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A First-of-its-Kind, Ultra-Low Voltage Single-Element Amplified Backscatter System	Streamlined: Uses a single element—one tunnel diode with few passive components—to achieve dual functionality of simultaneous oscillation and reflection-amplification Efficient: Combines the features of conventional RFIDs and tunnel diode-based reflection amplifiers while using an extremely low biasing voltage of only 88 mV, consuming only 20 μW, and offering a reflection gain of 48 dB Long range: Provides the highest observed gain in the literature for a given input power	8375
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
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.	7915
Electromagnetic (EM) Metastructures	Multi-use: Provides structural support in conjunction with static and in situ EM performance Efficient: Reduces size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) parameters Flexible: Integrates non-standard material systems	8469
‘Intelligent’ Power Amplifier Architecture	AI-assisted: Provides the PA self-reconfigurability and robust adaptive operation over environmental changes High performance: Features low latency and fast response capabilities required for many fifth-generation (5G) applications Improved learning efficiency: Incorporates into control algorithms multiple RL frameworks, including CAB, multi-armed bandit, contextual bandit, and actor-critic with experience replay	8377
The Sliding-Window Queue-Proportional Sampling (SW-QPS) Algorithm	High performance: Offers a novel switching framework that eliminates batching delays without sacrificing throughput performance Advanced: Computes matchings of much higher quality than state-of-the-art and widely used regular switching algorithms Efficient: Achieves at least 88 percent throughput with a computational complexity of just O(1) per port	8540
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
Enhanced MIMO Framework for Optimized Wireless Communications	Innovative: Overcomes the efficiency and complexity challenges of conventional detector frameworks Independent: Has a fixed complexity that remains unaffected by noise Sophisticated: Combines the high performance of K-best detection with the low-complexity scalar list detector	7343
A Method to Minimize 5G Signal Noise and Energy Consumption	Efficient: Minimizes 5G energy noise and lowers overall energy consumption required for the exponential growth of 5G networks Reliable: Promises to improve signal reliability by suppressing bandwidth-intensive media without impacting end-user experience Economical: Improves affordability of signal routing for millimeter-wave (mmWave) 5G services	8204
Four-Dimensional Electron Density Mapping of the Ionosphere	Innovative: Produces the first four-dimensional image of electron density in the lower ionosphere Far-reaching: Leverages technology that can be used efficiently on a global scale Pragmatic: Yields a highly useful four-dimensional map to be used in military and commercial applications that rely on high-frequency communications	8349
Internet of Space Things	Comprehensive: Provides a fully integrated cyber-physical system that allows for active sensing, passive sensing, and data communications Robust: Offers a dynamic and scalable network configuration with a centralized control that enables and simplifies data aggregation Cost effective: Permits highly differentiated networking capabilities to be integrated and deployed over the same network infrastructure, using CubeSats to decrease costs	7957, 7958
Optical Wireless Communications System Self-Powered by Triboelectric Nanogenerator	High capacity: Utilizes optical electromagnetic frequencies for transmission to bypass the crowding from other wireless service providers Sustainable: Sources renewable energy via the TENG Practical: Contains parameters and techniques that can be optimized for different circumstances	7863
Novel Wireless Network Architecture with Frame Aggregation Scheme	Innovative: Addresses increased latency in the power-saving geophone relay scheme using an optimized frame aggregation analytical model High efficiency: Saves power with a carefully designed FA-PSGR scheme for extended survey duration Intelligent: Maintains real-time data acquisition by turning geophones on “sleep mode” during idle periods, reducing channel bandwidth	8404
Root-Inspired Ground Anchor	Improved performance: Provides higher capacity with shorter installation length, as compared with linear ground anchors or foundations piles Robust: Increases resistance to mechanical shearing in the soil around the anchor Increased stability: Resists axial, torsional, and moment loads	8424
X-Band Tunable Microwave Generator	Simpler – consists of a single laser diode, a mirror, a feedback attenuator, photodiode, and inter-connects between the devices Cheaper – does not require expensive external RF sources or laser sources Accessible – does not require any exotic components that cannot be purchased from a component manufacturer	7960, 7930
WiMove: Ceiling-Based Access Point for Wireless Communications	Ceiling-based access point: allows for optimal line of sight and reduces noise by physical barriers Faster communication: utilizes machine-learning algorithms to re-position line of sight	8154
Integrated Cascaded Atomic Beam	Reduced cost – due to fabrication techniques that enable mass manufacture and spread of technology Increased generation of collimated atomic beams – due to the miniaturizing of clocks Maximized accuracy of the clock – by improving signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)	7917
Digital-to-Analog Converter Model for Optical Link Simulations	Efficient- can simulate frequency dependent effects in a computationally efficient manner	7593

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