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Adaptive Broadband Impedance Matching in Ultrasound Front-End Electronics High performance: Improves power transfer and acoustic reflectivity Flexible: Enables multimodal and tunable operation of CMUTs Efficient: Provides optimal matching for co-design of CMUT electronics	8342
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	7194
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	8538
Miniaturized Modular-Array Fluorescence Microscopy Powerful: Offers high fluorescence sensitivity, efficiency, and spatiotemporal resolution (~3 µm and up to 60 Hz) Configurable: Offers compatibility with conventional cell culture assays and physiological imaging, providing accessibility to upright physiological imaging and integration with biochemical sensors under the cell platform Efficient: Provides effective parallelization of multi-site data acquisition	8580
Polarization-Based Method for Mitigating Wireless Signal Interference Both During Transmission and Receipt Improves mitigation of co-channel interference: Particularly useful for OFDM-based systems, this method improves mitigation of co-channel interference in the frequency domain. By optimizing the SINR as a function of the frequency component, this method provides improved suppression performance relative to single polarization-filter solutions. Maximizes SINR: A set of frequency-dependent MMSE filter weights can be applied to suppress interference, which maximizes the SINR. Flexible: This method can be applied to OFDM, CDMA systems, and various other communication systems having different modulation formats that may or may not require additional processing.	4087
Advancing Mass Spectrometry with Novel Interface Flexible: Allows for integration with a range of operational modes and analytical workflows for different ESI-MS techniques High performance: Offers enhanced sensitivity and a significantly improved limit of detection Robust and effective: Minimizes charged ion loss and enables sampling of the most analytically “valuable” droplets	4182
Molecular Flux Measurement Device and Method Efficient: Enables a 3x increase in MBE speed compared with metal organic chemical vapor deposition Controlled: Provides flux stability and control by enabling in-situ measurement of a signal related to the flux, achieving 0.001% flux stability under optimal conditions Reliable: Enables signal measurement in real time, providing high accuracy and reproducibility	3556
Enabling Multi-Beam, High-Capacity Massive MIMO for 5G Communications and More State-of-the-art: Is the first Rx-array design of its kind, autonomously achieving modulated blocker suppression and desired signal beamforming simultaneously without the need for a digital beamforming aid Robust: Enables multi-beam high-capacity massive MIMO to address the demands of both commercial and defense applications Scalable: Employs ASFs that achieve 4-element spatial filters with sharpened selectivity that can be extended to larger array sizes of thousands of elements and cancellation of any number of interference signals	8120
Enabling Privacy-Preserving Search Over Fuzzy Databases Privacy-preserving: Improves the security of biometric-based surveillance, identification, or searches for individuals using their biometric data over private databases Timely: Addresses the requirements of recent and emerging privacy protection regulations and policies Practical: Fills a gap in privacy-preserving search technologies, which currently do not accommodate searching of fuzzy data such as biometrics	8506
Virtual Sensing Integrated for Predictive Reliability (VIPR) Advanced: Acquires system data via virtual sensing, without the need for physical sensors in all desired locations Cost-reducing: Aims to reduce maintenance and planning costs for solid rocket motors and potentially other vehicle propulsion systems Predictive: Provides useful, repeatable, extensive data sets to predict rocket performance and enable proactive plans for propulsion system maintenance, upgrades, and replacements, potentially reducing downtime and failures	8555
Integrating Electrical Sensors into Soft-Lithography Microfluidic Devices Sophisticated: Advances the integration of electrical sensors on microfluidic devices with a simple, approachable solution Sensitive: Demonstrates a higher signal sensitivity than electrodes in a typical coplanar arrangement Adaptable: Allows for greater layout flexibility because of its straightforward fabrication process	7769
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.	7107, 8032
Utilizing Impedance Spectroscopy for Advanced Characterization of Particles Comprehensive: Simultaneously measures both spatial and dielectric properties of particles Streamlined: Helps resolve signal interference from coincident cells—a challenge of other assessment techniques Precise: Offers complex impedance as a new level of particle feature assessment, integrating it with other measurements such as elasticity and size for more predictive analyses	8049
