APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Rechargeable batteries for portable electronics as well as small and large electric vehicles Grid-scale storage for home or power station BENEFITS: Improves battery performance by improving ionic conductivity and other transport properties, through blending chemically different polymers Potentially reduces overall battery … [Read more...] about Miscible Polymer Blend Electrolytes: A New Material for High-Performance, Safer Lithium and Solid State Batteries 2020-060
A Superconducting Quantum Processor Unit – A More Efficient Architecture for Quantum Computing 2020-121
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Superconducting qubit architecture Conducting non-trivial quantum simulations BENEFITS: Increases hardware efficiency and versatility Limited on-chip complexity Reduces the cost of synthesizing interactions between distant qubits Allows for the development of a novel quantum processor unit (QPU) BACKGROUND: Despite … [Read more...] about A Superconducting Quantum Processor Unit – A More Efficient Architecture for Quantum Computing 2020-121
Improved Mask Absorber for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography 2019-058
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) masks for EUV-made semiconductors BENEFITS: The alloy used can be controllably patterned by plasma processing via a newly discovered self-passivation mechanism of chromium Materials are easily etchable Process has very high material selectivity BACKGROUND: The fabrication of the mask absorber is a … [Read more...] about Improved Mask Absorber for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography 2019-058
Novel Solderless Interconnects for Narrow Cascaded Printed Circuit Boards and Sensor Probes 2020-104
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Sensor array development, such as sensor tubes used for agricultural applications for infrastructure monitoring and land management (to assess snowpack properties, avalanche risk, road, levy, pylon, and building stability, and for the prediction of landslides) LED strips Power supplies BENEFITS: Low production cost Locking … [Read more...] about Novel Solderless Interconnects for Narrow Cascaded Printed Circuit Boards and Sensor Probes 2020-104
High-rate Li-rich Cathode Materials Enabled by Non-topotactic Reactions 2020-146
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Batteries, electronics, electrical vehicles BENEFITS: Enables fast Li transport Significantly improves the rate performance of Mn- and Ni-based DRX materials compared to previous technologies BACKGROUND: Li-rich cation-disordered rocksalt (DRX) materials have promising high capacities and energy densities, but typically … [Read more...] about High-rate Li-rich Cathode Materials Enabled by Non-topotactic Reactions 2020-146