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Self-Aligning Mechanism for Uniaxial Tests at Micro-Nano Scale and Method for in situ Mechano-Electrical Measurements of Micro-Nano Scale Specimens

 

Current methods of performing tensile tests on micro-nano scale material samples have an inherent flaw, namely that true uniaxial loads are difficult to achieve....

Highly Controllable ICP Low Rate Etching of Gallium-Based III-V Semiconductor Materials

 

A method of plasma etching Ga-based compound semiconductors includes providing a process chamber and a source electrode adjacent to the process chamber. The...

Extreme Miniaturization of On-Chip Filters for High Frequency or Wearable Electronics using Self-Rolled-up Membrane (S-RUM) Technology

 

Dr. Xiuling Li from the University of IL has developed a new radio frequency filter structure using her Self-Rolled-Up Membrane (S-RUM) structure.

The...

Buried Extraordinary Optical Transmission

Professors Xiuling Li and Daniel Wasserman have developed an optical architecture which integrates a metallic film with subwavelength apertures into semiconductor material...

Hybrid Semiconductor 3D Nanoscale Patterning Method Using Superionic Solid State Stamping (S4) and Metal Assisted Etching (MacEtch)

 

Various high aspect ratio semiconductor 3D nanostructures have begun to have profound effect on the design and performances of many types of devices, including...

Extreme Miniaturized 3D Spiral On-Chip Inductors, Transformers, and Transmission Lines

 

Inductors

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a novel design of on-chip inductors using multiple turn microtubes based on stain-...

Self-Rolled up On-Chip Transformer for Extreme Size Reduction and Performance Enhancement

 

Inductors

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a novel design of on-chip inductors using multiple turn microtubes based on stain-...

On-Chip Terahertz Cozxial Transmission Line Based on Local Stress controlled Self-Rolled-up SiNx Nanomembrane Technology

 

Inductors

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a novel design of on-chip inductors using multiple turn microtubes based on stain-...

Magnetic Field-Guided Metal-Assisted Chemical Etching

 

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a magnetic field-guided, metal-assisted chemical etching technique (h-MacEtch), which applies an external...

Tunable Pillar Bowtie Nanoantennas

 

A University of Illinois research team led by Dr. Kimani Toussaint has developed novel, metal, pillar-bowtie nanoantenna array templates on silicon dioxide pillars...

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