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Water droplets are inserted into the microhydraulic actuator, which rotates when voltage is applied to electrodes that pull the droplets in one direction. This disc-shaped actuator's inner diameter is five millimeters. Photo: Glen Cooper

Using electricity and water, a new kind of motor can slide microrobots into motion

November 13, 2018
A textile is woven with fibers that have semiconductor light-emitting diodes embedded into their core. Photo: Nicole Fandel

Fibers embedded with electronics are putting fabrics to work

October 19, 2018
a 3D printed circular structure made of triblock copolymer composite inks.

IEEE symposium brings together the best in radio science

October 1, 2018
State grant will support advanced fiber and fabric research at Lincoln Laboratory

State grant will support advanced fiber and fabric research at Lincoln Laboratory

December 21, 2017
Unique fabrics woven with microstructured polymer fibers and containing microelectronics will be transitioned into integrated systems at the Defense Fabric Discovery Center.

Lincoln Laboratory celebrates the opening of the Defense Fabric Discovery Center

November 11, 2017
The ultra-sensitive vapor detection system during its first-ever field deployment at Hanscom Air Force Base. Sitting at the operator's station is Ta-Hsuan Ong, staff scientist and technical lead on the project.

New mass spectrometer will help develop better training for bomb-sniffing dogs

July 24, 2017
Lincoln Laboratory staff have developed a fabric that is woven with microstructured photonic bandgap polymer fibers.

Defense Fabric Discovery Center established to develop smart textiles

June 13, 2017
gy GrValerie Finnemeyer of the Advanced Imager Technolooup fabricates a thin-film Pancharatnam phase device (PPD), also called a liquid crystal polarization grating, at a Lincoln Laboratory processing facility. Image courtesy of the research team.

Liquid crystal device could allow for fast and reliable laser-beam steering

February 14, 2017
Multiple species of micron-sized particles are simultaneously illuminated by an infrared laser and green laser beam. Absorption of infrared laser light increases their temperatures, causing them to expand and slightly altering their optical properties.
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New Microscope Chemically Identifies Micron-Sized Particles

January 5, 2017
The Optical Society
Biomimetic Sniffing Improves the Detection Performance of a 3D Printed Nose of a Dog and a Commercial Trace Vapor Detector
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Biomimetic Sniffing Improves the Detection Performance of a 3D Printed Nose of a Dog and a Commercial Trace Vapor Detector

December 1, 2016
Nature Scientific Reports
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