Engineering

Latest Innovations

Aligned Free-Standing Copper Nanowires

 

This invention fabricates copper nanowires using thermal chemical vapor deposition (CVD) at temperatures of about 200 to 400 C. The method can produce vertically...

AOXADUR Antioxidant Treatment for Increasing Service Life of Asphalt Mixtures

Background

Chemical binders used in asphalt paved surfaces are subject to age hardening, resulting in...

Cobalt Precursors For Formation of Cobalt or Cobalt-Containing Material

 

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of cobalt requires a cobalt precursor that can be easily vaporized, leaving high-purity cobalt on a surface while causing no...

Visualization of Internet Based Information [VISIT]

A method and system for presenting a visual representation of search results relating to information on a computer network. A complex relevance rating scheme for...

RF Wireless Power Transfer to Chip-Scale Apparatuses

 

 

An inductive wireless power system is particularly appealing for secured short-range operation, considering its non-contacting and non-radiative nature....

Spectro-Electrochemical Cell used for Ultrafast Spectroscopy

 

 

Professor Dana Dlott and Natalia Garcia Rey have designed a spectra-electrochemical cell that is user and environmental friendly. The material used is...

Dynamic Devices for Microwave Communications

Dr. Eden from the University of IL has developed plasma devices that are instantaneously tuned to change their optical properties. This has applications in the microwave...

Multiplexed High Energy Lasers

Dr. Eden from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has invented a new type of laser capable of creating thousands of near-perfect beams and combining them into...

Improving 100X the sensitivity of room-temperature IR sensors

 

Prof. Wasserman and Prof. Gong from the ECE department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have partnered to develop a new sensor for infrared light...

Terahertz Antenna for High Data Rate Communication

Dr. Xiuling Li from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has invented a helical antenna using her self-rolled-up membrane technology that is capable of terahertz...

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