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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Slicing Solar Power Costs with New Wafer-Cutting Method

The expensive solar cells now are used mainly on spacecraft, but with the improved wafer-slicing method, “the idea is to make germanium-based, high-efficiency…

ITER Technology proves successful

“This is a breakthrough for the fusion community. We have successfully tested and demonstrated a key technology milestone which is integral to the success of…

Latest research into Clean Technologies

The three universities from Japan were Tokyo University of Science, Tokai University and Tokyo Institute of Technology. Summaries of the technologies presented…

Real-life robots obey Asimov’s laws

Issac Asimov, widely regarded as the spiritual father of science fiction, outlined three rules that all robots in his future worlds must obey. The most…

Scientists grow 'nanonets' able to snare added energy transfer

Using two abundant and relatively inexpensive elements, Boston College chemists have produced nanonets, a flexible webbing of nano-scale wires that multiplies…

IMEC and CEA-LETI gear up cost-effective silicon photonics prototyping service

Co-funded by the European Union through the Seventh Framework Program and coordinated by IMEC, ePIXfab aims at reducing the large barriers for access to and…

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