Stanford researchers have developed a method for etching microchannels through silicon substrates. Specifically, this method can produce wafers where the two sides have different features as well as through channels.
Researchers in the Stanford University Power Electronics Research Lab have designed an easy to implement, high-efficiency, high-frequency power amplifier with low voltage stress.
Polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells often underperform due to high overpotentials caused by sluggish kinetics. Specifically, the Pt-catalyzed oxygen reduction reaction at the cathode renders the energy efficiency well below the thermodynamic limit.
Use of diamond in high power and high temperature electronics is ideal due to its inherent properties, notably an ultra-high critical electric field of 10 MW/cm. Electronic devices require p-n junctions to achieve these electric fields, and thus n-doped diamond is required.
Stanford researchers led by Stephen Tsai are advancing a new, much simplified design approach for composite laminates – termed "double-double" – that can replace conventional laminates for lighter, tougher, and lower cost airplane structures among other uses.
Stephen Tsai and researchers at Stanford University's Structures and Composite Laboratory have designed a composite grid-stiffened skin structure, which is ultra-lightweight, stiff, strong, and easier and less expensive to manufacture.
Researchers at Stanford have developed a distributed digital "black box" audit trail design for connected and automated vehicle data and software assurance.
Stanford researchers at the Okamura Lab have prototyped a new retraction device that can reverse growth of a soft growing robot without undesired buckling.
Stanford researchers have developed a simple optical device for low-power, active light tuning. The device tunes the color of light across the visible spectrum and at select wavelengths by electrical biasing an array of micron sized pixels or nanowires.
Stanford researchers have created an integrated cooling textile (called i-Cool) with an unique functional design for personal perspiration management (PPM).
Encapsulation of therapeutic cells can increase its efficacy, but current methods are non-uniform and inefficient. This inconsistency leads to varying interactions between each encapsulated cell and the extracellular matrix (ECM).
This invention is a set of structures and associated processes to integrate GaN with Diamond to develop a full complementary CMOS device capable of operation in high power and high temperature applications.