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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Unique locks on microchips could reduce hardware piracy

Computer engineers at the University of Michigan and Rice University have devised a comprehensive way to head off this costly infringement: Each chip would…

Colourful idea sparks renewable electricity from paint

Dr Dave Worsley, a Reader in the Materials Research Centre at the University’s School of Engineering, is investigating ways of painting solar cells onto the…

Nuclear cannibals

Nuclear energy production must increase by more than 10 percent each year from 2010 to 2050 to meet all future energy demands and replace fossil fuels, but…

Position sensors: magnets know their place

Electronic sensors that record the position of movable objects crop up in practically every machine, from printing presses to space rockets. The average modern…

IMEC obtains record conversion efficiency of 24.7% for GaAs solar cells on Ge substrate

IMEC realized this record on a single-junction GaAs cell, grown epitaxially on a Ge substrate with an improved micro-defect distribution. The record cell…

ETH Zurich competence center ESC introduces energy strategy. Long-term objective 1-ton CO2 society

The per capita emission of carbon dioxide in Switzerland is currently 9 tons per year, approximately twice the global average. «Our objective for the climate…

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