Federico Capasso
Quantum-cascade laser
Field 07 · 28 living inventors
Machines and production systems that changed how physical goods are made and moved.
Trace the effect from one engineered mechanism to an entire production workflow.
Quantum-cascade laser
Nanospider needle-free electrospinning production line
IDRA Giga Press die-casting machine and 5S injection unit
Plant-waste-to-bioplastic production process
ThermaSiC thermal-spray ceramic coating
Quantum-cascade laser
CMOS image sensor
Plant-derived ecocatalyst recovery and chemical-production process
Aberration-corrected electron-microscope optics
Optical lattice clock
Contour Crafting construction 3D printer
Fab@Home multi-material open-source 3D printer
Modular multilevel power converter
Carbon-dioxide-to-cellulose material process
Carbon-dioxide-to-cellulose material process
Low-power Wi-Fi radio hardware
Dip-pen nanolithography instrument and process
Swatch wristwatch construction and ultrasonic-welding process
Kiva mobile robotic material-handling system
IDRA Giga Press die-casting machine and 5S injection unit
Rare-earth recovery process for electronic waste
Recombinant spider-silk fibre manufacturing process
Digital protective relay
Plant-waste-to-bioplastic production process
Chirped-pulse amplification laser system
4D multi-material shape-changing printing process
Enzymatic liquid oat-base production process
Kiva mobile robotic material-handling system