Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

Climbing Plants: Nature’s Secrets for Robotic Innovation

How is it that ivy, Virginia creeper and clematis can climb? How high is their energy consumption? And is it possible to build robots that behave and move like…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New research initiative will power up Europe’s battery revolution

In the Strategic Action Plan on Batteries published in May 2018, the European Commission has highlighted the need to support the European battery industry…

Power and Electrical Engineering

High-Powered Fuel Cell Enhances Electric Submersibles and Drones

A team of engineers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a high-power fuel cell that advances technology…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Convert Captured CO2 Into Oxalic Acid for Rare Earth Processing

What if we could not only capture carbon dioxide, but convert it into something useful? S. Komar Kawatra and his students have tackled that challenge, and…

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Magnetization reversal achieved at room temperature using only an electric field

In the era of information technology revolution, electronics demand rapid evolution facilitated by greater efforts from materials researchers to pave the way…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Breakthrough in Nanowire Production for Enhanced Optical Chips

They can emit, concentrate and absorb light and could therefore be used to add optical functionalities to electronic chips.

Power and Electrical Engineering

Innovative Air Management Cuts Energy Use in Infrared Drying

Drying coatings and inks is an energy-intensive process, which is reason enough to put conventional dryers to the test.

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High-Speed Surveillance in Solar Cells Spots Fast Electrons

A research team at Osaka University has developed an improved method for producing microscope images that can spot speedy electrons zipping through…

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Advances in Stretchable Semiconductors and Integrated Electronics

In a paper published Friday, Feb. 1, in Science Advances, they outlined advances in creating stretchable rubbery semiconductors, including rubbery integrated…

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Sodium-Ion Batteries: Boosting Performance Beyond Lithium

The findings were published in Scientific Reports in November of 2018 and was headed by Naoto Tanibata, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor at the Department of…

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Blue OLED on Silicon Sensor Detects Phosphorescence Effectively

In the course of digitalization and increasingly comprehensive monitoring of processes, automated workflows, also in biomedical and environmental engineering,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Static Electricity: A New Source for Charging Electronics

Unhappy with the life of your smartphone battery?

Power and Electrical Engineering

Infrared Heat: Enhancing Skis and Snowboards Performance

For the modern, high-quality composite fabrics rovings and fabrics made of glass and carbon fiber are impregnated with high-quality epoxy resins.

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Material Advances Silicon-Based Electronics Efficiency

The recently launched project »Research of Functional Semiconductor Structures for Energy Efficient Power Electronics« (in short »Power Electronics 2020+«)…

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Enhancing Energy Efficiency Through Transistor Innovations

Transistors are needed wherever current flows, and they are an indispensable component of virtually all electronic switches. In the field of power electronics,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Tandem Solar Cells Achieve Record Efficiency on Silicon Base

The outstanding achievement is that the III-V layers were directly grown on the silicon.

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