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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Although perovskites are a promising alternative to silicon for solar cells, new manufacturing processes are needed to make them practical for commercial production. To help fill...
INSIDER: Energy
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have demonstrated how to overcome a persistent challenge to potassium metal batteries — dendrites. Their new battery...
INSIDER: Energy
Solid state batteries are of great interest to the electric vehicle industry. New technology developed by scientists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and Xi'an...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
A new metal-air scavenger works like a battery, in that it provides power by repeatedly breaking and forming a series of chemical bonds. But it also works like a harvester, in...
Blog: Green Design & Manufacturing
"Who knows? Maybe one day we will have roofs covered with humidity panels together with solar panels," TAU professor Colin Price told Tech Briefs.
Question of the Week: Transportation
Will On-Demand Octane Improve Fuel Economy?
A video on Tech Briefs TV this month demonstrated a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory technology that enables on-demand octane by portioning ethanol from gasoline. PNNL researchers believe their invention could increase fuel economy and lower greenhouse gas emissions. Do you agree? Watch the video on...
Blog: Internet of Things
NIST engineers are working to make the cellular network standard even faster.
Special Reports: Imaging
Advances in Optics - June 2020
From Automotive LiDAR to Cubesats & space communications to smart cameras for robots, optics technology is enabling exciting new applications across a range of industries. Read all about it in this Special...Briefs: Motion Control
This type of energy source could be the basis for robots that seek out and “eat” metal, breaking down its chemical bonds for energy like humans do with food.
Application Briefs: Motion Control
In places of limited accessibility and harsh conditions, replacing failed transmissions is a challenging and tremendously costly task.
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Learn abut Bosch Sensortec's “Light Drive” system.
Technology Leaders: Data Acquisition
A far infrared temperature sensor is small in size but big in performance.
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Find the right pressure sensors for your sterilization applications.
Technology Leaders: Electronics & Computers
Tim Brosnihan, Executive Director of SEMI’s MEMS & Sensors Industry Group (MSIG), talks about the current state of the MEMS industry and trends for the future,
Technology Leaders: Wearables
Bio-interfacing and biodegradable flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) devices can help tackle some of the world’s great challenges including environmental degradation and food scarcity.
Briefs: Imaging
The process provides a cost-effective solution for applications in space-based imaging systems, military reconnaissance, and satellite and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Electrical cables are used in services such as power delivery, automation signaling, and communications.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA's Mars 2020 rover looks virtually the same as Curiosity but there are a number of differences.
Technology Leaders: RF & Microwave Electronics
Low-power radio design is enabling new connected IoT products for consumer, commercial, industrial, and medical markets.
Articles: Software
Tech Briefs spoke with NASA’s Keith Comeaux, Deputy Project Chief Engineer, to learn more about the helicopter heading to Mars.
Facility Focus: Energy
Rensselaer Engineering focuses on solving the “grand challenges” facing humanity.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
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.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Mini-magnets could enable cloud computing systems to process data up to 100 times faster than current technologies.
Articles: Wearables
Nature-Inspired Energy Tech, Superelastic Tires, Wearable Supercapacitors, and more...
Briefs: Materials
Heat predictably and precisely changes the surface structure of a particle of liquid metal.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The multitasking device could advance development of an electric circuit for faster, next-generation electronics like quantum computing technologies.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This method of producing clean syngas could be used to develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to gasoline.
Briefs: Energy
The flexible device harvests heat energy from the body to monitor health.
Briefs: Energy
This green process produces pristine graphene in bulk using waste food, plastic, and other materials.
Top Stories
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
2025 Holiday Gift Guide for Engineers: Tech, Tools, and Gadgets
Blog: Power
Using Street Lamps as EV Chargers
INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs
Scientists Create Superconducting Semiconductor Material
Blog: Materials
This Paint Can Cool Buildings Without Energy Input
Blog: Software
Quiz: Power
Webcasts
Upcoming Webinars: AR/AI
The Real Impact of AR and AI in the Industrial Equipment Industry
Upcoming Webinars: Motion Control
Next-Generation Linear and Rotary Stages: When Ultra Precision...
Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
SAE Automotive Engineering Podcast: Additive Manufacturing
Podcasts: Defense
A New Approach to Manufacturing Machine Connectivity for the Air Force
On-Demand Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Streamlining Manufacturing with Integrated Digital Planning and Simulation
On-Demand Webinars: Automotive
