Tag: Electrical Engineering/Electronics

Engineering professor designs transistor that could enable cheaper, faster wireless communicationsCredit: Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson Many of the technologies ...

Ternary acceptor and donor materials increase photon harvesting in organic solar cells

Adding a semiconducting polymer donor or non-fullerene acceptor component to binary organic solar cells enhances spectral response for better photon ...

New study shows unique magnetic transitions in quasicrystal-like structures

Scientists showed for the first time the presence of unique magnetic transitions in peculiar structures similar to quasicrystalsCredit: Tokyo University ...

Hourglass-shaped silicon nanowire photodiodes with increased absorption of light developed

-Top: Image of SEM The near-infrared light is a light source with the shortest wavelength, indicated outside of the red ...

pinMOS: Novel memory device can be written on and read out optically or electrically

November 25, 2019

Credit: (c) Yichu Zheng This device allows reading the stored information optically as well as electrically. Moreover, the information can ...

Light-trapping nanocubes drive inexpensive multispectral camera

November 25, 2019

Plasmonic light detector could revolutionize multispectral imaging for cancer, food safety and agricultureCredit: Maiken Mikkelsen & Jon Stewart, Duke University ...

New antenna tech to equip ceramic coatings with heat radiation control

Credit: Purdue University illustration/Xueji Wang WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The gas turbines powering aircraft engines rely on ceramic coatings that ...

Army project may improve military communications by boosting 5G technology

Credit: Carbonics, Inc. RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (Nov. 21, 2019) -- An Army-funded project may boost 5G and mm-Wave technologies, ...

A review of single molecule-based electronic devices

Credit: Bingrun Chen In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue in NANO, a group of researchers from ...

Magnetic wave flows under better control from now on

Credit: Source: IFJ PAN Even faster processors with even smaller dimensions? Wherever neither electronics nor spintronics can cope with performance ...

Magnetic wave flows under better control from now on

Credit: Source: IFJ PAN Even faster processors with even smaller dimensions? Wherever neither electronics nor spintronics can cope with performance ...

$2 million DOE grant supports Lehigh researchers building thermal battery

Interdisciplinary team to develop innovative approach to thermal energy storage for more flexible, efficient power plantsCredit: Lehigh University The addition ...

Researchers design an improved pathway to carbon-neutral plastics

November 20, 2019

Researchers from U of T Engineering and Caltech have designed a system that transforms renewable electricity and waste CO2 into ...

Machine learning microscope adapts lighting to improve diagnosis