Liquid Cooling Moves onto the Chip for Denser Electronics

Liquid ports carry cooling water to specially designed passages etched into the backs of FPGA devices to provide more effective cooling. The liquid cooling provides a significant advantage in computing throughput. (Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)
Oct 05, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
Researchers are putting liquid cooling right where it’s needed the most – a few hundred microns away from where the transistors are operating.

Georgia Tech named a Center of Knowledge Interchange partner by Siemens

Georgia Tech signs on 10th street (Photo Credit: Fitrah Hamid)
Oct 09, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
Global technology company Siemens has named Georgia Tech a Center of Knowledge Interchange (CKI) partner.

Ants: Both Solid-like and Liquid-like

Ants were put in a rheometer, a machine used to test the solid-like and liquid-like response of materials such as food, hand cream or melted plastic.
Oct 26, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
Study finds that ants are actually liquid-like and solid-like simultaneously

Carnegie Corp. Awards $485,000 Grant to Nunn School to Study Nuclear Instability

Oct 28, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
Sam Nunn School of International Affairs receives grant to study how technologies are increasing nuclear instability.

Entering the Strange World of Ultra-Cold Chemistry

Image shows results from massive parallel computer quantum simulations of two and three ultra-cold fermionic atoms trapped in a double well confinement and interacting via strong replusive and attractive contact interactions, showing formation of entangled states and highly correlated Wigner molecules. See additional figure description. (Credit: Georgia Tech Center for Computational Materials Science)
Oct 29, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
Georgia Tech has received a grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research to study the unusual chemical and physical properties of atoms and molecules at ultra-cold temperatures.

A Hairy Situation: Hair Increases Surface Area for Animals by 100 Times

Because of its hair, a cat has the true surface area as a ping pong table.
Nov 09, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
Because of hair, a cat's true surface area is the size of a ping pong table.

A Hairy Situation: Hair Increases Surface Area for Animals by 100 Times

Because of its hair, a cat has the true surface area as a ping pong table.
Nov 09, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
Because of hair, a cat's true surface area is the size of a ping pong table.

Autonomous Machines are On Their Own

GTRI principal research engineer Mick West, graduate student Jacob Buffo of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and undergraduate Matthew Meister of the School of Mechanical Engineering handle the 210-pound Icefin at Georgia Tech’s Underwater Acoustics Research Laboratory.
Dec 01, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
Georgia Tech innovations are making unmanned aircraft, boats and submersibles smarter and more capable.

3D “Nanobridges” Formed Using Electron Beam Writing with Tiny Jets of Liquid Precursor

Shown are elements of the NESA-FEBID process involving nanoelectrospray delivery of electrically-energized liquid phase precursor to the substrate where it interacts with an e-beam, resulting in formation of nanoscale deposits. (Credit: Jeffrey Fisher, Georgia Tech)
Dec 18, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
Researchers have demonstrated a new process for rapidly fabricating complex three-dimensional nanostructures from a variety of materials, including metals.

Two-Stage Power Management System Boosts Energy-Harvesting Efficiency

Triboelectric nanogenerators use a combination of the triboelectric effect and electrostatic induction to generate small amounts of electrical power from mechanical motions such as rotation, sliding or vibration. (Credit: Zhong Lin Wang Laboratory)
Jan 11, 2016 - Atlanta, GA
A power management and storage system could boost energy harvesting.
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