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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
An ultrafast image sensor with a built-in neural network can be trained to recognize certain objects.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This technology shows potential for the detection of subtle human motions and the real-time monitoring of body postures for healthcare applications.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
The technique could easily be translated into existing medical device manufacturing processes for use in orthopedic implants.
Briefs: Imaging
Tiny, metal-rich particles can be excited with a low-power laser for deep-tissue imaging.
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
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 Product: Photonics/Optics
Ultraviolet-Enhanced Circular Photodetector
Opto Diode Corporation (Camarillo, CA) has introduced the UVG5S, an ultraviolet-enhanced photodiode with a 5 mm² circular active area. The new device is suitable for detection between...
INSIDER: Communications
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: Photonics/Optics
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?"
Special Reports: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Exploring Mars - July 2020
As NASA prepares this week to launch its latest robotic rover to the Red Planet, we are excited to present this commemorative publication chronicling – through historic images and video – six decades of Mars...Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Sensors in the hand can actually detect forces being transmitted through the thickness of the robot.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Quantum computer circuits that will no longer need extremely cold temperatures to function could become a reality.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Researchers at Linköping University, together with colleagues in China, have developed a tiny unit that is both an optical transmitter and a receiver.
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
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: Imaging
A new CT scan method using intense synchrotron radiation produces higher quality images within milliseconds.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Using integrated photonic chips fabricated at EPFL, scientists have demonstrated laser-based microwave generators.
Articles: Semiconductors & ICs
A new iteration of sCMOS camera technology promises even higher sensitivity than prior designs.
Products: Communications
High-speed cameras, ultra-stable mounts, automated inspection systems, and more...
Technology Leaders: Test & Measurement
Highly technical glass-ceramic delivers optical precision at nanometer scale.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
In-line testing of certain LEDs, using nanosecond pulses, will become more and more relevant with time-of-flight applications.
Technology Leaders: Photonics/Optics
Make sure the polished optic meets the requirement of a particular application.
Application Briefs: Imaging
New surveillance sensors are able to perform better than ever under unpredictable and dynamic lighting conditions.
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.
Briefs: Medical
A research team has built a super-high-speed microscope.
Special Reports: Imaging
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...5 Ws: Wearables
Bacterial pathogens can live on surfaces for days. What if frequently touched surfaces, such as doorknobs, could instantly kill them off?
Briefs: Materials
A novel plate-cell architecture reaches the theoretical limit of performance.
Briefs: Data Acquisition
Optically Reconfigurable Charge-Transfer Liquid Crystals
These re-writeable materials have applications in data storage and encryption, energy transducers, and optical display technologies.
Articles: Test & Measurement
Tech Briefs spoke with NASA’s Ken Williford, Mars 2020 Deputy Project Scientist, to learn more about the science capabilities of Perseverance.
Top Stories
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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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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