March 11, 2026
Active self-cleaning technology for solar panels
Researchers: Professor KarlBöhringer (PI) Di Sun, graduate student, electrical engineering By microfabrication process, University of Washington Electrical Engineering (UW EE) Professor Karl Böhringer and UW EE graduate student Di Sun can create micro-sized patterns on a glass surface. By vibration, water droplets can be guided along the patterns and clean away surface contaminants. In a handout,…
Haptic Passwords
Researchers: Professor Howard Chizeck (PI) Junie Yan, Student, graduate student, electrical engineering Mobile/On line transaction fraud from credit cards is over $10B annually, and existing authentication methods are not secure, and are easy to compromise. The new, forgery-proof Haptic Passwords method verifies your identity and secures on-line and mobile transactions. By taking advantage of the tremendous computing power…
Smart Eyewear
Researchers: Professor Arka Majumdar (PI) Shane Colburn, graduate student, materials science and engineering Alan Zhan, graduate student, physics As people age, their eyesight almost always gets worse. According to the Vision Council of America, approximately 75 percent of adults use some sort of vision correction. But for a patient, buying new glasses every time their…
UW BIOFAB: a cloud laboratory for genetic engineering
Participants: Professor Eric Klavins (PI) Justin Vrana, graduate student, bioengineering Orlando DeLange, postdoctoral researcher, electrical engineering Michelle Parks, staff, electrical engineering Biomedical laboratories, entrepreneurs, and researchers need data to develop medical therapies. But the complex experiments the process requires can be error-prone, often leading to longer timelines and higher costs. Now, a team led by…
14/16nm ASIC Design
Taylor and team recently designed the Tiered Accelerator Fabric architecture, and with collaborators taped out a 511-core RISC-V implementation in TSMC 16 nm, including 5 Linux-capable RISC-V cores, 496-core RISC-V manycore, and a binarized neural network.
Heterogeneous Tiled Microprocessors
Taylor was lead architect of the 16-core MIT Raw tiled multicore processor, one of the earliest multicore processors, which was commercialized into the Tilera TILE64 architecture. Recently, in 2017, Intel Skylake SP has adopted our scalable mesh of cores architecture that we proposed.
Wide-bandgap Modular Architecture for Medium Voltage Energy Conversion in Utility-scale Wind and Solar
Stroke neurorehabilitation using optogenetic stimulation in non-human primates
The goal of this project is to reveal underlying mechanisms of brain plasticity that lead to functional recovery from stroke, which can provide us with vital insight to develop stimulation-based therapies not only for stroke but also for a broad range of neurological disorders.
Stabilizing The Power System In 2035 And Beyond: Evolving From Grid-Following To Grid-Forming Distributed Inverter Controllers
Wide-bandgap Modular Architecture for Medium Voltage Energy Conversion in Utility-scale Wind and Solar
Title: Wide-bandgap Modular Architectures for Medium Voltage Energy Conversion in Utility-scale Wind and Solar PI: Brian Johnson Funding Source: National Renewable Energy Laboratory R&D Program. Period: 2017 – 2019. Abstract: The proposed concept bridges advances in wide-bandgap devices with breakthroughs in distributed and decentralized control to produce next-generation medium voltage power conversion circuits that are…
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