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UNSW 08 MAY 12	Water trace Water Trace is a method for rapidly detecting water concentration in organic media such as alcohols, fats, petrol and oil. The detection and quantification of trace levels of water in organic media is critical to sensitive industrial processes. Existing technologies such as the Karl Fischer me...
Stanford 05 MAY 12	Thin Films Having Rock-Salt-Like Structure Deposited on Amorphous Surfaces Thin Films Having Rock-Salt-Like Structure Deposited on Amorphous Surfaces
UNSW 03 MAY 12	High Energy Density fuel system for High Speed Air Breathing Engines A Fuel system developed to increase the energy density and lower the ionisation threshold for hydrogen and hydrocarbon fuel in high speed air breathing engines such as scramjets. The development of scramjet technologies has suffered from the need to improve reliability and reduce requirements ...
University of Arizona 28 APR 12	Novel Utilization of Elemental Sulfur for High Refractive Index Polymers and Nanocomposites Background: Elemental sulfur nanomaterials fabricated via synthetic chemistry from colloids and polymers, using sulfur directly as the media, offers a novel class of high energy density polymers and nanocomposites based on elemental sulfur. Sulfur widely known as an outstanding elect...
WaikatoLink 23 APR 12	Building integrated solar energy systems This exciting new technology merges solar energy capture systems into common roofing material. Three roof panels are available.
Clemson University 18 APR 12	High-frequency Structures for Nanoelectronics and Molecular Electronics Characterizations The technology allows users to obtain electrical measurements of small devices and minute amounts of materials. These devices could include magnetoelectronic/spintronic devices and high-impedance devices, for instance a metallic single-walled carbon-nanotube (mSWNT), a SWNT transistor, a mi...
UC Santa Barbara 22 MAR 12	High Efficiency Group-III Nitride/Non-Group-III Nitride Tandem Solar Cells A method for wafer bonding Group-III nitride cells to non-Group-III nitride cells to create a multi-junction solar cell with improved efficiency.
UC Santa Barbara 16 MAR 12	Method for Improving Growth of Nonpolar and Semipolar Group III Nitride Devices A novel method for growing such devices with significantly improved characteristics via engineering growth rates to improve device performance.
UC Davis 07 MAR 12	Interfacial Packaging for Electronics Researchers from the UC Davis Biomedical Engineering department have developed an innovative microdevice packaging process which enable capillary-driven micron-scale self-alignment and universal nanopatternable interfacial bonding, without incurring thermal or electrical barriers.
UC Santa Barbara 24 FEB 12	Method for Deposition of InGaN Layers with High Indium Content A method for depositing InGaN layers with high indium content.
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