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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
“EasyPass” would enable smart warehouses, automated factories, and more to operate without delays.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
This method can be used in astronomy, surveillance, and optics manufacturing.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
The tiny unit is significant for the miniaturization of optoelectronic systems.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This method could impact optical technologies such as smartphone cameras, biosensors, or autonomous vision for robots and self-driving cars.
Briefs: Transportation
The software assesses the quality of parts in real time, without the need for expensive characterization equipment.
Q&A: Imaging
A nanoLED has up to 1,000 times the brightness of conventional submicron-sized LEDs.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This approach could engineer quantum materials atom-by-atom for new electronic, magnetic, and sensing applications.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
People could monitor their own health conditions by picking up a pencil and drawing a bioelectronic device on their skin.
Briefs: Energy
This method integrates 3D plasmonic nanoarrays onto stickers that adhere to any surface.
Briefs: Aerospace
Tiny aircraft that weigh as much as a fruit fly could serve as Martian atmospheric probes.
Briefs: Medical
This technique may enable speedy, on-demand design of softer, safer neural devices.
Briefs: Wearables
Fully integrated flexible electronics made of magnetic sensors and organic circuits open the path towards the development of electronic skin.
Articles: Materials
Nanowire masks, underwater imaging, and tiny 3D-printed block that repair bone breaks.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These non-reciprocal devices on a compact chip pave the way for applications from two-way wireless to quantum computing.
NASA Spinoff: Test & Measurement
NASA's UAS traffic management expertise leads to advances in drone navigation.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
This method could benefit next-generation electronics.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A metal-organic framework does not contain cost-intensive raw materials and can be produced in bulk.
Products: Connectivity
Tubing plugs, displacement measurements, CAM software, and more.
Special Reports: Materials
Electronics Innovations - October 2020
In this compendium of articles from the editors of Tech Briefs magazine, discover how advances in electronic components are enabling game-changing applications in mobile healthcare/wearables, autonomous...INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed the world’s smallest ultrasound detector. Based on miniaturized...
INSIDER: Wearables
The proliferation and miniaturization of electronics in devices, wearables, medical implants, and other applications has...
INSIDER: Design
For a long time, something important has been regularly neglected in electronics. If you want to make electronic components smaller and smaller, you also need the right insulator materials. This is...
INSIDER: Wearables
Researchers at the University of Houston report that they have designed and produced a smart electronic skin and a medical robotic hand capable of assessing vital diagnostic data...
Question of the Week: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Do Software Advancements Make You Feel Safe in an Autonomous Vehicle?
Our lead story today features self-driving car software that prevents accidents by understanding and anticipating safe traffic behaviors.
INSIDER: Motion Control
For planned robotic and crewed missions to the Moon and Mars, NASA is developing and testing precise landing and hazard-avoidance technologies. A combination of laser sensors, a camera, a high-speed...
Blog: Data Acquisition
New software from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) wants to predict all traffic possibilities, so that self-driving vehicles will never get into accidents.
Question of the Week: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Can Courtesy Be Programmed Into Self-Driving Cars?
During a recent webcast, a Tech Briefs reader raised an interesting question about self-driving cars:
Blog: Data Acquisition
A new modeling tool from USC engineers generates automatic indicators when data and predictions from AI algorithms are trustworthy.
Podcasts: Robotics, Automation & Control
Before delivery drones start carrying packages (and passenger drones start delivering ourselves), engineers will need to keep refining an unmanned aircraft's ability to navigate and...
Top Stories
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
2025 Holiday Gift Guide for Engineers: Tech, Tools, and Gadgets
INSIDER: Research Lab
Scientists Create Superconducting Semiconductor Material
Blog: Software
Quiz: Materials
Blog: Aerospace
Tech Briefs Wrapped 2025: Top 10 Technology Stories
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Webcasts
Upcoming Webinars: AR/AI
The Real Impact of AR and AI in the Industrial Equipment Industry
Upcoming Webinars: Motion Control
Next-Generation Linear and Rotary Stages: When Ultra Precision...
Upcoming Webinars: Energy
Hydrogen Engines Are Heating Up for Heavy Duty
Podcasts: Medical
How Wearables Are Enhancing Smart Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Power
SAE Automotive Podcast: Solid-State Batteries
Podcasts: Power
