Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

3D-Printed Soft Robot Walks on Sand and Stone

Researchers led by Michael Tolley, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of California San Diego, will present the robot at the IEEE…

Power and Electrical Engineering

First Flat Lens for Immersion Microscopes: A New Innovation

A team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has developed the first flat lens for immersion…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Linear potentiometer LRW2/3 – Maximum precision with many measuring points

The LRW2/3 series linear potentiometers are characterized by their compact size and double bearing push rod. The return spring allows them to be used as…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Swarming Robots Take Flight with Virtual Top Hats

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have created a team of free-flying robots that obeys the two rules of the air: don't collide or undercut each…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Power goes Industry 4.0 – intelligent, connected, and multi-functional

The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology IISB in Erlangen offers innovative power electronic solutions that are used in…

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Stanford’s New Flexible, Biodegradable Electronics Innovate Sustainability

Troubled by this mounting waste, Stanford engineer Zhenan Bao and her team are rethinking electronics. “In my group, we have been trying to mimic the function…

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Sodium and Magnesium: A New Era for Rechargeable Batteries

A project supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) aims to find new materials which can be used in rechargeable batteries and eventually…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Easter Egg Wrapping Innovates With Specialty Light Sources

Also your nicely wrapped Easter eggs benefits from it cause not only packaging materials like cups, caps, cans, bags, glasses or bottlenecks can efficiently be…

Power and Electrical Engineering

To e-, or not to e-, the question for the exotic 'Si-III' phase of silicon

It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of silicon when it comes to computing, solar energy, and other technological applications. (Not to mention…

Power and Electrical Engineering

VTS-Box: Enhance Measurement Efficiency with Signal Conditioning

The electronics inside the VTS-Box digitizes the measured cursor voltage of the potentiometer. This digital information is first processed and then transferred…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Integrated PV Modules for Commercial Vehicles: A Fraunhofer ISE Study

Fraunhofer ISE has carried out and evaluated yield analyses of PV power supply for commercial vehicles, such as refrigerated transport vehicles, using…

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Programmable Electronic Properties in 2D Heterostructures

Vertical stacks of different two-dimensional (2D) crystals, such as graphene, boron nitride, etc., held together by weak van der Waals forces are commonly…

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Light-Controlled Plastics: New Advances in Curvature Innovation

The advance builds on earlier work by the same research team, which focused on self-folding 3-D structures. The key advance here is that rather than having the…

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Enzyme Function Reduces Battery Ageing, TU Graz Researchers Find

It has been known in biology for a long time that the excited oxygen molecule singlet oxygen is the main cause of ageing in cells. To counter this, nature uses…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Nanofiber Advances Next-Gen Rechargeable Batteries

Materials researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have created a nanofiber that could help enable the next generation of rechargeable batteries and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Innovative Heat Pump Design Heats and Cools Simultaneously

As one of the leading R&D partners in the area of thin-film technologies, the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology…

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