Electronics & Semiconductors
In the ongoing quest to make electronic devices ever smaller and more energy efficient, researchers want to bring energy storage directly onto microchips, reducing the losses incurred when power is transported between various ...
May 6, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Charge-recharge cycling of lithium-super-rich iron oxide, a cost-effective and high-capacity cathode for new-generation lithium-ion batteries, can be greatly improved by doping with readily available mineral elements.
May 2, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) research team has developed the world's first n-channel diamond MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor). The developed n-channel diamond MOSFET provides ...
Mar 15, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
The future's getting brighter for solar power. Researchers from CU Boulder have created a low-cost solar cell with one of the highest power-conversion efficiencies to date, by layering cells and using a unique combination ...
Mar 5, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Computer chips use billions of tiny switches, called transistors, to process information. The more transistors on a chip, the faster the computer.
Feb 10, 2020
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Engineering
A team lead by Professor Simon Brown at the University of Canterbury (UC) has developed computer chips with brain-like functionality, that could significantly reduce global carbon emissions from computing.
Nov 6, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
On the weekend, an area 20km off the Illawarra coast south of Sydney became Australia's fourth offshore wind energy zone. It's the most controversial zone to date, with consultation attracting a record 14,211 submissions—of ...
Jun 23, 2024
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Computer Sciences
When scientists pushed the world's fastest supercomputer to its limits, they found those limits stretched beyond even their biggest expectations.
Jun 20, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Promoting nuclear power was long taboo in Brussels, but a high-profile international summit Thursday sent loud and clear the message that atomic energy—now touted by its champions as key to fighting climate change—is ...
Mar 21, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Traditional memory technologies face limitations in terms of speed, scalability, and power consumption, making them unsuitable for future data-intensive applications. Ferroelectric memory has garnered immense interest in ...
Aug 16, 2023
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