tag: University of Michigan

System Bits: Aug. 12
By Ann Mutschler - 12 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

Wearable, continuous disease monitoring A new wearable vapor sensor being developed at the University of Michigan could one day offer continuous disease monitoring for patients with diabetes, high blood pressure, anemia or lung disease, according to researchers there. The new sensor, which can detect airborne chemicals either exhaled or released through the skin, would likely be the first w... » read more

System Bits: May 27
By Ann Mutschler - 27 May, 2014 - Comments: 0

Making sheets of grapheme more easily Graphene’s promise as a material for new kinds of electronic devices, among other uses, has led researchers around the world to study the material in search of new applications but one of the biggest limitations to wider use of the strong, lightweight, highly conductive material has been the hurdle of fabrication on an industrial scale. Initial work w... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: March 11
By Ann Mutschler - 11 Mar, 2014 - Comments: 0

Multiferroic materials In an advance aimed at making future electronic devices far more energy-efficient than current technologies, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have made major improvements in computer processing using an emerging class of magnetic materials called multiferroics. The team used multiferroic magnetic materials to reduce the... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: March 4
By Ann Mutschler - 04 Mar, 2014 - Comments: 0

Photon glue Like a spring connecting two swings, light can act as photon glue that binds together the quantum mechanical properties of two vastly different materials and this effect could harness the most useful characteristics from each material for hybrid solar cells and high efficiency lighting, among other applications. To this end, researchers at the University of Michigan and Queens Coll... » read more

System Bits: July 30
By Ann Mutschler - 30 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

Controlling nanomaterials To find out why some sets of flat nanocrystals arrange themselves in an alternating, herringbone style even though it wasn’t the simplest pattern, University of Pennsylvania researchers turned to experts in computer simulation at the University of Michigan and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The result of the collaboration gives nanotechnology research... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: July 2
By Ed Sperling - 02 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

Using low-power Wi-Fi to track moving humans Based on a concept similar to radar and sonar imaging, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have created a system capable of seeing people through walls. Previous efforts to develop such a system have involved the use of expensive and bulky radar technology that uses a part of the electromagnetic spectrum on... » read more

Pyramids Are Not Just For Pharaohs
By Michael Watts - 17 Feb, 2013 - Comments: 1

By Mike Watts There were 3 different applications for pyramid patterns this year at Photonics West in San Francisco; improved LED’s, improved absorbers and single quantum dot devices. This not the first time the ancients have come to the rescue of nano-technology, a couple of years ago we had nano-menhirs. Several groups talked about improving LED’s through pyramids. A Samsung team grew... » read more

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