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Microcantilever Heater-Thermometer with Integrated Temperature Compensated Strain Sensor

 

Thermal sensitivity in piezoresistive sensors used in silicon microcantilevers makes them susceptible to unwanted signals such as temperature drift. In addition,...

Series-Input Parallel Output Multiple DC-DC Converter with Dynamic Current Sharing for High-Current DC Power Supply

The combination of a unique series-input parallel-output (SIPO) circuit configuration and a sensorless current mode (SCM) technique ensures automatic and nearly perfect...

Control Methods and Circuits for Extremely Fast Response in Switching Power Converters

 

A method for accomplishing energy changes for a power converter to minimize an impact of a disturbance. The power converter includes energy storage and switches....

Femto-Joule Atomic Scale Reversible Switch

 

A device that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a memory array having a first array of nanotubes, a second array of...

Compute Memory: A memory array that computes

 

Naresh Shanbhag from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign together with Mingu Kang and Min-sun Keel have developed a memory array that can store data,...

Microscale Liquid Conductivity Sensors

 

Conductivity of a liquid solution provides valuable information about the solution, but commercially available conductivity probes are costly and have diameters...

High bandwidth Data/Power Transfer Using Sound Waves

 

Researchers from the University of Illinois have developed a technology that enables ultra high bandwidth data communication as well as power transfer over short...

A Method for Compensating Wave Reflections in Transmission Lines

 

This technology is a method to eliminate voltage overshoot in cables used to connect AC electric motors and pulse width modulation (PWM) inverters. As a function...

Gateable Nanofluidic Interconnects for Three-Dimensional Microfluidic Architectures: Intellipore

 

The Intellipore technology is a membrane system and method for creating complex, three-dimensional microfluidic devices with improved interconnect functionality....

Multi-functional Multi-layered Nano- & MicroFluidic Device

 

This technology describes a fabrication method for multi-channel, multi-layered microfluidic devices, with numerous functional characteristics capable of...

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