June 2022 * Vol. 46 No. 6 Contents Features 10 Products of Tomorrow 14 Create the Future Design Contest: Success Story 16 Powering the Automotive Sector toward an Electrified Future 20 Forecast 2022 for Sensors/MEMS 48 Application Briefs 52 Facility Focus: University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering 56 NASA Spinoff: Next-Generation High-Performance Lasers Solutions 24 Electrical/Electronics 24 Powerful Micro-PLCs Enhance Equipment and Testing Systems 26 Smart Molecules Act as Computer Transistors 26 Applying Friction Principles to Finger-Device Interaction Mechanics 27 Three-Dimensional Electronic Flying Microchip 28 Heat-Management Material Keeps Computers Running Cool 29 Optics 29 High-Power Terahertz laser for Sensing and Imaging 30 Diffraction Suppressed Mirror 30 Platform for Quantum Technologies Using Gold 31 Shaping Light Enables 2D Microscopes to Capture 4D Data 31 Shaping Light with a Dynamically Tunable Smart Lens 32 Compact Laser Source Detects Pollution 33 Communications 33 Topological Control Capabilities for 5G Communications 34 Optical De-Multiplexing Method for QKD Encryption 34 High-Speed Communication Vouchsafed by the Laws of Quantum Physics 35 Materials for Next-Generation LED-Based Data Communications 36 Manufacturing & Prototyping 36 Modular Artificial-Gravity Orbital Refinery Spacecraft 36 Fully Automated High-Throughput Additive Manufacturing 37 A Laser-Based Volumetric Additive Manufacturing Method to 3D Print Glass (Manufacturing & Prototyping continued on page 6) 4 www.techbriefs.com Tech Briefs, June 2022 27 34 10 Departments 8 Click 12 5 Ws 13 Q&A 55 Advertisers Index New for Design Engineers 50 New on the Market TB Contents 0622_1.indd 4 Cov ToC 5/19/22 3:31 PMhttp://www.techbriefs.com http://info.hotims.com/82322-850