More than 250 students had a hand in a satellite scheduled to launch on January 17th, the first in space for a project to keep nanosats in orbit by harnessing Earth’s magnetic field.

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The researchers compare them to fat deposits in living creatures.

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“The technology can give users the confidence they deserve when reusing respirators or other PPE.”

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An autonomous HVAC system could provide more comfort with less energy.

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Researchers demonstrated the use of stacked, transparent graphene photodetectors combined with image processing algorithms to produce 3D images and range detection.

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Harnessing heat flow at the nanoscale while suppressing thermal radiation from the LED enables a new approach to light-based cooling.

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DARPA’s initiative to reinvigorate the microelectronics industry draws deeply on Michigan Engineering expertise.

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Electron states in a semiconductor, set and changed with pulses of light, could be the 0 and 1 of future “lightwave” electronics or room-temperature quantum computers.

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