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Briefs: Imaging
Technique Uses X-Rays to Detect Defective Computer Chips
This method also reverse-engineers computer chips to detect the chip’s purpose.
Briefs: Automotive
A combination of additives shows promise for boosting battery performance in very cold or hot weather.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Products include an aerosol scattering sensor; metal foam; and a new coated drug capsule.
Briefs: Materials
This optical switch controls the direction of light passing through optical fibers faster and more efficiently.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
This technology provides simultaneous ohmic contacts and the process to make them.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
This hands-on, educational tool highlights the properties of SMA wire.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This packaging provides protection for SiC sensors and electronics in harsh, hightemperature environments.
Facility Focus: Nanotechnology
Glenn's research facilities have contributed to decades of technology advances.
Briefs: Data Acquisition
Innovators at NASA Johnson Space Center have developed a calorimeter that is able to measure the total heat generated when specific types of Lithium-ion (Li-ion) cells are driven...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Potassium-Oxygen Battery Stores Clean Energy
Researchers have developed a more efficient, more reliable potassium-oxygen battery with a cathode that stores the energy produced by a chemical reaction in a metal-oxygen or metal-air battery. The battery could make renewable energy sources like solar and wind more viable options for the power grid...
Briefs: Materials
Made with “Jenga chemistry,” the material could help in understanding how high-temperature superconductors work.
Articles: Data Acquisition
With the rise in electrification and design complexity, aerospace original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) need to look for new methodologies to mitigate compliance risk.
Products: Test & Measurement
Adhesives, flame-retardant compounds, vision measurement, and more...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This system uses fiber optic strain sensing to detect and locate micrometeoroid/orbital debris.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The skin could help rehabilitation and enhance virtual reality by instantaneously adapting to a wearer's movements.
Briefs: Motion Control
A synthetic skin enables robots to sense their own bodies and surroundings
Articles: Internet of Things
Sensing technology will help to transform manufacturing floors into the connected factories of the future.
Products: Transportation
OnLogic has introduced the Karbon 700 high-performance rugged computer.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Laser illumination is scaling in a new direction.
Products: Motion Control
LIDAR Systems, Smart Cameras, Optical Communications, and more.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A transistor has been made from linen thread, enabling the creation of electronic devices made entirely of thin threads that could be woven into fabric, worn on the skin, or implanted...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
See the eight winners of the 2019 "Create the Future" Design Contest
Briefs: Aerospace
Although Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is being used widely for pallet and box-level tracking in the commercial sector, significant technology gaps remain for tracking dense quantities at the item...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A method was developed to make atom-flat sensors that seamlessly integrate with devices to report on what they perceive. Electronically active 2D materials, touted for their strength, are difficult to move to...
Articles: Test & Measurement
Make the best selection for your hospital, clinic, or life science organization.
Articles: Electronics & Computers
This column presents technologies that have applications in commercial areas, possibly creating the products of tomorrow. To learn more about each technology, see the contact information provided for that innovation.
Briefs: Wearables
A fully print-in-place technique for electronics could enable technologies such as high-adhesion, embedded electronic tattoos and bandages with patient-specific biosensors.
Briefs: Energy
NASA Langley Research Center developed a wind event warning technology that provides a practical early warning system (5-10 minutes) for a severe change in the wind vector. Events such as gusts, shear, microbursts, or...
Briefs: Medical
Smart Electronic Skin for Robots and Prosthetics
Humans use the sense of touch to accomplish almost every daily task such as picking up a cup of coffee or shaking someone’s hand. Without it, humans can even lose their sense of balance when walking. Similarly, robots need to have a sense of touch in order to interact better with humans but robots...
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