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Special Reports: Electronics & Computers
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Power Electronics - April 2023
This compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology looks at the latest advances in power electronics and energy storage for applications ranging from drones...

Products: Electronics & Computers
See the product of the month.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The device uses soft robotics, ultra-thin electronics, and microfluidics.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
SAE's WCX World Congress Experience, will be held from April 18-20, in Detroit, MI.
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
True to Moore’s Law, the number of transistors on a microchip has doubled every year since the 1960s. But this trajectory is predicted to soon plateau because silicon — the backbone...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new nanoelectronics platform based on graphene — a single sheet of carbon atoms.
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
Instead of disposing of batteries after three years, we could have recyclable batteries that last three times longer.
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INSIDER: Materials
Researchers at Arizona State University and Northrop Grumman are working on a new project to create power transistors from diamond. The results could yield efficiencies that significantly shrink the size of electrical...
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Blog: Materials
A counterintuitive way to protect atomically thin electronics: adding vibrations to reduce vibration issues.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
To ensure networks are prepared for the next wave of transmission, operators need to build wave multiplexing systems that will allow connections to migrate to 100 Gb/s.
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Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This measurement technique is particularly useful for, but not limited to, samples containing organic compounds.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The researchers plan to apply the design to edge computing devices.
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Products: Data Acquisition
The new Indicators feature true absolute sensor technology that minimizes the chance of data loss.
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Briefs: Design
A new area of artificial intelligence called analog deep learning promises faster computation with a fraction of the energy usage.
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Quiz: Medical
How much do you know about e-skin? Find out with the quiz below.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The design goal is to provide exceptional RF signal range and stability, while also reducing power consumption, in a miniaturized package.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
See the new products on the market, including power inductors, vibration sensors, a field TV connector, and more.
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INSIDER: Materials
Diodes allow directed flows of current. Without them, modern electronics would be inconceivable. Until now, they had to be made from two materials with different characteristics. A...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Imagine a technology that can convert, amplify, limit, filter, control, and transform electricity in countless ways to supply power to the electrical grid. These are power electronics, and the...
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
The platform was developed to democratize programmable matter; to make prototyping, innovation, and research with soft robotics incredibly quick and easy; and to enable researchers, designers, and makers of all backgrounds to unleash their creativity and bring their ideas to life.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Some of the hardest to detect cyber-attacks are wireless, including man-in-the-middle attacks and rogue access points.
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
The silicon-based computer chips that power our modern devices require vast amounts of energy to operate. Despite ever-improving computing efficiency, information technology...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
An international team of researchers has designed and built a chip that runs computations directly in memory and can run a wide variety of AI applications — all at a fraction of the energy...
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INSIDER: Test & Measurement
To continue making smartphones, laptops, and other devices more powerful, yet energy efficient, industry is intensely focused on identifying promising...
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Special Reports: Photonics/Optics
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Machine Vision & Camera Technology - October 2022
In this report just released by the editors of Tech Briefs and Photonics & Imaging Technology, you'll read about the world's fastest camera (.5 trillion frames per second!); an innovative...

Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
More than 80 percent of manufacturers experienced at least one instance of unplanned downtime during the past three years, and a single factory can lose $2.3 million annually due to unplanned stoppages.
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Articles: Internet of Things
Compound semiconductors will play an ever more important role in the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) into 5G territory.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
An open-access study in Advanced Science outlines the process by which Preston and lead author Faye Yap harnessed a spider’s physiology in a first step toward a novel area of research they call “necrobotics.”
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Briefs: Medical
Some wearable devices are already capable of measuring pulse rates or temperatures, but this team’s method would allow the technology to sense biomarkers related to metabolic disorders, like heart disease or diabetes.
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