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Background
Donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts (DASAs) have become valuable photoresponsive materials due to their modular donor, acceptor, and triene components that tune a variety of properties. This attribute is critical for integrating photoswitches into complex devices and biological environments for applications in targeted drug delivery...
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Market Opportunity
There is growing interest in 2D materials, such as graphene and few-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), due to their unique properties, including linear band dispersion and high carrier mobility. TMDCs, like MoS2, WS2, and WSe2, offer finite bandgaps in the visible range and exhibit varying optical properties with layer...
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Market Opportunity
While electron emission devices have been heavily explored in the past, the maximum modulation frequency of these devices is limited. Optical modulation of emission offers the highest modulation speeds. Optical approaches, however, are highly inefficient, particularly when utilizing nanostructured tips. Furthermore, these devices...
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Senior care
Rehabilitation and physical therapy
Personal fitness and life-logging
Abstract
To combat the signal degradation seen in typical radio wave-based wearable sensor networks, researchers at USC have proposed a novel wireless system based instead on magnetic induction (MI). A set of transmitter coils and receiver antennas are mounted throughout...
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Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Data-intensive computing
Abstract
USC researchers propose a method called Augmented Memory Computing, which allows an SRAM cell to (1) function like a standard 6 transistor (6T) SRAM cell, storing one bit of data in static format, or (2) function in an augmented mode, storing more than one bit of data in...
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Artificial intelligence
Encryption
Neuromorphic computing
Abstract
USC inventors have designed a hybrid memory array with optical and magnetic components enabling ultra-fast read and write operations, called NEBULA. NEBULA is a wafer-scale single super non-volatile magnetic memory chip with optical read and write capability and optical interconnects....
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High power transistors
Bipolar junction and high-mobility electron transistors
Abstract
USC researchers present a novel method for growing low-defect non-planar heterostructure transistors that resolves these challenges. The technique produces high-quality single crystalline heterostructures by employing sequential growth of non-epitaxial templates...
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Autonomous vehicles
Robotics
Surveillance and security
Abstract
USC researchers bring advanced retinal computations to image sensors with Integrated Retinal Functionality in Image Sensors (IRIS). By leveraging recent advancements in inner retinal circuits, IRIS goes beyond basic luminance adaptation and change detection. It mimics the feature-selective...
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Integrated circuits
Abstract
USC inventors propose an analog optical interconnect between the CMOS image sensor and the memory/processor that enables significant bandwidth reduction and promotes energy efficiency. This method would both remove the need for for ADCs between transceiver nodes and allow for analog in-memory/pixel computation, resulting...
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Market Opportunity
Infrared photodetectors are used in a wide variety of applications. Depending on the intensity of light signals and the type of information to be obtained, photo sensitivity and S/N required of infrared detectors differ. To improve the S/N, cooling the infrared detector will be necessary.
USC Solution
Researchers at USC have developed...
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