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Programmable Micro-Mirrors for Real-Time Emissivity Control and Switching (Case No. 2025-254)

Summary: UCLA researchers in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have developed a fast-switching, MEMS-based thermal metasurface that enables real-time infrared emissivity modulation via high-contrast, broadband radiative control. Background: Dynamic emissive thermal devices offer active control over infrared (IR) radiation....

Published: 8/20/2025 | Inventor(s): Artur Davoyan, Mozakkar Hossain, Pavel Shafirin, Hanseong Jo, Tom Joly-Jehenne

Keywords(s): advanced thermal control materials, compact IR shielding, Dynamic thermal emissivity, EV battery cooling, Fluid Dynamics, heat control, heat controlling devices, Heat Transfer, infrared modulation, infrared signature suppression, IR camouflage, MEMS, MEMS metasurface, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), rapid emissivity modulation, real-time thermal management, stealth, thermal circuit, thermal conductance, thermal control, thermal control materials, Thermal Energy Storage, thermal metamaterials, thermal stability, thermal transistor, tunable radiative properties

Category(s): Electrical, Electrical > Electronics & Semiconductors

A Fabrication Method for High-Precision, Large-Area Acoustic Single-Cell Trapping Devices (Case No. 2025-115)

Summary: UCLA researchers from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have developed a novel fabrication method for single-cell trapping devices. Background: Single-cell analysis is critical to personalized medicine, diagnostics, and biomedical research, as it allows researchers to identify, isolate, and expand desired cell subpopulations....

Published: 8/8/2025 | Inventor(s): Pei-Yu Chiou, Jacob Smith

Keywords(s): acoustic manipulation, acoustics, air cavity formation, cell sorting, compliant membrane acoustic patterning (CMAP), Diagnostic Platform Technologies (E.G. Microfluidics), Digital Microfluidics, high-throughput analysis, large-area arrays, MEMS, Microfluidics, Microfluidics And Mem's, Microfluidics Dielectrophoresis, Microfluidics Multi-Band Device, Microfluidics Nanosphere, near-infrared (NIR) pulsed laser, PDMS, PDMS membranes, single cell analysis, Single cell data, single-cell resolution, single-cell trapping

Category(s): Materials, Materials > Membranes, Life Science Research Tools, Life Science Research Tools > Microfluidics And Mems, Life Science Research Tools > Cell Counting And Imaging, Platforms

Intelligent Stent System for Chronic On-Demand Drug Delivery (Case No. 2021-069)

Summary: UCLA researchers in the Department of Neurology have developed an intelligent stent system for chronic on-demand drug delivery, addressing the challenge of the blood-brain barrier hindering drug therapy in the central nervous system. Background: The blood-brain barrier poses a significant obstacle to effective drug delivery to the central...

Published: 8/21/2025 | Inventor(s): Jose Morales, Haotian Lu, Huachen Cui, Xiaoyu Zheng

Keywords(s): blood flow management, blood-brain barrier, Drug, Drug Delivery, Drug monitoring, Invasiveness Of Surgical Procedures, MEMS, minimally invasive device, minimally invasive drug delivery systems, neural signals, neural stimulation, Neurocognitive, Neurodegeneration, neurological disorders, Neurology, neuro-oncology, Neuropathology, Neurosurgery, non-invasive, non-invasive drug monitoring, on-demand drug delivery, Pharmaceutical Drug, piezoelectric ultrasound transducers

Category(s): Platforms, Platforms > Drug Delivery, Medical Devices, Therapeutics, Therapeutics > CNS and Neurology, Therapeutics > Oncology, Therapeutics > Musculoskeletal Disease

Room-Temperature Annealing-Free Metal Printing Technique via Anion-Assisted Photochemical Desposition (UCLA Case No. 2022-266)

Summary: UCLA researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering have developed an innovative metal patterning fabrication technique that produces highly conductive metallic patterns at room temperature on a broad range of substrate materials. Background: Photo-lithographic techniques for metal patterning have enabled incredible advancements...

Published: 2/14/2025 | Inventor(s): Ximin He, Dong Wu

Keywords(s): Electronics & Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Materials, MEMS, Metals, Semiconductor, Semiconductor Device, Semiconductors

Category(s): Materials, Materials > Metals, Mechanical, Materials > Semiconducting Materials, Electrical > Electronics & Semiconductors, Mechanical > Micro-Electromechanical Systems (Mems)

SHAPE-CONTROLLED PARTICLES HAVING SUBPARTICLE GEOMETRICAL FEATURES

SHAPE-CONTROLLED PARTICLES HAVING SUBPARTICLE GEOMETRICAL FEATURES UCLA Case No. 2015-375 SUMMARY UCLA researchers in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have developed a photolithographic method for the high-throughput, parallel production of microscale and nanoscale objects with tailored shapes and dimensions using a single photomask. BACKGROUNDThe...

Published: 7/17/2025 | Inventor(s): Thomas Mason, Kenny Mayoral

Keywords(s): MEMS, Nanoparticles, Nanotechnology

Category(s): Materials > Fabrication Technologies, Electrical > Mems, Platforms > Drug Delivery > Nanoparticles

2009-438 Localized Droplet Heating with Surface Electrodes in Microfluidic Chips

Localized Droplet Heating with Surface Electrodes in Microfluidic ChipsSUMMARYResearchers at UCLA have developed a low-cost, fully miniaturized lab-on-a-chip system that is capable of localized temperature control without the need to interface with macroscale tubes, thus taking full advantage of miniaturization via microfluidic protocols.BACKGROUNDMicrofluidics...

Published: 7/17/2025 | Inventor(s): CJ Kim, Wyatt Nelson

Keywords(s): Diagnostic Platform Technologies (E.G. Microfluidics), MEMS, Microfluidics And Mem's

Category(s): Life Science Research Tools > Microfluidics And Mems, Electrical > Mems, Platforms > Diagnostic Platform Technologies

Plasma-Functionalized Bandpass Switch

SummaryUCLA researchers in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have developed a device that combines the performance of a bandpass filter and gas-discharge switch into a single device.BackgroundModern technology has led to great signal interference between devices. To navigate through congested signaling networks, devices must filter...

Published: 7/17/2025 | Inventor(s):

Keywords(s): Electronics & Semiconductors, Mechanical Systems, MEMS

Category(s): Electrical > Electronics & Semiconductors, Mechanical > Mechanical Systems, Materials > Fabrication Technologies, Electrical > Mems

2018-449 An Actuator Device Driven by Electrostatic Forces

SUMMARY Researchers in the UCLA Department of Materials Science and Engineering have developed an electrostatically actuated device with reversible high-frequency operation that consumes low power and has low fabrication costs. BACKGROUND Actuated devices, which use an input force to cause a desired motion, have numerous applications. For instance,...

Published: 7/17/2025 | Inventor(s): Qibing Pei, Rujun Ma, Ziyang Zhang

Keywords(s): Mechanical Systems, MEMS

Category(s): Mechanical > Mechanical Systems, Electrical > Mems