Engineering
Imagine an iPad that's more than just an iPad—with a surface that can morph and deform, allowing you to draw 3D designs, create haiku that jump out from the screen and even hold your partner's hand from an ocean away.
Jul 31, 2023
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Engineering
Excess heat from electronic or mechanical devices is a sign or cause of inefficient performance. In many cases, embedded sensors to monitor the flow of heat could help engineers alter device behavior or designs to improve ...
Jul 24, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers have developed next-generation smart textiles—incorporating LEDs, sensors, energy harvesting, and storage—that can be produced inexpensively, in any shape or size, using the same machines used to make the ...
Apr 21, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
In recent years, engineers and material scientists have been trying to identify particularly promising materials for creating flexible electronics of different shapes and sizes. Ultimately, these electronics could be integrated ...
Engineering
Electronics engineers are continuously trying to develop thinner, more efficient and better performing transistors, the semiconductor devices at the core of most modern electronics. To do this, they have been evaluating the ...
Engineering
If you are reading this article on your computer or phone, it is in part thanks to diodes. Diodes—typically rigid electrical components that easily conduct electric current in one direction—are used for a variety of critical ...
Dec 1, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Yanliang Zhang, associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and collaborators Alexander Dowling and Tengfei Luo have developed a machine-learning assisted superfast new way ...
Nov 8, 2022
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Engineering
Want to know if the Golden Gate Bridge is holding up well? There could be an app for that.
Nov 3, 2022
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Engineering
Carnegie Mellon mechanical engineering researchers have developed a new scalable and reproducible manufacturing technique that could accelerate the mainstream adoption and commercialization of soft and stretchable electronics.
Aug 30, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Scientists have known since the 1950s that it is theoretically possible to generate electricity through the movement of water in locations where seawater and river water meet. This type of technology is called osmotic power ...
Jul 21, 2022
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