Measuring Instruments

These advances are useful for transportation, infrastructure, and aerospace.

See how NOAA provides daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings, climate monitoring, and more.

Interaction of sound and light reveals new information of a crystal's quantum properties.

This thin film can be used for ground-based and airborne applications in aircraft, balloons, and other flight missions.

Processors, imaging sensors, dimensioning systems, and more.

The non-destructive coating has applications in structural health monitoring, aerospace, automotive, and military/defense.

According to the United Nations, 2.1 billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water services and the majority live in developing nations. A process was...

Isolators used to control semiconductor manufacturing keep the James Webb Space Telescope steady.

A new method of estimating the optimal trailing aircraft position in a formation increases fuel savings.

This technology is a novel, rugged, and economic diagnostic and sensor platform technology.

Vitrek introduces the PA920 Series ultra-high-accuracy power analyzer.

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...

Actuators, Encoders, Gripping Tools, and More

This system uses fiber optic strain sensing to detect and locate micrometeoroid/orbital debris.

Adhesives, flame-retardant compounds, vision measurement, and more...

Current laser interferometry pressure pulse detection techniques use the shock-induced change in index of refraction to track detonation and/or shock fronts in a single fiber optic by reflecting laser...

Glenn's research facilities have contributed to decades of technology advances.

This method also reverse-engineers computer chips to detect the chip’s purpose.

Undercooled metal technology was developed that features liquid metal (in this case, Field's metal, an alloy of bismuth, indium, and tin) trapped below its melting point in polished,...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines are employed to locate cancerous tumors and aid in the development of treatment plans, while nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) machines are used to...

In recent decades, NSF-funded researchers have discovered quite a bit, including many of the fundamental particles of matter.

To investigate oceans, researchers aim to build a submerged network of interconnected sensors that sends data to the surface. Supplying constant power to scores of sensors designed to stay for long...

3D-printing platforms, simulation software, transistors, and more.