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Zero-Power Inertial Switches: Moving Beyond the Limits of Power and Size
Miniaturized sensor technology allows engineers to build more functionality into less space than ever before; but they require more battery power.
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The Haters Go After Toyota
Want your company to be the target of haters? Here’s a sure way to do it, as proven in 2022.
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Eaton Debuts All-In-One Power Distribution for EVs
Destruction avoidance is one of the chief duties of Eaton’s battery disconnect unit (BDU) for light-duty passenger EVs. “A short circuit event in a typical battery electric vehicle...
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BMW Engineers for the EV-Transition Reality
When the time comes for the debut of a new generation of a German flagship sedan, it’s best to expect the incremental. Sure, there will be technology stretches and conveniences so impressive...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Smart Molecules Act as Computer Transistors
Researchers have discovered a single-molecule switch that can act like a transistor and store binary information such as the 1s and 0s used in classical computing. The molecule is around five...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Using Magnets to Toggle Nanolasers Leads to Better Photonics
A new control mechanism may prove useful in devices that make use of optical signals.
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
3D-Printed Objects Sense How a User is Interacting with Them
Sensing is incorporated directly into an object’s material, with applications for assistive technology and “intelligent” furniture.
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The Pursuit of an Uninterruptible Power Supply
To ensure the availability of a UPS system, proper consideration must be taken of each application and its requirements.
Briefs Communications
Coherent Optical Transistor
Applications include telecommunications, optical switching, and quantum computing.
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Products of Tomorrow
Water-sensing smartphone screens, a NASA-developed RF switch, and an ultrasound patch.
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2021 Motion Control Product Directory
Explore manufacturers and products in over 25 motion-design categories.
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Q&A: Switching Technology Improves Power Grid Efficiency
Kristin Sampayan from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory found a fast way to switch high voltages.
Briefs Aerospace
High-Power/Pulsed-Power Electrical Switch
The switch has uses in circuit protection systems in the electric power grid, high-power military applications, and power for materials processing.
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Spacesuit Flow Switch
A spacesuit design adds the precision Model AS-FS Flow Switch from FCI Aerospace.
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Toward an Electric Two-Wheeled Triumph
There is something of a TV series about Triumph Motorcycles’ radical TE-1 electric project. It’s an intriguing story unfolding through four episodes, or phases, following its conception. Phase...
Briefs Energy
Wafer-Thin Nanopaper Changes from Firm to Soft at the Touch of a Button
Bioinspired cellulose nanofibrils can be controlled by electricity.
Technology Report Manufacturing & Prototyping
How 3D Printing Could Add Efficiency to EV Power Electronics
“Think production!” Perhaps that advice should be posted on the wall of every design office, R&D lab and advanced technology center in the auto industry. Although...
Briefs Materials
New Materials Boost Efficiency and Stability of Optical Rectennas
The improved rectennas could operate low-power devices such as temperature sensors.
Briefs Test & Measurement
An Ultrafast Testbed for Comprehensive Characterization of Photonics, Electronic, and Optoelectronic Properties of Integrated Nanophotonic Structures
High-speed testing technology will enable advances such as new digital signal processing and computing platforms in the optical domain.
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Nanoscale Thermal Switches
These switches are key to thermal management of nanoscale devices, refrigeration, data storage, thermal computing, and heat management of buildings.
Briefs Materials
Quantum Switch Turns Metals into Insulators
This approach could engineer quantum materials atom-by-atom for new electronic, magnetic, and sensing applications.
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Room-Temperature Magnon Switch
This approach could lead to entirely new and more efficient logic switches for computer chips.
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Single-Atom Transistors
Linking multiple copies of these devices may lay the foundation for quantum computing.
Briefs Materials
Guiding and Harnessing Transition Waves in Multi-Stable Mechanical Structures
The domino effect is used to design deployable systems that expand quickly with a small push and are stable and locked into place after deployment.
Briefs Transportation
High-Reliability Radio Frequency MEMS Switch
Applications include homeland security, vehicle anti-collision systems, telecommunications systems, and industrial instrumentation.
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Fabrication and Electrical Characterization of Correlated Oxide Field Effect Switching Devices for High Speed Electronics
The response of correlated oxides to strong electric fields and their dynamics is investigated using electrical transport measurements and electronic structure studies.
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Low-Inductance DC Power Bus
The bus is designed for high-frequency, high-temperature operation in electric drive systems and next-generation power electronics.
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Transistors Both Process and Store Information
The functional transistors are integrated with ferroelectric RAM.
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Low-Energy Device Rapidly Reroutes Light in Computer Chips
The switch is a major new step toward building a computer that uses light instead of electricity to process information.
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