UMC has formed a partnership with HyperLight, a spin out from Harvard University’s Laboratory for Nanoscale Optics, to mass produce thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) chiplets before the end of this year. TFLN is an optical interconnect material which enables faster data transmission and better power efficiency while generating less heat than silicon photonics. While silicon photonics is more mainstream with ...
Harvard scientists have managed to create a processing circuit usign ionics rather than electronics. Working with biotech start-up DNA Script, they designed an ionic transistor which consists of an aqueous solution of quinone molecules, interfaced with two concentric ring electrodes with a centre disc electrode (see photo). The ring electrodes electrochemically lower and tune the local pH around the centre disc ...
Researchers at Harvard University are looking for a simple way to store data for a long time – longer than the decades of life preducted for DVDs and flash memory. Encoding data on DNA has been done, as it has on other long-chain polymers with long life, and the data desnity is emormous: ~1018 bytes/mm3, according to the university. But making ...
Harvard University has improved the presure capability of elastomeric valves, avoiding the choice between soft but weak valves, or capable but rigid valves, in soft robotics, it said. “Today’s rigid regulation systems considerably limit the adaptability and mobility of fluid-driven soft robots,” said Professor Robert Wood of Harvard’s school of engineering and applied sciences (SEAS). “We have developed soft and lightweight ...
Harvard and MIT researchers have teamed up to prototype a self-contained saliva-based diagnostic Covid test that can distinguish between variants in an hour and is “just as accurate as the PCR tests now used”, according to MIT. It is called ‘miSherlock’, for ‘minimally-instrumented Sherlock’, where Sherlock is a Crispr-based DNA/RNA test invented at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Two ...
Researchers at the Harvard have created an octopus-inspired soft robotic arm that can grip and manipulate objects, learning that the taper of such arms is important. “Most previous research on octopus-inspired robots focused either on mimicking the suction or the movement of the arm, but not both,” said researcher August Domel. “Our research is the first to quantify the tapering angles of ...
Harvard University has been inspired by a jumping spider to develop a novel distance sensor. The spider (family salticidae) hunts by ambushing prey, leaping onto it from a distance, and to do this it has to leap the correct distance. Unlike humans which use two-eye binocular vision (amongst other visual effects) to estimate range, the jumping spider’s eye is modified ...
Okay, it’s just a bit of fun for a Friday afternoon – check out the 2019 Ig Nobel Awards to recognise those who, with their research, first made people laugh and then made them think. I always like these good natured events, I used to look out for them for the now-defunct Made By Monkeys blog – but I think ...
Ultra-small nanoprobes could be a leap forward in high-resolution human-machine interfaces
Take a look at a milliDelta robot in action, taking the traditional three articulating arms of a "pick and place" Delta Robot and miniaturising them
