License ERDC’s Patented Electronics and Sensor Technologies

ERDC’s breakthrough electronics and sensing technologies offer new ways to detect harmful contamination, radiation, and chemicals. Explore these technologies for more information on how they can benefit your business.

Digital Panning for Rare Earth Elements

• Uses ICP-MS proxy signals and digital processing to rapidly screen large sample sets for likely rare-earth-element presence
• Prioritizes promising samples for full quantitative analysis, reducing the time and analytical effort spent on low-value samples
• Applicable to mineral exploration, resource evaluation, mine-waste reprocessing, environmental sampling, and strategic mineral mapping

Low-Power Robotic Actuation for Soft Systems

• Operates on just 3 watts, similar to a cellphone signal
• Maintains consistent performance with no loss after repeated activation cycles
• Enables wireless motion for soft robotics, prosthetics, aerospace structures, and deployable defense and exploration systems

Computer-Aided System for Airborne Contaminant

• Helps integrate airflow considerations into design process to meet codes and safety standards
• Provides airflow data in near real-time, allowing designers to quickly check impact of choices
• Saves design time and reduces building and maintenance costs

Light-Emitting Nanoparticle Sensor System

• Detects localized stress and pressure with greater sensitivity compared to conventional sensors
• Abundant silicon enables safe, scalable sensing deployment
• Luminescence provides instant readings without structural damage

Carbon Nanotubes Engineered for Stability and Scalability

• Uses DNA-wrapped carbon nanotubes and an enzyme-mediated process to link individual nanotubes into visible macroscopic structures without damage
• Solves manipulation challenge through controlled biological process, preserving nanotubes' superior strength, electrical conductivity, and thermal properties for practical use
• Enables high-performance structural materials for aerospace/automotive, advanced electronics requiring superior conductivity, and applications needing exceptional strength-to-weight ratios and thermal properties

Universal Ruggedized Computer Enclosure

• Achieves a 10-35% space reduction compared to standard rackmount chassis
• Internal lattice walls operate as heat exchangers, and a built-in control unit monitors and adjusts temperature, humidity, vibration, and more as needed
• Designed to enable high-performance, upgradeable COTS computing in harsh, vehicle, and field environments

Digital Panning for Rare Earth Elements

Low-Power Robotic Actuation for Soft Systems

Computer-Aided System for Airborne Contaminant

Light-Emitting Nanoparticle Sensor System

Carbon Nanotubes Engineered for Stability and Scalability

Universal Ruggedized Computer Enclosure

Real-Time Digital Buoy Tracking and Mapping System

Portable Gamma Radiation Detector

DNA-Based Testing for Environmental Contamination

Munitions Detector

Water Diagnostics Operations Gear (WaterDOG)

Electronics & Sensors