Electronics

This electronic skin can track heart rate, respiration, muscle movement, and other health data.

Processors, imaging sensors, dimensioning systems, and more.

If you want to pursue in-house PCB prototyping and testing, there are several routes you can take.

Ultra-thin SiC microstructures enable batch fabrication of MEMS, NEMS, pressure sensors, and biosensors.

Isolators used to control semiconductor manufacturing keep the James Webb Space Telescope steady.

These stickers wirelessly beam health readings to a receiver clipped onto clothing.

Tech Briefs in 2019 celebrated historic NASA anniversaries, new ways to power electronics, and innovative hacks of our “smartest” technologies.

Medical implants of the future may feature reconfigurable electronic platforms that can morph in shape and size dynamically as bodies change or transform to relocate from one...

A wireless, wearable monitor built with stretchable electronics could allow comfortable, long-term health monitoring of adults, babies, and small children without concern for skin...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new method for producing atomically thin semiconducting crystals that could one day enable more powerful and...

Sensing technology will help to transform manufacturing floors into the connected factories of the future.

A synthetic skin enables robots to sense their own bodies and surroundings

The skin could help rehabilitation and enhance virtual reality by instantaneously adapting to a wearer's movements.

Adhesives, flame-retardant compounds, vision measurement, and more...

Made with “Jenga chemistry,” the material could help in understanding how high-temperature superconductors work.

Innovators at NASA Johnson Space Center have developed a calorimeter that is able to measure the total heat generated when specific types of Lithium-ion (Li-ion) cells are...

This packaging provides protection for SiC sensors and electronics in harsh, hightemperature environments.

This optical switch controls the direction of light passing through optical fibers faster and more efficiently.

This method also reverse-engineers computer chips to detect the chip’s purpose.

This technology could lead to the creation of fully functional quantum computers.

Top prizes in the 2019 contest were awarded on November 8 in New York City.

A process was developed for producing oxide perovskite crystals in flexible, free-standing layers. A two-dimensional rendition of this substance is intriguing because 2D materials have been shown to...

To investigate oceans, researchers aim to build a submerged network of interconnected sensors that sends data to the surface. Supplying constant power to scores of sensors designed to stay for long...