| Chip-Scale Atomic Beam System |
- Precision timekeeping (e.g., chip-scale atomic clocks primarily used in cell phone base stations)
- Navigation (e.g., interferometers used in underwater oil and gas exploration)
- Robotics
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| Passive Learning via Wearable Haptic Stimuli System |
- Fast: This technology significantly reduces the time needed to learn Braille. In only four hours, eight test subjects were taught to type the entire Braille alphabet as well as read Braille (with >90% accuracy), while simultaneously focusing on another task.
- Simplifies learning: A lack of certified Braille teachers, few learning centers, and a steep learning curve make teaching Braille difficult. This technology greatly simplifies the learning process.
- Passive: Because it doesn’t require the user’s attention on the stimuli, this technology allows them to focus on other tasks while still learning.
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| Self-Powered Highly Stretchable Sensing Interface for Gesture Recognition |
- Self-contained: Includes a signal processing pipeline, providing gesture recognition for an extensive range of input modalities without the need for external power or sensing equipment
- Assistive: Enables eyes-free, unobtrusive, and ergonomic interaction with computing devices embedded in wearables
- Versatile: Demonstrates far-reaching potential for applications beyond gesture recognition including in actuation and data acquisition
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| Integrated Alkali Dispenser Collimator |
- Precise: Reducing the “spread” of vapor via collimation can reduce potential signal-to-noise ratio degradation and avoid contamination of nearby electronic components.
- Simple: Generating a directed atomic beam from the dispenser can be achieved via integrated packaging.
- Cooler: Placing a spacer material between the dispenser and collimator creates a sealed gap that not only prevents leakage, but also allows the vapor to cool (via rapid thermalization with the collimator plate).
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| Chip-Scale Electrochemical Double-Layer (ECDL) Supercapacitors |
- Decreased size: Minimizes space that does not contribute to volumetric density and is drastically smaller than conventional ECDL capacitors, allowing capacitor-dependent devices to shrink considerably
- High power: Achieves gravimetric energy densities of over 100 watt-hours per kilogram
- Improved performance: The vertically aligned graphene-functionalized carbon nanotubes Offers high porosity and surface area for improved pseudocapacitance by vertically aligning graphene-functionalized nanotubes
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| Spin-Coated Polymer Collars Prevent Solder Wicking |
- Extend product lifespan: Increasing the stability of the contact between socket paddles and the Au surface allows for the BGAs to be in use longer
- Stability: Adding the mechanical reinforcement of the polymer collars allows for stronger thermodynamically stable solder joints
- Simple manufacturing: Spin coating the polymer onto the package is a simple manufacturing process.
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| Wearable Health Monitoring Device Improves Data Quality and Accuracy |
- High performance: Captures real-time, real-world data of multiple physiological signals with a significant reduction in MA interference
- Chest-mounted: Provides more accurate ECG, heart rate, respiratory rate, and activity detection than existing wrist-worn commercial monitors
- Comfortable: Adheres securely and discretely to the skin using a breathable soft membrane for continuous conformal contact, eliminating excessive sweating and skin irritation
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| Generative Causal Explanations for Black-Box Classifiers |
- Increased trust: Has the potential to improve the transparency and fairness of machine learning systems and increase the level of trust users place in their decisions
- Flexible explanation vocabulary: Provides a rich and flexible vocabulary for explanation that is more expressive than feature selection or saliency map–based methods
- Deeper insights: Offers visualizations that can be much more descriptive than saliency maps, particularly in vision applications, leading to better user understanding
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| Superior Supercapacitors |
- High performance: Achieves average energy densities as high as 90 Wh/Kg
- Scalable: Leverages a low-cost PAN fabrication process that dramatically increases surface area
- Widely applicable: Demonstrates potential for advances in a variety of energy storage and capacitive water desalination applications
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| Fully Passive, Long-Range Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) via 5G |
- Large coverage: Provides a unique combination of large angular coverage and turn-on sensitivity in both planar and bent configurations
