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New technologies in power supplies and management, board-level electronics, electronics and computers, and battery systems provide wide-ranging applications essential to military, aviation, medical, and automotive.

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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Open source microcontroller technologies in industrially hardened form factors address critical applications.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Neuromorphic computing uses memristors that could function and operate like real brain synapses.
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Briefs: Materials
To make electronic components smaller, semiconductor 2D materials are combined with new types of insulator materials.
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Briefs: Energy
Perovskites could be the active ingredient that makes the next generation of low-cost, efficient, lightweight, and flexible solar cells.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
“EasyPass” would enable smart warehouses, automated factories, and more to operate without delays.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The tiny unit is significant for the miniaturization of optoelectronic systems.
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Briefs: Transportation
This battery would enable a 10-minute electrical vehicle recharge.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The algorithm provides an extra layer of safety and security against hackers of electronic devices.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This approach could engineer quantum materials atom-by-atom for new electronic, magnetic, and sensing applications.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
People could monitor their own health conditions by picking up a pencil and drawing a bioelectronic device on their skin.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Fully integrated flexible electronics made of magnetic sensors and organic circuits open the path towards the development of electronic skin.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These non-reciprocal devices on a compact chip pave the way for applications from two-way wireless to quantum computing.
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Briefs: Materials
The new battery technology could improve electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft and supercharge safe, long-range electric cars.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This method could benefit next-generation electronics.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A metal-organic framework does not contain cost-intensive raw materials and can be produced in bulk.
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Briefs: Energy
A nanostructure design lends extraordinary strength to a promising storage ingredient.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Tubing plugs, displacement measurements, CAM software, and more.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The response time of kinetic inductance bolometers can be greatly enhanced by electrothermal feedback for devices that are both sensitive and speedy.
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Special Reports: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Electronics Innovations - October 2020
In this compendium of articles from the editors of Tech Briefs magazine, discover how advances in electronic components are enabling game-changing applications in mobile healthcare/wearables, autonomous...

Special Reports: Defense
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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 ground...

INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed the world’s smallest ultrasound detector. Based on miniaturized...
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INSIDER: Test & Measurement
The proliferation and miniaturization of electronics in devices, wearables, medical implants, and other applications has...
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INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs
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 is...
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INSIDER: Medical
Researchers at the University of Houston report that they have designed and produced a smart electronic skin and a medical robotic hand capable of assessing vital diagnostic data...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
MIT startup Realtime Robotics invented a solution that gives robots the ability to quickly adjust their path to avoid objects as they move to a target. The Realtime controller can be connected to a...
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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
For planned robotic and crewed missions to the Moon and Mars, NASA is developing and testing precise landing and hazard-avoidance technologies. A combination of laser sensors, a camera, a high-speed...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
A team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) developed a novel, integrated approach to track energy-transporting ions within an ultra-thin...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that asymmetric stresses within electrodes used in certain wearable electronic devices provides an important clue as to how to improve...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have created next-generation solar modules with high efficiency and good stability....
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