Patent • #10,261,033. A method and apparatus for identifying a material in an object. An image of the object generated from energy passing through the object is obtained by a computer system. The computer system estimates attenuations for pixels in a sensor system from the image of the object to form estimated...
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Materials and methods for stabilizing nanoparticles in salt solutions
Patent • #8,461,300. Sequence-specific polymers are proving to be a powerful approach to assembly and manipulation of matter on the nanometer scale. Ligands that are peptoids, or sequence-specific N-functional glycine oligomers, allow precise and flexible control over the arrangement of binding groups, steric spacers, charge, and other functionality. We have synthesized short...
Materials and Qubit Technologies
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Materials Data Driven Design (MAD3)
Featured Opportunity • This award-winning software enables accurate simulations of complex material deformation for a wide range of applications. The Sandia team behind the development of MAD3 Business Problem Simulation engineers and manufacturers in automotive, aerospace, electronics, and other industries rely on predicting materials deformation under different conditions. Traditional materials testing methods require...
Materials, methods and devices to detect and quantify water vapor concentrations in an atmosphere
Patent • #8,904,850. We have demonstrated that a surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensor coated with a nanoporous framework material (NFM) film can perform ultrasensitive water vapor detection at concentrations in air from 0.05 to 12,000 ppmv at 1 atmosphere pressure. The method is extendable to other MEMS-based sensors, such as microcantilevers, or...
Measurement Systems
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Measuring in-situ MDF velocity of detonation
Patent • #6,957,566. A system for determining the velocity of detonation of a mild detonation fuse mounted on the surface of a device includes placing the device in a predetermined position with respect to an apparatus that carries a couple of sensors that sense the passage of a detonation wave at first...
Mechanical memory
Patent • #7,046,539. A first-in-first-out (FIFO) microelectromechanical memory apparatus (also termed a mechanical memory) is disclosed. The mechanical memory utilizes a plurality of memory cells, with each memory cell having a beam which can be bowed in either of two directions of curvature to indicate two different logic states for that memory...
Mechanical testing equipment for material characterization
Patent • #10,481,057. A mechanical testing apparatus for a specimen is presented. The mechanical testing apparatus comprises a drop table system and a Hopkinson bar. The drop table system has a drop carriage. The Hopkinson bar is positioned parallel to a motion of the drop carriage and connected to the drop table...
Mechanical vibration to electrical energy converter
Patent • #7,498,681. Electromechanical devices that generate an electrical signal in response to an external source of mechanical vibrations can operate as a sensor of vibrations and as an energy harvester for converting mechanical vibration to electrical energy. The devices incorporate a magnet that is movable through a gap in a ferromagnetic...
Mechanisms for employment with robotic extensions
Patent • #9,138,897. Technologies pertaining to a robotic hand are described herein. A protection apparatus is positioned in a joint of the robotic hand, where movement of a link about the joint is driven by a motor. The protection apparatus absorbs torque about the joint caused by an external force. At least...
Medical Devices, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics
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Membrane projection lithography
Patent • #8,981,337. The various technologies presented herein relate to a three dimensional manufacturing technique for application with semiconductor technologies. A membrane layer can be formed over a cavity. An opening can be formed in the membrane such that the membrane can act as a mask layer to the underlying wall surfaces...
Membranes
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Memory access system
Patent • #10,649,663. A method and system for accessing a memory for a data processing system. The method comprises sending a read request for a plurality of locations in the memory to read the plurality of locations in parallel based on an upper bound for reading the memory. The upper bound for...
Memristor using a transition metal nitride insulator
Patent • #8,872,246. Apparatus is disclosed in which at least one resistive switching element is interposed between at least a first and a second conducting electrode element. The resistive switching element comprises a metal oxynitride. A method for making such a resistive switching element is also disclosed.
Memristors
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MEMS fluidic actuator
Patent • #7,246,524. The present invention comprises a novel, lightweight, massively parallel device comprising microelectromechanical (MEMS) fluidic actuators, to reconfigure the profile, of a surface. Each microfluidic actuator comprises an independent bladder that can act as both a sensor and an actuator. A MEMS sensor, and a MEMS valve within each microfluidic...
MEMS packaging with etching and thinning of lid wafer to form lids and expose device wafer bond pads
Patent • #8,597,985. In wafer-level packaging of microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices a lid wafer is bonded to a MEMS wafer in a predetermined aligned relationship. Portions of the lid wafer are removed to separate the lid wafer into lid portions that respectively correspond in alignment with MEMS devices on the MEMS wafer, and...
MEMS-tunable optical ring resonator
Patent • #11722120. A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-tunable optical ring resonator is described herein. The ring resonator includes a resonator ring and a tuner ring, along with one or more springs. The springs may be internal or external, i.e., either within or outside the areal footprint of the resonator ring and the tuner...
Message passing with parallel queue traversal
Patent • #8,170,041. In message passing implementations, associative matching structures are used to permit list entries to be searched in parallel fashion, thereby avoiding the delay of linear list traversal. List management capabilities are provided to support list entry turnover semantics and priority ordering semantics.
Metal film for additive metal manufacturing
Patent • #11,117,217. A metal film for use by an additive manufacturing apparatus is described herein. The metal film has a support structure and metal voxels removably attached to the support structure by respective junctions. When a metal voxel in the metal film is impacted by an energy pulse from an energy...
Metal Hydride Nano-Inks
Featured Opportunity • Metal hydride nano-inks for printing electrically conductive, metal-based patterns under ambient conditions that broaden the scope of printable electronic conductors Metallic inks are useful for flexible displays, smart packaging, environmental and biomedical sensing, energy conversion, and energy storage applications. The most common metallic inks are composed of nanoparticles or molecular...
Metal nanodisks using bicellar templates
Patent • #8,597,396. Metallic nanodisks and a method of making them. The metallic nanodisks are wheel-shaped structures that that provide large surface areas for catalytic applications. The metallic nanodisks are grown within bicelles (disk-like micelles) that template the growth of the metal in the form of approximately circular dendritic sheets. The zero-valent...
Metal nanoparticles as a conductive catalyst
Patent • #7,767,610. A metal nanocluster composite material for use as a conductive catalyst. The metal nanocluster composite material has metal nanoclusters on a carbon substrate formed within a porous zeolitic material, forming stable metal nanoclusters with a size distribution between 0.6-10 nm and, more particularly, nanoclusters with a size distribution in...
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