- Long range: Demonstrates the potential for RFIDs with practical reading ranges over 1.8 km
- Scalable: Scales in size to a precise degree, enabling selection of the optimal tradeoff between size and harvested power/reading range
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| Purely Passive Radio-Frequency Identification |
- Powerful: Projected to support energy harvesting sensors at distances over 100 meters from readers and/or radio transmission sources
- Efficient: Enables conversion of RF energy at higher efficiency and at higher output voltages than current electronic energy harvesting methods
- Widely applicable: May advance RFID applications in a wide range of fields including computing, sensing, and communication
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| IMUTube: Converting Videos of Human Activity into Virtual IMU Data Streams |
- Automated: Automates wearable sensor data collection, which can in turn be used to train HAR models by simply giving them access to large-scale video repositories
- Accurate: Demonstrated recognition accuracy in some cases comparable to models trained only with non-virtual (“real”) sensor data in benchmark studies
- Superior: Outperformed models using real sensor data alone by adding only small amounts of real sensor data to the virtual sensor dataset in benchmark studies
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| Flight Control System for Miniature Aerial Robots |
- Lightweight: Features a core electronics board that weighs less than half a gram
- Flexible: Contains a core electronics board that can be conveniently reprogrammed for expanded functionality
- Compact: Offers a small form factor with an area of about 2 square centimeters
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| Microfluidic CODES with Innovative Machine-Learning Analysis |
- Scalable: Set-up allows for the integration of multiple microfluidic devices to increase throughput volume.
- Versatile: Machine learning analysis can be applied to other microfluidic devices integrated with the same Coulter sensor network.
- Pragmatic: This innovation improves the capabilities of lab-on-a-chip systems to provide an affordable solution for low-resource settings.
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| A Sensor That Converts Everyday Objects into Microphones |
- Lower cost: The SATURN microphone’s simpler and less expensive fabrication technique results in lower overall costs.
- Better performance: The microphone geometry, attachment methods, and size and spacing of holes are optimized to maximize the recovery of sound and generation of power. This results in better performance compared to commercially available microphones of this type, recovering sound up to 5,000 Hz.
- Versatile: Its thin, flexible, and passive form make it configurable to a large number of applications.
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| SlothBot: Sustainable Solution for Studying Climate Change |
- Wide-ranging: Can switch between two different wire branches and can therefore traverse a whole mesh of wires
- Sustainable: Utilizes solar energy and runs with a low power consumption, making the robot highly energy efficient
- Low risk: Employs a fail-safe design that protects the robot from damage in the event of a mechanical failure
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| Highly Effective Motion Capture Marker for Small Aerial Robots |
- Robust: Improves the reliability and accuracy of the motion capture measurement by eliminating excessive reflection
- Easy to use: Consists of only a miniature driver circuit and illumination stripe while requiring a simple plug-in power supply to operate
- Lightweight: Accommodates small robots with limited payload capacity—total weight of an active marker is approximately 1 gram
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| Smart Device Control of Robot Swarms in a Changing Environment |
- Intelligent: Minimizes the driving distance for each robot automatically and adapts to changes in the environment
- Efficient: Covers a large area more efficiently than one single, large robot
- Robust: Builds in collision avoidance and self-corrects to changes in the swarm, such as individual robot failures
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| Highly Efficient Electrically Conductive Adhesives |
- The developed approach offers many advantages such as reduced materials cost
- Low processing temperature
- Compatible with low cost, flexible substrates such as paper and PET
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
| Flexible Electrical Interconnects with Concave/Convex Platform |
- Co-fabrication of very complex interconnect structures for developing and testing different system topologies
- Improved system performance while increasing packaging density with little or no impact on the fabrication process steps used
- Complex shapes easily fabricated without compromising the mechanical strength or the electrical performance
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Electrical Computer Engineering |
