Dr. Yurii Vlasov from the University of Illinois has developed a single-chip neural nanodialysis probe that can sample in vivo brain chemicals, store them, and then...
Dr. Yurii Vlasov from the University of Illinois has developed a single-chip neural nanodialysis probe that can sample in vivo brain chemicals, store them, and then directly deploy them for analysis, all while maintaining high temporal resolution.
This device uses reversible inlets-outlets and embedded ionization ports to both sample in vivo brain chemicals and deploy them, without need for intermediate storage. This risks less contamination or Taylor dispersion than other methods, and reduces the need for bulky peripherals.
Application
This can be used for collecting and analyzing in-vivo biochemical concentrations in the brain.
Benefits
This is a single chip silicon neural probe that can sample live chemicals, store them, and then directly deploy them for analysis. Other neural probes cannot store and deploy these chemical samples, which reduces the temporal resolution of the samples.
Dr. Songbin Gong from the University of Illinois has developed a suite of technologies for the design strategy and method of fabricating acoustic front-end filters at various frequencies,...
Dr. Songbin Gong from the University of Illinois has developed a suite of technologies for the design strategy and method of fabricating acoustic front-end filters at various frequencies, including frequencies > 6 GHz. These acoustic front-end filters demonstrate high electromechanical coupling, high fractional bandwidths, as well as high quality factors. This is achieved through a combination of materials selection, resonator design, and filter design.
This technology:
Increases the frequency range and the fractional bandwidth of acoustic filters
Enables the future generations of wireless communication
Allows access to frequency bands above 6 GHz and provides the high FBW required for 5G communications
This technology leverages the bending stiffness and super lubricity of few-layer materials to create ultra-flexible 2D materials with tunable electronic properties....
This technology leverages the bending stiffness and super lubricity of few-layer materials to create ultra-flexible 2D materials with tunable electronic properties. Applications include MEMS actuators and flexible/stretchable electronics, as well as the miniaturization of a variety of macroscale actuator devices.
Professor Songbin Gong and researchers from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have developed a design strategy and method for fabricating efficient...
Professor Songbin Gong and researchers from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have developed a design strategy and method for fabricating efficient piezoelectric micro-machined ultrasonic transducer (pMUT) optimizing both ultrasonic transmitter and receiver performance in a combined platform. Currently, there are two leading material types for pMUTs : ferroelectric perovskites with solid solutions containing PbTiO3, like PZT and PMN-PT (primarily used as transducers ) and the non-ferroelectric structures such as AlN (primarily used as sensors). This balanced ultrasonic transceiver can be implemented in miniature ultrasound applications, specifically in consumer electronics for gesture recognition, biometric sensing and occupancy sensing.
Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed ultra-flexible heterostructures made from 2D layers of van der Waals bonded materials. The heterostructures retain...
Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed ultra-flexible heterostructures made from 2D layers of van der Waals bonded materials. The heterostructures retain the optoelectronic properties of their constituent layers, but offer tunable mechanical properties which can include flexibility rivaling that of lipid bilayers. Applications for this technology include MEMS devices and flexible, stretchable, and conformal circuitry, including reconfigurable 2D devices and folded/curved/crumpled nanostructures.
