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Briefs: Lighting
Researchers are tapping into dynamically controlled LEDs to create a simple illumination system for 3D imaging.
Technology Leaders: Imaging
Powerful, tiny cameras provide unique streaming-video solutions for NASA robots and defense applications.
Technology Leaders: Imaging
Learn about light-field candidates like camera arrays, plenoptic cameras, active cameras with depth sensor, and the newly developed focal-stack camera.
INSIDER: Imaging
When SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule splashed down off the Florida coast in August following its first crewed mission, the two astronauts inside could not exit the capsule immediately....
INSIDER: Energy
The pursuit of fusion as a safe, carbon-free, always-on energy source has intensified in recent years, with a number of organizations pursuing aggressive...
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
IR and UV Optics
Edmund Optics (EO) (Barrington, NJ) has released Zinc Selenide (ZnSe) Wedged Windows, which are ideal for infrared (IR) applications, and TECHSPEC® Calcium Fluoride (CaF2) Aspheric Lenses, which have high...
INSIDER: Aerospace
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) and NASA’s Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) recently recorded an image showing three of the four inner rocky planets. The...
Question of the Week: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Would You Use the 'LaserFactory?'
A technology from MIT known as the "LaserFactory" integrates 3D printers and laser cutters to fabricate wearables, robots, and electronics components like sensors and actuators.
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Should you replace your big coordinate measurement machine with laser radar? Or should you just add a laser scanner with a CMM? A reader asks our expert.
INSIDER: Nanotechnology
Light-emitting diodes — LEDs — are important in many more applications than just illumination. These light sources are useful in microelectronics too. Smartphones, for example, can...
Special Reports: Transportation
LIDAR Technology - February 2021
LIDAR sensors and systems are the "eyes" of ADAS and autonomous vehicles. Read about the latest advances in this compendium of articles from the editors of Automotive Engineering and Autonomous Vehicle...Articles: Wearables
Next-generation solar panels, 3D-printed composites from NASA, and a new way to sterilize medical devices.
Briefs: Lighting Technology
The material could enable cheaper and more environmentally friendly displays and large-area lighting.
Briefs: Materials
Applications include detection of explosives, navigation, and aerospace altitude sensing.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
Compared to a LED, the omnidirectional laser light is much brighter and better defined.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
A smart fiber being tested on the International Space Station could be used to develop space dust telescopes and allow astronauts to feel through their pressurized suits.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This optical-based device measures position, velocity, and torque.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This concept could help break through the present-day data-return bottleneck in deep space missions.
Briefs: Materials
This system treats light-responsive disorders or deficits such as eating disorders, sleep problems, hormone-sensitive cancers, and cardiovascular disorders.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This rapid and cost-effective technique yields a uniform etched surface with 99.5 percent emissivity.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Applications include terahertz medical imaging and communications.
Briefs: Imaging
This system provides low-cost, reliable 3D LiDAR images in nearly any lighting condition.
Briefs: Imaging
Ultra-thin and flexible metalenses could replace traditional camera lenses.
Briefs: Energy
The improved rectennas could operate low-power devices such as temperature sensors.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This device fits on a computer chip but can analyze infrared light in the same way as a conventional spectrometer.
Briefs: Energy
A stretchable system can harvest energy from human breathing and motion.
Blog: Nanotechnology
Inspired by the squid's color-changing chromatophore, Rutgers engineers set out to create an artificial one.
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Bandpass Filters
MidOpt® (Palatine, IL) introduced the BP450 Indigo Bandpass and the BN450 Narrow Indigo Bandpass, two new filters designed for multi-application use. The BP450 enhances the viewing of subjects illuminated by a...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
The performance of flexible large-area organic photodiodes has advanced to the point that they can now offer advantages over conventional silicon photodiode...
Top Stories
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
2025 Holiday Gift Guide for Engineers: Tech, Tools, and Gadgets
Blog: Power
Using Street Lamps as EV Chargers
INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs
Scientists Create Superconducting Semiconductor Material
Blog: Materials
This Paint Can Cool Buildings Without Energy Input
Blog: Software
Quiz: Power
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