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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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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The device can be used to pre-screen for the virus using gene-editing assays before those infected can travel and expose others.
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Briefs: Materials
Interaction of sound and light reveals new information of a crystal's quantum properties.
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Facility Focus: Test & Measurement
See how NOAA provides daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings, climate monitoring, and more.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
These advances are useful for transportation, infrastructure, and aerospace.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
System Allows Diabetics to Monitor Blood Sugar Without Drawing Blood
The self-contained technology is similar to the smart watches that monitor heart rate.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This electronic pill can relay diagnostic information or release drugs in response to smartphone commands.
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Application Briefs: Imaging
AM is an especially good fit for products that require a high level of customization.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A nanoantenna-enabled detector boosts the usable signal of a thermal infrared camera by up to three times.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A system senses tiny changes in shadows on the ground to determine if there’s a moving object coming around the corner.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
For disease diagnosis, a microchip maps the back of the eye.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Photopolymer films, LED light engines, measurement systems, and more.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A new laser-based system offers an efficient way to detect fires in challenging environments such as industrial facilities or large construction sites.
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Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
If a satellite breaks in orbit, there's not much that can be done. A professor envisions a new idea for refueling and repair.
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
At any moment in Delhi, India, a resident might start their car, releasing exhaust that floats into the atmosphere. In northwest India, a...
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INSIDER: Nanotechnology
Rutgers engineers have embedded high performance electrical circuits inside 3D-printed plastics, which could lead to smaller and versatile drones and better-performing small...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Inspired by spiders, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), have developed a compact and efficient depth sensor that could be used onboard...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new method for producing atomically thin semiconducting crystals that could one day enable more powerful and...
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Special Reports: Internet of Things
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ADAS/Connected Car - December 2019
Today's Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and connected cars are paving the way for tomorrow's automated vehicles. To help you keep pace with the latest technology developments, we present this...

Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The GNV-720 and GNV-725 humidity temperature meters from Global Specialties feature three environmental sensors.
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Briefs: Wearables
Washable Sensor Can Be Woven Into Materials
The device could impact composites manufacturing and health monitoring.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This innovation dynamically provides fast signal processing and precision measurement.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This technology has applications in sonar, range measuring, directional-force sensors, flow meters, and vibration/noise sensing and control.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
RFID-based devices work in indoor and outdoor lighting conditions and could transmit data for years before they need to be replaced.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Technique Uses X-Rays to Detect Defective Computer Chips
This method also reverse-engineers computer chips to detect the chip’s purpose.
Articles: Medical
Products include an aerosol scattering sensor; metal foam; and a new coated drug capsule.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This technology provides simultaneous ohmic contacts and the process to make them.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
This packaging provides protection for SiC sensors and electronics in harsh, hightemperature environments.
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Facility Focus: Test & Measurement
Glenn's research facilities have contributed to decades of technology advances.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Innovators at NASA Johnson Space Center have developed a calorimeter that is able to measure the total heat generated when specific types of Lithium-ion (Li-ion) cells are driven...
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