UW-Madison researchers have designed a bidirectional switch based on an AlGaN/GaN structure with BaTiO3 to achieve the ideal target of ~1-1.1x resistance. The design is scalable from 100 V - 10 kV. T...
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 UW researchers have created a method for measuring the radial displacement of a rotor in an electric machine by using the stator coils themselves as sensors. This invention is based on a single wind...
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UW researchers have created a novel rotor hub structure that uses an airfoil or blade (similar to what is used in fans, compressors, or turbines) to enable self-cooling. In conventional rotor structur...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a method of forming a three-dimensional (3D) structure by depositing an alloy composition on a target, and solidifying portions of the alloy composition to form t...
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UW researchers have discovered that a bearingless permanent magnet motors can be designed to operate in the field-weakening regime. They have found that the airgap length and permanent magnet thicknes...
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UW researchers a novel cooling method for radial flux machines using a heat exchanger, which is placed inside the radial cooling ducts, encircling stator slots, and featuring coolant flow in the circu...
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UW Madison researchers have developed a current-source inverter topology (H7-CSI-BD) combined with two new modulation schemes that have four-quadrant power flow, high power density, high efficiency, h...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a new EHD inkjet printing device with a groundless printhead. By separating the printhead and the substrate, the entire system can be made modular such that the p...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a method for producing carbon negative supplementary cementitious materials utilizing a carbon mineralization-based direct air capture process named DDAC-REACT (D...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a method to produce carbon negative supplementary cementitious materials (SCM) utilizing a carbon mineralization-based direct air capture process named DDAC-REACT...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a hybrid electric machine bearing system that uses both gas and electromagnetic shaft support. The windings of the electric motor are used to reduce the loading o...
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UW researchers invented a novel twin bearingless machine drive configuration that uses a reduced number of inverters. Twin bearingless machine configurations have two bearingless machines rated for ha...
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A recent IBISWorld report assessed that the services of electroplating, plating, polishing, anodizing, and coloring of metals accounted for almost one third of the US metal treating market, which they...
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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville have created a technique for detecting stator intermittent ground faults in utility-scale generators. These intermittent ground faults can cause ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed improved Group III-nitride based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs). The HEMTs combine a high-aluminum-content barrier layer with a recessed gate that pro...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed photoreceptor scaffolds that can be used for transplantation of organized photoreceptor tissue, with or without retinal pigment epithelial cells, which may improv...
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UW-Madison innovators have designed a continuous helical 3D metal printer with an unbounded rotating powder volume. In one embodiment, the powder bed system exists as a torus, where powder is deposite...
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Composite materials are used in the aerospace, automotive, marine and defense industries because of their enhanced specific mechanical properties and functionality. One category of composite materials...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a high throughput powder spreadability testing system that can test powder spreadability at multiple layer thicknesses, multiple substrate materials, multiple bla...
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Real-time measurement of the printed line of an aerosol jet printer provides a good indication of whether the printing process is correctly configured. However, the complexity of the printing process...
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Typically, bidirectional switching elements are fabricated using two FET devices, for example, arranged in series with opposite polarities, each device shunted by a diode to steer current to the prope...
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Quantum dots are nanometer-sized semiconductors with optical properties that result from a combination of their small size and quantum mechanical effects. In one important application, quantum dots ma...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed an optical sensor for monitoring of laser-based manufacturing processes such as 3D printing. The device uses wavelength-swept lasers tuned across the absorption ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed an alloy of chromium, molybdenum and aluminum that has shown survivability up to 1600 degrees C, as well as over exposure times of 120 hours through multiple ther...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed cold-sprayed tantalum coatings configured to absorb a hydrogen species from an atmosphere, e.g., a gaseous region surrounding a plasma. The technology can be app...
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