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The first survey of Canadian consumers regarding their purchase and disposal of electronics reveals that 64 per cent of people replace their items for reasons other than the device breaking down or being obsolete.

Estimates as to how much more electricity could be generated from hydropower in the absence of residual flow requirements vary widely, and they have previously been based on inadequate data.

Automated vehicles are conquering the roads. So it is high time to research how reliability and safety can be optimized in the communication between human and technical systems. The Thuringian Center for Innovation in Mobility (ThIMo) at TU Ilmenau is tackling precisely this issue with a new research group.

Electronic devices are becoming ever more powerful - but also ever more energy-hungry. That's why 12 doctoral researchers at the Ilmenau School of Green Electronics (ISGE) , supported by the Carl Zeiss Foundation, are exploring new ways to make future electronics more sustainable.

Posted on: 05 December 2025 The breakthrough has a huge potential impact - one that brings us much closer to quickly and cheaply producing printable electronics such as wearable health sensors or flexible displays.

Adopting digital twin technology to manage the power consumption of idle devices could save organisations thousands of pounds a year and help reduce their carbon footprint, new research suggests. Engineers from the University of Glasgow's James Watt School of Engineering have developed a prototype of a digital tool which can monitor and manage 'phantom load' - the electricity consumed by devices like computers or office equipment when they are plugged into mains power but are not in active use.

Automatic charging instead of plugging in cables: In a cooperative project, researchers investigated inductive charging of electric cars.

The UK's drive to net zero won't succeed on wind turbines and solar farms alone. The real bottleneck is moving that clean electricity from remote fields and offshore platforms to the homes, cities and industries that need it.

Researchers have engineered a fiber-based electronic sensor that remains functional even when stretched to over 10 times its original length. The device holds promise for smart textiles, physical rehabilitation devices, and soft robotics. The phrase 'liquid metal' may bring to mind something hazardous, like mercury or molten steel.

The energy transition is putting increasing pressure on our electricity grid. How can we ensure that solar power, electric vehicles and local energy communities operate reliably and fairly?

Engineers from a Scottish university are teaming up with industry to develop environmentally-friendly, biodegradable circuit boards for use in wireless communication technologies.

Brain implants, intelligent sensors, and green AI microchips that mimic the low energy consumption of the brain.

An international team of researchers including physicists here in Durham have made a breakthrough that could help make our phones and computers faster and more energy efficient.

The 13th FLUXONICS workshop will bring together around 45 leading minds in superconducting circuit research from Japan, the USA, China and Europe with students and interested parties at TU Ilmenau from June 23 to 26, 2025.

Research Team 2 at the Ilmenau School of Green Electronics (ISGE) is working on polymers as a sustainable alternative to limited raw materials in microelectronics.

By 2050, the aim is for Switzerland's energy system to be decarbonised and no longer reliant on nuclear power.

The fundamental research activities of the PERL team aim at pushing the limits of power electronic converters in terms of their switching frequencies.

In the effort to build superconducting quantum computers, researchers around the world are working to develop electrical circuits that operate in the microwave domain using individual particles of microwave radiation, or microwave photons, as qubits-the basic building blocks of quantum computing.

An international research collaboration, including The University of Warwick, The University of Cambridge and UCL, has demonstrated that 'wonder material' phosphorene nanoribbons (PNRs) exhibit both magnetic and electronic properties at room temperature, establishing them as a unique class of low-dimensional materials.

A more sustainable new form of electronic tag could help reduce the vast environmental impact caused by single-use RFID technologies, researchers say.

Providing electricity to power-hungry data centers is stressing grids, raising prices for consumers, and slowing the transition to clean energy.

Airport aprons, large construction sites or open-air events are usually defenceless against lightning.

Innovative device could power electronics with your body movements while you use them  A new technology that can generate electricity from vibrations or even small body movements means you could charge your laptop by typing or power your smartphone's battery on your morning run. Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a tiny, wearable generator in response to the urgent need for sustainable, clean energy.

A secure supply of electricity from renewable energies can only succeed if we also modernise the grid infrastructure.

A difficult-to-describe nanoscale object called the magnetic skyrmion might one day yield new microelectronic devices that can do much more - for example, massive data storage - all while consuming much less power. But researchers need a more detailed understanding of skyrmions if they are ever to be used reliably in computational devices, including quantum computers.

A new world record in wireless transmission, promising faster and more reliable wireless communications, has been set by researchers from UCL. The team successfully sent data over the air at a speed of 938 Gigabits per second (Gb/s) over a record frequency range of 5'150 Gigahertz (GHz). This speed is up to 9,380 times faster than the best average 5G download speed in the UK, which is currently 100 Megabits per second (Mb/s) or over 1 .

More and more electrical devices in households are producing more and more data.