Electronics & Semiconductors
Power converters are the little-known systems that make electricity so magical. They are what allow us to plug in our computers, lamps and televisions and turn them on in a snap. Converters transform the alternating current ...
Mar 25, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
A broad class of materials called perovskites is considered one of the most promising avenues for developing new, more efficient solar cells. But the virtually limitless number of possible combinations of these materials' ...
Jun 6, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
A new distribution system designed by researchers at the University of Waterloo would reduce electricity prices by more than five per cent while also improving service reliability.
Jan 31, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
The "internet of things" is the idea that vehicles, appliances, civil structures, manufacturing equipment, and even livestock will soon have sensors that report information directly to networked servers, aiding with maintenance ...
Feb 17, 2017
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Energy & Green Tech
University of California San Diego and CEA-Leti scientists have developed a ground-breaking piezoelectric-based DC-DC converter that unifies all power switches onto a single chip to increase power density. This new power ...
Feb 21, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
To an outsider, the gray stack of metal boxes piled on the gray concrete floor might look unimpressive. Machinery meant for storage, maybe. Leftovers from an experiment completed long ago.
Dec 14, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Within the Research Project PV-MoVe, researchers at the Fraunhofer IEE investigated how to use active switching loss reduction networks for power semiconductors to enable smaller, more lightweight, and more cost-efficient ...
Nov 21, 2023
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Engineering
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a manufacturing method at the atomic and near-atomic scale. Since its invention in the 1970s, ALD has been industrially applied in fields such as displays, semiconductors, and solar cells. ...
May 9, 2023
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Engineering
A high-efficiency buck-boost DC-DC converter was developed by the team led by Prof. Cheng Lin from the School of Microelectronics at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...
Mar 10, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Imagine this: Clothing that charges your smart watch as you walk, buildings that vibrate in the wind and power your lights, a road that extracts energy from the friction created by moving cars, and flexible structures that ...
Sep 23, 2022
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