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Helmet Made of Magnetic Metamaterials Could Improve Brain Scans
It may look like a bizarre bike helmet, or a piece of equipment found in Doc Brown’s lab in Back to the Future, yet this gadget made of plastic and copper wire is a...

NASA Spinoff Photonics/Optics
Webb Telescope Mirror Tech Improves Eye Surgery on Earth
Eye surgery patients on Earth are benefiting from early research on the NASA’s James Webb Telescope’s enormous mirrors.

News Energy
SAE International Extends Call for Abstracts, Seeks Submissions for AeroTech Conference
Engineering Events staff at SAE International in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, have extended the call for abstracts through September 21 for the...

Application Briefs Aerospace
Cryogenic Thermal Subsystem
The Cryogenic Thermal Subsystem’s most critical function is to provide cooling to maintain the detectors in two of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument’s cameras at sufficiently low temperatures of approximately minus 161o F, which will allow them to function with the required sensitivity.

Articles Photonics/Optics
Designing A/D Converters for the James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has four infrared cameras to view the stars.

News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Deere Advances In-Field Autonomy
John Deere got “really serious” about autonomy in 2019, according to Joe Liefer, senior product manager of autonomy at John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group. Three years later – after forming an...

News RF & Microwave Electronics
Sensing Enters a New Era
More than 1.3 million people die on the world’s roadways each year and another 50 million are injured. While roadway safety has improved over time, all countries face formidable challenges in reducing the...

Features Photonics/Optics
Designing Lenses for Near-Infrared and Fluorescence Endoscopy
Fluorescence endoscopy is becoming increasingly important in many medical diagnostic tests. Based on the molecular absorption of light, this technique works by revealing...

Application Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Cryocooler Technology
Northrop Grumman
Falls Church, VA
215-675-4949
www.northropgrumman.com
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, built in partnership with Northrop Grumman Corporation, is one step closer to being fully...

Briefs Photonics/Optics
Diffraction Suppressed Mirror
Precise optical systems, especially those sensitive to information loss, are typically designed to minimize the use of mirrors. This is due to the Airy disk effect inherent to all conventional mirrors, which is a result of diffraction of the incident light. This effect represents information loss between the...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Shaping Light Enables 2D Microscopes to Capture 4D Data
Super temporal resolution microscopy allows imaging of fluorescent molecules 20 times faster than traditional lab cameras normally allow. A general method has been developed to let a...

Briefs Design
Constructing 3D Models of Mineralized Tissue On-Demand
A technique to grow 3D tissue constructs, similar to human bone, in a laboratory environment has been developed by bioengineers at NASA Johnson Space Center. Problems arise when...

Briefs Imaging
An Artificial Intelligence System to Identify Objects in Cluttered Scenes
Robotic vision has come a long way, reaching a level of sophistication with applications in complex and demanding tasks, such as autonomous driving and object...

Briefs Imaging
High-Power Terahertz Laser for Sensing and Imaging
A terahertz laser was developed with high constant power, tight beam pattern, and broad electric frequency tuning for a wide range of applications in chemical sensing and imaging. The...

Briefs Electronics & Computers
Shaping Light with a Dynamically Tunable Smart Lens
The importance of optical image quality and the trend toward thinner smart-phones have pushed manufacturers to increase the number of cameras in order to provide cellphones with better...

Briefs Imaging
Robot Senses Hidden Objects
Researchers have developed a robot that uses radio waves, which can pass through walls, to sense occluded objects. The robot, called RF-Grasp, combines this powerful sensing with more traditional computer vision...

Articles Electronics & Computers
Using CoaXPress-over-Fiber for High-Speed Machine Vision
High-speed digital imaging expands the benefits of traditional machine vision (MV), transforming it from a process control tool into a diagnostic tool. Traditional MV systems use...

Briefs Materials
Tiny Optical Elements Could Replace Traditional Refractive Lenses
Researchers have developed tiny optical elements from metal nanoparticles and a polymer that could replace traditional refractive lenses to realize portable imaging systems...

Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Terahertz Energy Focused by Credit Card-Sized Device to Generate High-Resolution Images
Researchers have created a device that enables them to electronically steer and focus a beam of terahertz electromagnetic energy with extreme precision....

Q&A Electronics & Computers
Q&A: Radar Imaging at Terahertz Frequencies
Professor Kenneth K. O. and his colleagues at The University of Texas at Dallas and Oklahoma State University have developed an innovative and affordable terahertz imager microchip that can enable...

Briefs Materials
Nanoscale 3D Structure to Control Light
3D nanometer-scale metamaterial structures hold promise for advanced optical isolators.

Briefs Communications
Optical Signal Amplifying Technique
Optical Signals can be retrieved from inherent background noise using Talbot effect to amplify them.

Features Imaging
Achieving High-Speed Real-Time Image Cytometry
Real-time imaging at high speeds faces three primary challenges.

Briefs Photonics/Optics
Flexible Imaging Device
3D micro-printing was used to develop this small, flexible scope for looking inside blood vessels.

Briefs Imaging
Compressed Ultrafast Photography
With an imaging speed of 0.5 trillion frames per second, the camera is claimed to be the world's fastest.

R&D Sensors/Data Acquisition
Low-Cost, 3D Printed Device May Broaden Ultrasound Use
Researchers have developed a low-cost, highly precise focused ultrasound (FUS) device that can be used on small animal models in preclinical research.

Briefs Medical
“Steering” Solves Imaging Scan Problems Caused by Metal Implants
An algorithm that assesses the location of a metal implant and determines the best position of the scanner to avoid distortion.

Briefs AR/AI
Artificial Intelligence Magnifies the Utility of Electron Microscopes
A research team demonstrated a way to recover phase information.

Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
An Innovative Imaging Technique for Dynamic Optical Nanothermometry
A new imaging technique measures temperature in 2D.

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