Electronics & Software

Here are innovative solutions for your biggest challenges in Electronics and Software - Power Supplies and Management, Board-Level Electronics, Components and Batteries. You’ll find applications essential to military, aviation, medical and automotive design engineering.

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Application Briefs: Aerospace
NASA needed help accurately measuring Earth-reflected sunlight.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA's Dry Goods Delivery System, a lung-heart sensor on a chip, and more.
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Briefs: AR/AI
An automated system cuts the energy required for training and running neural networks.
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Briefs: Automotive
Solid-State Lithium Battery
This thin film battery can be used for on-package power in mass market electric vehicles (EVs) and electronic devices.
Q&A: Semiconductors & ICs
An adhesive can be deactivated by applying a small voltage.
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Briefs: Energy
Scientists have reinvented a 26,000-year-old manufacturing process into an innovative approach to fabricating ceramic materials widely used in batteries, electronics, and extreme environments....
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Briefs: Energy
These can replace rechargeable lithium-ion batteries commonly used in robotics, power tools, and grid-scale energy storage.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Linking multiple copies of these devices may lay the foundation for quantum computing.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
How to design for safety, reliability, and connectivity using the latest circuit protection technologies and board layout strategies.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
A new design enables artificial photosynthesis to generate fuel that can power homes and vehicles.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Photoelectric sensors, cable connectors, power monitors, and USB3 cameras.
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The Human Embodied Autonomous Thermostat, or “HEAT," uses cameras to identify facial temperature, and adjust the room's air accordingly.
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Question of the Week: Energy
Will We Ever See Humidity Panels Alongside Solar Panels?
Our lead INSIDER story featured an experiment from Tel Aviv University that supports the idea of water vapor as an alternative energy source. What do you think? Will We Ever See Humidity Panels Alongside Solar Panels? Share your questions and comments.
INSIDER: Power
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...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have demonstrated how to overcome a persistent challenge to potassium metal batteries — dendrites. Their new battery...
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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...
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INSIDER: Energy
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...
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Blog: Energy
"Who knows? Maybe one day we will have roofs covered with humidity panels together with solar panels," TAU professor Colin Price told Tech Briefs.
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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: AR/AI
NIST engineers are working to make the cellular network standard even faster.
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Special Reports: Photonics/Optics
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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: Energy
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.
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Application Briefs: Motion Control
In places of limited accessibility and harsh conditions, replacing failed transmissions is a challenging and tremendously costly task.
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Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Learn abut Bosch Sensortec's “Light Drive” system.
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Technology Leaders: Wearables
A far infrared temperature sensor is small in size but big in performance.
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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Find the right pressure sensors for your sterilization applications.
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Technology Leaders: Test & Measurement
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,
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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.
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Briefs: Unmanned Systems
The process provides a cost-effective solution for applications in space-based imaging systems, military reconnaissance, and satellite and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
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