Improving Life And Impressing Everyone

While you may not understand all of their science mumbo-jumbo and you may have to strain to hear in those cramped quarters, the Center for Micro-E and Computer Engineering offers many innovative and interesting exhibits that no one should miss out on!

Have you ever sat in front of your flat screen TV and thought to yourself, “This is just too thick!” Well, RIT and Corning are working together to develop a technology that will blow your mind and have you suddenly thinking, “I can see the screen but there is no TV.” Using Low Temperature Crystalline Silicon Technology (LTCS), RIT has developed a system that puts transistors onto thin plates of glass using an Angstrom (1x10 to the -9 meters) of Silicon.

The technology will allow for the creation of the flattest flat-screen TVs and the thinnest cell phones on the market to date – ones that utilize LEDs (or light emitting devices) attached to specific circuit patterns placed directly on glass forms and then connected to one another to drive displays. Also showcased in the Center for Micro-E and Computer Engineering is an exhibit on High Q Band Stop Filters that use Silicon Bulk Cavity Resonators.

RIT researchers have also developed a way to aid RLC [an electrical circuit consisting of a resistor (R), an inductor (L), and a capacitor (C)] Filtering using electrical-to-acoustic frequencies so there is no longer a need for manual tuning of a conductor. Using an Acoustic Resonator and Piezo Film, an incoming electrical signal creates an acoustic wave in a resonating cavity that breaks down an original several-meter wavelengths into a small acoustic fabricated wavelength to achieve a filter response without tuning.