Results 151 to 160 of about 17,507 (244)
ABSTRACT Van der Waals ferroelectric materials are emerging as key building blocks for future logic devices and integrated circuits. Among them, α‐In2Se3 offers a unique combination of robust room temperature ferroelectricity and semiconducting behavior.
Ankita Ram +10 more
wiley +1 more source
ABSTRACT In recent years, flexible sensors have played an important role in fields of medical diagnostics and soft robotics for their unique conformability. To further improve the sensing performance, new strategies involving liquid metal‐based composite materials have shown many advantages. Among the emerging new materials, gallium‐based liquid metals
Caicaike Bayin +10 more
wiley +1 more source
Deep Learning‐Assisted Design of Mechanical Metamaterials
This review examines the role of data‐driven deep learning methodologies in advancing mechanical metamaterial design, focusing on the specific methodologies, applications, challenges, and outlooks of this field. Mechanical metamaterials (MMs), characterized by their extraordinary mechanical behaviors derived from architected microstructures, have ...
Zisheng Zong +5 more
wiley +1 more source
Temperature‐Tunable Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Optical Combiners for Extended Reality Applications
Recent advancements in extended reality highlight their potential to enhance traditional displays like liquid crystal displays and organic light‐emitting diode screens. This article introduces an innovative cholesteric liquid crystal‐based optical combiner for head‐mounted displays, enabling seamless transitions between augmented reality, virtual ...
Yuanjie Xia +6 more
wiley +1 more source
A novel method for generating versatile standing wave fields using an acoustic metasurface deflector and retroreflector is introduced. By overcoming traditional constraints of parallel surfaces, the approach enables customizable wave patterns and enhances applications in particle manipulation.
Chadi Ellouzi +4 more
wiley +1 more source
Modular Electronic Microrobots With Onboard Sensor‐Program‐Steered Locomotion
Modular electronic smartlet microrobots integrate ambient‐light energy harvesting, photodetection, programmable CMOS control, and bubble‐based actuation within a sub‐millimeter fold‐up architecture. A 58‐bit on‐board CMOS chiplet enables sensor–program steered switching between independently addressable actuators, achieving closed‐loop 2D navigation in
Vineeth K. Bandari +6 more
wiley +1 more source
Optimizing 3D Bin Packing of Heterogeneous Objects Using Continuous Transformations in SE(3)
This article presents a method for solving the three‐dimensional bin packing problem for heterogeneous objects using continuous rigid‐body transformations in SE(3). A heuristic optimization framework combines signed‐distance functions, neural network approximations, point‐cloud bin modeling, and physics simulation to ensure feasibility and stability ...
Michele Angelini, Marco Carricato
wiley +1 more source
Collaborative Visual Localization for Modular Self‐Reconfigurable Robots
Relative localization in modular self‐reconfigurable robots is challenged by hardware limitations, constrained fields of view, and sensor faults. This paper, based on the SnailBot platform, presents a vision‐based collaborative localization method that combines ArUco markers with learning‐based algorithms to enable robust pose estimation from ...
Guanqi Liang +4 more
wiley +1 more source
Equilibrium Propagation for Dissipative Dynamics
This work develops local learning rules for damped linear dynamical systems, including mechanical structures and resistor‐inductor‐capacitor (RLC) circuits, by leveraging an effective action formulation. It demonstrates how physical systems can autonomously compute gradients and learn temporal patterns, enabling applications such as sound ...
Marc Berneman, Daniel Hexner
wiley +1 more source
This article introduces an input sparsity‐aware computing‐in‐memory macro featuring novel bidirectional conversion‐skippable analog‐to‐digital converters. By dynamically adjusting resolution based on element‐level sparsity, the architecture skips redundant most significant bit and least significant bit conversions.
Choongseok Song +2 more
wiley +1 more source

