Electronics and Sensors

This issue profiles X-ray imaging that could help improve energy storage, acoustic control of smartphones, and a wireless field monitoring solution.

This issue profiles LBNL researchers experimenting with nanowire optical properties; research on nanostuctured light-emitting devices at NRL, and nanophotonics and light-based computing research at Stanford.

This issue profiles the next generation of wearables.

This issue profiles chipless RFID tags that could impact the barcode industry, mapping of applied pressure for improving breast exams, sensor technology that helps clinicians improve breast exam skills, and a miniature wearable input device.

This issue profiles nanophotonics research at HP Labs, nanoscale photodetector research at Sandia National Labs, and research on visual imaging with nanoscale resolution at Stanford.

This issue profiles 3D printing for consumer electronics.

This issue profiles a sensor that improves food safety, enhancements in infrared gas sensors, and vanadium dioxide multifunctional magnetic sensors.

This issue profiles sensor and transducer research at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, nano-optics research for the US Navy, and blast mitigation R&D at MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies.

This issue profiles nanowire transistors that enable next-generation electronics.