Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

Penn and Drexel Team Demonstrates New Paradigm for Solar Cell Construction

This goal has sent chemistry, materials science and electronic engineering researchers on a quest to boost the energy-absorption efficiency of photovoltaic…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Novel OLEDs Set to Lower Display Costs

Researchers from the universities of Bonn and Regensburg have developed a novel type of organic light-emitting diode (OLED). These lights are suitable for the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Wireless device converts 'lost' energy into electric power

Using inexpensive materials configured and tuned to capture microwave signals, researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have designed a…

Power and Electrical Engineering

UC's SmartLight More Than a Bright Idea, It's a Revolution in Interior Lighting Ready to Shine

A pair of University of Cincinnati researchers has seen the light – a bright, powerful light – and it just might change the future of how building interiors…

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Georgia Tech’s Instant Inkjet Circuits: Fast, Affordable Innovation

The technique, called instant inkjet circuits, allows the printing of arbitrary-shaped conductors onto rigid or flexible materials and could advance the…

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Burning Biomass Pellets in China Lowers Mercury Emissions

Scientists are now reporting that among dozens of sources of biomass, processed pellets burned under realistic conditions in China emit relatively low levels…

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Wind Energy: Staggering Turbines Improves Performance 33%

The University of Delaware’s Cristina Archer and her Atmosphere and Energy Research Group found that staggering and spacing out turbines in an offshore wind…

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New Residual Current Breaker: Enhanced Safety & Easy Installation

The new switches come equipped with additional safety features, are easier to install, and can be retrofitted with additional functions at any time. The first…

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A Noble yet Simple way to Synthesize New Metal-Free Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR)

A Korean research team from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), S. Korea, developed a high performance and stable metal-free…

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ASU, Georgia Tech Boost Solar Cell Efficiency with Crystals

Did you know that crystals form the basis for the penetrating icy blue glare of car headlights and could be fundamental to the future in solar energy…

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Forest Waste Transforms Cheaper, Greener Supercapacitors

The report appears in the journal Electrochimica Acta.“Supercapacitors are power devices very similar to our batteries,” said study leader Junhua Jiang, a…

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Real-time energy audit reduces power consumption

Governments are pressuring industries to reduce energy consumption for both environmental and economic reasons. Optimizing factory processes and improving…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Inexpensive material boosts battery capacity

Battery-powered cars offer many environmental benefits, but a car with a full tank of gasoline can travel further. By improving the energy capacity of…

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New device stores electricity on silicon chips

These are just two of the possibilities raised by a novel supercapacitor design invented by material scientists at Vanderbilt University that is described in a…

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New Miniature Circuit Breaker Enhances Building Safety

The 5SL4 miniature circuit breaker safely shuts down circuits in buildings in case of overloads or short circuits and thus protects cables and devices from…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Atomically Thin Devices: A New Era for Electronics

As electronics approach the atomic scale, researchers are increasingly successful at developing atomically thin, virtually two-dimensional materials that could…

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