The bandwidth of a computer network is a measure of the rate of data transfer.  Limits on bandwidth may result from physical limitations of the media as well as processing limitations.  Increasing b...
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Quantum computing is expected to revolutionize the field of computation and provide major improvements for optimization, modeling and cryptography. Over the course of decades, different methods to mak...
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With recent advancements in digital imaging, image sensors have become popular for capturing motion in 3-D. However, measuring small scale motion such as fine hand gestures across a user interface rem...
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Airport travelers, retail shoppers and hospital visitors are a few of the millions of people who could benefit from improved indoor positioning. Yet even after decades of research, a simple and robust...
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) encompasses a wide cluster of neurodevelopmental disorders. Alongside the core social communication and repetitive behavior symptoms of ASD, there are common reports of ...
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Real-time data monitoring via wireless sensors is used in a wide range of applications, such as "smart agriculture," where sensors measure soil moisture and monitor livestock, and in health ...
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Currently, the modulation of light used in telecom transmissions requires costly and relatively large electro-optic modulators (EOMs). These devices operate at high voltages and require special care t...
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The demand for smaller wireless communication devices that use less power is growing. In particular, radio frequency identification (RFID) systems require small, low-power transmitters to label or “...
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In wireless telecommunications, signals are transmitted and received over transmission channels within a limited range of frequencies, typically between 0.7 GHz to 6 GHz for domestic applications. Due...
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Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology is commonly used in integrated circuits for microelectronics. Current is produced in semiconductor devices by using mobile charge carriers, ei...
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UW-Inventors have developed computational methods for providing clear NMR spectra for large molecules from low-end NMR data. The method provides an optimization calculation that can run on modern GPUs...
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Quanta image sensors sense light at the individual photon level and for cameras, detect them in a series of frames requiring specialized reconstruction methods. However, intensity reconstruction from ...
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Current methods for stand-off biometrics are unable to get accurate readings outside of controlled lighting environments. UW-Madison researchers have developed a system and methods for stand-off biome...
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UW-Madison researchers, along with collaborators at the University of Southern California, have developed a photonic analog-to-digital converter (pADC) architecture utilizing micro-ring resonators an...
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UW-Madison researchers have created new learning-based compressive spatio-temporal histograms for high-resolution single-photon 3d cameras. They created a family of compressive representations for his...
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UW-Madison researchers, along with their collaborators at USC, propose a photonic-SRAM structure using differential photodiode and micro-ring resonators (MRRs) to provide a building block for general ...
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Low vision that cannot be corrected by eyeglasses or contact lenses affects over 7 million Americans, with significant impact on quality of life and ability to read. Current challenges in generic magn...
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UW-Madison researchers use quanta (single-photon) sensors for fast and accurate qubit readout. Quanta sensors detect individual photons scattered from qubits, thus enabling sensing qubits at 2-3 order...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a novel framework to continuously monitor the system to detect unforeseen scenarios using a gradient-based generalization metric called coherence. The proposed fr...
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UW researchers have developed an electronically-reconfigurable reflectarray antenna with 2-bit phase quantization. This design uses three single-pole-single-throw (SPST) switches in a simple configura...
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UW-Madison researchers have created synchronization methods to reduce the impact of idling errors and enable lower logical error rates for Quantum Error Correction protocols. Using this method the syn...
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UW-Madison researchers have created methods that enable photon data captured by single-photon detectors, called single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs), to emulate a wide range of imaging modalities su...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a new optical content addressable memory (CAM) array that can perform large parallel CAM operations. This photonic CAM provides advantages over conventional CAMs ...
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UW-Madison researchers have created methods and structures for high temperature SRAM memory using compound semiconductors (like GaN). These high temperature transistors are used to create new forms of...
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UW researchers created a system comprised of single-photon detectors, such as single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs), along with high-speed projectors that use digital micromirror devices (DMDs) for d...
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