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Fuel cell technology approaches in the passing lane
Fuel cell technology approaches in the passing lane
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Today, acceptance of the hydrogen fuel cell technology suffers from the lack of an adequate refuelling infrastructure. But the situation…
Video: Sensors, liquid crystals make “omnifocal” glasses
Video: Sensors, liquid crystals make “omnifocal” glasses
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Perfect vision – all the time – is the claim from startup Deep Optics Ltd. (Petah Tiqva) for its eyeglasses…
Conjugated polymers reveal promise for flexible optoelectronics
Conjugated polymers reveal promise for flexible optoelectronics
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Researchers at MIT and Brookhaven National Laboratory have explained how electrical charge carriers move in conjugated polymers which are candidates…
Millimeter waves hitch a ride
Millimeter waves hitch a ride
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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are studying millimeter wave (mmW) wireless signals could be used in cars.

Nanoscale light-emitting device extends visbility of objects
Nanoscale light-emitting device extends visbility of objects
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University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed a nanoscale device that claims to be able to emit light as powerfully as an object 10,000 times its size.
Research project combines valet parking, battery charging
Research project combines valet parking, battery charging
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In the V-Charge project, six research partners are currently developing applications around autonomous and, in some cases, electric vehicles. The focus of the project is on methods and algorithms enabling…
Millimeter waves for automotive communications and radar
Millimeter waves for automotive communications and radar
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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are studying millimeter wave (mmW) wireless signals for use in cars. They believe mmW bands will provide the high data rates and…
Artificial light harvester reveals quantum physics of efficient photosynthesis
Artificial light harvester reveals quantum physics of efficient photosynthesis
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A team of European research groups collaborating between universities in Vienna, Ulm, Cartagena, Prague, Berlin and Lund, have examined the quantum physics of artificial light harvesting to learn how molecular…
Perovskite solar cells – can production costs be lowered?
Perovskite solar cells – can production costs be lowered?
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An interdisciplinary team of scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has begun studying solutions to lower the production costs of perovskite-based solar cells under the 'NanoSolar' project which will…
Amazon launches its largest renewable energy project
Amazon launches its largest renewable energy project
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Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, has announced plans to construct and operate its largest renewable energy project to date - a 208-MW wind farm in North Carolina, called the…
Picking the right PWM controller for narrow on-time step-down conversion
Picking the right PWM controller for narrow on-time step-down conversion
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Dhananjay Singh of Intersil Corporation considers how to pick the right PWM controller for narrow on-time step-down conversion.
Perform power measurements with modular digitizers
Perform power measurements with modular digitizers
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Arthur Pini , Greg Tate and Oliver Rovini examine how to make basic power measurements in AC circuits and devices using a modular digitizer.
Solar powered flight smashes long-distance records
Solar powered flight smashes long-distance records
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Solar Impulse-2 (Si2), the solar-powered aeroplane has landed in Hawaii after making a record-breaking 8,000 km flight across the Pacific from Japan. The distance covered and the time spent in…
Quantum-dot spectrometer fits in a smartphone
Quantum-dot spectrometer fits in a smartphone
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MIT scientists have shown they can create spectrometers small enough to fit inside a smartphone camera, using tiny semiconductor nanoparticles called quantum dots, enabling an era of portable light analysis.
Neutron measurements help find plutonium’s ‘missing’ magnetism
Neutron measurements help find plutonium’s ‘missing’ magnetism
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Research at two US Department of Energy national laboratories has confirmed plutonium’s magnetism, which scientists have long theorized but have never been able to experimentally observe.
Terminal testing for network operators: the applications and limitations of a network simulator
Terminal testing for network operators: the applications and limitations of a network simulator
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Mobile phone subscribers care nothing about the complex mix of factors underlying the performance of their handset in the real world. By and large, if the user experiences a dropped…
Selecting a PWM controller for step-down conversion
Selecting a PWM controller for step-down conversion
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Dhananjay Singh of Intersil Corporation considers how to pick the right PWM controller for narrow on-time step-down conversion.
Globalfoundries launches own FDSOI processes
Globalfoundries launches own FDSOI processes
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Globalfoundries Inc. has announced that it is offering a fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) manufacturing platform with a nominal 22nm minimum geometry design rule that can operate down to 0.4V.
Graphene-based film 4x better than copper for cooling electronics
Graphene-based film 4x better than copper for cooling electronics
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A graphene-based film that has a thermal conductivity capacity that is four times that of copper has been developed by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, making it ideal for…
Smart wine bottle thwarts counterfeiters
Smart wine bottle thwarts counterfeiters
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The industry’s first "smart wine bottle" built using printed electronics technology will be introduced at GSMA's Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai 2015.
Tunable mid-infrared graphene sensor detects nanoscale molecules
Tunable mid-infrared graphene sensor detects nanoscale molecules
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Researchers at the Swiss University EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona have developed a device which harnesses graphene’s novel optical and electronic…
Audi robot racecar, faster than human drivers
Audi robot racecar, faster than human drivers
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With a new generation of its robot racing car known as RS7 driving concept, carmaker Audi has surpassed the performance of its driverless racing car. The demonstration took place at…
Photo battery shines light on safer power
Photo battery shines light on safer power
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Scientists from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India have devised a way of using light - solar or artificial - to drive battery power safely.
Continental abolishes rear view mirrors
Continental abolishes rear view mirrors
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No more blind spots, dazzle-free view to the rear and additional driver assistance function, these are just some of the advantages of a camera-based rear view system that soon could…
Campus to become ‘living lab’ for the IoT
Campus to become ‘living lab’ for the IoT
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A new Google-funded project will turn Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) into a "living laboratory" for Internet-connected smart technologies.
Graphene-based film cools high power LEDs
Graphene-based film cools high power LEDs
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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a method which claims to enable electronics devices to be cooled efficiently using a graphene-based film with a thermal conductivity…
Power and distance barriers for fiber optic communication broken
Power and distance barriers for fiber optic communication broken
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Photonics researchers at the University of California, San Diego have increased the maximum power — and therefore distance — at which optical signals can be sent through optical fibers.
Startup revives smartphones’ joysticks: rear-mount
Startup revives smartphones’ joysticks: rear-mount
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Tiny rubber joysticks had their time embedded in the keyboards of laptops and smartphones from a few years ago, but they could never compete with the versatility of today’s touch-screens.


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