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Erbium Doped GaN Lasers by Optical Pumping
The main objective of this research was to construct an optical pump system that would allow the study of Er:GaN materials under 980 nm resonant excitation to be carried out. The results obtained from...
Briefs Materials
Hydrodynamic Drag Force Measurement of a Functionalized Surface Exhibiting Superhydrophobic Properties
With superhydrophobic properties being extended to a variety of metallic substrates through the process of ablation due to femto-second...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
A Secure Attachment to 3D Printing
Additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, is the new best friend in multiple industries, replacing conventional fabrication processes in critical areas ranging from aerospace components to medical...
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Secure 3D Printing: 'Three-Layer' System Protects Parts from Hackers
A 3D printer is essentially a small embedded computer — and can be exploited like one. Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Rutgers University have developed...
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Optical Method Detects Weak Spots in Jet Engine Coatings
Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, that an optical analysis method can reveal weak areas in ceramic thermal barrier coatings that protect jet engine turbines from high...
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New Form of Carbon Is Hard as a Rock, But Elastic Like Rubber
A team of scientists has developed a form of ultra-strong, lightweight carbon that is also elastic and electrically conductive. A material with such a unique combination of...
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Army Discovers New Energy Source
Army scientists and engineers recently made a groundbreaking discovery – an aluminum nanomaterial they designed produces high amounts of energy when it comes in contact with water, or with any liquid...
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Airborne Sense-and-Avoid Radar for UAVs
Widespread use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) within the National Airspace System is limited because of regulatory restrictions on their access to shared airspace. The Airborne Sense and Avoid...
News Design
Protecting Additive Manufacturing’s Digital Thread
According to National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) data, counterfeit aircraft components have contributed to almost two dozen crashes since 2010. A review of the FAA records from...
Briefs Aerospace
Measuring Propellant Stress Relaxation Modulus Using Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer
Structural analysis of solid rocket motors is challenging for several reasons, but the most important of these is the complex behavior of the propellant. The...
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Sound-Off: How to Simulate the Impacts of an Exoskeleton
Over the past decade, warfighters’ personal loads have increased, leading to more injuries, pain, and discomfort. To relieve the burden, the military is investigating...
INSIDER Materials
Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in Nuclear Threat Detection Science
Taking inspiration from an unusual source, a Sandia National Laboratories team has dramatically improved the science of scintillators — objects that detect nuclear...
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Batteries That “Drink” Seawater Could Power Long-Range UUVs
The long range of airborne drones helps them perform critical tasks in the skies. Now MIT spinout Open Water Power (OWP) aims to greatly improve the range of unpiloted...
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Super-Strong 'Glassy Carbon' is Elastic and Electric
A new compressed form of glassy carbon opens up possibilities for applications requiring low weight and high strength — from aerospace parts to football helmets.
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Reaching Forward and Back: 3D Printing Innovates While Breathing Life into Traditional Aero Manufacturing
The first China-built commercial airliner—the Comac C919—took its maiden flight on May 5, 2017 at Shanghai Pudong International...
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Eye Tracking Technology Improves Imposter Detection Training
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) screens nearly one million people every day and secures and manages 328 ports of entry all over the country, including in remote areas....
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Robot’s Speed-of-Light Communication Could Protect You From Danger
Cornell University researchers are developing a system to enable teams of robots to share information as they move around, and if necessary, interpret what they see. This...
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New Products & Services
On-Line UPS Family Falcon Electric, Inc., (Irwindale, CA) announced the addition of tower models to its on-line rackmount SC UPS family. The new 700VA to 3kVA tower-configured SC UPS protects IT/IoT equipment,...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Verifying Structural Integrity of 3D Metal-Printed Parts
Interest in 3D printing is remaking the manufacturing landscape. Consulting firm IDC says global spending on 3D printers, both desktop and industrial, hit about $11 billion in 2015 and...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Incremental Improvements Can Lead to Huge Benefits for Aircraft Programs
Today, virtually all commercial aircraft possess sophisticated systems that contribute to a comfortable—not to mention safe and healthy—environment for passengers....
News Defense
NASA to Establish New Space Technology Research Institutes
NASA has selected proposals for the creation of two multi-disciplinary, university-led research institutes that will focus on the development of technologies critical to extending...
INSIDER Test & Measurement
AMRDEC Technologies to Improve Air and Missile Defense
Engineers at the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) are working on a trio of technologies to explore improving existing air and missile...
Articles Robotics, Automation & Control
Interoperability Standards Pave the Way for Modular Robotic Manipulators
Unmanned vehicles have long been used by the military to handle situations characterized by the three Ds: dull, dirty, and dangerous. As the use of unmanned ground...
Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
The Scaling of Loss Pathways and Heat Transfer in Small Scale Internal Combustion Engines
The rapid expansion of the remotely piloted aircraft market includes an interest in 10 kg to 25 kg vehicles (Group 2) for monitoring, surveillance, and...
Briefs Aerospace
Identifying the Flow Physics and Modeling Transient Forces on Two-Dimensional Wings
The main objective of this research was to better understand the flow physics of aircraft wings undergoing highly unsteady maneuvers. Reduced-order models play a central role in this study, both to elucidate the overall dynamical mechanisms behind various flow...
Briefs Aerospace
A Guide for Developing Human-Robot Interaction Experiments in the Robotic Interactive Visualization and Experimentation Technology (RIVET) Simulation
ARL's Intelligent Systems Enterprise vision is to enable the teaming of autonomous intelligent...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Developing a Multi-Modal UGV Robot Control Interface
Unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) are currently being used or developed for operational maneuvers (e.g., reconnaissance and IED defeat), maneuver support (e.g., route clearance), and sustainment...
Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
Gesture-Based Controls for Robots: Overview and Implications for Use by Soldiers
Afuture vision of the use of autonomous and intelligent robots in dismounted military operations is for soldiers to interact with robots as teammates, much like...
Briefs Aerospace
Experimental Confirmation of an Aquatic Swimming Motion Theoretically of Very Low Drag and High Efficiency
It has been established theoretically that self-propulsion of deformable bodies in ideal fluid can occur with a careful specification of...
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