Photonics & Imaging

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Special Reports: Imaging
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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?
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Products: Software
Industrial PCs, power modules, processor blades, and more.
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Briefs: Materials
A novel plate-cell architecture reaches the theoretical limit of performance.
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Articles: Imaging
Perseverance will have the ability to land in more challenging terrain than Curiosity, making more rugged sites eligible as safe landing candidates.
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Briefs: Imaging
Optically Reconfigurable Charge-Transfer Liquid Crystals
These re-writeable materials have applications in data storage and encryption, energy transducers, and optical display technologies.
Articles: Aerospace
Tech Briefs spoke with NASA’s Ken Williford, Mars 2020 Deputy Project Scientist, to learn more about the science capabilities of Perseverance.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Mini-magnets could enable cloud computing systems to process data up to 100 times faster than current technologies.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
This system can amplify a faint signal from a neighboring system even when that signal’s amplitude is as small as ten trillionths of a meter.
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Facility Focus: Imaging
Rensselaer Engineering focuses on solving the “grand challenges” facing humanity.
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Articles: Aerospace
Tech Briefs spoke with NASA’s Keith Comeaux, Deputy Project Chief Engineer, to learn more about the helicopter heading to Mars.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
The process provides a cost-effective solution for applications in space-based imaging systems, military reconnaissance, and satellite and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
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Application Briefs: Wearables
Learn abut Bosch Sensortec's “Light Drive” system.
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Briefs: Imaging
By observing humans, robots learn to perform complex tasks such as setting a table.
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Briefs: Motion Control
Combined muscles and sensors made from soft materials allow for adaptable robots.
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Briefs: Imaging
This program provides a relative navigation capability for spacecraft, remotely operated terrestrial vehicles, and machine vision.
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News: Imaging
Novel biosensors allow the simultaneous study of both neuronal activity and transcription factor dynamics.
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News: Imaging
A new tool for medical professionals may help shed light on tumors.
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News: Medical
Simon Fraser University researchers will use their pioneering imaging technology – called Mango, for its bright color – to develop coronavirus testing kits.
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News: Imaging
Researchers have tested a new imaging method to understand the brain as an individual develops Alzheimer's disease.
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Blog: Imaging
An empty airport tells you more than you might think.
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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
The future’s getting brighter for solar power. Researchers from CU Boulder have created a low-cost solar cell with one of the highest power-conversion efficiencies to date...
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INSIDER: Software
Stanford University researchers created an inverse design codebase called SPINS that can help researchers explore different design methodologies to find...
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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
A research team has used the Molecular Foundry, a Department of Energy Office of Science user facility, to create miniature lasers. These lasers are stable and work continuously. What...
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INSIDER Product: Imaging
Low-Power Sealed Laser Luxinar (Kingston Upon Hull, UK) has introduced the SR 08s for marking, scribing and kiss cutting applications requiring average rather than peak power. The new low-power sealed CO2 laser source targets...
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Products: Test & Measurement
The ADISRA SmartView 4.0 HMI allows builders to see what's going on in their machines.
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Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Aspheric lenses greatly improve the performance and efficiency of a wide range of optical applications.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Researchers described a new strategy of designing metamolecules.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The last thing you probably do when a fly buzzes toward you is marvel at its graceful wing and body kinematics. But that’s exactly what researchers at Cornell University’s Itai Cohen Group do...
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