Engineering
The key to maximizing traditional or quantum computing speeds lies in our ability to understand how electrons behave in solids, and a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Regensburg captured ...
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Computer Sciences
Neural networks are learning algorithms that approximate the solution to a task by training with available data. However, it is usually unclear how exactly they accomplish this. Two young Basel physicists have now derived ...
Sep 30, 2022
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Engineering
EPFL researchers have discovered that Vanadium Dioxide (VO2), a compound used in electronics, is capable of "remembering" the entire history of previous external stimuli. This is the first material to be identified as possessing ...
Aug 22, 2022
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A new type of energy efficient, ecologically sustainable cooling technology that does not require the use of climate-damaging refrigerants is currently being developed by Professor Stefan Seelecke and his team at Saarland ...
Jun 2, 2022
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Engineering
Cornell researchers have uncovered the source of a persistent problem limiting the durability of sodium-ion batteries, providing manufacturers with new strategies for powering the 21st century.
Feb 11, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
With Telsa in the lead, the electric vehicle market is growing around the world. Unlike conventional cars that use internal combustion engines, electric cars are solely powered by lithium ion batteries, so the battery performance ...
Oct 23, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Collecting energy from environmental waste heat such as that lost from the human body is an attractive prospect to power small electronics sustainably. A thermocell is a type of energy-harvesting device that converts environmental ...
Feb 12, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
A new method could enable researchers to fabricate more efficient and longer lasting perovskite solar cells, LEDs and photodetectors. By growing thin perovskite films on substrates with different compositions, engineers at ...
Jan 9, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Many existing techniques for developing quantum and neuromorphic computing tools are based on the use of superconductors, substances that become superconducting at low temperatures. In the same architectures, semiconductors, ...
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Engineering
A new sensor, that can detect ice accumulation in real-time, might be a game-changer when it comes to airline safety and efficiency.
Aug 8, 2019
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A phase transition is a natural physical process. It has the characteristic of taking a given medium with given properties and transforming some or all of that medium, into a new medium with new properties. Phase transitions occur frequently and are found everywhere in the natural world. Some engineering techniques exploit certain types of phase transition.
In thermodynamics, a phase transition is the transformation of a thermodynamic system from one phase to another.
At a phase transition point, physical properties may undergo abrupt change: for instance, the volume of the two phases may be vastly different as is illustrated by the boiling of liquid water to form steam.
The term is most commonly used to describe transitions between solid, liquid and gaseous states of matter, in rare cases including plasma.
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