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All-New 2018 Ford Expedition Gets Aluminum Body, 10-Speed
When Ford Motor Co. leadership made the bold decision to invest in aluminum body structures for its F-Series pickups, they made sure the Expedition was integrated into the product...
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Silicon Based Mid-Infrared SiGeSn Heterostructure Emitters and Detectors
Enhancing the performance of GeSn p-i-n photodiodes using gold metal nanostructures. The goal of this research project was to advance the science and technology of...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Development of High Quality 4H-SiC Thick Epitaxy for Reliable High Power Electronics Using Halogenated Precursors
Development of robust semiconductor devices with high energy efficiency and reliability is a key objective towards 'Energy...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Reconfigurable Electronics and Non-Volatile Memory Research
The purpose of this research was to investigate non-volatile memory device technologies that could be applied to reconfigurable electronics applications to provide power reduction,...
Briefs Energy
Energy-Filtered Tunnel Transistor: A New Device Concept Toward Extremely Low Energy Consumption Electronics
Altering the thermal characteristics of semiconductors can prolong battery life. Excessive heat dissipation (or power consumption)...
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Honda’s New 10-Speed Is a Slick Shifter
Honda’s 2018 Odyssey offers room for eight passengers and its transaxle is packed with 10 forward gears. Developed in-house over a three-year period, the new automatic is the industry’s first...
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SAE Level 3 "Hand Off" Is Challenging AI Researchers
When Gill Pratt, the CEO of Toyota Research Institute, the carmaker’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab in Menlo Park, CA, mounted the CES 2017 stage earlier this month, he delivered a...
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NAIAS 2017: Lightweight Door Module Aims to Trim Vehicle Weight
A new ultralight door architecture nets a 42.5% weight savings compared to a current production door—and that’s enough to put this lightweight concept in an enviable position.
Technology Report Propulsion
The Upside of Downsizing: Senior Auto Executives Give Their Views
To downsize or not to downsize? That’s the engine-development question facing all OEMs. In an initial move to be seen to be more environmentally responsible, for many,...
Technology Report Propulsion
Exclusive First Drive: Torotrak’s V-Charge Technology
Being the first journalist to test drive the only example of a new piece of technology still in development always concentrates the mind. Doing so in wet and windy weather battering...
Briefs Defense
Epitaxial Growth of Rhenium with Sputtering
Epitaxial superconducting films of refractory metals are a promising new template for single crystal tunnel barriers in Josephson junction quantum bit (qubit) devices. In existing Josephson junction...
Briefs Materials
Processing and Characterization of Polycrystalline YAG (Yttrium Aluminum Garnet) Core-Clad Fibers
YAG-based fiber lasers could offer efficient operation at power levels beyond those achievable in current state-of-the-art silica-based fiber...
Briefs Defense
Multi-Scale Analysis of Deformation and Failure in Polycrystalline Titanium Alloys Under High Strain Rates
Extensive use of titanium alloys in critical industrial and military applications, such as compressor blades of jet engines and armor of...
Briefs Materials
Abrasion Testing of Products Containing Nanomaterials
This SOP describes how to detect and quantify the release of nanoparticles from surface coatings into the air using a mechanical process that employs abrasion to simulate sanding. A material...
Briefs Materials
Spectrum Fatigue of 7075-T651 Aluminum Alloy Under Overloading and Underloading
Most structural members and machine components are subjected in service to cyclic loadings of varying amplitude. The variation in stress level follows either a...
Technology Report Electronics & Computers
Pour Your Next EV Battery?
While electric propulsion appears destined to supplant the internal combustion engine at some point in the future, the laws of economics and market forces will likely keep ICEs around for decades. Batteries for...
Technology Report Electronics & Computers
Toyota Sticking with Measured, ‘Teammate’ Approach to Autonomous Development
One might expect Japan’s largest automaker to be “all-in” on promoting autonomous-driving technology, but Toyota has rather conspicuously avoided...
News Propulsion
Mercedes Extensively Electrifies Its New ICEs
Mercedes-Benz is not generally given to hyperbole to detail its technology, so when company engineers describe a program as “the biggest strategic engine initiative” in the automaker's long...
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Making Multiphysics Fast and Convenient
Mimicking real life interactions in complex products like automobiles or aircraft often requires a Multiphysics approach. It requires combining, for example, simulations of combustion, heat transfer,...
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Continental Demonstrates New Sensing Technologies for SAE Level 4 Capability
A braking and cruise-control system that can move a vehicle up and down steep off-road hills. Vehicles that can detect at-risk road users not in the driver’s...
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Nissan Unveils 2018 Production Variable-Compression-Ratio ICE
Nissan broke new ground for gasoline engines at the 2016 Paris Motor Show when it unveiled the first production-intent variable-compression-ratio gasoline engine. The VC-Turbo, a...
Briefs Defense
Secret Sharing Schemes and Advanced Encryption Standard
There are many secret sharing schemes and variations available to hide and reconstruct the given secret. Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme, making use of linear Lagrange interpolation on the dealer-generated polynomial, was used to reconstruct the secret from the stipulated threshold number of...
Briefs Defense
SIPHER: Scalable Implementation of Primitives for Homomorphic Encryption
Prior to the Proceed program, the main challenges preventing practical demonstrations and use of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) were efficiency and scalability....
Briefs Software
Using Mathematics to Make Computing on Encrypted Data Secure and Practical
In order to make computing on encrypted data more practical to use and more secure from attack, it is necessary to discover, develop, and understand the mathematics on which it is based and the mathematics that can be used to attack it.
Technology Report Materials
In Search of Higher-Energy-Content Batteries
As suppliers, automakers, and others join forces to develop high-performance battery components aimed at increasing the range of electric vehicles, current advanced batteries are edging closer to...
News Transportation
Mazda's 2017 G-Vectoring Control Brings Dynamic Refinement
Spend time with Mazda's talented vehicle-dynamics engineers as they fine-tune a new model before production release and you may hear the Japanese term jinba ittai—the concept of...
News Propulsion
Optimizing Engine Oil Warm-Up Strategies for 'Real-World' Driving
Optimizing engines for the new era of 'real-world' driving cycles will require new lubrication strategies—fast warm-up being a particular area of focus. A recent U.K....
Technology Report Design
Volvo, Uber Share the Ride to Safety with Autonomy
The news that Volvo Cars, renowned for its safety focus, and ride-sharing company Uber, are working together to develop next generation autonomous driving (AD) cars eventually reaching...
Technology Report Propulsion
Inside Porsche's New V8 and V6 Powertrains
Porsche broke a “golden rule” of automotive engineering when it began development of the second generation Panamera: Never develop a new car, a new powertrain and a new factory simultaneously....
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