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Nanotechnology

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Briefs: Materials
The invention can become color-changing “artificial muscle.”
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
This method is an important step towards smaller, more advanced, environmentally friendly electronics.
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Briefs: Transportation
The material is designed for high-temperature applications in aircraft, building insulation, personal protective clothing, industrial, and automotive.
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Articles: Photonics/Optics
The virtual event offers a mix of live plenary talks, on-demand technical presentations and discussions, online networking and special events.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
This method obtains high-color-purity 3D objects using a new class of nanoparticles.
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INSIDER: Communications

Light-emitting diodes — LEDs — are important in many more applications than just illumination. These light sources are useful in microelectronics too. Smartphones, for example,...

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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers

A hacker can reproduce a circuit on a chip by discovering what key transistors are doing in a circuit — but not if the transistor “type” is...

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Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
Energy is absorbed in the diamond through a process called inelastic scattering, which is used to generate electricity.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A stretchable system can harvest energy from human breathing and motion.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This integrated nanosensor is printed on a daughter board using 3D printing techniques.
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Briefs: Materials
The stretchable sensor has applications in environmental monitoring and healthcare.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A technique enables manufacturing of minuscule robots by interlocking multiple materials in a complex way.
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Briefs: Transportation
This technology charges lithium batteries faster and reduces the risk of device explosions.
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Articles: Energy
NASA-funded research by Clemson University scientists could lead to the creation of lighter, faster-charging batteries suitable for powering a spacesuit or even a Mars rover.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
The improved rectennas could operate low-power devices such as temperature sensors.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
Compared to a LED, the omnidirectional laser light is much brighter and better defined.
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Blog: Photonics/Optics
Inspired by the squid's color-changing chromatophore, Rutgers engineers set out to create an artificial one.
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INSIDER: Energy

A team of University of Arkansas physicists has successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene’s thermal motion and converting it into an electrical current.

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INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Researchers at the University of Nottingham have cracked the conundrum of how to use inks to 3D-print novel electronic devices with useful properties, such as an...

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INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs

Field Effect Transistors (FET) are the core building blocks of modern electronics such as integrated circuits, computer CPUs, and display backplanes....

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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
These switches are key to thermal management of nanoscale devices, refrigeration, data storage, thermal computing, and heat management of buildings.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The technology detects the presence of one or more specific chemical components in a liquid.
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Q&A: Test & Measurement
A nanoLED has up to 1,000 times the brightness of conventional submicron-sized LEDs.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Neuromorphic computing uses memristors that could function and operate like real brain synapses.
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Briefs: Materials
A nanostructure design lends extraordinary strength to a promising storage ingredient.
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Briefs: Imaging
Tiny aircraft that weigh as much as a fruit fly could serve as Martian atmospheric probes.
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INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed the world’s smallest ultrasound detector. Based on...

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INSIDER: Test & Measurement

The proliferation and miniaturization of electronics in devices, wearables, medical implants, and other applications has...

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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers

For a long time, something important has been regularly neglected in electronics. If you want to make electronic components smaller and smaller, you also need the right insulator materials. This...

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