• Novel: Offers the first known design of its kind, addressing the signal loss challenges of applying acoustic wave technologies to mechanical applications
• Practical: Enables potential development of a single mechanical platform to accomplish both filtering and channeling using inexpensive components that avoid high battery usage
• Signal-protecting: Guides waves from input(s) to output(s) with minimal signal loss and topological protection from backscattering

• Protective: Provides a thin protective layer or “cap” after the first layer is deposited, protecting the underlying structure from atmospheric contaminants
• Robust: Enables realization of the advantages of hybrid growth processes by eliminating performance-degrading contaminants and resulting defects
• Advanced: Offers superior protection against contamination compared with simple chemical cleaning methods utilized in other systems, especially against impurity species such as oxides

• 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.

• 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

• All-in-one: The personal adhesive bandage-like single device platform offers wireless, multi-data sensing by simply mounting it on the skin.
• Disposable: This wearable device is fully disposable after the use and the measured data can be simply sent to the cloud via a tablet or smartphone app.
• Compact: The unique, thin design of this bioelectric device is one-sixth the volume of current market offerings—weighing less than 7 g, including its rechargeable battery.

• 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

• Continuous: Regulates power harvested in the presence of constant mechanical motion to store excess energy while pushing a constant voltage to the external load
• Eco-friendly: Reduces the need for consumers and technology developers to utilize supply-limited traditional batteries that are thrown away after a short use and could leak harmful chemicals into the environment
• Sustainable: Eliminates the need to mine an additional power supply by harvesting energy from underutilized electrostatic induction found in naturally occurring mechanical motion

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• Versatile: Adjusts for several different parameters, including light intensity, switching frequency, and illumination area
• Efficient: Provides voltage that is easily converted for use through a medium that is small, low cost, and easily fabricated
• Highly sensitive: Operates with ultra-high light sensitivity, even at very low light intensity, and fast response speeds

• Increased efficiency - reduction of mechanical issues found in existing proton conductors 
• Increased performance - solid state proton conductor is rigid eliminating concern of flexibility of polymer membranes in existing devices

Safety: intrinsically limited charge transfer and current provide better safety for both personnel and instruments.

Cost-effectiveness: the TENG was simply operated using a rotary motor and the cost of the TENG device and boost circuit is less than 100 USD, while a commercial DC HV power source usually costs more than 1000 USD.

Controllability: owing to the charge dominating output characteristic of TENG, the droplet jetting frequency could be controlled by the TENG operation frequency.

• Higher electron mobilities

• Less damage: Growth of nanoribbons in desired shapes eliminates damage from post-processing to achieve desired dimensions.
• Scalable: 10,000 top-gated graphene transistors on a .24 SiC chip have been demonstrated.
• Room temperature operation: Prototypes exhibit an on-off ratio of 10 and carrier mobilities up to 2,700 cm2/ (V•s) at room temperature.

• 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