Test & Measurement

Measuring Instruments

Explore a range of technical briefs and articles digging deep into advanced measuring instruments and devices. Find the latest developments that design engineers are using to meet their design challenges.

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Products: Test & Measurement
Photodetectors, ultrafast lasers, energy sensors, and more.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The technique could be used to improve navigation for robots, drones, or pedestrians.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
This diagnostic device allows doctors to detect cancer quickly from a droplet of blood or plasma.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This method uses fiber optic probes for measurement of semiconductors, optical coatings, magnetic read/write heads, and precision machines.
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Briefs: Energy
This fast, flexible tool allows researchers to quickly compare and prioritize strategies for converting biomass to fuels and products.
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The ADISRA SmartView 4.0 HMI allows builders to see what's going on in their machines.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Sealing connection tools, oscilloscopes, snap-action switches, and more...
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Briefs: Software
Landers to small bodies such as comets and asteroids can use this program to estimate the terrain richness of the previously unmapped small body.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Engineers have developed a new scanning technique inspired by the natural world that can detect corroding metals in oil and gas pipelines.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A team is exploring new materials for telecommunications and LIDAR applications.
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A team used to making pollutant-detection systems is adapting their technologies to spot coronavirus.
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Blog: Test & Measurement
A Berkeley Lab system provides a much more sensitive probe of the chemical state of battery electrodes, especially when the battery is operated under high capacity mode.
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Articles: Photonics/Optics
Here's what you'll need to know when you’re choosing an encoder for a motion control system.
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Articles: IoMT
Manufacturers are beginning to realize the same benefits by cloud-connecting their equipment and processes on the shop floor.
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Vision-based 3D printing, network analyzers, particulate sensors, and more.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The lasers are small and efficient enough to fit on a microchip.
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NASA Spinoff: Test & Measurement
Technology used to search for extraterrestrial life can characterize radioactive material.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Applications include homeland security, vehicle anti-collision systems, telecommunications systems, and industrial instrumentation.
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Question of the Week: Electronics & Computers
Would You Use a CurveBoard?

MIT researchers have invented a way to integrate “breadboards” — flat platforms widely used for electronics prototyping — directly onto physical products.

INSIDER: Photonics/Optics

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have developed a way to retrofit the transmission...

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Articles: Photonics/Optics
There are longwave, midwave, and shortwave camera systems—each with its own advantages for specific industries and uses.
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Briefs: Defense
In the middle ground between microwaves and visible light lies terahertz radiation, and the promise of “Tray vision.”
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Increase battery life and reduce data loads with an analog-first processing architecture.
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Products: Motion Control
This month: Sensors that measure weather, proximity, pH, and more.
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Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Beta Technologies is putting their Electrical Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft (eVTOL) prototype through the wringer.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Thermal cameras, testing software, an ion air knife, and more.
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Facility Focus: Defense
The Army Test and Evaluation Command provides essential information to acquisition decision-makers and commanders.
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Special Reports: Test & Measurement
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Test & Measurement - March 2020

See how the latest test tools and methodologies are enabling new applications in aerospace, automotive, communications, and other key fields. This compendium of recent articles is presented by the editors of...

Briefs: Test & Measurement
Blood Test Detects Multiple Types of Cancer
The test can screen for numerous types of cancer with a high degree of accuracy.

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