tag: Georgia Tech

Disruptive R&D
By Paula Doe - 17 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

Leading university researchers presented their most promising technologies — describing developments ranging from sustainable metal cluster technology (that’s already spawned three notable startups) to resonance-based detection for more accurate MEMS devices — at the new Breakthrough Research Technologies session and the Silicon Innovation Forum at SEMICON West 2014. OSU metal cluster... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: July 1
By Mark LaPedus - 01 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

Nanotubes in 4D The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has continued to advance its efforts in four-dimensional electron microscopy. In 4D microscopy, electrons bombard a sample. Each electron scatters off the sample. This produces an image at just a femtosecond in duration. Then, millions of the images are stitched together, which, in turn, produces a digital movie in 4D. [cap... » read more

System Bits: June 17
By Ann Mutschler - 17 Jun, 2014 - Comments: 0

Smartphone for good: Adapted to reduce falls Purdue University researchers have shown how to modify a smartphone so that it can be used to measure a person's walking gait to prevent falls in people with compromised balance, such as the elderly or those with Parkinson's disease. The technology is being commercialized as SmartGait, and was designed as a tool to aid health care officials in as... » read more

System Bits: April 22
By Ann Mutschler - 22 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 0

To mimic human cognition In the field of neuromorphic engineering, researchers study computing techniques that could someday mimic human cognition and to this end, electrical engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently published a "roadmap" that details innovative analog-based techniques that could make it possible to build a practical neuromorphic computer. [caption id="attac... » read more

System Bits: April 15
By Ann Mutschler - 15 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 0

Making game play more engaging Engineers at Stanford University have developed what could be the next big thing in interactive gaming: handheld game controllers that measure the player's physiology and alter the game play to make it more engaging. The prototype controller was born from research conducted in the lab of Gregory Kovacs, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, in collab... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: April 1
By Ann Mutschler - 01 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 0

Heat-conducting polymer Polymer materials are usually thermal insulators but according to a team researchers including the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin, and the Raytheon Company, by harnessing an electropolymerization process to produce aligned arrays of polymer nanofibers, they’ve developed a thermal interface material able to conduct heat 20 times better t... » read more

System Bits: Feb. 25
By Ann Mutschler - 25 Feb, 2014 - Comments: 0

A faster Internet While light is capable of carrying vast amounts of information, to utilize its potential, the laser light needs to be as spectrally pure—as close to a single frequency as possible. The purer the tone, the more information it can carry. For decades researchers have been trying to develop a laser that comes as close as possible to emitting just one frequency. Today's world... » read more

System Bits: Feb. 11
By Ann Mutschler - 11 Feb, 2014 - Comments: 0

Ballistic transport in graphene Using electrons more like photons could provide the foundation for a new type of electronic device that would capitalize on the ability of graphene to carry electrons with almost no resistance even at room temperature in a process known as ballistic transport, according to researchers at Georgia Tech. Ballistic transport is the process by which electrical res... » read more

System Bits: Jan. 28
By Ann Mutschler - 28 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

Collaborative software for linking performance, cost Researchers from Georgia Tech have created a web-based tool that lets physically-separated participants collaborate on model-based systems engineering projects. Referred to as the Framework for Assessing Cost and Technology (FACT), the program utilizes open-source software components to allow users to visualize a system's potential expens... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Jan. 7
By Ann Mutschler - 07 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

Harvesting electricity In order to produce small amounts of electricity for portable devices and sensors, Georgia Tech researchers are developing a family of power generators that take advantage of the triboelectric effect. The researchers are using what’s technically known as the triboelectric effect to create surprising amounts of electric power by rubbing or touching two different mate... » read more

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