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Briefs: Materials
This method prints 3D structures made of metal and plastic, paving the way for 3D electronics.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This method fabricates 3D nanostructures for electronics, manufacturing, and healthcare.
Briefs: Energy
The flexible, washable microgrid uses the human body to sustainably power small electronics.
Briefs: Wearables
Artificial skin reacts to pain just like real skin, paving the way to better prosthetics, robotics, and noninvasive alternatives to skin grafts.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The device combines with body power to treat tendon disease and damage, and sports injuries.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Columbia researchers are reducing both the size and the power consumption of a visible-spectrum phase modulator, from one millimeter to 10 microns.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Researchers have created an electronic microsystem that can intelligently respond to information inputs without any external energy input, much like a...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The method could support the semiconductor industry and facilitate development of next-gen devices.
Briefs: Communications
Applications include power and energy, communications, and sensors.
Briefs: Energy
In-wall capacitors power lights, phones, and laptops without wires.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The material could potentially provide a platform for error-free quantum computing.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
The nanothin material could advance self-powered electronics, wearable technologies, and even deliver pacemakers powered by heartbeats.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
Mechanical properties, such as strength and ductility, can be improved for car, plane, and building components.
Briefs: Wearables
These textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing and potentially help patients recovering from post-surgery breathing changes.
Briefs: Propulsion
This system would extend the life of CubeSat satellites.
Briefs: Materials
This technology has potential as a portable power supply in several applications, including electric vehicles, cellphones, and wearable technology.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A new fabrication technique helps improve the performance of flying micro-robots.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new fabrication methodology addresses the need for a thin, double-sided circuitry board.
Briefs: Energy
Vibrating transducers create tunnels in a thin layer of oil to transport droplets across a chip without leaving a trace behind.
Briefs: Wearables
Textiles and items of clothing can be converted into e-textiles without affecting their original properties.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Applications include aircraft-mounted and space-based interferometers, electronics fabrication, and military optics.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Mechanical control and modulation of light on a silicon chip could enhance LiDAR.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A machine learning method promises to predict battery health with 10 times higher accuracy than the current industry standard.
Briefs: Energy
The biofuel cells can power wearable electronics purely by using human sweat.
Briefs: Energy
The device is stretchy enough to wear like a ring, a bracelet, or any other accessory that touches the skin.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Large machines can breathe in and out cooling blasts of water to keep their systems from overheating.
Briefs: Materials
These elastomers have a wide range of uses for the building, automotive, and electronics industries.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Better detection of microwave radiation will enable improved thermal imaging, electronic warfare, radio communications, and radar.
Briefs: Imaging
Applications include avionics, data storage, process control, reconfigurable manufacturing lines, and civil and structural engineering.
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