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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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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This device could enable rapid, inexpensive liquid biopsies to help detect cancer and develop targeted treatment plans.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
This instrument has applications in medical equipment, robotics, and satellites.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A ceramic sensor could be embedded into structures such as bridges and aircraft to monitor their health.
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Briefs: Imaging
An inexpensive 3D-printed microfluidics device could be used to personalize cancer treatment.
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Blog: Test & Measurement
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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Products: Automotive
Rugged tablets from Teguar Corp. can be used to monitor manufacturing operations.
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Briefs: Transportation
Applications include homeland security, vehicle anti-collision systems, telecommunications systems, and industrial instrumentation.
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NASA Spinoff: Test & Measurement
Technology used to search for extraterrestrial life can characterize radioactive material.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The lasers are small and efficient enough to fit on a microchip.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The newest PLCs can directly access Internet resources, much like a mobile device, to obtain information for improving operations.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Hardware and software tweak microwave patterns to discover the most efficient way to identify objects.
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Briefs: Energy
A wearable energy harvesting device could generate energy from the swing of an arm while walking or jogging.
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Vision-based 3D printing, network analyzers, particulate sensors, and more.
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Facility Focus: Nanotechnology
See some of the world-changing tools and technologies launched by Caltech scientists, from earthquake monitoring to helping the blind see.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Manufacturers are beginning to realize the same benefits by cloud-connecting their equipment and processes on the shop floor.
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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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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This technology cancels out the vibrations of a satellite by vibrating the solar panels in the opposite direction.
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Question of the Week: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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 Purdue University have been working to develop new technologies to help stop the spread of foodborne illnesses, which kill 3,000 people a year, by detecting them more...
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INSIDER Product: Imaging
Final Vision Inspection (FVI) SystemCyberOptics® Corporation (Minneapolis, MN) has launched the Multi-Reflection Suppression™ (MRS™)-enabled 3D MX3000 Final Vision Inspection (FVI) system for memory modules. The launch extends...
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INSIDER: Imaging
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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INSIDER: Energy
When electric vehicles end their life, the remaining storage capacity of the lithium battery is expected to be higher than 70%. After this, they can be reused for less demanding “second...
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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 Tech...

Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This system protects workers on lightning and telecommunications towers, and on oil and gas platforms.
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Facility Focus: Test & Measurement
The Army Test and Evaluation Command provides essential information to acquisition decision-makers and commanders.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
This new understanding can help chip manufacturers find ways to better diffuse the heat that leads to device damage and decreased device lifespans.
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Products: Energy
Thermal cameras, testing software, an ion air knife, and more.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The device retrains patients with spinal cord injury to sit more stably and gain an expanded active sitting workspace.
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