Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

Nanopores Enhance Radar Sensor Technology for Safer Driving

As you ease your foot off the accelerator, a radar sensor detects how far away you are from the other cars and intelligently adjusts your speed appropriately….

Power and Electrical Engineering

Aluminum Clusters Halt Molecular Fuel Production Insights

Despite decades of industrial use, the exact chemical transformations occurring within zeolites, a common material used in the conversion of oil to gasoline,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Siemens Unveils Compact Time Converter for Harsh Conditions

Siemens has expanded its portfolio of rugged network components with the Ruggedcom RMC8388 – a cost effective compact time converter designed to operate in…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Viaducts with Wind Turbines: A New Source of Renewable Energy

The Juncal Viaduct, in Gran Canaria, has served as a reference for Spanish and British researchers to verify that the wind blowing between the pillars on this…

Power and Electrical Engineering

“Virtual Lab” Specializes in Ultra-High Efficiency Solar Cells from Europe

Germany and France are European leaders in the fields of semiconductor technology and solar cell research. In order to strengthen the already existing…

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Innovative Solutions for Future Energy System Flexibility

Due to the rising penetration of photovoltaics, heat pumps and electric vehicles (EV) in the power distribution grid, the requirements for grid flexibility and…

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Breakthrough in Spin Currents to Charge Currents in Superconductors

A University of Tokyo research group has successfully measured the spin Hall effect in a superconductor for the first time. The spin Hall effect is responsible…

Power and Electrical Engineering

ΣYSTEMS INTEGRATION 2015 offers insights into Finland’s high-tech printing industry

VTT – Technical Research Centre of Finland acted as the partner and host for the 2015 event. VTT and its network PrintoCent constitute Europe’s biggest focal…

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Energy Efficiency Investment Declines Among German Companies

Bad times for energy efficiency: German companies are planning to invest proportionately less in energy efficiency in the coming 12 months. The Energy…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Movable Leading Edge Wings: A New Era in Aircraft Design

The 1:1 droop nose demonstrator was designed and manufactured at Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF in Darmstadt and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Preventing Fires in Next-Gen Lithium Batteries: New Study

The findings, published June 17 in Nature Communications, could help remove a major barrier to developing lithium-sulfur and lithium-air batteries, promising…

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Gothenburg's 100 % renewable electricity bus route with Siemens technology

The new electric bus route 55 between Lindholmen and Johanneberg in Gothenburg, Sweden, is now inaugurated. This nine-kilometer-route will be served by three…

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Binghamton Engineer Develops Inexpensive Origami Battery

Seokheun “Sean” Choi developed an inexpensive, bacteria-powered battery made from paper, he writes in the July edition of the journal Nano Energy.

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Wi-Fi Antenna Boosts Coverage with Innovative Design

The prototype antenna consists of a fluorescent tube that connects to the router through a tuned wire coil in a sleeve slipped over one end.

Power and Electrical Engineering

Breakthrough Technique Advances Single-Molecule Device Design

Under the direction of Latha Venkataraman, associate professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, researchers have designed a new technique to create…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Intelligent Handheld Robots: A New Era of Smart Tools

Historically, handheld tools have been blunt, unintelligent instruments that are unaware of the context they operate in, are fully directed by the user, and…

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