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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: Communications
The flexible antenna was designed for active aeronautical satellite communications.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The new battery is degradable, recyclable, non-toxic, and safer than lithium-ion batteries.
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Briefs: Propulsion
This method is a faster way to manufacture combustion chambers and nozzles for aerospace propulsion as well as heat exchangers in oil and gas applications.
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Briefs: Materials
An entire 20-story concrete building could store energy like a giant battery.
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Briefs: Wearables
The wearable antenna bends, stretches, and compresses without compromising function.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
The technology would enable transmission of information just by touching a surface.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The SHT40 Smart Gadget comes with a humidity and temperature sensor.
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Briefs: Materials
To modernize optical storage, Purdue researchers are replacing Morse code with colored “digital characters.”
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Briefs: Energy
The membrane prevents dendrite formation, at least doubling the lifetime of a lithium-metal battery.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Lithium batteries, compartment gaskets, chargers, and more.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Demand for wireless IoT cloud-connected devices is growing rapidly, yet deploying Wi-Fi battery-based products is difficult.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The battery can withstand thousands of charge and discharge cycles and years of storage before being composted.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
An R&D project indirectly leads to potentially greater power density, EV range, and battery life.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
The rechargeable batteries could be a safer and more environmentally friendly alternative to lithium-ion batteries.
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Special Reports: Materials
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Aerospace Manufacturing - August 2021

Demanding applications in the aerospace industry require products and systems that are manufactured using the latest technologies – from design and simulation, to fabrication and final testing. To help...

Question of the Week: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Would You Use a ‘Cold Tube?’

Our August issue of Tech Briefs highlighted a technology that offers an energy-efficient alternative to the air conditioner: The Cold Tube.

INSIDER: AR/AI

Researchers from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) fabricated brain-inspired highly scalable neuromorphic hardware by co-integrating single transistor neurons...

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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition

A study by researchers at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health shows that inexpensive and convenient devices such as silicone wristbands can be used to yield quantitative...

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INSIDER: Medical

When you pick up a balloon, the pressure to keep hold of it is different from what you would exert to grasp a jar. And now engineers at MIT and elsewhere have a way to precisely...

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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers

Ultrathin, flexible computer circuits have been an engineering goal for years, but technical hurdles have prevented the degree of miniaturization necessary to achieve high performance....

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Blog: Electronics & Computers
Researchers at North Carolina State University demonstrated a low-cost technique for retrieving — and then reusing — nanowires from electronic devices.
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Articles: Motion Control
Learn the differences between bipolar and unipolar motors, their driving methods, and advantages and limitations.
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Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
An OEM must think about how to build a machine that will work on any kind of power system.
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Products: Materials
Epoxies, reverse-engineering software, temperature loggers, and more.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Learn about widely used communications technologies for motion control.
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Q&A: Photonics/Optics
Kristin Sampayan from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory found a fast way to switch high voltages.
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Special Reports: Transportation
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Power Electronics - August 2021

This compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology looks at the latest advances in power electronics and energy storage for a range of applications...

Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The Battery Identity Global Passport could be accessible as a scannable QR code or a computer chip.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This invention enables improved carrier mobility for solar cells and other electronic devices.
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