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Conventional electronic devices use the flow of electrons to process and transmit information throughout the conducting and semiconducting circuits of a…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Wastewater Innovation: Generating Electricity and Clean Water

Clean water for drinking, washing and industrial uses is a scarce resource in some parts of the world. Its availability in the future will be even more…

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Thin, Flexible Organic Solar Cells: Powering the Future

As a member of UA professor Neal R. Armstrong's research group, Placencia conducts research aimed at creating a thin, flexible organic solar cell that could…

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New Organic Solar Cells Turn Light Into Electricity Efficiently

Researchers the world over are striving to develop organic solar cells that can be produced easily and inexpensively as thin films that could be widely used to…

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Stacking the Deck: Advances in Organic Solar Power Technology

Organic photovoltaics, which rely on organic molecules to capture sunlight and convert it into electricity, are a hot research area because in principle they…

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NIST Unveils New Insights to Enhance Organic Solar Power

Organic photovoltaics, which rely on organic molecules to capture sunlight and convert it into electricity, are a hot research area because in principle they…

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New Microbe Strain Generates Electricity Faster From Mud

In their most recent experiments with Geobacter, the sediment-loving microbe whose hairlike filaments help it to produce electric current from mud and…

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Mines Transforming Into Geothermal Energy Sources

“One way of making use of low-intensity geothermal energy is to convert mine shafts into geothermal boilers, which could provide heating and hot water for…

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Charging ahead: University of Houston team revealing secrets of electricity-producing materials

Much like humans, materials are capable of some pretty remarkable things when they're placed under pressure. In fact, under the right conditions, materials can…

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UCR Scientists Manipulate Graphene Ripples for Electronics Innovatio

Graphene is nature's thinnest elastic material and displays exceptional mechanical and electronic properties. Its one-atom thickness, planar geometry, high…

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Silicon with afterburners: Process developed at Rice could be boon to electronics manufacturer

Their findings are published this month by the Journal of the American Chemical Society.Moore's Law, suggested by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965, said…

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Electronic Nose Detects Skin Vapors for Health Insights

“The spectrum of the vapours emitted by human skin is dominated by fatty acids. These substances are not very volatile, but we have developed an 'electronic…

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Capturing electrons in action

Scientists at RIKEN have developed a way to measure the wavelike properties of ultrafast (attosecond) light pulses—an important step toward being able to probe…

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New Geothermal Heat Process Boosts Clean Power Potential

A new method for capturing significantly more heat from low-temperature geothermal resources holds promise for generating virtually pollution-free electrical…

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Students Create Affordable Solar Lighting for Sub-Saharan Africa

Tai-Wen Ko, K-State senior in electrical engineering, is mentoring Justin Curry, K-State freshman in electrical engineering. The pair is designing a solar…

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Einstein Robot Masters Smiles and Frowns at UC San Diego

A hyper-realistic Einstein robot at the University of California, San Diego has learned to smile and make facial expressions through a process of self-guided…

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