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Super Aggregation: Multihoming for Wireless Devices	Performance-improving: Improves the aggregate performance of multiple heterogeneous wireless interfaces used simultaneously compared to the performance each could achieve on its own Proven: Indicates TCP acceleration achieved in wireless data networks when tested on two mobile platforms, including a laptop computer and an Android™ mobile phone Impactful: Addresses the performance improvement needs of ubiquitous, widely used mobile technologies	4712
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	8141, 8439
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
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
Post-Processing Side Chain Cleavage to Enhance Conjugated Polymers	Advanced: Can increase electrical conductivity of doped polymer films by tenfold while decreasing the Seebeck coefficient from 46 μV/K to 18 μV/K, resulting in a doubling in thermoelectric power factor Robust: Demonstrates an increase in both in-plane and through-plane thermal conductivity upon hydrolysis Best-in-Class: Surpasses the S/cm value of any currently reported oligoether/glycol-based CP system	8702
A First-of-its-Kind Power Amplifier-Based Network for Efficient Broadband Operations	Unmatched: Provides first-of-its-kind broadband performance with 26-41 GHz instantaneous 1 dB power gain bandwidth and 25.8-41.3 GHz instantaneous P1dB output power bandwidth—both of which far out-perform currently available techniques Simplified: Sidesteps the need for any tuning or reconfiguration while still providing best-in-class broadband performance Efficient: Significantly improves power amplifier back-off and average efficiency with two efficiency peaks and deep power back-off (12 dB), and maintains better than 38% power-added efficiency at P1dB	8158, 8159
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	8591
A Low-Loss Broadband Quadrature Signal Generation Technique for Highly Balanced Signals	Superior: Provides lower loss, wider bandwidth, better mismatch reduction, zero power consumption, and more balanced quadrature signals compared with other currently available technologies Validated: Achieves an average IRR of 37.5 dB across 40-76 GHz and 33.5 dB across 40-102 GHz, with each stage of the network enhancing IRR by approximately 8 dB in verification of proof-of-concept image-reject mixers Convenient: Eliminates the need for additional calibration and tuning and has reduced sensitivity to fabrication process variations	7888
Heat Dissipation for Microelectronic Systems via Capillary Trap	Effective: Dissipates large heat fluxes via 3D heat spreading and evaporative cooling that could approach kW/cm2 and beyond while keeping the surface temperature under 90oC Preventive: Mitigates coolant dry-out at the critical heat flux levels that result in a rapid and large temperature rise and thus cause device burn-out Efficient: Exploits high cooling capabilities associated with phase-change heat transfer through evaporation	6272
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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	8528
Fabricating High-Power Solar Cells with a Novel Boron Emitter	Efficient: Demonstrates a competitive level of efficiency road map of over 24.2% Cost-effective: Offers a simplified approach for fabricating TOPCon solar cells while still maintaining their efficiency Sustainable: Improves upon current renewable energy solutions that provide alternatives to fossil fuel–based energy consumption	7991
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

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