UW researchers have now demonstrated that nanotubes collected at a liquid/liquid interface self-organize to form two-dimensional (2D) nematic liquid crystals that globally align with flow. The 2D liqu...
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Semiconductor heterojunction structures comprising lattice mismatched, single-crystalline semiconductor materials and methods of fabricating the heterojunction structures are provided. The heterojunct...
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Tandem solar cells comprising two or more solar cells connected in a solar cell stack via pn diode tunnel junctions and methods for fabricating the tandem solar cells using epitaxial lift off and tran...
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Switches for electromagnetic radiation, including radiofrequency switches and optical switches, are provided. Also provided are methods of using the switches. The switches incorporate layers of high q...
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A self-assembling element fabricated using integrated circuit techniques may provide a small diameter helical conductor surrounding an electron beam for the construction of a vacuum electronic device ...
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Patterning methods for forming patterned device substrates are provided. Also provided are devices made using the methods. The methods utilize photoresist features have re-entrant profiles to form a s...
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A molecule sequencer uses a planar nanochannel for aligning molecules to flow past impedance interrogation electrodes mounted across the channel for rapid sequencing. The electrodes may be fixed to th...
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Light-emitting devices having a multiple quantum well (MQW) pin diode structure are provided. The light-emitting devices include a multilayered p-type contact composed of a heavily p-type doped hole i...
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Superlattice structures composed of single-crystal semiconductor wells and amorphous barriers are provided. Also provided are methods for fabricating the superlattice structures and electronic, optoel...
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Stretchable high frequency transmission lines and high-frequency filters comprising the transmission lines are provided. The transmission lines provide low power loss, even at microwave and millimeter...
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Traveling-wave tube amplifiers and methods for making slow-wave structures for the amplifiers are provided. The SWSs include helical conductors that are self-assembled via the release of stressed elec...
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Magnetoelectric devices based on piezoelectric/magnetostrictive bilayers are provided. Also provided are methods of using the devices to modulate or to sense the magnetization of the magnetostrictive ...
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A quantum computer architecture employs logical qubits that are constructed from a concatenation of doubly periodic Josephson junction circuits. The series concatenation of the doubly periodic Josephs...
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Traveling-wave tube amplifiers for high-frequency signals, including terahertz signals, and methods for making a slow-wave structure for the traveling-wave tube amplifiers are provided. The slow-wave ...
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Methods for fabricating thin, high-aspect-ratio Ge nanostructures from high-quality, single-crystalline Ge substrates are provided. Also provided are grating structures made using the methods. The met...
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Piezoelectrically actuated devices constructed from thin semiconductor membranes bonded directly to piezoelectric substrates are provided. Methods for fabricating these devices are also provided. The ...
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Flexible transistors and electronic circuits incorporating the transistors are provided. The flexible transistors promote heat dissipation from the active regions of the transistors while preserving t...
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Voltage-controlled spin field effect transistors (“spin transistors”) and methods for their use in switching applications are provided. In the spin transistors, spin current is transported from a ...
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Light-emitting devices having a multiple quantum well (MQW) diode structure and methods of making and using the devices are provided. The devices include aluminum nitride/aluminum oxide bilayers on th...
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The present disclosure provides systems and methods for characterizing the interaction of free radicals with various materials and the use of known interactions to isolate free radical generation from...
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P-N diodes that include p-type doped diamond and devices, such as p-n-p heterojunction bipolar transistors, that incorporate the p-n diodes are provided. In the p-n diodes, the diamond at the p-n junc...
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A transducer supported by the eardrum provides a piezoelectric material exchanging energy with the eardrum through a nanoscale membrane, the latter serving to boost the coupling between the piezoelect...
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Acoustically mediated spintronic THz emitters in which sound waves, rather than direct laser pulses, give rise to a spin current in a magnetic material via magnetoelastic coupling are provided. The TH...
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A Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy (HVPE) system is provided which comprises a deposition assembly comprising a plurality of deposition chambers and a plurality of separation chambers mounted together, eac...
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With the continued development of semiconductor technology, it is now possible to fabricate nano-scale material structures called Quantum Dots (QDs). The properties of QDs have earned them the charac...
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