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Briefs: Manned Systems
The engine could make rockets not only more fuel-efficient, but also more lightweight and less complicated to construct.
Briefs: Wearables
The test uses a smartphone microscope and could deliver results in about 10 minutes.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The technology could benefit firefighters, miners, the military, plumbers, and households.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Applications include power and energy, communications, and sensors.
Articles: Materials
A smart roof coating, a wearable RFID sensor tag, and a 3D-printed OLED display.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Design of miniature optical systems could lead to future cell phones that can detect viruses and more.
Briefs: Wearables
A study seeks to understand how different parts of the brain communicate with other.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Learn the internal functioning of an AI processor that pulls from a variety of sensors, including radar, lidar, sonar, and cameras.
Technology Leaders: Photonics/Optics
The method combines concepts of global and local stereo methods for accurate, pixel- wise matching at low runtime.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
A metal-coated fiber capable of withstands high temperatures.
Products: Electronics & Computers
Spectrometers, digital microscopes, high-speed imaging, and more.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new imaging method measure temperature in 2D.
Briefs: AR/AI
Columbia researchers are reducing both the size and the power consumption of a visible-spectrum phase modulator, from one millimeter to 10 microns.
Briefs: Imaging
For the first time, a team has measured the volume of individual droplets smaller than 100 trillionths of a liter, with an uncertainty of less than 1%.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
See how solid-state lasers have grown and diversified over the years.
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
An expert compares Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) LiDAR systems with Time of Flight tech.
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
See how hyperspectral imaging adds value to food inspection systems.
Technology Leaders: Semiconductors & ICs
InGaAs is interesting, but is it useful?
Question of the Week: Imaging
Would You Use ‘PocketView?’
Ever need your phone but your hands are full? A new display being developed at the University of Waterloo uses LEDs to display phone messages through fabrics. The “PocketView” shows notifications for email or messages, time, weather, or other forms of basic information.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
A new technology uses nanoscale sensors and fiber optics to measure water status just inside a leaf’s surface, where water in plants is most actively managed.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
A new control mechanism may prove useful in devices that make use of optical signals.
Briefs: Imaging
An AI framework enables scientists to improve an imaging technique, enhancing the performance of electron microscopes.
NASA Spinoff: Photonics/Optics
NASA’s lighting research gives people on Earth better rest and helps plants grow.
Q&A: Electronics & Computers
Dr. Israel Owens and his team at Sandia National Laboratories have used a crystal smaller than a dime and a laser smaller than a shoebox to safely measure 20 million volts without making physical contact to the electrode.
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
The trade-off between carrier mobility and stability in amorphous oxide semiconductor-based thin film transistors (TFTs) has been finally overcome by...
Special Reports: Medical
Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - February 2022
How virtual, cloud-based technologies are powering the next industrial revolution...transforming plastic parts into high-value products...designing optics for medical 3D printing. Read these...Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
This approach could result in developing chemical sensors that are sensitive at a very low level to a specific chemical in the environment.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The technology shines through fabrics to show notifications for email messages, time, weather, or other forms of basic information.
Briefs: Data Acquisition
This system enables fast analysis of hyperspectral images in disaster response or target detection scenarios.
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