All-Electronic Immunophenotyping Device for Point-of-Care Testing Convenient: Provides an all-electronic immunophenotyping process with straightforward equipment and techniques Low cost: Performs sophisticated, multistep analyses in a system that is affordable enough for point-of-care settings Flexible: Allows for the easy immobilization of multiple antibodies in the device—a shortcoming of current systems	8045, 8047
Scalable Microfluidic Device with Multiple Constriction Channels for High-Throughput Mechanophenotyping High throughput: Addresses the low-throughput challenges of other similar technologies by handling a sample volume near that of a Coulter counter Low cost: Eliminates the need for costly equipment, highly trained personnel, and long processing times that come with other measuring processes Scalable: Uses a frequency division scheme so that multiple copies of the system can operate concurrently	8031
Measuring Surface Antigen Expression via Microflow Cytometry Portable: This innovation uses a disposable, handheld device without bulky or costly equipment, which is expected to be especially useful in low-resource settings. Simple: It is designed to achieve results similar to those from a commercial flow cytometer but without requiring initial purification. Recoverable samples: Unlike commercial systems, the analyzed sample can be recovered for further tests at the end of the analysis.	7913, 8048
Next-Generation Flow Battery for Large-Scale Energy Storage at One-Tenth the Cost Higher power density: This design has achieved ultra-high power densities of 630 W/Ldevice (charge) and 170 W/Ldevice (discharge), compared to existing flow battery designs that achieve only 500 W/Ldevice (charge) and 90 W/Ldevice (discharge). Ultra-high current density: The design has achieved current densities of >300 mA/cm3 per device. Dramatically lower cost: The elimination of parts reduces fabrication costs by 90%. Cost is ~$330 rather than ~$4,400.	8284, 8571
High-Performance Broadband Photodetector Enhanced sensitivity: Functions over a wide range of wavelengths—from near-ultraviolet to near-infrared High performance: Operates at high-speed response conditions in wide spectral bandwidth for various applications High stability and repeatability: Offers significant photo-sensing ability with no deviation or degradation observed after one year	7963
Innovative Ion Mobility Spectrometry with Open-Air Assembly Protective: Potentially helps protect the technician against contact with ionic hazards Rapid: Separates ions through fast detection of differences in their mass, charge, and cross-section Convenient: Leverages an open-air arrangement that significantly reduces time for experiment setup and sample preparation	4885
Low-Cost Wearable Mass-Sensitive and Capacitive Bio/Chemical Multi-Sensor Versatile: Customizes MEMS chemical sensors, compatible with a variety of sensing materials, allowing for the detection of numerous gas-phase analytes Easy to manufacture: Uses batch-fabricated sensors compatible with COTS electronics Highly sensitive: Offers sub parts-per-million detection limits for volatile organic compounds	8269
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	8194
Fully Integrated, Piezoelectric Standalone MEMS Frequency Combs Compact: Provides a fully integrated package with a smaller footprint (30 μm x 30 μm) compared with CMOS-MEMS configurations Robust: Offers higher sensitivity and enhanced detection limit compared with the previous state of the art Low noise: Lowers shot noise levels associated with electronics and MEMS circuitry by eliminating the need for circuitry like electronic amplifiers	7875
Facilitating Ultrasound Penetration of the Skull for Diagnosis and Treatment Portable: Designed to enable imaging of the brain via small, mobile ultrasound devices, which may offer greater convenience compared with MRI and CT machines Affordable: May be a lower cost modality compared with leading techniques, such as MRI, CT, or positron emission tomography (PET) Robust: Demonstrates energy transmission through the skull on par with that of an aqueous medium in preliminary testing	8340
Portable Multi-Parameter Cancer Diagnostic Tool Powerful: Simultaneously measures multiple tissue parameters to determine electro-thermo-mechanical properties Disposable: Uses single-use biochip components to eliminate cross-contamination Versatile: Uses a variety of other micromotion-capable actuators and extends to other manufacturing techniques and different length scales	7619
Tautomeric Sensing with a Covalent Organic Framework Fast: Provides highly responsive color change within seconds Passively reversible: Does not require external stimuli for regeneration Long-term stability: Sensing ability extends for months	8262
Optical Architecture Enables High-Performance Chips High performance: Provides efficient, practical, and manufacturable optical computing solutions for a variety of platforms Efficient: Permits a new way of designing high-performance computing and decision-making tasks using manufacturable solutions with high-speed processing, despite fabrication imperfections Flexible: Offers photonic chips in a variety of material platforms (i.e., silicon, silicon nitride) and meta-surface arrays implemented in hybrid platforms that combine dielectrics and nonlinear/reconfigurable materials	8437
