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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Articles: Test & Measurement
Read our special series on the Mars 2020 mission, featuring interviews with NASA experts and designers of the Perseverance rover.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
The K6PM provides continuous, remote thermal monitoring of critical components such as high-voltage control panels, transformers, and hydraulic equipment.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
An inexpensive gyroscope could help drones and autonomous cars stay on track without a GPS signal.
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Blog: Imaging
An empty airport tells you more than you might think.
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Products: Photonics/Optics
Photodetectors, ultrafast lasers, energy sensors, and more.
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Briefs: Communications
The technique could be used to improve navigation for robots, drones, or pedestrians.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This diagnostic device allows doctors to detect cancer quickly from a droplet of blood or plasma.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
This method uses fiber optic probes for measurement of semiconductors, optical coatings, magnetic read/write heads, and precision machines.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This fast, flexible tool allows researchers to quickly compare and prioritize strategies for converting biomass to fuels and products.
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Products: Imaging
The ADISRA SmartView 4.0 HMI allows builders to see what's going on in their machines.
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Sealing connection tools, oscilloscopes, snap-action switches, and more...
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
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: Energy
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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Here's what you'll need to know when you’re choosing an encoder for a motion control system.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
Manufacturers are beginning to realize the same benefits by cloud-connecting their equipment and processes on the shop floor.
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Products: Lighting
Vision-based 3D printing, network analyzers, particulate sensors, and more.
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Briefs: Imaging
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: Test & Measurement
Applications include homeland security, vehicle anti-collision systems, telecommunications systems, and industrial instrumentation.
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Question of the Week: Test & Measurement
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: Test & Measurement
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have developed a way to retrofit the transmission electron...
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
There are longwave, midwave, and shortwave camera systems—each with its own advantages for specific industries and uses.
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Briefs: Software
In the middle ground between microwaves and visible light lies terahertz radiation, and the promise of “Tray vision.”
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Increase battery life and reduce data loads with an analog-first processing architecture.
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Products: Internet of Things
This month: Sensors that measure weather, proximity, pH, and more.
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Application Briefs: Propulsion
Beta Technologies is putting their Electrical Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft (eVTOL) prototype through the wringer.
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