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Optimal Design of a Large Scale Microphone Network and Filtering System
Published Thursday, September 24, 2015BackgroundMicrophone arrays, a series of individual microphones operating in tandem for a given area, have a variety of uses including extracting specific sounds from an ambient environment, surround sound recording, and localization, among others. However, using a very large microphone array can be difficult. A very large array will generate...
Keyword(s): microphone arrays, sound segregation, multurate filterbanks
Docket: IS-2014-134
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Research Tool for Identification of Conditionally Enriched Protein Expression in Bacterial Cells
Published Tuesday, September 22, 2015BackgroundChanges in environmental conditions can drastically change the protein content of cells. The amount of specific proteins (i.e., their expression levels) can increase or decrease quickly in response to these environmental changes in order to insure cell survival. This rapid process happens at the translational and post-...
Categories: Research Tools, Antibodies, & Reagents
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: LS-2015-092
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All-Elastomer 3-Axis Tactile Sensing Skin
Published Monday, September 21, 2015Background:With recent advances in robotic manipulators, tactile sensing has had an increasing emphasis on compliant designs to accommodate curved surfaces such as robotic fingers. Remarkable progress has been made in the design and fabrication of flexible tactile sensors including multi-axis sensing, high sensor area density, and integration...
Categories: Robotics, Sensors/Monitors, Robotics
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2015-094
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Distributed Row-Column Decoding For A Mesh Switch
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015Background: Crossbar switches are employed in network routers, multiprocessor interconnections and programmable logic chips. While their highly regular structure makes them attractive for VLSI and optical implementations, the existing routing models for crossbar switches make them impractical for such applications. Switch using (n x r) cross-...
Categories: Power Electronics, Devices, Microelectronics
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-100
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Nanopore Battery
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015Background:For advances in electrical energy storage, nanostructuring of electrode materials using nanowire or nanotube configurations holds promise for higher available energy at any given power density, due to larger available surface area and shorter ion transport time of the electrode materials; and improved mechanical flexibility and...
Categories: Clean Tech, Power Electronics, Chemical, Materials
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-081
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High Surface Area Nanostructured Polyimide
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015BackgroundSupercapacitors are used for energy storage in applications that require frequent short duration charge and discharge cycles at high current. Energy density of supercapacitors can be boosted by increasing surface area of the electrodes and the use of nanomaterials for this purpose shows promise. Innovative Technology...
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2015-030
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A High Capacity Thermal Energy Storage for Separate Sensible and Latent Cooling
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015Background:Conventional air conditioning systems utilize low temperature evaporators to cool and remove moisture from hot and humid air. In order to remove the moisture, the air temperature has to be below the dew point of the indoor air. However, the dew point temperature is usually lower than the temperature required for the conditioned...
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-172
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Method for Patterning by Electron Beam Lithography on Insulating Substrates
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015Method for Patterning by Electron Beam Lithography on Insulating Substrates PS-2014-180Executive summary Background:Electron beam lithography (EBL) is a powerful tool for nanoscale fabrication, but its applicability to insulating substrates is often limited. For example, EBL does not work well on borosilicate glass...
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-180
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Transient Liquid Phase Sintering Paste
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015BackgroundElectronic systems are increasingly used in harsh environments under elevated thermal conditions. This includes applications with high absolute temperatures as well as those with very large temperature swings. Some examples of these types of applications include deep well drilling, military and aerospace, or automotive products...
Categories: Power Electronics, Microelectronics, Industrial Processing, Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Materials
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-096
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Quantification of birefringence by single mode fiber based PS-OCT
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015Background: Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a technique used to obtain detailed (comparable to a low power microscope) three-dimensional images of biological tissues or other optically scattering media with the use of light. OCT device collects light reflections from within tissues to provide cross-sectional high-resolution (micrometer...
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-138