Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

New 'electronic glue' promises less expensive semiconductors

Semiconductors have served as choice materials for many electronic and optical devices because of their physical properties. Commercial solar cells, computer…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New ‘Electronic Glue’ Promises Cheaper Semiconductors

Semiconductors have served as choice materials for many electronic and optical devices because of their physical properties. Commercial solar cells, computer…

Power and Electrical Engineering

UAB Campers Create Robots to Burst Balloons and More

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…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Siemens and StatoilHydro Launch World’s First Floating Wind Turbine

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…

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Graphene: The Future of Tunable Semiconductors Unveiled

Today's transistors and light emitting diodes (LED) are based on silicon and gallium arsenide semiconductors, which have fixed electronic and optical…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Innovative Radio Chip Inspired by Human Inner Ear Design

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…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Techniques Will Control Heat in Data Centers

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…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Memory with a Twist: NIST Develops a Flexible Memristor

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,…

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Unlocking Market Opportunities in Waste Heat Innovation

Both options offer large market opportunities. More than 400 professionals will be discussing this subject at the 28th International Conference on…

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Virginia Tech Students Create Biodiesel from Waste Oil

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…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Engineers Identify Key Flaw in Transistor Noise Theory

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…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Virginia Tech Joins Solar Decathlon Europe: A Sustainable Challenge

The Solar Decathlon Madrid competition is modeled on the biennial U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. In these decathlons, universities compete to…

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Locke, Chu Advance Smart Grid Development Steps

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…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Canadian Team Unveils Breakthrough in Lithium Battery Tech

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…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Test Facility Enhances Land Mine Detection Technology

Electromagnetic induction sensors work by sending out magnetic fields and detecting the response from the electric currents generated when the field interacts…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Students Win Funding for Solar Pasteurization in Peru

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…

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