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Special Reports: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Test & Measurement - September 2020
See how the latest test tools and methodologies are enabling new applications in aerospace, electronics, robotics, healthcare, and other key industries. This compendium of recent articles is presented by the...Briefs: Test & Measurement
The material was designed specifically for biomedical or wearable technologies, since sweat and volatile organic compounds evaporate away from the skin.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
One unexpected application for spider silk is its use in the creation of biocompatible lenses.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The newest version of these combs could revolutionize clocks, telescopes, and telecommunications.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This system encodes information in twisting beams of light.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Self-powering, color-changing humidity sensors are applicable to various fields including smart windows, health care, and safety management.
Briefs: Wearables
A new type of motion capture technology accurately tracks an athlete during the push start phase of performance.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This technique offers enhanced resolution and improved system reliability for mapping and obstacle recognition and navigation for vehicles.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
This technology is useful for energy, industrial, and aerospace applications.
Briefs: Imaging
Smart adaptive clothing can lower the body temperature of the wearer in hot climates.
Briefs: Imaging
Biologically inspired ultrathin arrayed camera captures super-resolution images.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A new proof-of-concept photonic pH sensor could advance studies of tissue regeneration.
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Just as a meter stick with hundreds of tick marks can be used to measure distances with great precision, a device known as a laser frequency comb, with its hundreds...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
Carolin Frueh is among only a handful of researchers who have persisted in using a complex technique that can diagnose a problem from thousands of miles away based on how a...
INSIDER: Energy
A new way of making large sheets of high-quality, atomically thin graphene could lead to ultra-lightweight, flexible solar cells, and to new classes of...
Blog: Test & Measurement
A reader asks our NASA expert: "What kind of redundancy is built into the Mars 2020 rover?"
Technology Leaders: Imaging
Make sure the polished optic meets the requirement of a particular application.
Articles: Lighting
In-line testing of certain LEDs, using nanosecond pulses, will become more and more relevant with time-of-flight applications.
Technology Leaders: Photonics/Optics
Highly technical glass-ceramic delivers optical precision at nanometer scale.
Products: Photonics/Optics
High-speed cameras, ultra-stable mounts, automated inspection systems, and more...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers at Linköping University, together with colleagues in China, have developed a tiny unit that is both an optical transmitter and a receiver.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A new low-cost imaging system could make it easier to track mosquito species that carry disease, enabling a more timely and targeted response.
Application Briefs: Imaging
New surveillance sensors are able to perform better than ever under unpredictable and dynamic lighting conditions.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Using integrated photonic chips fabricated at EPFL, scientists have demonstrated laser-based microwave generators.
Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
There’s been a race to the top among industrial LED lighting manufacturers as they scramble to squeeze the maximum possible lumens per watt (LPW) out of their products.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Quantum computer circuits that will no longer need extremely cold temperatures to function could become a reality.
Briefs: Materials
Sensors in the hand can actually detect forces being transmitted through the thickness of the robot.
Special Reports: Photonics/Optics
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: Photonics/Optics
Optically Reconfigurable Charge-Transfer Liquid Crystals
These re-writeable materials have applications in data storage and encryption, energy transducers, and optical display technologies.
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INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs
Scientists Create Superconducting Semiconductor Material
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This Paint Can Cool Buildings Without Energy Input
Blog: Software
Quiz: Power
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