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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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The sensor provides accurate and real-time measurement of flow rates and temperature in next-generation microfluidic instruments.
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Briefs: AR/AI
This technology enables robots, electronic devices, and prosthetic devices to feel pain through sense of touch.
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Q&A: RF & Microwave Electronics
A new class of medical instruments uses flexible electronics to improve patient outcomes in minimally invasive surgeries.
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Briefs: Materials
The flexible composites can be used as thermal insulation for environments of up to 1200 °C.
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Briefs: Materials
The system is effective in urban environments where there are tall buildings on all sides.
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Briefs: Aerospace
The material can be used in power electronics and power converters for solar energy power systems.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These implants can provide doctors with regular activity updates and are powered by the patient’s movement.
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5 Ws: Materials
Users can take paper sheets from a notebook and turn them into a music player interface or make food packaging interactive.
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Question of the Week: Electronics & Computers
Will Self-Erasing Chips Catch On?
University of Michigan engineers reported that their new self-erasing chips could help stop counterfeit electronics or provide alerts if sensitive shipments are tampered with. The chips use a new material that temporarily stores energy, changing the color of the light it emits. The self-erase period takes seven...
Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
University of Central Florida researchers are developing a human-like way for large machines to cool off and keep from overheating: Letting the machines "breathe."
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Technology Leaders: Electronics & Computers
For nearly 50 years, engineers in the electronics, aerospace, defense, medical device, and transportation industries have relied on Parylene coatings.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Open source microcontroller technologies in industrially hardened form factors address critical applications.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
Neuromorphic computing uses memristors that could function and operate like real brain synapses.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
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: Manufacturing & Prototyping
“EasyPass” would enable smart warehouses, automated factories, and more to operate without delays.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This approach could engineer quantum materials atom-by-atom for new electronic, magnetic, and sensing applications.
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Briefs: Wearables
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: Wearables
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: Aerospace
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: Photonics/Optics
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: Software
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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