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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: Energy
This robot “blood” stores energy, transmits force, operates appendages, and provides structure, all in an integrated design.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Machine and system designers now have greater options in choosing a motor to meet motion control requirements.
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Products: Motion Control
Encoder The AI25 hazardous series AI25 encoder from Dynapar (Gurnee, IL) is suited for Class 1 Division 2 applications where a Zone 1 or Division 1 encoder may have previously been specified. It features both BiSS and SSI...
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The robot is built entirely from smaller robots and can form a robophysical system that can move by itself.
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Briefs: Motion Control
This mechanical gyroscope can advance motion sensing capabilities in consumer-sized applications.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This technology could be used to create smartphones that don't scratch or shatter, metal-free pacemakers, and electronics for space and other harsh environments.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Low-viscosity plastic; coin cell holders; oxidation-resistant coatings; and more.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
In some cases, radio frequency signals may be more useful for caregivers than cameras or other methods to collect health and behavioral data.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The system provides three-dimensional imagery of potential threats at closer ranges.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The flat structure morphs into another shape when temperature changes, enabling self-deploying tents or adaptive robotic fins.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These materials may replace metals as lightweight, flexible heat dissipators in cars, computers, cellphones, and refrigerators.
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Briefs: Materials
Filaments with embedded circuitry can be used to print complex shapes for biomedical and robotic devices.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Hybrid organic-inorganic materials transfer ultra-small, high-aspect-ratio features into silicon for next-generation electronic devices.
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Briefs: Energy
This innovation could lead to better drones, satellites, and biomedical devices.
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Briefs: Materials
This coating acts as a spontaneous air cooler and can be fabricated, dyed, and applied like paint.
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Facility Focus: Electronics & Computers
Explore Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's first space flight complex.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This controller minimizes the burden on the power grid.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The switch is a major new step toward building a computer that uses light instead of electricity to process information.
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Briefs: Materials
The functional transistors are integrated with ferroelectric RAM.
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Blog: Materials
"View it as an infrared privacy shield," says Professor Mikhail Kats.
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Blog: Energy
To improve the aqueous lithium-ion battery, RPI researchers tried out niobium tungsten oxide.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Vitrek introduces the PA920 Series ultra-high-accuracy power analyzer.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
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: Propulsion
These louvers provide passive thermal cooling for CubeSats.
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Briefs: Energy
These stickers wirelessly beam health readings to a receiver clipped onto clothing.
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NASA Spinoff: Imaging
Isolators used to control semiconductor manufacturing keep the James Webb Space Telescope steady.
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Briefs: Automotive
Load-bearing structures in cars and airplanes could be manufactured from the metal foam.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Ultra-thin SiC microstructures enable batch fabrication of MEMS, NEMS, pressure sensors, and biosensors.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
If you want to pursue in-house PCB prototyping and testing, there are several routes you can take.
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