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Test & Measurement

Learn what's trending in test, measurement, and monitoring technologies. Explore the latest products, applications, and technical briefs covering advanced measuring instruments, monitoring systems, devices, and instrumentation.

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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Inside every cellphone is a tiny mechanical heart, beating several billion times a second. These micromechanical resonators play an essential role in cellphone communication. Buffeted by the...
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Products: Data Acquisition
Instron has announced its 3400 and 6800 Series high-force universal testing systems.
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Products: Motion Control
Smart contactors, an industrial edge platform, tiny engines, and more.
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Application Briefs: Aerospace
What began as a research tool to collect aerodynamic data from research aircraft is now solving technical challenges for NASA.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The lenses enable the painless diagnosis or early detection of ocular diseases including glaucoma.
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Briefs: Energy
This remote forest fire detection and alarm system is powered by nothing but the movement of the trees in the wind.
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Briefs: Energy
The system could allow for flight speeds of Mach 6 to 17 and would have applications in air and space travel.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The test uses a smartphone microscope and could deliver results in about 10 minutes.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This testing method ensures that an exoskeleton and the person wearing it are moving smoothly and in harmony.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The smartphone-based device could reduce the pressure on testing laboratories during a pandemic.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The technology could benefit firefighters, miners, the military, plumbers, and households.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The test can simultaneously diagnose cases, track variants, and detect co-infections.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The method could support the semiconductor industry and facilitate development of next-gen devices.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
Automation can crumble, even when only one cog is loose, says Brad Walters from Monnit.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Battery monitoring, flow meters, torque sensors, and more.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Design of miniature optical systems could lead to future cell phones that can detect viruses and more.
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Products: Photonics/Optics
Spectrometers, digital microscopes, high-speed imaging, and more.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
For the first time, a team has measured the volume of individual droplets smaller than 100 trillionths of a liter, with an uncertainty of less than 1%.
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Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
See how hyperspectral imaging adds value to food inspection systems.
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Technology Leaders: Imaging
InGaAs is interesting, but is it useful?
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
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.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
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.
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Blog: Data Acquisition
Which machinery requires constant monitoring? According to one industry expert, the answer boils down to “Criticality.”
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Briefs: Imaging
An AI framework enables scientists to improve an imaging technique, enhancing the performance of electron microscopes.
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Q&A: Materials
Dr. Israel Owens and his team at Sandia National Laboratories have used a crystal smaller than a dime and a laser smaller than a shoebox to safely measure 20 million volts without making physical contact to the electrode.
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INSIDER: Test & Measurement
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...
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INSIDER: Medical
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....
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Special Reports: Energy
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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...

Products: Electronics & Computers
Liquid-cooled workstations, universal amplifiers, hydrogen sensors, and more.
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