Hybrid Meta-Surfaces for Active, Non-Volatile Light Manipulation Fast: Enables highly dense pixels with fast (nanosecond) switching capability Scalable: Can be fabricated with features down to nanometer sizes; the overall device can incorporate several meta-surfaces with different features over a large-size wafer Agile: Offers high switching robustness (up to 1012 cycles)	8530
Rotary Mechanism for Lab-on-a-Chip Microvalves Versatile: Has an adaptable design that can be adjusted based on the substances in use, stability requirements, and shape of the device Efficient: Manages a high flow rate while maintaining a low power consumption Widely applicable: Demonstrates potential for use in a wide range of microdevices that require rotational motion	3091
Powered Bilateral Knee Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation of Children and Adults Lightweight: Uses one of the lightest available electromechanical actuators—just 0.5 kg—along with a mere 1.5 kg for the exoskeleton assembly Back-drivable: Lowers the mechanical effort involved in back driving with a single-stage actuator Efficient: Reduces battery consumption compared with existing systems	8369
Multi-Functional Sparse Phased Arrays for Guiding Focused Ultrasound Therapies Robust: Provides sensitivity of detection down to a single microbubble for FUS-induced microbubble activity Precise: Offers broadband B-mode imaging capabilities to improve workflow and efficacy of FUS-based therapies Scalable: Enables the formation of large CMUT arrays and subarrays with appropriate element spacing	8493
Hybrid Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks for Effective Gas Separation Tunable: Provides a mechanism for adjusting the porosity and functionality of ZIF materials to be used in a range of applications Advanced: Demonstrates significantly higher levels of separation selectivity from molecular mixtures of interest than previous ZIF models Scalable: Holds potential for large-scale CO2 separation in different materials, such as membranes and adsorbents	5925
Heterogeneous Integration Method for III-Nitride Devices High performance: Enables simple and fast transfer to foreign substrates with an automated pick-and-place technique Compatible: Can be used to transfer devices of any shape and size—from micron to millimeter Efficient: Allows reuse of the growth wafer, lowering production costs	7910
Streamlined Hematology Analysis for Point-of-Care Settings Streamlined: Enables testing in point-of-care settings without complex procedures and specially trained personnel Highly accurate: Offers a spatial resolution higher than current methods due to the shorter wavelength of UV light Cost-effective: Saves on reagents, complex equipment costs, and time-intensive processes without compromising diagnostic quality	8303
Airy-beam Tomographic Microscopy for Biological Imaging Streamlined: Offers a scan-free method of obtaining 3D-resolution images Volumetric imaging: Generates and resolves images of tissues and cells in the 3D space High resolution and image depth: Provides 3D diffraction-limited resolution	8381
Wireless Neurovascular Monitoring System Minimally invasive: minimal impact on hemodynamics (dynamics of blood flow) Flexible and stretchable: able to conform to complex vessel geometry Longer range: improved wireless detection range	7908
Electronic Barrier and Enforcement System and Method Improve overall performance of the transportation system while reducing enforcement costs and need for law enforcement resources Reduces the need for a physical barrier between the HOV/HOT and general purpose lanes Addresses traffic management problems through the implementation of automated electronic enforcement of barrier to integrity	4613
Switchable Solvents and Methods of Use Thereof Lowers cost - eliminates the need to add and remove multiple solvents for each reaction step Lower pollution - eliminates the need to remove and capture solvents Easier separation of product - ideal for separation of vegetables such as soybean oil	3776
Detecting Change of Dielectric Constant Enables detection of materials based on changes to the effective dielectric constant of a circular resonator Measures the index of refraction to detect the change in optical wavelength that is occurring Able to detect the power of the electromagnetic wave in the circular resonator at resonance condition and/or during build-up stage	2839
Nanogenerator for Harvesting Energy Compact – Easily used for small electronics Energy saving – Harnesses energy from human body and water wave motions	6668
Nanocrystalline Glass Ceramic Scintillators Cheaper – Can be easily fabricated on a large scale Efficient – High luminescence efficiency and light output Compact – Greater portability	5509

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