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Articles: Transportation
Xilinx is now applying AI to the in-cabin environment.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This method uses fiber optic probes for measurement of semiconductors, optical coatings, magnetic read/write heads, and precision machines.
Facility Focus: Electronics & Computers
This NASA center hosts the world’s greatest collection of wind tunnels and flight simulation facilities
Briefs: Imaging
A new method could enable vehicles and equipment to better withstand high temperatures, loads, and speeds.
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A cryptographic ID tag, a high-reliability NASA switch, and a stretchable thermoelectric generator...
Briefs: Medical
This gel releases short gene sequences into the heart muscle to heal it following a heart attack.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
These “developable mechanisms” are built into the surfaces of structures.
Briefs: Medical
The domino effect is used to design deployable systems that expand quickly with a small push and are stable and locked into place after deployment.
Briefs: Energy
The method slashes battery testing times — a key barrier to longer-lasting, faster-charging batteries for electric vehicles.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This lightweight and efficient mechanism enables retention, release, and deployment of solar arrays and antennas.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A liquid crystal elastomer can be programmed to exhibit controllable, dynamic behavior without the need for complex electronic components.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This diagnostic device allows doctors to detect cancer quickly from a droplet of blood or plasma.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The technique could be used to improve navigation for robots, drones, or pedestrians.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Applications include distributed computer systems, computer security, and commercial satellite systems.
Products: Electronics & Computers
Sealing connection tools, oscilloscopes, snap-action switches, and more...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This device could enable rapid, inexpensive liquid biopsies to help detect cancer and develop targeted treatment plans.
Briefs: Medical
An inexpensive 3D-printed microfluidics device could be used to personalize cancer treatment.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This passive device relies on a layer of material that blocks incoming sunlight but lets heat radiate away.
Briefs: Power
This diffuser provides double the pumping efficiency in one-quarter the space.
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...Special Reports: IoMT
Medical Manufacturing and Outsourcing - May 2020
How are advances in automation/robotics, welding, 3D printing, and other fabrication technologies shaping the future of medical device manufacturing? Find out in this Special Report – a...Technology Leaders: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Ever since Henry Ford introduced the first moving production line to the industry in 1913, automotive manufacturers have been constantly striving to streamline their processes,...
Question of the Week: Automotive
Will 'Metal-Air Scavengers' Power Vehicles and Robots?
Penn Engineering researchers have introduced a "metal-air scavenger" vehicle, which gets energy not from a battery, but from breaking chemical bonds in the aluminum surface it travels over. The technology, which works like both a battery and an energy harvester, has 13 times more energy density...
Blog: Software
To speed up the design process, researchers from the University of Texas are finding more efficient ways to predict, or "learn," a rocket's behavior.
Blog: Energy
A team at Northwestern University is developing a material so porous that if you were able to unfold a gram of it, you could go farther than a football field.
Question of the Week: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Can Solar-Powered Desalination Solve Water-Scarcity Challenges?
“Seawater is a very abundant resource for clean water, but the problem is how to desalinate it,” MIT researcher Lenan Zhang told Tech Briefs in our April issue.
Products: Test & Measurement
Rugged tablets from Teguar Corp. can be used to monitor manufacturing operations.
5 Ws: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The handheld 3D skin printer can deposit sheets of skin to cover large burn wounds
Top Stories
Blog: Semiconductors & ICs
Revolutionizing the Production of Semiconductor Chips
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Aerial Microrobots That Can Match a Bumblebee's Speed
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
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News: Energy
INSIDER: Imaging
A New Tool for Measuring Femtosecond Lasers
Articles: Aerospace
Countering the New Threat from the Sky: Advanced IR Imaging Zoom Lenses...
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