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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Learn about the sensors assessing and analyzing plant equipment.
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
By jumpstarting electrons, a team at Washington University in St. Louis has developed sensors that can power themselves for more than a year.
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Special Reports: Electronics & Computers
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Additive Manufacturing - November 2020
AM/3D Printing is fundamentally changing how products are prototyped and produced in aerospace, medical, electronics, and many other fields. To help you keep pace with the latest advances, we present this...

Articles: Semiconductors & ICs
See what kinds of applications are possible when you can literally see light propagating through space.
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Products: Imaging
Multi-sensor imaging systems, eyesafe laser finders, machine vision algorithms, and more.
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Briefs: Wearables
The technology, which could be added to smart watches, could detect the onset of Parkinson’s disease or help with stroke rehabilitation.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The network is designed for remote, low-resource locations where power and communications infrastructure are scarce.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Infrared Detectors Enhance Night-Vision Cameras
The ability to enhance night vision could improve what can be seen in space, in chemical and biological disaster areas, and on the battlefield.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A smartwatch that tracks medication levels, a flexible LED, and NASA's "Micro-Organ" device platform.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The technology detects the presence of one or more specific chemical components in a liquid.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
When deployed on edge devices, modern HMI and SCADA software can go beyond basic visualization to deliver advanced data acquisition and analytics.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The dye, delivered along with a vaccine, could enable “on-patient” storage of vaccination history.
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Products: Software
VOC sensors, panel-mount connectors, 3D printing cloud software, and more.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Applications include biomedical imaging, remote sensing, and heliophysics research.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The sensor enables detection of items for security screening, intrusion detection, forensics, and medical imaging.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The sensor provides accurate and real-time measurement of flow rates and temperature in next-generation microfluidic instruments.
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Briefs: Unmanned Systems
The sensors can be built into the shells of aircraft, cars, or other machines.
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Facility Focus: Communications
Learn about RIT's achievements in cybersecurity, imaging science, and personalized healthcare tech.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This technology enables robots, electronic devices, and prosthetic devices to feel pain through sense of touch.
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Briefs: Automotive
Using radar commonly deployed to track speeders and fastballs, the automated system “sees” around corners to spot oncoming traffic and pedestrians.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This sensor makes it possible to ensure that such systems more closely mimic the function of real organs.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
Printable organic photodiodes can distinguish wavelengths and enable data transmission by light.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Detector Senses X-Rays Over a Broad Energy Range
New materials generate precise X-ray images with a lower amount of exposure.
Briefs: Medical
These implants can provide doctors with regular activity updates and are powered by the patient’s movement.
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Question of the Week: Wearables
Will We Someday 'Draw' Sensors On Our Skin?
A Tech Brief featured in our October issue showcases how University of Missouri researchers are creating pencil-drawn sensors. The engineers demonstrated that the simple combination of pencils and paper could be used to create personal, health-monitoring devices.
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A reader asks, "Will the public feel safe enough in an autonomous vehicle?"
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Special Reports: Aerospace
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Aerospace & Defense - October 2020
In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology, you'll learn about NASA's return to the moon with Apollo's twin sister Artemis, how autonomous...

Technology Leaders: Electronics & Computers
For nearly 50 years, engineers in the electronics, aerospace, defense, medical device, and transportation industries have relied on Parylene coatings.
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Articles: Motion Control
Torque limiters protect against damage and downtime caused by machine overloads.
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