Nontoxic, Flexible Energy Converters Could Power Wearable Devices
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2021 — A wide variety of portable and wearable electronics have become a large part of our daily lives, so a group of Stanford […]
Combining Light, Superconductors Could Boost AI Capabilities
WASHINGTON, April 20, 2021 — As artificial intelligence has attracted broad interest, researchers are focused on understanding how the brain accomplishes cognition so they can construct artificial […]
Activated Carbon Increases Cryocooler Efficiency
WASHINGTON, April 6, 2021 — Cryocoolers are ultracold refrigeration units used in surgery and drug development, semiconductor fabrication, and spacecraft. They can be tubes, pumps, tabletop sizes, […]
Thermal Power Nanogenerator Created Without Solid Moving Parts
WASHINGTON, March 31, 2021 — As environmental and energy crises become increasingly more common occurrences around the world, a thermal energy harvester capable of converting abundant thermal […]
Enhanced Ceramics Could Play Pivotal Role in Advancing 5G Technology
WASHINGTON, March 23, 2021 — 5G, or the fifth-generation technology standard for broadband cellular networks, is touted as having finally arrived for ultrafast download speeds, an end […]
Wearable Electronics for Continuous Cardiac, Respiratory Monitoring
WASHINGTON, January 12, 2021 — A highly sensitive wearable sensor for cardiorespiratory monitoring could potentially be worn continuously by cardiac patients or others who require constant monitoring. […]
Singing a Tumor Test Song
WASHINGTON, January 12, 2021 — Singing may be the next-generation, noninvasive approach to determining the health of a patient’s thyroid. Typically, a fine needle is used to […]
Decorating Windows for Optimal Sound Transmission
WASHINGTON, September 1, 2020 — Glass windows typically offer some amount of soundproofing, sometimes unintentionally. In general, ventilation is required to achieve large sound transmission. But some […]
Building Mechanical Memory Boards Using Origami
WASHINGTON, August 25, 2020 — The ancient Japanese art of paper folding, known as origami, can be used to create mechanical, binary switches. In Applied Physics Letters, […]