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Controllable motion damping for prosthetic limbs and robotics

The technology offered here provides instant damping control and tunable shock absorption in low-power mechanical systems. The invention is a soft structure which contains magneto-rheological fluid (MRF), which hardens under applied magnetic fields.…

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Pixelated tunable color filter

Commercial color cameras are only capable of capturing red, green, and blue images. While these three spectral regions match well to human vision, they are extremely limiting in biomedical imaging and microscopy. We have invented a color camera…

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Patterning of metals and metal compounds using ionotropic polymers

Patterning surfaces to create some function is a core technology propelling our technical society. The most important such technology, photolithography, is used to create IC chips with nanoscale features. It is also the most expensive with fab…

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Robust thin film solid oxide fuel cell

Among the major fuel cell chemistries, Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) are considered most desirable due to their high energy conversion efficiency, fuel flexibility, and contaminant tolerance. Conventional solid oxide fuel cells operate at 800°C -…

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Technology to Detect Hardware Trojans, Maliciously Embedded into ICs

One of the greatest threats to security are Trojans - rougue modifications to ICs that create a latent security risk. This theat, which is very much an unspoken threat, is of great importance to chip manufacturers, software companies and systems…

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A to D converter data calibration in real-time delivers faster conversion rates

The new digital data calibration technique allows any pipeline ADC to operate at a speed about 2 bits faster than currently available ADCs. For example, an 8-bit ADC could potentially run at 12 bits, compared to only the 10 bits maximum that might…

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Eliminating the bottleneck in WiFi networks: New protocol delivers order-of-magnitude increase in performance

Have you ever been to a very busy coffee shop, hotel lobby or conference and been unable to access WiFi? Wi-Fi networks based on the 802.11 set of standards are pervasive, but have a fundamental performance bottleneck that limits the practical…

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Deterministic design of high quality factor photonic cyrstal nanobeam cavity

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A novel color filter array design scheme significantly reduces hardware complexity

In digital imaging applications, data are typically obtained via a spatial sub-sampling procedure implemented as a color filter array (CFA). CFA assigns a separate primary color to each pixel by placing a filter of that color over the pixel. The…