Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

World's smallest optical implantable biodevice

For centuries, it has been known that chemicals can change neural behavior. The field of optogenetics proved that neural behavior can also be changed with mere…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Silicon: The Future Storage Solution for Advanced Batteries

Longer life times, larger ranges and faster recharging – developments such as electric mobility or the miniaturisation of electronics require new storage…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Electrically Conductive Adhesives Boost Silicon Solar Cell Production

In industrial production, the throughput is only slightly lower than with soldering. The reliability of the adhesive connection was confirmed in tests carried…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Enhanced Stability in Plastic Light-Emitting Diodes

Monitor screens and smartphones that can be rolled and folded up are applications that could become possible in the future thanks to the development of polymer…

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Intelligent Components Boost Future Power Grid Efficiency

Fast charging of electric cars requires a lot of energy in a short period of time. These peak loads lead to bottlenecks in the power grid, and are one of the…

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Real-Time Layer Thickness Measurement Using Terahertz Technology

Terahertz radiation was already a major topic a good ten years ago, in connection with body scanners for inspecting passengers during airport security…

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Light Pulse Interaction: Color Change Innovation Explained

When the pump pulse reaches the signal pulse, upon interaction, the signal pulse accel-erates, changes its frequency, respectively its color, and finally…

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Berkeley Engineers Create Efficient Wireless Nerve Stimulator

The device, called StimDust, short for stimulating neural dust, adds more sophisticated electronics to neural dust without sacrificing the technology's tiny…

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Thin Engineered Material Perfectly Redirects Sound Waves

Metamaterials researchers at Duke University have demonstrated the design and construction of a thin material that can control the redirection and reflection…

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Exciting Advances in Attosecond Electron Excitation in GaAs

Fabian Schlaepfer and his colleagues in the experimental group of Ursula Keller at the ETH Institute for Quantum Electronics, together with Angel Rubio and…

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Non-Toxic Virus-Based Filament Enhances Heat Dissipation

Organic polymeric materials generally have low thermal conductivity and are not suitable for rapid heat dissipation of electric and electronic equipment in the…

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Cat-like 'hearing' with device tens of trillions times smaller than human eardrum

Dynamic advances

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Silicon Multi-Junction Solar Cell Converts 33.3% Sunlight

Silicon solar cells dominate the global photovoltaic market today with a share of 90 percent. With ever new technological developments, research and industry…

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High-Precision Control of Valves and Locks via Electric Current

Simply by analysing the electric current that flows through the coil, the team is able to determine where the bolt is and can adjust its position…

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'Fog harp' increases collection capacity for clean water

Fog harvesting may look like whimsical work.

Power and Electrical Engineering

Conveyor technology: Moving large quantities of small goods using muscles made of silicone polymer

Rapid contractions of the artificial muscles convey the material on the belt, either by projecting the material forward in a series of tiny bounces or sliding…

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