Point Quality Evaluation Metric (PQM) for LiDAR-Based Mapping and Reconstruction
A novel metric to comprehensively assess the quality of large point-clouds from LiDAR-based mapping.
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LiDAR-based mapping and reconstruction are crucial for various applications, yet assessing the quality of dense maps they generate poses challenges. Current methods often fail to capture completeness, structural information, and local...
Published: 10/7/2025
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Inventor(s): Yash Turkar, Karthik Dantu, Charuvahan Adhivarahan, Pranay Wasudeo Meshram
Keywords(s): Featured, Technologies
Category(s): Campus > University at Buffalo, Technology Classifications > Engineering, Technology Classifications > Electronics
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Energy Efficient Steep Slope Cold Electron DIRAC Transistor
Graphene-enabled Dirac-source "cold" electron transistor breaks the sub-60 mV/decade threshold and achieves current density over 1µA/µm
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Power dissipation and energy efficiency in electronics are huge barriers facing the explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC). Metal-oxide-semiconductor...
Published: 10/2/2025
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Inventor(s): Huamin Li, Fei Yao
Keywords(s): Technologies
Category(s): Campus > University at Buffalo, Technology Classifications > Energy Conservation, Technology Classifications > Nanotechnology, Technology Classifications > Electronics
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Smart Metal-Graphene Hybrid Reflectarray at THz Frequencies
Four technologies work in unison (source, modulator, antenna, reflector) to increase the propagation of upper band 5G (i.e., 100 to 300 GHz).
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In order to continue the exponential rise in wireless data rates, terabit-per-second links are expected to become a reality within the next five years. The exploration of higher frequency bands,...
Published: 9/12/2025
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Inventor(s): Erik Einarsson, Josep Jornet, Arjun Singh, Ngwe Thawdar, Michael Andrello
Keywords(s): Featured, Technologies
Category(s): Campus > University at Buffalo, Technology Classifications > Electronics, Technology Classifications > Wireless Technologies
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A Flexible Multiplexed Amplifier for Multichannel Wearable Biopotential Devices
A compact, multiplexed amplifier architecture for wearable biopotential devices, enabling efficient, multi-channel data processing in a miniaturized, flexible format.
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High-density biopotential measurement devices, such as EMGs and EEGs, typically require large and cumbersome amplifiers, limiting their applicability in wearable technologies....
Published: 9/12/2025
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Inventor(s): Filip Stefanovic
Keywords(s): Featured, Technologies
Category(s): Campus > University at Buffalo, Technology Classifications > Biomedical Science and Engineering, Technology Classifications > Medical Devices, Technology Classifications > Electronics
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Quantization in Gate-All-Around Field Effect Transistors
A design for quantization of electron states in the channel of gate-all-around field-effect transistors (GAAFET).
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The semiconductor industry constantly pushes innovation, demanding research and development into new materials, manufacturing processes, and designs. Silicon is the most widely used semiconductor material in the electronic...
Published: 9/12/2025
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Inventor(s): Hong Luo, Piaohan Xu
Keywords(s): Featured, Technologies
Category(s): Campus > University at Buffalo, Technology Classifications > Bioinformatics, Technology Classifications > Computers, Technology Classifications > Electronics, Technology Classifications > Energy, Technology Classifications > Instrumentation, Technology Classifications > Nanotechnology
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Delta-Sigma Modulator Enabled Variable-Input Resolution In-Memory Computing SRAM Macro
An SRAM based IMC with higher linearity than the state of the art using delta-sigma modulators.
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SRAM based IMC has gained significant attention due to its high energy efficiency and easy integration with CMOS ICs. A fundamental limitation of SRAM based IMC is nonlinearity in the multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operation. For large...
Published: 9/12/2025
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Inventor(s): Arindam Sanyal, Jae-sun Seo, Vasundhara Damodaran, Ziyu Liu
Keywords(s): Technologies
Category(s): Campus > University at Buffalo, Technology Classifications > Computers, Technology Classifications > Electronics, Technology Classifications > Energy Conservation
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Methods for Making Large-area, Free-standing Poly-crystalline Diamond Films
Low cost methods to produce poly-crystalline diamond (PCD) membranes with adjustable dimensions for use in electronic/mechanical/optoelectronic devices.
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Due to its unique combination of outstanding physical and chemical properties, such as wide band-gap, chemical inertness, the highest hardness and thermal conductivity, negative electron...
Published: 9/12/2025
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Inventor(s): Jung-Hun Seo, Matthias Muehle, Dmitry Shinyavskiy
Keywords(s): Technologies
Category(s): Campus > University at Buffalo, Technology Classifications > Electronics, Technology Classifications > Computers
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Optimized Trusted Execution Environments for FPGAs with Enhanced Security
Systems and methods for creating a custom trusted execution environment (TEE) for FPGAs with isolated memory and cache in order to protect keys against side-channel attacks.
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FPGAs are commonly used by high-security industries while being particularly vulnerable to side-channel attacks. Intel SGX and Arm TrustZone are two hardware TEE...
Published: 9/12/2025
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Inventor(s): Ziming Zhao, Md Armanuzzaman
Keywords(s): Technologies
Category(s): Campus > University at Buffalo, Technology Classifications > Electronics, Technology Classifications > Computers
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Quantum Sensing Using Entangled Photons and Phonons
A quantum semiconductor design that opens up the possibility of realizing novel devices in which electron-phonon coupling is exploited to generate single phonons on-demand.
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Hot carriers in semiconductor devices may lose energy efficiently through the emission of phonons. In 2D materials, the phonon energies (100-200 meV) can be well...
Published: 9/12/2025
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Inventor(s): Vasili Perebeinos, Jonathan Bird, Huamin Li
Keywords(s): Featured, Technologies
Category(s): Campus > University at Buffalo, Technology Classifications > Electronics, Technology Classifications > Computers, Technology Classifications > Sensors, Technology Classifications > Semiconductor Devices and Manufacturing, Technology Classifications > Quantum Computing
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Software-defined Underwater Multicarrier Chirping
Compressed high intensity radar pulses for better underwater communication.
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Sending information through water is exceedingly difficult. Radio waves are restricted to low frequencies (less than 300 Hz) which require large antennas and lots of transmission power. Optical waves suffer from scattering and need to be precisely aligned....
Published: 9/12/2025
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Inventor(s): Dimitrios Pados, Stella Batalama, Georgios Sklivanitis, Song-Wen Huang
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Information Technology, Technology Classifications > Electronics, Technology Classifications > Environment, Campus > University at Buffalo
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