Plasmonics
Researchers in solar energy speak of a day when millions of otherwise fallow square meters of sun-drenched roofs, windows, deserts, and even clothing will be integrated with inexpensive solar cells that are many times thinner and lighter than the bulky rooftop panels familiar today.
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Craig Gentry
If you�ve signed up for a Web-based e-mail service such as Google�s Gmail, or Yahoo! Mail, then you are a user of �cloud computing,� in which the storage and processing resources that data require are distributed among a vast network of servers. You almost certainly have no idea where those servers are, how many are involved, or who is managing them � they may as well be within a cloud � but the convenience of accessing the data on any connected computer or mobile device has won over you and millions of other customers.
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Craig Criddle
Every day in the Bay Area, hundreds of millions of gallons of treated wastewater are dumped into the Bay as if they were worthless. The word waste is in the name for a reason, right? What good is sewage?
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Nick Melosh
A nanometer-scale probe designed to slip into a cell wall and fuse with it could offer researchers a portal for extended eavesdropping on the inner electrical activity of individual cells.
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Chris Manning
For people who despair that there is too much information online, Chris Manning has an answer: technology is not the problem.
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Markus Covert
In a purely logistical sense, biology can really get in the way of biological research. Cells must be cultured, nurtured, and then perturbed according to an experiment�s protocol. It can be slow, demanding, and expensive work.
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H.-S. Philip Wong; Subhasish Mitra
Stanford engineers have built what they believe is a chip with the most advanced computing and storage elements made of carbon nanotubes to date by devising a way to root out the stubborn complication of nanotubes that cause short circuits. Nanotubes, which resemble microscopic straws of rolled up chicken wire, are widely viewed as the potential next generation of materials for enabling improved speed and energy efficiency of computer chips.
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Chris Edwards
A new power plant design could keep emissions of coal burning out of the air by keeping them trapped in brackish aquifer water.
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Stephen Quake
Professor Stephen Quake has sequenced his genome at a much lower cost and with a much smaller team than anyone has reported before for a full human sequence.
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Mark Levoy
Giving people total control of a digital camera�s hardware and software could lead to an explosion of innovation in photography. That�s why Stanford researchers have created an open source device, called �Frankencamera.�
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Mark Brongersma
A new study shows how to make optimal use of the light-absorbing properties of incredibly thin germanium wires.
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Sustainable Aviation
Research and teaching on sustainable aviation takes flight in AA department
May 2009. Noon on a typically sunny day in Palo Alto would seem to offer idyllic conditions for an Aeronautics and Astronautics (AA) student to lunch at a picnic table...
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Karl Deisseroth
April 2009. About the only thing doctors have understood about deep-brain stimulation, which is widely used to treat Parkinson�s disease symptoms...
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Michael Genesereth
March 2009. A prototype e-mail system called SEAMail allows users to address messages by describing the intended recipients (e.g. �engineers in building 3�). The technology obviates the need to discover or remember exact e-mail...
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Aaron Lindenberg
�Ultrafast,� high energy x-ray allows unprecedented pictures of matter in motion.
February 2009. At the atomic scale, all kinds of natural and technological phenomena occur on the time scale of quadrillionths of a second.
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Gill Bejerano
Mysterious snippets of DNA withstand eons of evolution, computer analysis shows
January 2009. Small stretches of seemingly useless DNA harbor a big secret. There�s one problem: We don�t know what it is. Although individual laboratory animals...
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Craig Peters
Student brings enterprise, wide-ranging experience to search for solar breakthrough
December 2008. If you havent yet been invited to send a digital representation of yourself to a business meeting or a family reunion in a virtual world...
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Virtual Worlds
Philip Levis & Vladlen Koltun
Research aims to make virtual worlds as world wide as the Web
November 2008. If you havent yet been invited to send a digital representation of yourself to a business meeting or a family reunion in a...
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Stacey Bent
Nanotechnology research could take the cost out of catalysis
October 2008. Platinum jewelry looks brilliant around a neck or finger but no one luxuriates in paying hundreds of dollars to replace the catalytic converter in a car. More about Stacey Bent »
Scott Delp
Simulation software off to a fast start as a means of studying human motion
September 2008. The human body is accompanied by a mind and many would say a soul, but it is fundamentally a machine.
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CA�s Greenhouse Gas Goals
James Sweeney & John Weyant
Engineers analyze the economics of Californias greenhouse gas goals
August 2008. Two years ago when California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the bill...
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Robert Dutton
Transistor aging research can keep chips working longer, reduce early breakdowns
July 2008. Everyone knows that electronics become obsolete (What�s that quaint old thing? A non-3G iPhone?) but far less well known is that they physically age.
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