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This is your resource for developments in smart sensor systems and data acquisition. Browse technical briefs, articles, and white papers on advanced applications in transducer technologies, detector systems, data acquisition, and sensor-related technologies.

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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A reader asks, "Will the public feel safe enough in an autonomous vehicle?"
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Special Reports: Robotics, Automation & Control
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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: Materials
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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Products: Motion Control
Accelerometers, actuators, hexapods, and more.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Standard commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) connectors continue to be a great resource for quick prototypes and reference designs.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
By consolidating tasks traditionally performed by multiple devices into a single, high-performing controller, manufacturers can improve operations.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
“EasyPass” would enable smart warehouses, automated factories, and more to operate without delays.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This method can be used in astronomy, surveillance, and optics manufacturing.
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Briefs: Communications
The tiny unit is significant for the miniaturization of optoelectronic systems.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This method could impact optical technologies such as smartphone cameras, biosensors, or autonomous vision for robots and self-driving cars.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The software assesses the quality of parts in real time, without the need for expensive characterization equipment.
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Q&A: Lighting Technology
A nanoLED has up to 1,000 times the brightness of conventional submicron-sized LEDs.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This approach could engineer quantum materials atom-by-atom for new electronic, magnetic, and sensing applications.
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Briefs: Energy
People could monitor their own health conditions by picking up a pencil and drawing a bioelectronic device on their skin.
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Briefs: Medical
This method integrates 3D plasmonic nanoarrays onto stickers that adhere to any surface.
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Briefs: Imaging
Tiny aircraft that weigh as much as a fruit fly could serve as Martian atmospheric probes.
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Briefs: Medical
This technique may enable speedy, on-demand design of softer, safer neural devices.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Fully integrated flexible electronics made of magnetic sensors and organic circuits open the path towards the development of electronic skin.
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Articles: Materials
Nanowire masks, underwater imaging, and tiny 3D-printed block that repair bone breaks.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These non-reciprocal devices on a compact chip pave the way for applications from two-way wireless to quantum computing.
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NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
NASA's UAS traffic management expertise leads to advances in drone navigation.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
This method could benefit next-generation electronics.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A metal-organic framework does not contain cost-intensive raw materials and can be produced in bulk.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Tubing plugs, displacement measurements, CAM software, and more.
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Special Reports: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed the world’s smallest ultrasound detector. Based on miniaturized...
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INSIDER: Wearables
The proliferation and miniaturization of electronics in devices, wearables, medical implants, and other applications has...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
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...
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