WARF Advances in Engineering and Computer Science | November 2024

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Forming Syntactic Foams Using Selective Laser Sintering
By incorporating hollow particles into an additive manufacturing technique, this low-cost, readily scalable solution produces highly customizable foam products with an extensive range of applications.
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Estimating Depths Using Single-Photon Detectors and Binary Structured Light Patterns
This system can provide fast and reliable 3D scanning of highly challenging objects (e.g., black tires and tubes, shiny and glossy metallic machine parts) that are considered impossible with conventional techniques.
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Long Distance Wireless Radio Tag with RF Energy Harvesting
A team of electrical and computer engineers developed a radio tag that can harvest radio energy from a querying device and use this for active one-directional communication, overcoming the problem of dual path loss.
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Downconversion of Pair-Breaking Phonons in Superconducting Quantum Circuits
Researchers at UW-Madison and Syracuse University have developed a simple, robust method for forming thick normal metal islands on the back side of the qubit substrate for the purposes of downconverting pair-breaking phonons.
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Low-Defect-Density Gamma Phase Aluminum Oxide Substrates for Heteroepitaxial Synthesis
These advances in the synthesis of γ-Al2O3 allow the formation of complex oxide thin films on comparatively inexpensive, widely available α-Al2O3 substrates.
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Transfer of Nanostructures Using Crosslinkable Copolymer Films
A team of UW-Madison researchers developed a method for transferring sub-10 nm width graphene nanoribbons to other substrates with high yields.
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