Research News
June 11, 2020
Sound Waves Transport Droplets for Rewritable Lab-on-a-Chip Devices
Vibrating transducers create tunnels in a thin layer of oil to transport droplets across a chip without leaving a trace behind
June 04, 2020
Duke Engineer Wins Prestigious IEEE Mid-Career Award
Electrical and computer engineering faculty member Yiran Chen is recognized for pioneering contributions to the field of cyber-physical systems
May 18, 2020
‘Vortex Microlaser’ Encodes Information in Twisting Beams of Light
Engineers develop first tunable, chip-based vortex microlaser and detector, providing a new route to increasing the bandwidth of fiber optic communications
May 14, 2020
Yiran Chen Inducted into HPCA Hall of Fame
Chen Joins a Small, Prolific Group of Computing Experts
May 12, 2020
Silver Nanocubes Make Point-of-Care Diagnostics Easier to Read
Researchers use plasmonics to enhance fluorescent markers in lab-on-a-chip diagnostic devices
May 11, 2020
Inexpensively Locating Friendly (and Unfriendly) Radio Waves
Passive method for locating and characterizing radio waves could lead to cameras that can capture images using ambient radio waves
May 08, 2020
Litchinitser, Collaborators Win Aspen Institute Italia Award 2020
Duke professor of electrical and computer engineering Natalia Litchinitser belongs to a US-Italy team that has produced a “revolutionary” microlaser that twists light
May 07, 2020
Ask a Scientist: Lightning
Steven Cummer answers your questions about the physical processes that happen when lightning strikes, and the effects that we see and feel on the ground
March 19, 2020
Stretchable Supercapacitors to Power Tomorrow’s Wearable Devices
Researchers demonstrate robust supercapacitors that still work when stretched to eight times their original size
March 01, 2020
Machine Learning Protecting Human Privacy
Duke Engineers are pioneering techniques to scan a person’s face while ignoring certain sensitive features that someone might not want their device to access