A team of University of Pennsylvania engineers has used a pattern of nanoantennas to develop a new way of turning infrared light into mechanical action, opening the door to more sensitive infrared cameras and more compact chemical-analysis techniques.
School of Engineering & Applied Science
Penn Engineers’ Nanoantennas Improve Infrared Sensing
A diagram showing how the researchers' optomechanical infrared-detecting structure works.
Ertugrul Cubukcu
Fei Yi
Video: The End Is the Beginning
April 25, 2013
Mitchell Marcus of the School of Engineering and Applied Science talks about ENIAC.
Article Source: Developing Philly
Finally: Robots Learn What ‘Squishy’ Really Means
May 13, 2013
Katherine Kuchenbecker of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and her students are featured for presenting at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Germany.
Article Source: IEEE Spectrum
Penn Research Makes Advance in Nanotech Gene Sequencing Technique
The allure of personalized medicine has made new, more efficient ways of sequencing genes a top research priority. One promising technique involves reading DNA bases using changes in electrical current as they are threaded through a nanoscopic hole.
An illustration of a single-stranded DNA homopolymer translocating through a silicon nitride nanopore. (Credit: Robert Johnson)
Marija Drndić
Robotic Fly Takes to the Air, Briefly
May 2, 2013
Vijay Kumar of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is quoted about microrobot-development research.
Article Source: Science Magazine
Video: Iron Arm
May 1, 2013
The development of an exoskeleton prototype called the TitanArm created by undergraduate students of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is highlighted.
Article Source: “Daily Planet,” Discovery Channel
Video: Tiny Flying Robots! Meet the Quadrotor
May 1, 2013
Vijay Kumar and doctoral student Matthew Turpin of the School of Engineering and Applied Science are quoted about developing quadrotors.
Article Source: CNN
Video: UPenn’s TitanArm Exoskeleton Prototype Makes Light Work of Heavy Lifting
May 1, 2013
Working under the supervision of Jonathan Fiene, undergraduate students of the School of Engineering and Applied Science are highlighted for their development of an exoskeleton prototype.
Article Source: Engadget.com
Video: 3D Printing a Revolution Across Delaware Valley
April 27, 2013
Jordan Miller of the School of Engineering and Applied Science explains how a 3D-printing technique developed in the lab of Penn Engineering professor Chris Chen could help grow organs for transplantation.
Article Source: WPVI-TV (Philadelphia)
Penn Research Helps to Show How Turbulence Can Occur Without Inertia
Anyone who has flown in an airplane knows about turbulence, or when the flow of a fluid — in this case, the flow of air over the wings — becomes chaotic and unstable. For more than a century, the field of fluid mechanics has posited that turbulence scales with inertia, and so massive things, like planes, have an easier time causing it.
Data from the experiment, showing laminar (top) and turbulent (bottom) flow around the posts at the beginning of the pipe.
Paulo Arratia
