Semiconductors have served as choice materials for many electronic and optical devices because of their physical properties. Commercial solar cells, computer…
Semiconductors have served as choice materials for many electronic and optical devices because of their physical properties. Commercial solar cells, computer…
The camp is the second in a series of four technology camps targeting middle and high school students each June. The robotics campers built simple robots using…
The turbine is located approximately 12 km south east of Karmøy in Norway at a water depth of about 220 meters. The Hywind project was developed by…
Today's transistors and light emitting diodes (LED) are based on silicon and gallium arsenide semiconductors, which have fixed electronic and optical…
MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving…
Instead, that electricity must be used for cooling the servers, a demand that continues to increase as computer processing power grows.And the trend toward…
As reported in the July 2009 issue of IEEE Electron Device Letters,* the engineers have found a way to build a flexible memory component out of inexpensive,…
Both options offer large market opportunities. More than 400 professionals will be discussing this subject at the 28th International Conference on…
A group of Virginia Tech students have produced more than 200 gallons of biodiesel as part of a senior design project for the department of mechanical…
According to the engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) who discovered the problem, it will soon stand in the way of creating…
The Solar Decathlon Madrid competition is modeled on the biennial U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. In these decathlons, universities compete to…
On May 18, 2009, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced significant progress that will help expedite development of…
The research team of professor Linda Nazar, graduate student David Xiulei Ji and postdoctoral fellow Kyu Tae Lee are one of the first to demonstrate robust…
Electromagnetic induction sensors work by sending out magnetic fields and detecting the response from the electric currents generated when the field interacts…
The group of engineers, led by Assistant Professor Lupita D. Montoya, was one of four student teams nationally to win a highly competitive Summer Engineering…