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Briefs: Materials
Applications include power and energy, communications, and sensors.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The method could support the semiconductor industry and facilitate development of next-gen devices.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Researchers have created an electronic microsystem that can intelligently respond to information inputs without any external energy input, much like a...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A smart roof coating, a wearable RFID sensor tag, and a 3D-printed OLED display.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The grid’s growing size and complexity increases vulnerability to cyberattacks.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Automation can crumble, even when only one cog is loose, says Brad Walters from Monnit.
Articles: Data Acquisition
The biggest challenge in the provisioning process: ensuring that a device and the connection to the network and server are secure.
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Battery monitoring, flow meters, torque sensors, and more.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Design of miniature optical systems could lead to future cell phones that can detect viruses and more.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers successfully demonstrated the use of the human body as a medium for transmitting and harvesting energy to power wearables.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A study seeks to understand how different parts of the brain communicate with other.
Application Briefs: Imaging
Learn the internal functioning of an AI processor that pulls from a variety of sensors, including radar, lidar, sonar, and cameras.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
See what integrated building systems can do to enhance the working and living environment inside a commercial building.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
A metal-coated fiber capable of withstands high temperatures.
Products: Electronics & Computers
Spectrometers, digital microscopes, high-speed imaging, and more.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new imaging method measure temperature in 2D.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Columbia researchers are reducing both the size and the power consumption of a visible-spectrum phase modulator, from one millimeter to 10 microns.
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
An expert compares Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) LiDAR systems with Time of Flight tech.
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
See how hyperspectral imaging adds value to food inspection systems.
INSIDER: AR/AI
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...
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: Nanotechnology
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.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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.
INSIDER: Data Acquisition
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...
INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs
The trade-off between carrier mobility and stability in amorphous oxide semiconductor-based thin film transistors (TFTs) has been finally overcome by...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
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...
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....
Special Reports: Test & Measurement
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...Articles: Electronics & Computers
Flexible electrodes, NASA sensors, and anti-corrosion compounds.
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INSIDER: Research Lab
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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
