School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
RFID tag research
Organic solar concentrators collect and focus different colors of sunlight.
Solar cells can be attached to the edges of the plates. By collecting light
over their full surface and concentrating it at their edges, these devices
reduce the required area of solar cells and consequently, the cost of solar
power. Stacking multiple concentrators allows the optimization of solar
cells at each wavelength, increasing the overall power output.
7/14/07 Unveiling of the Solar Car teams new model Continuum, which replaces the 2005 design Momentum, at the Power Center.
Marc Baldo, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science (left) and Shalom Goffri, postdoc in the research lab of electronics (right) holding examples of organic
The toolÑcalled a nanorulerÑused to make finer patterns of lines over larger areas than have been possible with other methods.
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Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies have reported a way to improve the quality and resolution of patterned templates such as those used to manufacture hard drives and other data storage devices. When added to lithographically patterned surfaces such as those shown in the upper left panel of this composite image, specially designed materials called block copolymers self-assemble into structures, shown in the upper right panel, with improved quality and resolution over the original patterns. These structures can be used to make templates with nanoscale elements like the silicon pillars shown in the bottom panel, which may be useful for manufacturing higher capacity hard disk drives.
Images provided by: Paul Nealey
Dates: 05/08 and 07/08
From left, Professors Yet-Ming Chiang, Angela Belcher and Paula Hammond display a virus-loaded film that can serve as the anode of a battery.
Contemporary Music Festival 2008
Roland Levinsky Building *** Local Caption *** Voices, music, audience, performance,
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Research Lab of Electronics postdoctoral student Peter Bermel holds photovoltatic chips by a poster explaining part of the research that he, Lirong Zeng, and professors Lionel Kimerling and John Joannopoulos worked on.
From the control room, graduate students Rachael McDermott and Eric Edlund perform experiments on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak to support their thesis work.
Dr. Alex Kuzmich (grey sweater)
Dr. Stewart Jenkins (white hair/brown jacket)
School of Physics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Corey Campbell, graduate research assistant (blue shirt)
Yaroslav Dudin, graduate research assistant (red sweater)
Ran Zhao, graduate research assistant (female/white top)
The computer board in the chameleon guitar.
This is a sample of the MIT battery material that could allow quick charging of portable devices.
Friday 8 May 2009.
QUT senior lecturer Cheng Yan has developed a nanomaterial sensor that can be used as a sensor for metal fatigue and other types of wear and tear.
Photo:QUT Marketing and Communication/Erika Fish.
This image shows the design of a new type of invisibility cloak that is simpler than previous designs and works for all colors of the visible spectrum, making it possible to cloak larger objects than before and possibly leading to practical applications in "transformation optics." (Purdue University)
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Pablo Valdivia, a research affiliate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, works in his lab on a robotic fish he created with Professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi. The robot is designed to more easily maneuver into areas where traditional underwater autonomous vehicles cannot go.
The schematic on the left illustrates light being compressed and sustained in the 5 nanometer gap -- smaller than a protein molecule -- between a nanowire and underlying silver surface. To the right is an electron microscope image of the hybrid design shown in the schematic. (Courtesy of Xiang Zhang Lab, UC Berkeley)
Both pictures show a bright emerald green point of light from a single plasmon laser emanating from the optical setup used by UC Berkeley researchers. These semiconductor lasers -- the world's smallest -- are extremely efficient, so the small amount of scattered light is clearly visible, even in ambient room lighting. Camera saturation of the bright laser light gives the impression of a larger spot. (Courtesy of Xiang Zhang Lab, UC Berkeley)