Tag: Electrical Engineering/Electronics

January 24, 2020

Credit: Sarah Atkinson/Michigan Tech Historically, as in decades ago, rechargeable lithium metal batteries were dangerous. These batteries were quickly abandoned ...

Nano-thin flexible touchscreens could be printed like newspaper

January 24, 2020

New touch-responsive technology is 100 times thinner than existing touchscreen materials and so pliable it can be rolled up like ...

UTA aerospace engineer exploring possibility of hypersonic passenger, cargo planes

January 23, 2020

Finding ways to faster flightCredit: UT Arlington The idea of speeding through the atmosphere at many times the speed of ...

Researchers expand microchip capability with new 3D inductor technology

January 23, 2020

Credit: Image courtesy Xiuling Li CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Smaller is better when it comes to microchips, researchers said, and by ...

The easy route the easy way: New chip calculates the shortest distance in an instant

January 23, 2020

Scientists have developed the world's first fully coupled AI chip that can solve the traveling salesman problem for 22 cities ...

Physicist obtain atomically thin molybdenum disulfide films on large-area substrates

Credit: Atomic Layer Deposition Lab, MIPT Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have managed to grow atomically ...

Integrate micro chips for electronic skin

Researchers from Dresden and Osaka present the first fully integrated flexible electronics made of magnetic sensors and organic circuits which ...

Physicists trap light in nanoresonators for record time

The reference particle captured light for a time exceeding 200 periods of one wave oscillation, 20-40 times longer than usual; ...

SPIE selects Wolfgang Fink as 2020 fellow

Professional optics society recognizes University of Arizona professor for his work in artificial vision for the blind and smartphone-based eye ...

Less may be more in next-gen batteries

Rice lab tests cells with silicon anodes, aluminum coatings that protect cathodesCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 21, 2020) ...

Ultrafast camera takes 1 trillion frames per second of transparent objects and phenomena

Lihong Wang has adapted his picosecond imaging technology to take pictures and video of transparent objects like cells and phenomena ...

Designer-defect clamping of ferroelectric domain walls for more-stable nanoelectronics

Improved stability a significant step forward for domain-wall nanoelectronic data storageCredit: FLEET A UNSW study published today in Nature Communications ...

Light-up wheels: Unique organic light-emitting molecular emitters

Researchers at Osaka Univ. design and synthesize highly efficient carbon-based 3rd-generation OLED molecular emitters by linking the donor and acceptor ...

New self-assembled monolayer is resistant to air