Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

Thinner Solar Cells: A New Direction in Energy Innovation

Most efforts at improving solar cells have focused on increasing the efficiency of their energy conversion, or on lowering the cost of manufacturing. But now…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Getting the carbon out of emissions

Many researchers around the world are seeking ways to “scrub” carbon dioxide (CO2) from the emissions of fossil-fuel power plants as a way of curbing the gas…

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Team Creates Realistic Robot Carp, First Robot Fish with Autonomous 3-D Movement in Asia

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering has developed a robot fish that mimics…

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Gallium Nitride LEDs Enhanced by Europium and Magnesium Codoping

Europium (Eu) doped nitride semiconductors show potential for realization of novel optical devices, such as a low threshold lasers and single photon emitters,…

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Electric Hybrid Drives Take Flight at Paris Air Show

The two-seat DA36 E-Star 2 plane recently made its one-hour maiden flight and was then presented to aeronautics experts at the Paris Air Show. The electric…

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NREL Reports 31.1% Efficiency for III-V Solar Cell

The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Lab has announced a world record of 31.1% conversion efficiency for a two-junction solar cell under one sun…

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A cheaper drive to 'cool' fuels

University of Delaware chemist Joel Rosenthal is driven to succeed in the renewable energy arena. Working in his lab in UD’s Department of Chemistry and…

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New Trophallactic Strategy for UAVs in Formation Flight

Professor DUAN Haibin and his group members (LUO Qinan and YU Yaxiang) from the Science and Technology in Aircraft Control Laboratory, School of Automation…

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New Microfluidic Chip Detects Contaminants in Water and Food

The research, conducted by members of Virginia Tech's Microelectromechanical Systems Laboratory (MEMS) Laboratory in the Bradley Department of Electrical and…

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Advanced Building Control Could Cut Energy Bills by 18%

A single advanced building control now in development could slash 18 percent – tens of thousands of dollars – off the overall annual energy bill of the average…

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Ceramic Transformer Reduces Power Supply Size by 80%

The new development allows power supply transformers to be reduced to one fifth of their current size so that the normally separate switched-mode power supply…

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Meet the Cat-Like Robot from EPFL’s Biorobotics Lab

Even though it doesn't have a head, you can still tell what kind of animal it is: the robot is definitely modeled upon a cat. Developed by EPFL's Biorobotics…

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New Device Measures Skin Vibrations For Tactile Displays

Think of it as tactile Morse code: vibrations from a wearable, GPS-linked device that tell you to turn right or left, or stop, depending on the pattern of…

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Nanoparticle Opens the Door to Clean-Energy Alternatives

Led by Raymond Schaak, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, research team members have found that an important chemical reaction that generates…

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“Popcorn” Particle Pathways Promise Better Lithium-Ion Batteries

The research is reported in an article entitled, “Intercalation Pathway in Many-Particle LiFePO4 Electrode Revealed by Nanoscale State-of-Charge Mapping” in…

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World's First Large(Wafer)-Scale Production of III-V Semiconductor Nanowire

The research team demonstrated a novel method to epitaxially synthesize structurally and compositionally homogeneous and spatially uniform ternary InAsyP1-y…

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