Briefs: Automotive
Origami-Inspired Material Softens Impact Forces
Landing is stressful on a rocket’s legs because they must handle the force from the impact with the landing pad. One way to combat this is to build legs out of materials that absorb some of...
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Ultra-Clean Fabrication Platform for 2D Transistors
Recently discovered two-dimensional (2D) materials with superlative properties have the potential to advance semiconductors but creating 2D devices with both good electrical contacts and...
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Surface Treatment Could Improve Refrigeration Efficiency
Unlike water, liquid refrigerants and other fluids that have a low surface tension spread quickly into a sheet when they come into contact with a surface. For many industrial...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Soft, Wearable Health Monitor with Stretchable Electronics
A soft and conformable health monitor can broadcast electrocardiogram (ECG), heart rate, respiratory rate, and motion activity data as much as 15 meters to a portable recording...
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Soft, Multi-Functional Robots
In the future, soft, animal-inspired robots may be safely deployed in difficult-to-access environments in which rigid robots cannot currently be used such as inside the human body or in spaces that are too...
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Miniature Spring Performance Tester
In order to qualify miniature springs, manufacturers of these systems rely on commercially available testers that are designed for large-scale springs (>0.5" diameter). Commercially available spring...
Facility Focus: Test & Measurement
Facility Focus: Georgia Tech Research Institute
The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, GA. Founded in 1934 as the Engineering...
Articles: Imaging
Executive Forum: Sensors & the IoT
No longer just a buzzword, the Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly taking hold in many different industries, from aerospace and automotive, to medical and manufacturing. The IoT ecosystem incorporates...
Briefs: Imaging
3D-Printed Polymer-Based Foam Structure Responds to Shock Waves
A 3D-printed polymer-based foam structure was developed that responds to the force of a shock wave to act as a oneway switch, a long sought-after goal in shock research. The...
Briefs: Aerospace
Graphene Field Effect Transistors for Radiation Detection (GFET-RS)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center developed novel transistor technology based on a single graphene layer coupled to a radiation absorber substrate. Unlike conventional charge-sensing detectors, the GFET-RS utilizes the sensitive dependence of graphene conductance on local change...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
3D-Printing a Unique Metal Part
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
3D-Printed Soft Mesh Robots
Researchers have created 3D-printed flexible mesh structures that can be controlled with applied magnetic fields while floating on water. The structures can grab small objects and carry water droplets, giving them...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Robot “Eye” Provides 360° Field of View
The production of precision products depends on robot control systems knowing the location of the adhesive bonding head or welding head to the nearest millimeter at all times. This means the robot...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Optical Coatings Technology
Optical coatings are critical for enhancing the transmission, reflection, polarization, and phase of light incident upon and passing through optical components. There are many different technologies used to...
Products: Photonics/Optics
New Products: September 2019 Photonics & Imaging Technology
SCANLAB GmbH (Puchheim, Germany) has introduced a new member of its precSYS product line. Five-axis precSYS subsystems enable industrial...
Application Briefs: Communications
How to Choose the Right Wireless Technology for Industrial Condition Monitoring
Industries are constantly searching for new approaches to advance operational efficiency and product quality. With unplanned downtime estimated to cost...
Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Designing Sensors for Hazardous Environments
Articles: Motion Control
The Many Uses of Inductive Position Sensors in the IIoT
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Energy Harvesting for Smart Home Sensing
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Mobile, Dual-Comb Device for Methane Leak Detection
Accurately detecting, locating, and quantifying leaks of methane — the main component of natural gas and a major fuel source worldwide — is critically important for both environmental...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Machine Vision Camera Trends: 2019 and Beyond
Products: Communications
New Products: September 2019 Sensor Technology
FLIR Systems, Inc. (Wilsonville, OR) announced the latest generation of the FLIR Brickstream 3D Gen 2 people-counting sensor. This new version includes a unique...
Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
All-Silicon MEMS Inertial Sensing at Fiber Optic Gyro Performance Levels
Although smartphones and other consumer cameras are increasingly used for scientific applications, it's difficult to compare and combine data from different...
Briefs: Materials
Simultaneous Imaging and Friction Measurement with an In-Situ Tribometer
Different instruments are needed to study the interaction of contact surfaces at different length scales. Tribometers measure the coefficient of friction but they...
Articles: Materials
Products of Tomorrow: September 2019
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have developed a semi-liquid lithium metal-based anode. Lithium batteries made using this new...
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Measuring Stickiness of Microscale Surfaces
At the scale of bridges or buildings, the most important force that engineered structures need to deal with is gravity. But at the scale of microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS) — devices like...
Briefs: Energy
Low-Cost Thermoelectric Material Works at Room Temperature
The widespread adoption of thermoelectric devices that can directly convert electricity into thermal energy for cooling and heating has been hindered, in part, by the lack of materials that are both inexpensive and highly efficient at room temperature. A new material was developed that...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Organic Carbon-Nitride Semiconductor
Some organic materials cannot be utilized similarly to silicon semiconductors in optoelectronics. Whether in solar cells, light-emitting diodes, or in transistors, what is important is the bandgap, i.e....
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