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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This innovation could lead to better drones, satellites, and biomedical devices.
Briefs: Materials
This coating acts as a spontaneous air cooler and can be fabricated, dyed, and applied like paint.
Facility Focus: Aerospace
Explore Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's first space flight complex.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This controller minimizes the burden on the power grid.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The switch is a major new step toward building a computer that uses light instead of electricity to process information.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The functional transistors are integrated with ferroelectric RAM.
Blog: Materials
"View it as an infrared privacy shield," says Professor Mikhail Kats.
Blog: Energy
To improve the aqueous lithium-ion battery, RPI researchers tried out niobium tungsten oxide.
Products: Data Acquisition
Vitrek introduces the PA920 Series ultra-high-accuracy power analyzer.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Embedded Gas and Temperature Sensors for Extreme Environments
Innovative process control systems for improved efficiency and lower emissions in current and future fossil-fuel-based power systems and related applications require durable, embedded sensor technology that can operate at higher temperatures and in harsh conditions.
Briefs: Aerospace
These louvers provide passive thermal cooling for CubeSats.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
These stickers wirelessly beam health readings to a receiver clipped onto clothing.
NASA Spinoff: Photonics/Optics
Isolators used to control semiconductor manufacturing keep the James Webb Space Telescope steady.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
Load-bearing structures in cars and airplanes could be manufactured from the metal foam.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Ultra-thin SiC microstructures enable batch fabrication of MEMS, NEMS, pressure sensors, and biosensors.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
If you want to pursue in-house PCB prototyping and testing, there are several routes you can take.
Products: Electronics & Computers
Processors, imaging sensors, dimensioning systems, and more.
Briefs: Wearables
This electronic skin can track heart rate, respiration, muscle movement, and other health data.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These robust materials convert excess heat energy into electricity.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These barrier coatings protect high-performance components in extreme environments.
Briefs: Aerospace
A carbon nanotube heat shield can better protect extremely fast aircraft.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
This electronic pill can relay diagnostic information or release drugs in response to smartphone commands.
Briefs: Aerospace
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.
Products: Test & Measurement
Photopolymer films, LED light engines, measurement systems, and more.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new laser-based system offers an efficient way to detect fires in challenging environments such as industrial facilities or large construction sites.
Blog: Electronics & Computers
Tech Briefs in 2019 celebrated historic NASA anniversaries, new ways to power electronics, and innovative hacks of our “smartest” technologies.
INSIDER: Materials
The challenge of building an energy future that preserves and improves the planet is a massive undertaking. Scientists and politicians have recognized the...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A highly sensitive rectifying element in the form of a nanowire backward diode can convert low-power 100 nanowatt microwaves into usable electricity. The newly developed...
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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INSIDER: Research Lab
Scientists Create Superconducting Semiconductor Material
Blog: Software
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Blog: Aerospace
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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