Table G1.
Themes of technological opportunities for convergence between BT and IT.
| Type of Tech. opportunities for convergence | Potential TKF |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title (From→To) |
Group | Technological themes (From) | Technological themes (To) | |
| Incremental technological opportunities for convergence |
12(ELC) →1(NNT) |
G1 | Non-volatile RAM cell, memory cells, memory system, nanotube-based switching elements, electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit | Carbon nanotube, CNTs (carbon nanotubes), microscale vacuum tube, switching elements, patterning nanocarbon material |
| G2 | Macroelectronic substrate materials, nanofiber surface based capacitors | Nanotube semiconductor, molecular nanowires, nanoparticles, nanoscale wires | ||
| 15(SOC) →1(NNT) |
G1 | Bit selectable device, Electromechanical circuits, memory cell, static ram (SRAM) | Nanotube-based switching elements, fabricating a nanotube, CNTs (carbon nanotubes) | |
| G2 | Nanoscopic wire-based device | Doped nano-component, nanostructure monolayer, nano-enabled memory | ||
| 5(SGY) →12(ELC) |
G1 | Indicator, sensor, capture system | Network for medical information | |
| G2 | Illumination methods and systems | Light management system, media device | ||
| G3 | Analyte sensor | Medication delivery system, communication adapter, report generation | ||
| G4 | Biopsy device | Reconfigurable digital processing system | ||
| G5 | Surgical instrument | Robotic surgery system, microsurgical robot system | ||
| G6 | Navigation, control, imaging system | Human interface devices, user-interface control | ||
| 11(SIG) →5(SGY) |
G1 | Touch detection for a digitizer | Blood glucose level control, muscle controller, analysis of eating habits, gastric stimulator system, apparatus for neuromodulation | |
| G2 | Display for medical procedures, apparatus for performing 2D to 3D registration | Surgical navigation system, neuron signal analysis system, directional brain stimulation | ||
| G3 | Imaging an interior surface of a cavity | Endoscope, medical visualization system, maneuvering a device in vivo | ||
| G4 | X-ray image, method for bone diseases | Endoscope, measuring volumetric, 3-D bone organic matrix density | ||
| 12(ELC) →3(MBE) |
G1 | Control of microfluidic devices | Devices for performing chemical reactions, apparatus for implementing microfluidic analysis, device for processing a biological sample | |
| G2 | Providing bacterial bioagent characterizing information | Identifying point mutations in a genome, DNA diagnostics | ||
| G3 | Automated pre-treatment and processing of biological samples | Facilitating biological reactions, collecting biological tissues | ||
| G4 | Macroelectronic substrate, nanofiber surface | Nanocrystalline surface coating, biosensor, porous nanofiber mesh | ||
| G5 | Sample preparation system | Detecting mutation, identification of pathogens, bacteria, viruses | ||
| 2(BMD) →12(ELC) |
G1 | Data processing and control in a medical communication system | Communication station and software, smart tag activation, processing wirelessly communicated information | |
| G2 | Tracing thermal data | Thermal monitoring and response apparatus | ||
| G3 | System for remote software testing | Keyboard-mouse-video(KVM) switch with a digital visual interface, virtual KVM for computer systems | ||
| G4 | Information about the timing of a user's client-server interactions | Interactive shopping system, adaptable datapath for a digital processing system | ||
| 5(SGY) →11(SIG) |
G1 | Processing spectral data for use in tissue characterization | Automatic object identification, image processing, pattern recognition of image contents | |
| G2 | Cochlear implant sound processors, bionic ear programming system | Audio signal processing, automatic magnetic detection | ||
| G3 | Surgical instrument, instantaneous ultrasonic measurement | Simulation interface, image processing device, user interface device, 3D pointing device | ||
| G4 | Illumination methods and systems | Handheld devices as visual indicators, portable media devices, system for transferring images between devices | ||
| G5 | Hearing aid appliance | Optical waveguide vibration sensor, robust and reliable acoustic echo and noise cancellation system | ||
| G6 | Biopsy device | Reflection resistant touch screens | ||
| G7 | Analyte sensor | Video data recording | ||
| 15(SOC) →3(MBE) |
G1 | Microfluidic design automation | Microfabricated cell sorter, real-time PCR, diagnosis of fetal abnormalities | |
| G2 | Photonic crystal biosensor structure and fabrication method | Detecting biomolecular or biochemical interactions, fusion proteins and assays for molecular binding | ||
| G3 | Measuring analytes using large scale FET arrays | Sequencing polynucleotides, microfluidic sequencing, sequencing nucleic acids | ||
| 12(ELC) →8(CHP) |
G1 | Control of microfluidic devices | Performing chemical reactions, signal measuring system, nanoparticles for manipulation of biopolymers | |
| G2 | providing bacterial bioagent characterizing information | genetic analysis, detection of nucleic acid polymorphism | ||
| G3 | Automated pre-treatment and processing of biological samples | Facilitating biological reactions, automated rapid immunohistochemistry | ||
| G4 | Macroelectronic substrate materials, nanofiber surface based capacitors | Nanoparticle delivery system, nano-chem-FET based biosensors | ||
| G5 | Dispensing of defined volumes of solid particles | Identification of sepsis-causing bacteria, pathogens and coronaviruses etcs. | ||
| 6(BIP) →11(SIG) |
G1 | Encoded variable filter spectrometer | Finger motion tracking, fingerprint sensor | |
| G2 | Auto focus for a flow imaging system | Pattern noise correction, detecting poor quality images, segmentation of images of objects | ||
| G3 | Integrated proximity sensor and light sensor | Multipoint touchscreen, graphical user interfaces for touch sensitive input devices | ||
| Radical technological opportunities for convergence |
9(MOT) →3(MBE) |
– | Glucose measuring device for use in personal area network | Implantable analyte sensor, analyte monitoring and drug delivery |
| 13(ROB) →3(MBE) |
– | Protein design automation for protein libraries | Process for purifying antibody, regulating neural cell proliferation or differentiation | |
| 14(RFID) →5(SGY) |
– | Detection of transponder tagged objects | Capsule tracking system, invasive medical device with position sensing and display, portable surgical implement detector | |
| 13(ROB) →1(NNT) |
– | Control displacement of a body spaced-apart from a surface | Imprint lithography templates, patterning substrates | |
| 15(SOC) →5(SGY) |
– | Miniaturized imaging device, printable semiconductor | Fiberscope, tissue visualization, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) | |
| 8(CHP) →10(NET) |
– | Automated treating tissue samples | Gateway for controlling call routing | |
| 9(MOT) →8(CHP) |
– | Glucose measuring device for use in personal area network | Biosensor, blood glucose sensing, sensing electrochemical reactions | |
| 1(NNT) →9(MOT) |
– | Electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM), One-time programmable; non-volatile field effect devices | Image processing | |
| 3(MBE) →10(NET) |
– | Automated pre-treatment and processing of biological samples | Gateway for controlling call routing | |
| 15(SOC) →7(HTE) |
– | Producing structures for electron beam | Portable patient monitor, compound charged particle beam device | |