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Briefs: Wearables
The flexible device harvests heat energy from the body to monitor health.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Inspired by the octopus, the structure senses, computes, and responds without any centralized processing.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
This system can amplify a faint signal from a neighboring system even when that signal’s amplitude is as small as ten trillionths of a meter.
Articles: Imaging
Xilinx is now applying AI to the in-cabin environment.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The last thing you probably do when a fly buzzes toward you is marvel at its graceful wing and body kinematics. But that’s exactly what researchers at Cornell University’s Itai Cohen Group do...
Briefs: Nanotechnology
A ceramic sensor could be embedded into structures such as bridges and aircraft to monitor their health.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The AI system can help shorten the time required for 2D material-based electronics to be ready for consumer devices.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
This instrument has applications in medical equipment, robotics, and satellites.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Applications include optical data transfer, infrared and night-vision systems, environmental sensors, and breath analysis for medical diagnosis.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The material combines two polymers with different properties.
Briefs: Medical
This diagnostic device allows doctors to detect cancer quickly from a droplet of blood or plasma.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
It can be used both in small, portable devices for field inspections and in very large detectors that use arrays of crystals.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A highly sensitive, CMOS-compatible, broadband photodetector was created by tailoring material defects.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
This method uses fiber optic probes for measurement of semiconductors, optical coatings, magnetic read/write heads, and precision machines.
Briefs: Medical
A new way of making polymers adhere to surfaces may enable better biomedical sensors and implants.
Articles: Semiconductors & ICs
A cryptographic ID tag, a high-reliability NASA switch, and a stretchable thermoelectric generator...
Briefs: Materials
Next-generation devices made with a “peel and stack” method could include electronic chips worn on the skin.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A team is exploring new materials for telecommunications and LIDAR applications.
Special Reports: Semiconductors & ICs
Electronics Design & Assembly - May 2020
The latest advances in chip and board-level design and manufacturing are spotlighted in this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology...INSIDER: Materials
A new manufacturing process could produce flexible electronics for things like virtual reality-enabled contact lenses, solar-powered skins that mold to the contours of your car, and...
INSIDER: Wearables
Wearable tech and electronic cloth may be the way of the future, but to get there the wiring needs to be strong, flexible, and efficient.
INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs
Microelectronics like semiconductor devices are at the heart of the technologies we use each day. As we move into an era where we are stretching the limits of Moore’s Law, it is...
Facility Focus: Nanotechnology
See some of the world-changing tools and technologies launched by Caltech scientists, from earthquake monitoring to helping the blind see.
Briefs: Motion Control
Square trusses replace round for enhanced strength and robotics compatibility.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
These carbon-based fillers can be used in thermally conductive clothing such as liquid-cooled garments.
Briefs: Energy
Fuse devices enable circuit safety in high-power applications, such as motion control and alternative energy generation, in addition to electric vehicles.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This imaging technique could impact optical communications and signal processing.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This work could accelerate the development of flexible electronics.
Briefs: Imaging
The lasers are small and efficient enough to fit on a microchip.
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