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SOIL MOISTURE SENSOR

UW-Madison researchers have developed a battery-less tag that can harvest energy from radio signals above ground and send an active response, which is used to estimate the soil moisture. There are two...
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Bhuvana Krishnaswamy, Yoganand Biradavolu | P240275US01

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Ion Source with Low Turn-On Delay, Jitter

UW-Madison researchers have developed a plasma ion source that exhibits a short delay between voltage application and ion beam initiation with low variance in the observed delay (i.e., jitter). Typica...
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Andrew Seltzman | P170357US01

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High Efficiency Room Temperature Infrared Sensor

UW-Madison researchers have developed a room-temperature infrared sensor with high detection efficiency over a wide IR spectral band. Room-temperature operation makes this technology easier to use tha...
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Hongrui Jiang, Seyyed Mohammad Moghimi | P180031US01

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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLEXIBLE MULTI-VARIABLE SENSOR

UW-Madison researchers, in conjunction with an industry partner, have developed a printed serpentine trace that can act as both a temperature sensor and a strain/flow sensor. It is integrated on a sin...
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Joseph Andrews, Muhammadeziz Tursunniyaz, Brian Cardwell | P220185US02

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METHODS FOR FABRICATING OPTICAL METASURFACES

Optical metasurfaces enable unprecedented control over electromagnetic wave manipulation. By leveraging powerful resonance mechanisms supported by subwavelength structures arranged in two-dimensional ...
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Filiz Yesilkoy, Yuber Samir Sanchez Rosas, Wihan Adi | P240127US01

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WIRELESS PASSIVE MECHANICAL VIBRATION MONITOR SYSTEM

Real-time vibration sensing is important in a variety of applications in industry, health care, and environmental monitoring. For example, vibration monitoring can assist in the prediction of natural ...
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Chu Ma, Dajun Zhang, Bhuvana Krishnaswamy, Muhammad Shahid | P240131US01

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NON-INVASIVE MULTIPARAMETER SENSOR

In conjunction with their industrial partner, UW-Madison researchers have created a passive capacitive sensor that uses thin-film electrodes placed in an interdigitated pattern to sense a variety of k...
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Joseph Andrews, Brian Cardwell, Muhammadeziz Tursunniyaz | P230430US01

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APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DIRECT NITRATE SENSING IN SOIL

Nitrate is a nutrient that helps plants grow, but too much of it can be harmful. Nitrate monitoring can be used to reduce the amount of fertilizer needed, which is better for the environment and can ...
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Joseph Andrews, Jingyi Huang, Aatresha Biswas | P230143US01

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SOIL GAS-FLUX MEASUREMENT SYSTEM

Soil produces or consumes gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ammonia, and oxygen through normal biological and geological processes. Current soil gas-flux measurement systems are ex...
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Bhuvana Krishnaswamy, Jingyi Huang, Francisco Arriaga, Christian Martinez, Hendri Winanto, Adam Nygard | P230171US01

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CELL-BASED DNA SENSORS AND METHODS OF USING SAME

UW-Madison researchers have developed cell-based DNA sensors to achieve easy, accurate, and cost-effective detection of pathogens. Using synthetic biology, the inventors engineered the naturally compe...
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Ophelia Venturelli, Yu-Yu Cheng, Zhengyi Chen | P210411US02

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Testing the Strength of Soft Materials

Soft materials are everywhere. In many applications, valuable information about the strength of these materials enables more precise control in everything from cutting and processing soft foods to des...
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Melih Eriten, Corinne Henak | P220230US01

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ALKALI METAL OPTICAL CLOCK

UW researchers have invented a Cesium Lattice Optical Clock (CLOC) for high performance and simple operation in a compact form factor. The novel design uses a “forbidden” optical transition in Cs ...
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Mark Saffman, Shimon Kolkowitz, Arjav Sharma | P220217US01

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UW-Madison researchers, working in collaboration with researchers from Cornell, developed metal-oxide based liquid crystal (LC) sensors for monitoring catalytic reactions. The inventors used a previou...
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Emmanouil Mavrikakis, Jake Gold, Trenton Wolter, Nicholas Abbott, Nanqi Bao, Huaizhe Yu, Ayushi Tripathi | P220044US01

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Capacitive Touch Sensor

A capacitive touch sensor is provided, The capacitive touch sensor includes a plate having an upper surface and lying in a plate plane. A generally planar, first electrode is spaced from the plate alo...
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Hongrui Jiang, Jayer Fernandes | P160417US01

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