Energy & Green Tech
Solar power gathered far away in space, is seen here being transmitted wirelessly down to Earth to wherever it is needed. ESA plans to investigate key technologies needed to make Space-Based Solar Power a working reality ...
Nov 9, 2022
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Internet
Power management systems that harvest ambient energy will power billions of small devices on the Internet of Things.
Oct 5, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A research collaboration between Associate Professor Mishima Tomokazu (Kobe University Graduate School of Maritime Sciences) and Associate Professor Lai Ching-Ming (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) has successfully ...
Oct 19, 2021
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Engineering
Sending a rocket into space typically requires about 90% of the rocket's initial weight to be fuel. This limitation could be overcome by wirelessly transmitting the needed power to the rocket through a beam of microwave radiation. ...
Jul 26, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Wireless power transfer has proven to be quite useful in electronic devices such as medical implants and smartphones. In most cases, this is done by aligning or "coupling" two separate coils of wire (transmitter Tx and receiver ...
Dec 7, 2020
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Hardware
The coastline of Norway is peppered with more than a thousand oil wells, most of which will be plugged once they're no longer profitable. They have to be monitored in case they leak—but keeping an eye on them isn't easy. ...
Apr 7, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Though the days of hardwired wall-mounted phones are ending and wireless internet connections are common at home and on the go, people are still dependent on cords to charge their mobile devices. My research, and that of ...
Dec 14, 2018
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Electronics & Semiconductors
The evolution of next-generation cellular networks is aimed at creating faster, more reliable solutions. Both the next-generation 6G network and the metaverse require high transmission speeds. Visible light communication ...
Jan 10, 2023
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Telecom
With the emerging Internet-of-Things that holds promise for operating everything from smart homes to smart cities, fifth-generation wireless communication must be able to handle the demands for low delay and high reliability. ...
May 3, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers from the Faculty of Physics and Engineering managed to achieve simultaneous power transfer at various frequencies with the help of a metasurface. It will allow us to simultaneously charge devices from different ...
Aug 26, 2020
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