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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
This system enables battery-free ocean exploration with applications ranging from marine conservation to aquaculture.
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Blog: RF & Microwave Electronics
Long-range radar is used in air-traffic control. Short-range radar supports automotive applications like collision avoidance. How do you know what range you need for your application?
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Special Reports: RF & Microwave Electronics
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Unmanned Systems - March 2021
Drones that swarm and change shape mid-flight... autonomous combat vehicles on the battlefield...the latest in counter-UAS technology. Read about new advances in air and ground unmanned systems in this report from...

Technology Leaders: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The importance of a proactive and systematic method for collecting machine and process data within a smart manufacturing environment cannot be overstated.
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Facility Focus: Sensors/Data Acquisition
See how NASA Langley tests a variety of advanced aircraft concepts. including ways to make flying both cleaner and quieter.
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NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
Pilots and air traffic controllers no longer will rely solely on voice communications.
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Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
See what kinds of sensors are supporting self-driving vehicles.
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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
While ADAS has improved freeway and high-speed driving, the basic need for collision mitigation with pedestrians and bicyclists has mostly remained unaddressed.
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Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Any hyperspectral system needs to maintain a stable and accurate radiometric and spectral calibration.
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Products: Imaging
Near-eye displays, optical inspection systems, UV glass, and more.
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Technology Leaders: Imaging
Learn about light-field candidates like camera arrays, plenoptic cameras, active cameras with depth sensor, and the newly developed focal-stack camera.
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Special Reports: Photonics/Optics
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LIDAR Technology - February 2021
LIDAR sensors and systems are the "eyes" of ADAS and autonomous vehicles. Read about the latest advances in this compendium of articles from the editors of Automotive Engineering and Autonomous Vehicle...

Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Test & Measurement - February 2021
Sensors to search for ancient life on Mars...nano-thermometers that could revolutionize temperature measurement...a major advance in semiconductor testing. These are just a few of the technologies you'll read...

Briefs: Nanotechnology
Compared to a LED, the omnidirectional laser light is much brighter and better defined.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This concept could help break through the present-day data-return bottleneck in deep space missions.
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Briefs: Imaging
This system provides low-cost, reliable 3D LiDAR images in nearly any lighting condition.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
The improved rectennas could operate low-power devices such as temperature sensors.
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Articles: Internet of Things
Energy is absorbed in the diamond through a process called inelastic scattering, which is used to generate electricity.
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Special Reports: Photonics/Optics
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Optics & Photonics Innovations - January 2021
An ultrafast camera that takes up to one trillion pictures per second...using light alone to levitate objects and propel spacecraft...the groundbreaking optics enabling the world's most powerful...

Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Modules from Pickering Interfaces simulate industrial control transceivers.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The system enables measurement of active or passive microstrip line devices with DC probing capability.
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Products: RF & Microwave Electronics
Radar sensors, cameras, RF processing systems, and more.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
This device for harnessing terahertz radiation might enable self-powering implants, cellphones, and other portable electronics.
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Blog: RF & Microwave Electronics
The sensor is able to detect ice formation far before you can see it occurring on a surface.
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Question of the Week: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Could ‘Smellicopters’ Someday Support Search-and-Rescue?
Our second INSIDER story today highlights an innovative combination of autonomous drones and live moth antennae: The “Smellicopter.”
Blog: Unmanned Systems
UW doctoral student Melanie Anderson explains how to make an autonomous 'Smellicopter' to navigate toward smells.
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have invented a miniature superconducting thermometer with big potential applications, such as monitoring the...
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Special Reports: Test & Measurement
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ADAS/Connected Car - December 2020
Today's Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and connected cars are paving the way for tomorrow's automated vehicles. To help you keep pace with the latest technology developments, we present this...

Application Briefs: Energy
What does wave energy have to do with space exploration? Plenty, it turns out.
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