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Articles: Information Technology
The term “smart grid” is an umbrella term used to refer to new technologies that aim to address today’s electrical power grid challenges. At a high level, these technologies address challenges associated...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA Technology
NASA has sent more than a few robotic missions into space, but it never loses sight of its goal to enable human exploration of the cosmos. A core component of planning for...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Over the last 25 years, some of the sophisticated technology developed for the HST has been successfully spun off and commercialized to improve life on Earth.
Application Briefs: Imaging
The United States government spends a lot of money on its defense programs, investing in the training and technology necessary to arm and prepare the most advanced fighting force on the planet. The price tag for...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Radio Chip Reduces Power Leakage
To realize the "Internet of things” — the idea that all parts of the human environment, from kitchen appliances to industrial equipment, could be equipped with sensors and processors that exchange data — transmitters must be energy-efficient enough to last for months.
A group researchers at the Massachusetts...
INSIDER: Materials
Paper-Like Material Boosts Electric Vehicle Batteries
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have developed a novel paper-like material for lithium-ion batteries. The spongelike silicon nanofibers are 100 times thinner than human hair. The technology could be used in batteries for electric vehicles...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Teledyne LeCroy (Santa Clara, CA) has introduced the Voyager M310C USB Protocol Analyzer and Exerciser System. The Voyager M310C is a multifunction platform with integrated USB Exerciser option supporting both host and...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (Santa Rosa, CA) announced that its N9038A MXE EMI receiver is now available with a frequency range of 20 Hz to 3.6 GHz. Designed specifically for EMC testing, the MXE EMI receiver is compliant with the...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Advantech (Irvine, CA) has announced the PWS-870, a 10.1” fully-rugged tablet PC with the power of an Intel® Core™ i3/i5/i7 processor. The PWS-870 is IP65 and MIL-STD-810G certified and drop-tested at 4 feet. The glass is...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Acromag’s (Wixom, MI) XVME-6410 is a high-performance 6U VME single board computer based on the 4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7 or i5 processor and utilizes the Intel 8-Series QM87 PCH chipset for extensive I/O...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
By analyzing such parameters as the force applied by key presses and the time interval between them, a new self-powered, non-mechanical, intelligent keyboard could provide a...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
A door has been opened to low-power off/on switches in micro-electro- mechanical systems (MEMS) and nanoelectronic devices, as well as ultrasensitive bio-sensors, with the first...
INSIDER: Energy
A researcher at the Barcelona College of Industrial Engineering, in collaboration with the company Eolgreen, has developed the first autonomous industrialized public lighting system that...
INSIDER: Energy
Many types of smart devices are readily available and convenient to use. The goal now is to make wearable electronics that are flexible, sustainable, and powered by ambient renewable...
INSIDER: Energy
Today’s batteries provide a reliable power supply for our smartphones, electric cars and laptops, but are unable to keep up with the growing demands placed on them. Researchers have discovered...
News: Electronics & Computers
Florida State University’s Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS) has unveiled a new 24,000-volt direct current power test system, the most powerful of its kind available at a...
INSIDER Product: Lighting
iC-Haus (Bodenheim, Germany) has developed sensor chips for optical position encoders using photodiodes designed especially for blue light. The new iC-PT H-Series chips combine optimized scanning and signal...
INSIDER: Lighting
Any science textbook will tell you that human beings can’t see infrared light. Like X-rays and radio waves, infrared light waves are outside the visual spectrum. But an international team...
INSIDER: Lighting
Scientists have long known that the speed of light can be slowed slightly as it travels through materials such as water or glass. However, it has generally been thought impossible for...
INSIDER Product: Lighting
Hubbell Lighting (Greenville, SC) now offers Prescolite’s MegaLum high output LED downlight in lumen packages ranging up to more than 16,000 lumens. Available in either a downlight (MD8LED) or cylinder (MC10LED)...
INSIDER Product: Lighting
MaxLite (West Caldwell, NJ) has introduced an energy-efficient replacement for 40-watt halogen T4 G9-based lamps. The five-watt LED retrofits easily into existing G9 sockets in decorative glass pendants, chandeliers and...
INSIDER Product: Lighting
Wilbrecht LEDCO (St. Paul, MN) has added symbol/legend marking options to its 100/600 series of panel LEDs for custom applications. Custom and universal symbols, such as battery light or oil level, can be used for...
INSIDER Product: Lighting
Saelig Company Inc. (Fairport, NY) has announced the LED-Warrior04, a 4 channel, intelligent, programmable LED constant-current driver with DALI, DMX512, and I2C interfaces on board. Other bus protocols...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Method for Performing GPS L1 C/A Measurements in Wideband Jamming and Interference
For effective range safety, global positioning system (GPS) metric tracking must be robust to interference with, and jamming of, GPS signals. The conventional approach to mitigating interference and jamming is to use a Controlled Reception Pattern Antenna (CRPA)....
Briefs: Test & Measurement
JWST IV&V Simulation and Test (JIST) RT Logic T501 Emulator
In order to develop a software-only test environment for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mission, a solution was needed to send commands and receive telemetry between the TCTS (Telemetry and Command Test Set) and CMM-S card. The as-is solution requires the utilization of commercial...
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Measurement Computing (Norton, MA) offers the USB-2020 high-speed, two-channel data acquisition board that provides simultaneous sampling at rates up to 20 MS/s per channel. Users can sample data from both channels at an...
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The LabMaster 10-100Zi 100-GHz oscilloscope from Teledyne LeCroy (Chestnut Ridge, NY) achieves 100 GHz and 240 GS/s. The 100-GHz technology is designed for engineers working on communication systems, high-bandwidth electrical...
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
National Instruments (Austin, TX) introduced the PXIe-5668R 26.5-GHz microwave vector signal analyzer (VSA) and a 20-GHz continuous wave signal generator. The VSA delivers low noise floor, high linearity, and low phase...
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Innovative Integration (Simi Valley, CA) introduced Atropos, an XMC I/O module with low-noise clock generation and distribution for data acquisition and communications timing applications. The module has four output clocks...
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