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News: Electronics & Computers
A team of MIT researchers is building cubes or towers that extend solar cells upward in three-dimensional configurations. The results from the structures they’ve tested show power output ranging from...
News: Test & Measurement
Nearly two-thirds of the oil we use comes from wells drilled using polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bits, originally developed 30 years ago to lower the cost of geothermal drilling....
Application Briefs: Materials
MPC , a Walworth, Wisconsin-based manufacturer of plastic parts for the automotive industry, builds many types of components. One such product is the oil filler cap for the car’s engine. The cap...
Products: Test & Measurement
Saelig Company, Pittsford, NY, has introduced WiPry-Combo, a dynamic power meter and spectrum analyzer accessory for the iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone. It turns an iOS device into an ultra-portable spectrum...
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Nemesis Autonomous Test System
A generalized framework has been developed for systems validation that can be applied to both traditional and autonomous systems. The framework consists of an automated test case generation and execution system called Nemesis that rapidly and thoroughly identifies flaws or vulnerabilities within a system. By applying...
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Capillary electrophoresis is an analytical technique that can be used to detect and quantify extremely small amounts of various biological molecules. In the search for biochemical traces of life on...
Products: Test & Measurement
Tektronix (Beaverton, OR) has introduced a new comprehensive protocol test platform that allows engineers to analyze, stimulate, stress and characterize high-speed serial links, with support for speeds up to 10Gb/s. With the...
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Collision avoidance radar Numerica Corporation Loveland, COM 970-561-2000 www.numerica.us
The National Airspace System (NAS) is a complex and shared network of people, procedures,...
News: Test & Measurement
Unexpected voltage increases of up to 25 percent in two barely separated nanowires have been observed at Sandia National Laboratories. Designers of next-generation devices using nanowires...
Articles: Test & Measurement
In the 1960s, NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center, all but hidden away in the piney woods of south Mississippi, built a reputation of excellence in testing the massive first and second stages of the Saturn rocket...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Optical Surfaces Ltd (Surrey, UK) can supply Fabry-Perot etalons in a range of shapes and sizes up to 150mm in diameter with matching accuracies to lambda/300. Etalons are widely used in telecommunications, lasers and...
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Heat exchanger coilsSuper Radiator CoilsChaska, MN952-556-3330superradiatorcoils.com
A 25-foot-high wall of heat exchanger coils manufactured by Super Radiator Coils will replace the...
Articles: Materials
The Hall effect can be observed when the combination of a magnetic field through a sample and a current along the length of the sample create an...
Products: Electronics & Computers
National Instruments, Austin, TX, has released the NI PXIe-5186 digitizer, co-developed with Tektronix, Beaverton, OR. The unit achieves up to 5 GHz bandwidth and 12.5 GS/s sample rates. The NI PXIe-5185 delivers 3 GHz...
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
New Shepard rocket-propelled vehicle
Blue Origin Kent, WA 253-872-0411 www.blueorigin.com
Blue Origin has received funding from NASA’s Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) initiative to develop a...
Articles: Test & Measurement
The Constellation Program and the Exploration Technology Development Program (ETDP) funded the development of diagnostic models using the TEAMS (Testability Engineering and Maintenance...
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
A unique cavitating pump dynamics test facility has been developed at Concepts NREC (CN, White River Junction, VT) in cooperation with engineers at NASA Marshall Space...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
The NASA World Wind Java computer program developed at Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, CA, has won NASA’s 2009 Software of the Year award. Software engineers at Ames created the NASA World Wind...
Articles: Test & Measurement
Multi-paction effects can impact microwave components in high-power satellite communications (sat-com) systems. The nonlinear break-down-voltage phenomenon occurs in high-vacuum environments above...
Tech Needs: Test & Measurement
Real-Time Analysis and Reporting of Water-Borne Microorganisms
A company seeks a technology that enables monitoring of the microorganism content of stored potable water in real time, and reporting the water’s status to assure its continued potability even after storage times as long as a year. The apparatus must be small and lightweight, require...
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
QE65000 Spectrometer Ocean Optics Dunedin, FL 727-733-2447 www.oceanoptics.com
An Ocean Optics QE65000 spectrometer has contributed measurements to the Lunar Crater Observation and...
Products: Test & Measurement
Keyence Corporation of America, Woodcliff Lake, NJ, has introduced the IM-6000 Series dimension measurement and inspection system that features pattern registration and pattern search functions for “place and press”...
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Apparatus Measures Thermal Conductance Through a Thin Sample From Cryogenic to Room Temperature
An apparatus allows the measurement of the thermal conductance across a thin sample clamped between metal plates, including thermal boundary resistances. It allows in-situ variation of the clamping force from zero to 30 lb (133.4 N), and variation of the...
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Small-Bolt Torque-Tension Tester
Current torque-tension measurement techniques involve using load washers as the force measuring transducer. The disadvantage of load washers is that they are too large to be used with fasteners smaller than about size #8. The device described here measures the torque-tension relationship for fasteners as small as...
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Desktop Application Program To Simulate Cargo-Air-Drop Tests
The DSS Application is a computer program comprising a Windows version of the UNIX-based Decelerator System Simulation (DSS) coupled with an Excel front end. The DSS is an executable code that simulates the dynamics of air-dropped cargo from first motion in an aircraft through landing....
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Rover Attitude and Pointing System Simulation Testbed
The MER (Mars Exploration Rover) Attitude and Pointing System Simulation Testbed Environment (RAPSSTER) provides a simulation platform used for the development and test of GNC (guidance, navigation, and control) flight algorithm designs for the Mars rovers, which was specifically tailored to the...
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The multimodal friction ignition tester (MFIT) is a testbed for experiments on the thermal and mechanical effects of friction on material specimens in pressurized, oxygen-rich atmospheres. In simplest terms,...
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Cryogenic Chamber for Servo-Hydraulic Materials Testing
A compact cryogenic test chamber can be cooled to approximately 5 to 6 Kelvin for materials testing. The system includes a temperature controller and multiple sensors to measure specimen temperature at different locations. The testing chamber provides a fast and easy method to perform...
Articles: Test & Measurement
The traditional engineering response to testing a new wireless standard often involves selecting a box instrument with the closest specifications. For automated test systems with...
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