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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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Briefs: Communications
This combination of technologies could enable developments for many optical applications.
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Articles: Motion Control
Breath-regulating garments, humidity sensors, thin-film antennas, and more.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
The PM-50 graphical panel meter is available as a 3.5" or 4.3" graphical touchscreen display.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will usher in a new era of laser communications.
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Briefs: Wearables
The suit can be controlled with a double tap to the chest or via an app.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The tabletop diagnostic yields results in an hour and can be programmed to detect variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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Facility Focus: Test & Measurement
Purdue University is helping to create better battery monitoring, stretchable biosensors, allergen detectors, and more.
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Briefs: Aerospace
Applications include manufacturing/assembly line tracking, industrial transportation and logistics, and healthcare.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
“Dumb” headphones are made smart by turning them into sensors.
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Briefs: Materials
The film monitors how well aircraft and spacecraft withstand the mechanical stresses of flight.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
UAVs can land on moving unmanned ground vehicles without GPS.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
This technology improves the detection of low-power far-infrared (FIR) signals.
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Briefs: Automotive
This practical technique uses magnetism to transmit electricity wirelessly to recharge electric cars, robots, or drones.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
The phased array antenna based on large-area electronics technology could enable many uses of emerging 5G and 6G wireless networks.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This is a novel remote sensing instrument with myriad applications.
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Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
The third flight of SLS and Orion will carry the first woman and first person of color to the Moon.
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Technology Leaders: Test & Measurement
Easy-to-use reverberation test systems (RTS) measure the performance of wireless devices and antennas.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
The 2D materials boost device performance for electronic devices, solar cells, batteries, and medical equipment.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
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Briefs: Aerospace
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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Blog: Communications
Forget puzzles — In the early days of quarantine, Notre Dame professor and robotics engineer Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin used the time at home to put together robots.
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INSIDER: Communications
Researchers have utilized two-dimensional hybrid metal halides in a device that allows directional control of terahertz radiation generated by a spintronic...
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Special Reports: Robotics, Automation & Control
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RF & Microwave Electronics - October 2021
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 satellite and...

Products: Communications
Battery-pack test systems, data management, connector clips, and more.
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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Pellistor/Catalytic Bead (CB) sensors can respond to flammable gases such as hydrogen, oxygen, hydrogen sulfide, methane, butane, propane, and carbon monoxide.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
To find out about the impact of 5G mobile broadband service on the IoT/IIoT, I interviewed Jai Suri, Vice President, IoT and Blockchain Applications Development, Oracle, and Mike Anderson, Embedded Systems...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Laser-distance sensors, light monitoring, flow meters, and more.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
A tiny investment in system capital expenditures can lead to huge rewards in reduced capital and operating expenses.
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5 Ws: Materials
Who The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 is still a major threat to public health. Wearing a facemask is a step in protecting against infection; the new facemask also diagnoses the wearer with COVID-19.
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