Stanford researchers have optimized air-core coil design for wireless power transfer and demonstrated a 2x improvement over current designs. Existing resonant tank and coils are restraining MHz frequency inductive wireless power transfer efficiency.
Researchers in Dr. Cutkosky's laboratory have developed a gripper device that allows industrial robots to handle very soft or delicate objects. Effective handling of delicate objects remains a challenging problem in manufacturing.
Engineers in the Zhenan Bao Research Group have developed a highly versatile electronics platform with individual modular building blocks that can be easily configured and reconfigured for a variety of applications.
Stanford researchers have made an electrochemical redox refrigeration device that provides high cooling power densities without the environmental liabilities of hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants.
Stanford researchers have built a sound powered, wireless medical implant. The implant contains a piezoelectric energy receiver, an integrated circuit chip, and a loop antenna.
Researchers in Prof. Elizabeth Sattely's laboratory have developed a high-yield, scalable plant-based protein expression system to produce lignin-degrading enzymes for converting waste lignin into useful carbon-based platform chemicals.
Magnetic field measurements using currently available devices require complex switching circuitry to mitigate the offset and noise present in measurements.
Researchers at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have developed a new coating design which makes lithium metal batteries stable and promising for further development.
Stanford researchers have developed a high-performance, ultrafast, thermoresponsive polymer that can act as a circuit breaker to prevent fires in next-generation high-energy-density batteries by rapidly and reversibly turning off when overheated.
Stanford researchers have developed a method called KleinPAT, for creating sound models in seconds, making it cost effective to simulate sounds for many different objects in a virtual environment.
Engineers in the Solgaard lab have developed a high-speed, random access grating light valve (GLV) for phase modulation to steer and focus light in LIDAR and 3D imaging applications.
Stanford researchers at the Kasevich Lab have developed a module that can attach to any standard optical system or sensor for wide-field, time-resolved imaging.
Stanford researchers have designed a frequency-multiplexed neural probe architecture that enables massive scaling of electrophysiological recording from neurons.
Stanford researchers have developed various high ionic conductivity thin films (LiAlO2, LiAlF4) to stabilize lithium ion battery electrodes without sacrificing power density.