
Combined Optical Transmitter and Receiver
Special Reports: Defense
RF & Microwave Electronics - October 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...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers Devise Efficient, Scalable Process for Fabricating MXene Films That Block Electromagnetic Interference
The proliferation and miniaturization of electronics in devices, wearables, medical implants, and other applications has...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
2D Materials for Extra Thin Computer Chips
For a long time, something important has been regularly neglected in electronics. If you want to make electronic components smaller and smaller, you also need the right insulator materials. This...
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MEMS — Smart Sensors for the IoT
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Using the IoT for Predictive Maintenance
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New Fiber Optic Temperature Sensing Approach Could Keep Fusion Power Plants...
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