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Focus-Tunable Lenses
Edmund Optics® (EO) (Barrington, NJ.) offers two liquid-filled lenses from Optotune of Switzerland. The Electrically Focus-Tunable Lenses provide a single-lens tool for focus and zoom objectives. When the user applies a...
Products Electronics & Computers
14-Bit Analog-to-Digital Converter
The 14-bit ADS4149 from Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) is a high-speed analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that delivers low power consumption and performance across wide signal bandwidths from DC up to 550 MHz....
Articles Unmanned Systems
Designing Future Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
So far, defense companies have done a credible job fielding Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs), Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), or other water-borne robots to address critical capability...
Articles Aerospace
Improving Military Communications Through COTM
Avital component for any military organization is the ability to communicate, share information and provide support for large, mobile groups of personnel anytime, anywhere. Satellite technology is...
Application Briefs Defense
Flight Simulators Help Train Unmanned Aircraft Crews
L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) recently delivered six additional Predator Mission Aircrew Training Systems (PMATS) and associated support equipment to two U.S. Air Force...
Application Briefs Defense
New Wiring Technology Could Reduce EMI Susceptibility in Army Helicopters
Minnesota Wire’s R&D division, Minnovate, has been awarded a Phase One Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract by the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office...
Tech Transfer Reports
Radar Technology Finds New Target
Medifocus, Inc., (Columbia, MD), formerly Celsion Canada Limited, has developed a device known as the APA-1000™ that uses an adaptive phased array (APA) radar technique, originally developed by the...
Tech Transfer Reports
Algorithm Creates High-Resolution Images from Low-Resolution Pictures
Technologies using sensors that produce only low-resolution images may now be able to produce higher-quality images without needing additional computing power or a bigger...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Airbrush-Fabricated Carbon Nanotube Supercapacitor Electrodes
In order for the batteries used by soldiers to provide peak power, an increase in battery size and weight is necessary, which is becoming a burden. A light, compact alternative to...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Compact Superconducting Power Systems for Airborne Applications
In the development of future airborne megawatt-class power generation, it is important to minimize both the size and the weight of the system. The primary means of increasing the...
Briefs Data Acquisition
Development and Test of a Medium-Voltage Converter for Ocean Observatories
A critical component in regional-scale undersea power systems is the medium-voltage converter (MVC). The MVC is a DC-DC converter in the primary network infrastructure...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Two-Phase Electronics Cooling for Vehicle Applications
Replacing many of the traditional mechanical power and control systems with electronic equivalents will enable significant improvements by reducing weight, lowering fuel usage, increasing...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Surface Plasmon-Enhanced Si:Er Infrared Light-Emitting Diodes
Plasmons are collective oscillations of the free electrons in a metal or an ionized gas. Plasmons dominate the optical properties of noble-metal nanoparticles, which enables a variety of applications including electromagnetic energy transport at nanoscale dimensions, single-molecule...
Briefs Materials
Fundamental Interaction Between Gold Nanoparticles and DNA
Quantum dots (QDs) and nanoparticles (NPs) are made of metal and/or semiconductor materials with diameters ranging from 5 to 100 nm. The properties of these nanomaterials, which depend on their size and the material they are made from, are usually completely different than the properties of...
Briefs Weapons Systems
High Critical Current in Metal Organic Derived YBCO Films
High-temperature superconducting (HTS) YBCO wire is a versatile technology for a number of military and commercial applications. However, anticipated military applications such as...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Dense Transducer Array
A dense transducer array is an acoustic transducer with relatively high operational bandwidth. It includes a cable harness component that provides and organizes various conductors within piezocomposite substrates to form transducer arrays with minimum impact on electroacoustic performance. Several underwater sonar...
Products Electronics & Computers
Coded Switch
Elma Electronic (Fremont, CA) offers a rugged version of its Type 07 line of coded switches. The M07A gray coded switch comes in 16 positions down to 2, and has a robust stainless-steel 6mm or 3mm tapped shaft. The switch meets...
Products Electronics & Computers
FGPA Starterkit
The Kontron COM Express™ FPGA Starterkit from Kontron (Poway, CA) provides the necessary components to evaluate board designs with open-definable I/Os. OEMs can use the starterkit to develop dedicated full-custom SBC designs...
Products Data Acquisition
Data Acquisition System
Ultraview Corp. (Orinda, CA) has announced AD8-1500 Series High Speed Data Acquisition (DAQ) Systems. The AD8-1500 line of PCIe data acquisition systems are capable of uninterrupted signal processing over two channels,...
Products Electronics & Computers
Brushless PM Ring Motor
ThinGap (Ventura, CA) has released its 14050 14-inch Ring Motor series, which offer up to 60kW. The design produces no rotor-to-stator magnetic forces, cogging, eddy current losses, or hysteresis. Magnets and a 13-4 PH...
Products Physical Sciences
Power Generation System
Kollmorgen (Radford, VA) introduces the Power Generation System, a 28 VDC system that generates up to 30kW of power. Consisting of a permanent magnet AC generator, generator controller, software, and cables, the system...
Products Electronics & Computers
Mezzanine Connector
Tyco Electronics (TE) (Harrisburg, PA) has released the mezzanine Mezalok connector. At 5 GHz+, the surface mount device incorporates a super-redundant “mini-box” four-point contact system for separable interface use....
Products Electronics & Computers
Ruggedized XMC Module
Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) (Middleton, WI) has released the XPort9100, a ruggedized conduction-cooled XMC module that supports eight +28V general purpose input/output (GPIO) channels commonly used to control...
Products Software
Bus Analyzer Plus Data Reconstruction
Data Device Corporation (DDC) (Bohemia, New York) has added data reconstruction and troubleshooting capabilities to its dataSIMS bus analyzer software. Reconstruction, or On-Line Replay, mode enables users...
Products Photonics/Optics
Color LEDs
OPTEK Technology (Carrollton, TX) has developed a series of color LEDs processed to meet MIL-PRF-19500-level TX and TXV specifications and help military systems engineers achieve high brightness, color illumination, and indication...
Products
RFID Memory IC
A new RFID device from STMicroelectronics (Geneva, Switzerland) allows technical equipment to 'talk back,' providing detailed information, such as a full maintenance history, to speed up servicing and simplify record keeping for...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Multicore Tools for Embedded Systems — Staying Ahead of the Game —
Building a multicore system means dealing with non-determinism. Interactions between tasks running on different cores can occur in a different order, and at a different rate...
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