Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

Solar-Powered Tech Upgrades Swiss Railroad Signaling Systems

In a contract scheduled to run until 2017, some 430 switch towers and over 9,000 signaling elements are to be upgraded in line with the European Train Control…

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Voltage Increases Up to 25% Observed in Closely Packed Nanowires

Unexpected voltage increases of up to 25 percent in two barely separated nanowires have been observed at Sandia National Laboratories.Designers of…

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Solar Power Costs Drop: New Study Reveals True Affordability

“Many analysts project a higher cost for solar photovoltaic energy because they don’t consider recent technological advancements and price reductions,” says…

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New '3-D' transistors promising future chips, lighter laptops

The approach could enable engineers to build faster, more compact and efficient integrated circuits and lighter laptops that generate less heat than today's….

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Medical Robotics Experts Advance NASA ‘Satellite Surgery’ Project

Another idea is now getting attention: Send robots to the rescue and give them a little long-distance human help. Johns Hopkins scientists say the same…

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Crystallizing the switch to Hydrogen

Hydrogen gas is an almost infinitely inexhaustible fuel source that emits only clean water during combustion. Switching from hydrocarbon-based transportation…

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Pitt Researchers Create Game-Changing Switch for Electronics

The incorporation of such single-molecule elements could enable smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient electronics. The research findings, supported by a…

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UCLA Unveils Fully Printed Carbon Nanotube Transistor Circuits

OLED-based displays are now used in cell phones, digital cameras and other portable devices. But developing a lower-cost method for mass-producing such…

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A smarter way to make ultraviolet light beams

A paper on the research is newly published in Optics Express. The research was led by Mona Jarrahi and Tal Carmon, assistant professors in the Department of…

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Dancing Electrons: Insights from Negative Ions Research

“By studying atoms with a negative charge, ‘negative ions’, we can learn how electrons coordinate their motion in what can be compared to a tightly…

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A*STAR SIMTech Sees Future in Game Changing Printed Electronics

Key business leaders from the organic and printed electronics industry throughout Asia, Europe and the US converge in Singapore for the international symposium…

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Discover How City Shadows Reveal Urban Energy Flow

“Solar radiation that falls on a certain point in the city varies depending on the time of day, the weather conditions, the pollution level and other…

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Clean Cooking Innovations: Saving Lives and Protecting Climate

The Special Issue explores the type of decision frameworks that are needed to guide policy development for clean cooking fuels and to ensure that the provision…

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High-Efficiency Heterojunction Solar Cells via Copper Electroplating

The results were obtained by applying copper electroplating technology, which was developed by Kaneka based on imec’s existing copper electroplating…

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Nanoparticle Electrodes Enhance Battery Storage for Grids

If only there were an efficient, durable, high-power, rechargeable battery we could use to store large quantities of excess power generated on windy or sunny…

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Tiny Levers Driving Progress in Piezoelectric Sensors

A piezoelectric material, such as quartz, expands slightly when fed electricity and, conversely, generates an electric charge when squeezed. Quartz watches…

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