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Mid-infrared tunable metamaterials

Patent • #9,705,311. A mid-infrared tunable metamaterial comprises an array of resonators on a semiconductor substrate having a large dependence of dielectric function on carrier concentration and a semiconductor plasma resonance that lies below the operating range, such as indium antimonide. Voltage biasing of the substrate generates a resonance shift in the...

Mid-infrared tunable metamaterials

Patent • #9,018,642. A mid-infrared tunable metamaterial comprises an array of resonators on a semiconductor substrate having a large dependence of dielectric function on carrier concentration and a semiconductor plasma resonance that lies below the operating range, such as indium antimonide. Voltage biasing of the substrate generates a resonance shift in the...

MILES hand grenade

Patent • #6,965,542. A simulated grenade for MILES-type simulations generates a unique RF signal and a unique audio signal. A detector utilizes the time between receipt of the RF signal and the slower-traveling audio signal to determine the distance between the detector and the simulated grenade.

Miniature Acoustic Wave Lysis System (mALS)

Featured Opportunity • Gaining timely and efficient access to target biomolecules through cellular lysis is a critical step in bioscience research and development. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories developed a miniature acoustic lysis system (mALS) that uses high-frequency acoustic waves to rapidly disrupt cellular membranes for the release and extraction of DNA, RNA,...

Miniature acoustic wave lysis system and uses thereof

Patent • #9,512,421. The present invention relates to an acoustic lysis system including a disposable cartridge that can be reversibly coupled to a platform having a small, high-frequency piezoelectric transducer array. In particular, the system releases viable DNA, RNA, and proteins from human or bacterial cells, without chemicals or additional processing, to...

Miniature High-Voltage Power Supply and Miniature High-Voltage Controller

Featured Opportunity • Many microfluidics systems use electrokinetic (EK) pumping of fluid. These applications generally require high voltage at a low current. Sandia has developed two custom power supply designs with miniaturization, modularity, and scalability in mind. Each supply version is available in a variety of voltage ranges and polarities, with some ranges...

Miniature Spring Performance Tester

Featured Opportunity • Many systems require miniature coil-wound springs, such as firing devices, medical, and precision instruments. In order to qualify miniature springs, manufacturers of these systems rely on commercially available testers that are designed for large-scale springs (>0.5 in. diameter). Current state-of-the-art devices lack sufficient force resolution or cyclic test capabilities for...

Miniature ultra-low-power LNA employing current reuse and bias sharing

Patent • #12095424. A low noise amplifier (LNA) offering one or more of the following benefits: increased gain, reduced power consumption, and/or reduced area, while achieving a similar noise figure, is disclosed. The LNA achieves these benefits by employing an inductorless chip design, current reuse among the transistors, bias sharing, limited AC...

Miniaturized Chemical Detectors for Point-of-Care Diagnosis

Featured Opportunity • Sandia’s mini-PDID makes it possible to diagnose illnesses by identifying volatile organic compounds (VOCs) associated with certain diseases and infections on a patient’s breath or in the headspace of biological fluids Building on decades of portable chemical analysis research, Sandia’s latest chemical detector, based on our miniaturized pulse-discharged ionization detector...

Miniaturized Mass Spectrometer

Featured Opportunity • Sandia has developed an improved quadrupole mass spectrometer (QMS). The improvement lies in the substitution of the conventional hot flament electron source with a cold cathode field emitter array (FEA), which in turn, allows the operations of a small QMS at much higher internal pressures then are currently achievable. By...

Miniaturized photoacoustic spectrometer

Patent • #9,410,931. A low-power miniaturized photoacoustic sensor uses an optical microphone made by semiconductor fabrication techniques, and optionally allows for all-optical communication to and from the sensor. This allows integration of the photoacoustic sensor into systems with special requirements, such as those that would be reactive in an electrical discharge condition....

MIS-based sensors with hydrogen selectivity

Patent • #7,340,938. The invention provides hydrogen selective metal-insulator-semiconductor sensors which include a layer of hydrogen selective material. The hydrogen selective material can be polyimide layer having a thickness between 200 and 800 nm. Suitable polyimide materials include reaction products of benzophenone tetracarboxylic dianhydride 4,4-oxydianiline m-phenylene diamine and other structurally similar materials.

Mixed compound organic glass scintillators

Patent • #10,508,233. A mixed compound glass scintillator includes a first compound and a second compound. The first compound has a Tg greater than 25.degree. C., is organic, is capable of generating luminescence in the presence of ionizing radiation. The first compound includes a central species and a luminescent organic group bonded...

Mixed core processor unit

Patent • #10,776,684. A method and apparatus for processing data. The data is sent to a processor unit comprising a group of neural cores, a group of digital processing cores, and a routing network connecting the group of digital processing cores. The data is processed in the processor unit to generate a...

Mobile lighting apparatus

Patent • #8,439,534. A mobile lighting apparatus includes a portable frame such as a moveable trailer or skid having a light tower thereon. The light tower is moveable from a stowed position to a deployed position. A hydrogen-powered fuel cell is located on the portable frame to provide electrical power to an...

Mobile monolithic polymer elements for flow control in microfluidic devices

Patent • #6,782,746. A cast-in-place and lithographically shaped mobile, monolithic polymer element for fluid flow control in microfluidic devices and method of manufacture. Microfluid flow control devices, or microvalves that provide for control of fluid or ionic current flow can be made incorporating a cast-in-place, mobile monolithic polymer element, disposed within a...

Mobile monolithic polymer elements for flow control in microfluidic devices

Patent • #6,952,962. A cast-in-place and lithographically shaped mobile, monolithic polymer element for fluid flow control in microfluidic devices and method of manufacture. Microfluid flow control devices, or microvalves that provide for control of fluid or ionic current flow can be made incorporating a cast-in-place, mobile monolithic polymer element, disposed within a...
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