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Method Tracks What Happens Inside Batteries
The method could be key to designing more efficient batteries for specific uses such as electric cars and airplanes.

Products Data Acquisition
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Docking stations for satellite phones; aircraft wiring; spectrum analyzers; and more.

Products Materials
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Power switches, battery pack adhesives, supercapacitor modules, and more...

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Use of Mass-Flux Measurement and Vapor-Phase Tomography to Quantify Vadose-Zone Source Strength and Distribution
New tech can improve evaluation of vadose zone source impacts on groundwater, leading to improved remediation decisions.

Products Electronics & Computers
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Industrial metal 3D printers, force testers, machining centers, and more.

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Does Your Coating Thickness Meet Spec?
Coatings play a critical role in preventing the corrosion or wear of metal substrates. Make sure they meet specifications.

Articles Electronics & Computers
Using Turbine Flow Meters for Aerospace Test and Measurement Applications
Turbine flow meters have long been a preferred technology for obtaining precise measurements of fluid flow in the aerospace industry. In addition to their high accuracy,...

Articles Materials
Turbine Flow Meters: Technology-of-Choice for Measuring Critical Fluid Flow Applications
The aerospace industry has some of the most difficult operating conditions imaginable. Sensors of all kinds used in this industry must stand up to the...

Application Briefs Test & Measurement
Fuel Flow Meters
Hoffer Flow Controls Elizabeth City, NC 252-331-1997 www.hofferflow.com Hoffer Flow Controls, Inc. recently received a new contract to supply 575 fuel flow meters as a part of the U.S. Navy’s H-53 heavy lift helicopter fleet...

Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
50 GHz Handheld Combination Analyzer
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (Santa Rosa, CA) has added six millimeter-wave models to its family of FieldFox handheld analyzers. The flagship model is the industry’s first handheld combination analyzer to...

Briefs Test & Measurement
Sensing Suspicious Powders Using Noncontact Optical Methods
Suspicious powder incidents continue to be a disruptive and costly problem. In-situ assessment of suspicious powders within inorganic matrices, particularly with powders of biological...

Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
Digital Meter
The New Technology Meter (NTM) from OTEK (Tucson, AZ) has everything you need to measure and control your process while operating with less than 50mW of power. OTEK’s NTM boasts a full tricolor bargraph with 2% resolution and...

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Scientists Turn Handheld JCAD into Dual-Use Chemical, Explosives Detector
Scientists at the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center recently gave the Joint Chemical Agent Detector (JCAD) the ability to detect explosive materials. The...

Application Briefs Aerospace
Industrial, High-Precision Joystick
CTI Electronics, a supplier of rugged computer peripheral and motion control devices to US armed forces for over 20 years, will manufacture a military-grade, industrial pointing device to retrofit the...

Articles Aerospace
Phoning It In: Making Smartphones Secure Enough for Tactical Communications
You suddenly find yourself pinned down by enemy gunfire. What do you do? Whip out your smartphone and call for an airstrike? Yes, if the U.S. Marine Corps has its way.
Articles Aerospace
Improving Battlefield Connectivity for Dismounted Forces
The warfighter couldn’t take it anymore. His team’s mission was to sweep villages, collect fingerprints, photograph irises, and compare these biometric indicators against a registry...

Application Briefs Test & Measurement
Measuring Radar Cross Section with Handheld VNAs
Radar cross section (RCS) is the measure of an object's ability to reflect radar signals in the direction of the radar receiver, i.e. it is the measure of the ratio of backscatter per steradian...

Articles Aerospace
Fiber Optic Gyroscope Technology Improving Weapons Systems Performance
Autonomous vehicles require gyroscopes for navigation and stabilization of the platform in demanding battlefield, aerospace and undersea environments. Autonomous vehicles...

Application Briefs Test & Measurement
Handheld Scanner Keeps USAF Planes Combat-Ready
Engineers at several United States Air Force (USAF) bases now use NVision's HandHeld laser scanner to reverse-engineer complex aircraft parts, which are then accurately machined and installed....

Articles Aerospace
Reliable EMI Shielding Materials and RF Cable Assemblies Ensure High Performance for Handheld Test Instruments
While high-performance test equipment has been used successfully in the laboratory for many years, the trend is moving toward remote...

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