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Sensors

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Application Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Learn the internal functioning of an AI processor that pulls from a variety of sensors, including radar, lidar, sonar, and cameras.
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Articles: Data Acquisition
The biggest challenge in the provisioning process: ensuring that a device and the connection to the network and server are secure.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Automation can crumble, even when only one cog is loose, says Brad Walters from Monnit.
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Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The grid’s growing size and complexity increases vulnerability to cyberattacks.
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Facility Focus: Energy
Michigan engineers and collaborators are improving smart infrastructure, autonomous transportation, weather prediction, nuclear non-proliferation, and more.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Design of miniature optical systems could lead to future cell phones that can detect viruses and more.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A new imaging method measure temperature in 2D.
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Articles: Materials
A smart roof coating, a wearable RFID sensor tag, and a 3D-printed OLED display.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A study seeks to understand how different parts of the brain communicate with other.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Researchers have created an electronic microsystem that can intelligently respond to information inputs without any external energy input, much like a...
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Briefs: Energy
Researchers successfully demonstrated the use of the human body as a medium for transmitting and harvesting energy to power wearables.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Battery monitoring, flow meters, torque sensors, and more.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Applications include power and energy, communications, and sensors.
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Briefs: Manned Systems
This system would extend the life of CubeSat satellites.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The lenses enable the painless diagnosis or early detection of ocular diseases including glaucoma.
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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
What began as a research tool to collect aerodynamic data from research aircraft is now solving technical challenges for NASA.
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Products: Communications
A Smart Gadget, a simulator module, and a holographic display.
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INSIDER: Software
Engineers at Caltech, ETH Zurich, and Harvard are developing artificial intelligence (AI) that will allow autonomous drones to use ocean currents to aid their navigation, rather than...
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Question of the Week: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Do You See Valuable Applications for ‘Meta-Sense?’
A Tech Brief this month highlighted a manufacturing method from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that integrates sensing capabilities into 3D-printed objects.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
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.
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Briefs: Energy
A new technique for measuring the performance of lithium batteries uses thermal waves to measure local lithium concentration as a function of depth inside battery electrodes.
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
In efforts to limit the spread of disease while preserving privacy, an interdisciplinary research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has designed and...
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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...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Twisted nanoscale semiconductors manipulate light in a new way. This effect could be harnessed to accelerate the discovery and development of life-saving medicines as well as photonic...
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INSIDER: Data Acquisition
Demand for sensitive and selective electronic biosensors — analytical devices that monitor a target of interest in real time — is growing for a wide range of applications....
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Special Reports: Wearables
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Test & Measurement - February 2022
From space vehicles to the modern battlefield to the human body, test innovations are improving device and system reliability while speeding time to market. Read about the latest advances – including the...

Products: Motion Control
Test servo drives, robot monitors, AC motors, and more
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Four industry experts explore the future outlook for smart sensors and IIoT.
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Liquid-cooled workstations, universal amplifiers, hydrogen sensors, and more.
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