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Facility Focus: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This NASA center hosts the world’s greatest collection of wind tunnels and flight simulation facilities
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The capacitor could enable a new generation of electronics that will require less power and generate less heat.
Briefs: Wearables
This on-skin electronic device provides a personal air conditioner without electricity.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This passive device relies on a layer of material that blocks incoming sunlight but lets heat radiate away.
Articles: Aerospace
A cryptographic ID tag, a high-reliability NASA switch, and a stretchable thermoelectric generator...
Briefs: Transportation
A new method could enable vehicles and equipment to better withstand high temperatures, loads, and speeds.
Briefs: Materials
These carbon-based fillers can be used in thermally conductive clothing such as liquid-cooled garments.
Briefs: Materials
This work could accelerate the development of flexible electronics.
Briefs: Transportation
Fuse devices enable circuit safety in high-power applications, such as motion control and alternative energy generation, in addition to electric vehicles.
Articles: Materials
There are longwave, midwave, and shortwave camera systems—each with its own advantages for specific industries and uses.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The bus is designed for high-frequency, high-temperature operation in electric drive systems and next-generation power electronics.
Briefs: Materials
This cost-saving piping insulation has uses in refrigerated containers that protect food, medicine, and other perishables.
Briefs: Communications
Using 3D components on a standardized 2D microchip manufacturing platform uses up to 100 times less chip space.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
This new understanding can help chip manufacturers find ways to better diffuse the heat that leads to device damage and decreased device lifespans.
Briefs: Motion Control
This technology could impact new directions in robotics design.
Question of the Week: Materials
Will Cooling Coatings Catch On?
This month’s Tech Briefs featured a potential alternative to the air conditioner: A painted-on polymer coating that can cool down a building.
Facility Focus: Electronics & Computers
Explore Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's first space flight complex.
Products: Electronics & Computers
Low-viscosity plastic; coin cell holders; oxidation-resistant coatings; and more.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This coating acts as a spontaneous air cooler and can be fabricated, dyed, and applied like paint.
Briefs: Materials
These materials may replace metals as lightweight, flexible heat dissipators in cars, computers, cellphones, and refrigerators.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The flat structure morphs into another shape when temperature changes, enabling self-deploying tents or adaptive robotic fins.
Briefs: Imaging
The system provides three-dimensional imagery of potential threats at closer ranges.
Blog: Electronics & Computers
"View it as an infrared privacy shield," says Professor Mikhail Kats.
Q&A: Photonics/Optics
Have you heard of "Thubber?"
Briefs: Materials
The Planetary Tides Simulation Facility for Simulation Tidal Strain in Planetary Ice Analogs
Applications include modeling of tidal stress response of icy satellites as well as fatigue of terrestrial ice shelves.
Briefs: Materials
A carbon nanotube heat shield can better protect extremely fast aircraft.
Briefs: Materials
These robust materials convert excess heat energy into electricity.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These barrier coatings protect high-performance components in extreme environments.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These louvers provide passive thermal cooling for CubeSats.
Top Stories
Blog: Power
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Blog: AR/AI
Aerial Microrobots That Can Match a Bumblebee's Speed
News: Energy
Blog: Electronics & Computers
Turning Edible Fungi into Organic Memristors
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Microscopic Swimming Machines that Can Sense, Respond to Surroundings
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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