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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This method obtains high-color-purity 3D objects using a new class of nanoparticles.
INSIDER: Nanotechnology
Light-emitting diodes — LEDs — are important in many more applications than just illumination. These light sources are useful in microelectronics too. Smartphones, for example, can...
INSIDER: Design
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...
Articles: Energy
Energy is absorbed in the diamond through a process called inelastic scattering, which is used to generate electricity.
Briefs: Energy
A stretchable system can harvest energy from human breathing and motion.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This integrated nanosensor is printed on a daughter board using 3D printing techniques.
Briefs: Materials
The stretchable sensor has applications in environmental monitoring and healthcare.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A technique enables manufacturing of minuscule robots by interlocking multiple materials in a complex way.
Briefs: Energy
This technology charges lithium batteries faster and reduces the risk of device explosions.
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.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The improved rectennas could operate low-power devices such as temperature sensors.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
Compared to a LED, the omnidirectional laser light is much brighter and better defined.
Blog: Photonics/Optics
Inspired by the squid's color-changing chromatophore, Rutgers engineers set out to create an artificial one.
INSIDER: Research Lab
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.
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 ability...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Field Effect Transistors (FET) are the core building blocks of modern electronics such as integrated circuits, computer CPUs, and display backplanes. Organic...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These switches are key to thermal management of nanoscale devices, refrigeration, data storage, thermal computing, and heat management of buildings.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The technology detects the presence of one or more specific chemical components in a liquid.
Q&A: Photonics/Optics
A nanoLED has up to 1,000 times the brightness of conventional submicron-sized LEDs.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Neuromorphic computing uses memristors that could function and operate like real brain synapses.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A nanostructure design lends extraordinary strength to a promising storage ingredient.
Briefs: Aerospace
Tiny aircraft that weigh as much as a fruit fly could serve as Martian atmospheric probes.
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 miniaturized...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The proliferation and miniaturization of electronics in devices, wearables, medical implants, and other applications has...
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 is...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
One unexpected application for spider silk is its use in the creation of biocompatible lenses.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
Features include unusual color changes and high touch sensitivity.
Briefs: Energy
The ultra-light robotic insect can be folded or crushed, yet continues to move.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The newest version of these combs could revolutionize clocks, telescopes, and telecommunications.
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Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Aerial Microrobots That Can Match a Bumblebee's Speed
Blog: Electronics & Computers
Turning Edible Fungi into Organic Memristors
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Revolutionizing the Production of Semiconductor Chips
News: Energy
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
World’s Smallest Programmable, Autonomous Robots
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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