Power and Electrical Engineering

This topic covers issues related to energy generation, conversion, transportation and consumption and how the industry is addressing the challenge of energy efficiency in general.

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New method to create stable, efficient next-gen solar cells

Next-generation solar materials are cheaper and more sustainable to produce than traditional silicon solar cells, but hurdles remain in making the devices durable enough to withstand real-world conditions. A new…

Generating clean electricity with chicken feathers

The food industry generates enormous amounts of waste and by-​products, including from poultry production. Each year, some 40 million tonnes of chicken feathers are incinerated. This not only releases large…

Clean and safe power for data centres

Kiel University and Trinity College Dublin receive €2.5 million EU funding to develop particularly reliable and sustainable transformers. When power fails in data centres, the damage is often great: not…

A review of energy supply for biomachine hybrid robots

Bio-machine hybrid robots (BHRs) represent a new generation of micro-aerial vehicles that be controlled by building an interface between biological and artificial systems. In contrast to conventional bionic robots, they…

Widely tuneable terahertz lasers

… boost photo-induced superconductivity in K₃C₆₀. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg, Germany, have long been exploring the effect of…

Japan’s technology progress pushes laser fusion energy closer to commercialization

Ex-Fusion and Tokyo Tech establish collaborative research cluster. EX-Fusion Inc. (CEO: Kazuki Matsuo, hereinafter referred to as “EX-Fusion”) has established a Collaborative Research Cluster focused on advancing liquid metal devices…

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