If no specific action to improve the energy efficiency is taken, electricity consumption of data centres is expected to rise to 104TWh a year by 2020….
Madame LIU Yandong, a member of the State Council – the highest administrative body of the Chinese Government – is on a fact-finding tour of scientific…
The main barrier to large-scale deployment of PV systems is the high production cost of electricity, due to the significant capital investment costs. Research…
Microoled and CEA-Leti announce the OLED microdisplay with the finest pixel pitch (more than 1.7 million sub-pixels, 2 to 4 times more than the other emissive…
Terahertz (THz) radiation is currently attracting considerable interest for imaging and sensing applications, because it has the potential to supersede x-rays…
Directly related to the Staffordshire-based university's teaching and research expertise, these technologies would contribute to an innovative research hub for…
One million revolutions per minute In future it can be expected that the drill used in material processing will become even faster and the compressor used for…
“The objective of this project is to minimise both the costs and polluting emissions generated by energy production within isolated systems in the electric…
The researchers used an instrument called a transmission electron microscope to watch how nanowires made of silicon “nucleate,” or begin to form, before…
This UPC center and the Public University of Navarre are the only 2 Spanish teams on the project, together with 13 other European scientific teams and 46…
The new “flexible charge pump” generator is the fourth generation of devices designed to produce electrical current by using the piezoelectric properties of…
Ship’s propellers, parts for wind energy converters, turbine housings – such large-volume castings can only be produced with special molds. The procedure is…
Like astronomers tweaking images to gain a more detailed glimpse of distant stars, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National…
Did you know that more than 15% of the electrical energy produced in industrialized countries was consumed by cold production (12%) and air conditioning (3%)?…
Dutch-sponsored researcher Robin Gremaud has shown that an alloy of the metals magnesium, titanium and nickel is excellent at absorbing hydrogen. This light…
By developing a new antireflective coating that boosts the amount of sunlight captured by solar panels and allows those panels to absorb the entire solar…