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Electronic Home Plate
Published Sunday, December 6, 2015Background:The human factor of umpires in baseball calling balls and strikes can be contentious even with the best of the best behind home plate. The “strike zone”, and its perception by a person two people behind the batter, is less than precise and the subjectivity of the call of ball or strike can affect the outcome of the game. This...
Categories: Robotics, Engineering, Microelectronics, Robotics, Sensors/Monitors
Keyword(s): Baseball, Home plate, Optical sensing, Softball
Docket: PS-2014-167
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Ion Intercalated Transparent Electrodes
Published Monday, November 30, 2015Background:Transparent electrodes are abundantly used in electronic devices such as displays, touch screens and solar cells. Highly transparent, conductive and flexible material such as graphene and its derivatives are abundantly utilized and studied as transparent electrodes. Large scale graphene based transparent electrodes are usually made...
Categories: Microelectronics, Engineering, Imaging devices
Keyword(s): graphene, reduced graphene oxide, transparent electrodes, touch screens, electronic displays, Indium Tin Oxide (ITO)
Docket: PS-2015-034
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Atomic Layer Deposition for Metal Anode Passivation
Published Wednesday, November 11, 2015Background:Lithium metal is of great interest to the battery community: as the lightest and most electropositive alkali metal, Li has a low density, resulting in an extremely high specific capacity value of 3.86Ah/g and energy density of 11,701Wh/kg, making it the holy grail of battery anodes. Other light metals – Na, Mg, and Al – have...
Categories: Engineering, Power Electronics, Microelectronics
Keyword(s): Batteries, Lithium metal, Li-ion batteries, Energy storage, metal anode
Docket: PS-2014-155
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Safe, Low-Cost, High-Energy-Density, Solid-State Li-ion Batteries
Published Tuesday, October 20, 2015BackgroundThe adoption of the lithium-ion batteries in the consumer electronics, electric vehicle, and aerospace industries has grown exponentially over the years. Despite this growth, a call for a safer and more efficient rechargeable battery solution is at hand since lithium-ion batteries’ dangerous pressurized flammable liquid...
Categories: Devices, Engineering, Microelectronics, Power Electronics
Keyword(s): Soild-state, Lithium-ion, battery, 525
Docket: PS-2013-033
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Fly-Ear Inspired Miniature Acoustic Sensor System
Published Monday, October 12, 2015Conventional directional microphones have various constraints when attempting to deliver high performance along with a small footprint. There is performance degradation when size decreases relative to the target sound wavelength. Thus, there is a need for a miniature microphone that is able to provide excellent sound source localization....
Categories: Sensors/Monitors, Microelectronics, Engineering, Devices
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2010-023
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One-sided Binary Tree-Based Crossbar Switch Fabrics
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015Background: One-sided crossbar fabric is well-suited to interconnecting active ports such as line cards in network routers and peripheral devices in computer systems where ports serve both as inputs and outputs. Its simple topology and straightforward routing makes it more attractive for network-on-chip and system-on-chip designs compared to...
Categories: Engineering, Power Electronics, Microelectronics, Devices
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-057
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Single Material All Solid-State Lithium-ion Battery
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015Background:The current all-solid-state Li-ion batteries consist of three distinct components: an anode, an electrolyte, and a cathode. In addition, current collectors are also used to ensure electron transport through the electrodes and the external circuit. The anode, cathode, and electrolyte normally use three different materials due to the...
Categories: Devices, Engineering, Power Electronics, Microelectronics
Keyword(s): Solid-State, Lithium-ion, battery, Anode, Cathode, Energy storage
Docket: PS-2014-143
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Atomic Layer Deposition Modifications for All Solid State Metal Ion Batteries
Published Tuesday, May 19, 2015Background:Solid-state lithium batteries are considered to be the ultimate solution for an electric vehicle’s power supply which require safety, high energy density, and long a lifespan. Currently high ionic conductive solid state electrolytes and an interfacial contact are the two important issues for the practical use of Solid-state lithium...
Categories: Microelectronics, Engineering, Power Electronics
Keyword(s): batteries, Solid-state ion batteries, metal anode, atomic layer deposition (ALD)
Docket: PS-2015-002
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Photovoltaic Energy Conversion Using Surface Acoustic Waves in Piezoelectric Semiconductors
Published Thursday, January 13, 2011The field of photovoltaic energy conversion is rapidly becoming more diverse. Improvements have been made in many existing devices in the form of traditional photovoltaic panels, and new fabrication techniques and materials have permitted researchers to explore different approaches in an attempt to combine improved efficiency of photovoltaic...
Categories: Microelectronics, Power Electronics, Materials, Engineering, Devices
Keyword(s): photovoltaics, surface acoustic wave, energy conversion
Docket: PS-2009-039
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Optical Interconnect Using a Small Number of Layers
Published Tuesday, May 10, 2005The present invention relates to an optical interconnect fabric operating deep inside a computer system to provide optical co`mmunication between processing elements and memory cells of first level cache.To that effect, the invention is a multi-chip processor/memory arrangement replacing a large computer chip that includes a number of...
Categories: Engineering, Microelectronics
Keyword(s): all optical, 525
Docket: PS-2003-019