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New Embodiments for Packages with Mini-Contact TE Coolers
Published Sunday, November 12, 2006Present trends towards greater miniaturization of integrated circuits (IC) have provided motivation for innovative on-chip thermal management systems.The inefficiencies of conventional thermal management systems requires design of more aggressive thermal solutions for managing systems that include localized regions of...
Categories: Industrial Processing
Keyword(s): Thermal management, heat, hot spots IC, integrated circuit, cooling
Docket: PS-2006-031
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Fabrication of Complex Three-dimensional Microfluidic Networks
Published Sunday, November 12, 2006There is an increasing drive towards miniaturization of scientific and technological devices. The push began in electronics and is directed to micromechanical microfluidic devices. Microfluidic devices make it possible to miniaturize entire instruments, increasing portability while decreasing costs. Conventional microfluidic devices...
Categories: Microfluidics
Keyword(s): Microfluidics, 3-D microfluidic, 525
Docket: PS-2006-027
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Plasmonics for Improved Bandwidth in Intra-chip and Inter-chip Communications and Advances in Computer Architecture
Published Sunday, November 12, 2006In a multi processor organization the processors and some fast memories require chip connections through pins on the boundary of the electric chips in order to reach larger memories or other processors. Current technology does not provide satisfactory solutions for such connections. They limit bandwidth to values insufficient for applications and...
Categories: Microelectronics
Keyword(s): Plasmonics, Chips, photonics, processor, computers
Docket: PS-2006-023
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Gait DNA and Its Applications in Pedestrian Surveillance
Published Sunday, November 12, 2006Researchers at the University of Maryland have come up with a new concept to uniquely characterize the articulating motion of human and integrate it into a complete activity monitoring system. This work has introduce a Double Helical Signature (Gait DNA) to characterize human gait topology in spatio-temporal domain and demonstrate its usefulness...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): surveillance, temporal, gait
Docket: IS-2005-108
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Probing Method for Fast Handoff in WLAN
Published Sunday, November 12, 2006WLAN devices have been integrated into mobile PCs and other mobile devices. However, as user mobility increases, the small cell size as defined by standard 802.11 standard in WLANs can induce frequent handoffs, causing inevitable communication delays. Therefore, a method for minimizing the probing latencies caused by the increasing channel numbers...
Categories: Microelectronics, Information Technology
Keyword(s): Seamless handoff, probing latency, WLAN Communications
Docket: IS-2005-107
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Educational Policy and Leadership Performance Assessment System (EDPL PAS)
Published Sunday, November 12, 2006In 2002 the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) established new requirements for institutions seeking accreditation of advanced graduate programs in educational leadership. University of Maryland's Department of Education Policy and Leadership (EDPL) revised its master's program and developed its doctoral program to...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): assessments, students professionals performance assessment PAS web based
Docket: IS-2005-106
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MEMS Accelerometer for High Acceleration Levels and Extreme Environmental Applications
Published Sunday, November 12, 2006A number of different MEMS accelerometer designs exist and many are commercially available. The variations between these devices include the material used in their fabrication, the geometry of the device, and the method employed to facilitate the acceleration measurement. Different materials are selected based upon factors such as fabrication...
Categories: Microelectronics, Devices, Aerospace
Keyword(s): MEMS accelerometer, piezoelectric, piezoresistive
Docket: PS-2005-086
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A Method for Determining the Nearest Uniformity Producing Profile (NUPP) for the Control of Thin-Film Processing Systems with Wafer Rotation
Published Sunday, November 12, 2006Researchers at the University of Maryland have come up with a completely new approach to uniformity control in semiconductor and other thin-film deposition processes (e.g. chemical vapor deposition for semiconductor manufacturing) for systems where substrate (e.g. wafers, optical components, etc.) rotation is used to improve uniformity. ...
Categories: Chemical, Information Technology
Keyword(s): thin-film,CVD, PVD, ALD
Docket: PS-2005-074
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Web-based Proposal/Document Management System
Published Sunday, November 12, 2006To move toward paperless proposal review, the Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program at the University of Maryland developed a Web-based Proposal System. This custom electronic System vastly improves former procedures of using shared paper copies for reviewing grant applications, business plans, submissions to peer review journals, and...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): web application, document, management, proposal, web-based, online, on-line, Internet, MIPS, MIPStrack
Docket: IS-2005-061
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A Data-Bearing Approach for Pilot-Embedding in Space-Time Coded MIMO Systems
Published Sunday, November 12, 2006Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems provide prominent benefits to wireless communication due to high capacity and reliability they can offer.Researchers at the University of Maryland have designed an innovative pilot-embedding technique for space-time (ST) coded MIMO systems with affordable computational cost and...
Categories: Microelectronics, Information Technology
Keyword(s): Pilot embedding, ST Block code, Time Multiplexing, Code Multiplexing
Docket: IS-2005-051