Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

AMI Semiconductor and IMEC Team Up for Smart Power Tech

Under the terms of the agreement, AMIS will develop critical and novel Smart Power processes and devices in IMEC's advanced 200mm facilities, and use IMEC’s…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Philips patents TU Eindhoven's energy return system

Dutch-sponsored researcher Haimin Tao examined how this externally generated energy can be better stored and transferred. Philips has acquired a patent for a…

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Siemens Unveils Next-Gen Sequencing Batch Reactor System

Developed as the result of an existing installation’s performance, the newly branded ISBR system combines the company’s state-of-the-art OMNIFLO SBR system…

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France’s Photovoltaic Tech: Boosting Energy Growth

France’s energy record is already very good – it has one of the lowest carbon footprints in Europe and is meeting its Kyoto Treaty obligations. France has seen…

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Better Energy Storage Through Improved Regulation Systems

In a project funded by Technology Foundation STW, Haimin Tao examined the conditions a good regulation system for energy transfer must meet. As the sources and…

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NIST Starts Construction on Hydrogen Pipeline Testing Lab

Construction is just beginning on the 750-square-foot laboratory on the site of a former hydrogen test facility at the NIST campus in Boulder, Colo. The…

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Nuclear and Coal: Shaping the UK’s Energy Future

Muhammad Asif of the School of Built and Natural Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow and colleagues John Currie and T. Muneer at the School of…

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IMEC Expands to Taiwan: Boosting Semiconductor Innovation

IMEC Taiwan aims to set up a win-win situation by facilitating the access for Taiwanese semiconductor companies to IMEC’s R&D programs and tap into the local…

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DOE JGI Unveils Soybean Genome Assembly for Bioenergy Research

The announcement was made by Eddy Rubin, DOE JGI Director, during his keynote remarks Jan. 15 at the Plant and Animal Genome XVI Conference in San Diego,CA….

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Smart Contact Lenses: Enhancing Vision with Circuit Technology

Off the screen, virtual displays have been proposed for more practical purposes — visual aids to help vision-impaired people, holographic driving control…

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UltraBattery: A Game-Changer for Hybrid Car Batteries

The UltraBattery combines a supercapacitor and a lead acid battery in a single unit, creating a hybrid car battery that lasts longer, costs less and is more…

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Durham University Drives Cheaper Solar Energy Innovation

The £6.3million PV-21 programme will focus on making thin-film light absorbing cells for solar panels from sustainable and affordable materials.The four-year…

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Russian fuel flows in Jules Verne’s veins

Early this month, the 20-tonne Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) was transferred to the huge fuelling chamber within the giant S5 integration…

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IMEC Boosts Scalable Video Decoder Speed by 20X

These groundbreaking results were obtained by further optimizing the code mainly through the removal of redundant code and function calls as well as through…

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Profitability of Bush Chips for Electricity in Namibia

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has studied the profitability of using bush chips in electricity production in Namibia, where biomass from bushes has…

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New Insights Into High-Temperature Superconductivity

An international research team has discovered that a magnetic field can interact with the electrons in a superconductor in ways never before observed. Andrea…

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