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Technology Leaders: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Different line scan prism manufacturers might compare two possible curves in their advertising and argue that the steeper flanks should enable better color reproduction with greater selectivity.
Articles: Test & Measurement
There are longwave, midwave, and shortwave camera systems—each with its own advantages for specific industries and uses.
Application Briefs: Internet of Things
An interview with Mike Horton, CTO of ACEINNA, Inc. (Boston, MA).
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Thermal cameras, testing software, an ion air knife, and more.
Special Reports: Imaging
Unmanned Systems - March 2020
The latest advances in aerial, ground, and underwater unmanned systems are covered in this special report, a compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology.Technology Leaders: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Vision-based convolutional neural network system detects phone usage, eating, and drinking.
Articles: Imaging
Biodegradable batteries, solid-state ultracapacitors, and infrared camouflage.
Briefs: AR/AI
This system places virtual objects within real-world backgrounds on cellphone screens and lets people interact with those objects by hand as if they were really there.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Equipment-free textile detectors could be used in public health, workplace safety, military, and rescue applications.
Products: Photonics/Optics
Photopolymer films, LED light engines, measurement systems, and more.
Articles: AR/AI
SPIE Photonics West 2020 returns to The Moscone Center in San Francisco, February 1 through February 6
Products: Imaging
Processors, imaging sensors, dimensioning systems, and more.
Briefs: Aerospace
The non-destructive coating has applications in structural health monitoring, aerospace, automotive, and military/defense.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Various components are used to assemble robots that are more aware of their surroundings.
Briefs: Motion Control
An upgraded mini robot can leap over obstacles with ease.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A system senses tiny changes in shadows on the ground to determine if there’s a moving object coming around the corner.
Briefs: Imaging
A nanoantenna-enabled detector boosts the usable signal of a thermal infrared camera by up to three times.
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Isolators used to control semiconductor manufacturing keep the James Webb Space Telescope steady.
Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
If a satellite breaks in orbit, there's not much that can be done. A professor envisions a new idea for refueling and repair.
Facility Focus: Energy
Glenn's research facilities have contributed to decades of technology advances.
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
LIDAR Systems, Smart Cameras, Optical Communications, and more.
Articles: Imaging
Machine vision systems shed light on processes too small or too fast to see with the human eye.
Briefs: Imaging
Camera Enables Surgeons to More Easily Identify Cancerous Tissue
Many surgeons rely on sight and touch to find cancerous tissue during surgery. Large hospitals or cancer treatment centers may also use experimental near-infrared fluorescent agents that bind to tumors so surgeons can see them on specialized displays. These machines are costly, making...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The Foldable Drone: a Morphing Quadrotor that can Squeeze and Fly
Davide Falanga, Kevin Kleber, Stefano Mintchev, Dario Floreano, and Davide...
Briefs: Imaging
Thermal cameras like forward looking infrared (FLIR) sensors are actively deployed on aerial and ground vehicles, in watch towers, and at check points for surveillance purposes. More recently,...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Learn about the Draper Multi-Environment Navigator.
Briefs: Imaging
Researchers have developed a new self-calibrating endoscope that produces 3D images of objects smaller than a single cell without a lens or any optical, electrical, or...
Briefs: Imaging
High quality camera performance on mobile devices has proven to be one of the features that most end-users aim for. The importance of optical image quality improvement and the trend to have thinner and thinner...
Briefs: Imaging
A new imaging method extracts a color image from a single exposure of light scattered through a mostly opaque material.
Top Stories
Blog: Lighting
A Stretchable OLED that Can Maintain Most of Its Luminescence
Blog: Energy
Batteries that Can Withstand the Cold
INSIDER: Energy
Advancing All-Solid-State Batteries
Quiz: Energy
Blog: Physical Sciences
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