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Silicon carbide is expensive and its production is extremely energy-intensive, but it is indispensable for many applications.

Investment in electrical transmission and distribution (T&D) systems could significantly reduce air pollution, according to a study led Lauren Janicke , an undergraduate in civil and environmenta

As devices get smaller and more powerful, the risk of overheating and burning out increases substantially.

Delft Hyperloop, a dreamteam of 41 TU Delft students, presented their latest design Helios II on 16 February at the Kunsthal Rotterdam.

Delft Hyperloop, a dreamteam of 41 TU Delft students, presented their latest design Helios II on 16 February at the Kunsthal Rotterdam.

Society's growing demand for high-voltage electrical technologies - including pulsed power systems, cars and electrified aircraft, and renewable energy applications - requires a new generation of cap

Whether rooftop solar panels are worth the cost is largely dependent in Switzer-land on local compensation rates for solar power and on electricity prices in gen-eral - these are the findings of a study by researchers at ETH Zurich and the University of Bern.

A research team at Technische Universität Ilmenau has succeeded in further developing a fundamentally new and very material-saving approach. This approach uses additive material synthesis for semiconductor metallization. The research results, developed in the Nanotechnology Group under the leadership of Professor Heiko Jacobs, follow up on prior publications on lateral nanobridge growth (Advanced Materials 2016, IEEE 2018, IEEE 2020) and open up news ways to connect metallization layers vertically, point-to-point, using a plasma jet process.

In 1886, the first hydropower plant went into operation in Littau, Lucerne, to supply the Swiss AC grid.

Cardiff University has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult.

Is the miniaturisation of electronics reaching its limits because smaller structures lead to more errors? TU Wien (Vienna) has shown that the problem can be overcome if the susceptibility to errors is taken into account when planning circuits.

UPDATE: The Transporter-6 mission successfully launched at 6:55 a.m. PT on January 3.

The antennas successfully deployed over four days, a process that was completed on Dec.

Luqiao Liu utilizes a quantum property known as electron spin to build low-power, high-performance computer memories and programmable computer chips. Luqiao Liu was the kind of kid who would rather take his toys apart to see how they worked than play with them the way they were intended. Curiosity has been a driving force throughout his life, and it led him to MIT, where Liu is a newly tenured associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Research Laboratory of Electronics.

The cost of living has gone up, and along with it, so has electricity. Glenn Platt, a Professor of Practice in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering and Director at Emergent Group, shares his summer energy-saving tips.

With a new project, Energy Future 2050, the Association of Swiss Electricity Companies VSE together with Empa shows based on various scenarios what Switzerland's energy supply could look like by 2050.

National Grid and The University of Manchester have been named 'Best Innovation in Net Zero and Sustainability' at the E&T Innovation Awards for their commitment to developing a retrofill solution to replace SF6.

By 2033, more than 1 billion laptops, cellphones, and other electronic devices could be entering the U.S. waste stream each year. That's according to a new study in Nature Sustainability that projects a dramatic increase in the amount and complexity of U.S. waste electronics in the decade ahead.

Students at Technische Universität Ilmenau have won the COSIMA competition of the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies VDE at the world's leading electronics trade fair electronica in Munich with their invention of an "intelligent T-shirt".

Battery power from electric vehicles to the grid could open a fast lane to a net-zero future. Owners of electric vehicles (EVs) are accustomed to plugging into charging stations at home and at work and filling up their batteries with electricity from the power grid.

By Birgit Baustädter Manuel Galler is the audience's favourite. The 33-year-old electrical engineer was able to bring the Science Slam state championship title to Graz for TU Graz.

In five years, the founders hope that the products now on the table will be sold around the world. TU/e spin-off taylor develops electronics that make solar panels up to twenty percent more cost-effective.

Scientists at the Swiss Plasma Center at EPFL, in collaboration with Beyond Gravity and with the support of the ESA, have developed a slip ring assembly that can more than triple the operational voltage of new-generation, high-voltage satellites.

National Grid and The University of Manchester are to collaborate on a four-year project to develop a full-scale demonstrator at the Deeside Centre for Innovation, designed to test at scale how the UK can retrofill SF6 across its network of high-voltage equipment.

Electromagnetic vortices occur naturally throughout the universe and have recently been observed in association with black holes.

Researchers created a method for magnetically programming materials to make cubes that are very picky about what they connect with, enabling more-scalable self-assembly. While automated manufacturing is ubiquitous today, it was once a nascent field birthed by inventors such as Oliver Evans, who is credited with creating the first fully automated industrial process, in flour mill he built and gradually automated in the late 1700s.

MMIP aims to incentivize more students to consider a career in semiconductors and microelectronics, addressing a crucial, nationwide talent gap.

Today EPFL inaugurated its new heating plant, which has the capacity to heat and cool the Lausanne campus solely by drawing water from Lake Geneva and recovering excess heat from a connected data center.

Wind energy continues to see strong growth, solid performance, and attractive prices in the U.S., according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ÜBerkeley Lab). With levelized costs of just over $30 per megawatt-hour (MWh) for newly built projects, the cost of wind is well below its grid-system, health, and climate benefits.

When Carnegie Mellon University doctoral candidates I-Hsuan Kao and Ryan Muzzio started working together a switch flicked on. Then off. Working in the Department of Physics ' Lab for Investigating Quantum Materials, Interfaces and Devices (LIQUID) Group , Kao, Muzzio and other research partners were able to show proof of concept that running an electrical current through a novel two-dimensional material could control the magnetic state of a neighboring magnetic material without the need of applying an external magnetic field.

Berkeley Lab-led initiative helps electric companies improve grid reliability and resilience The Interruption Cost Estimate (ICE) Calculator is a publicly available, online tool that estimates the economic consequences of power interruptions.

Why does the microelectronics industry occupy such a crucial place? How has the industry become central to the digital transformation of our society? Today, electronic components can be found in everyday life, from energy production to agriculture, health, and safety.

For the past 25 years, CXRO scientists and engineers have worked side by side with microelectronics industry leaders to tackle the significant technological advances required to develop EUV lithography. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab) Advances in microelectronics - also known as microchips or chips - have enabled fast, powerful, compact smartphones and laptops - electronic devices that were once, long ago, the stuff of science fiction.

We are all familiar with power outages - but fortunately widespread outages are rare. This is due to a sophisticated balance of generation and utilization.

Field Programmable Gate Arrays, or FPGAs, are an essential asset to an electrical and computer engineering curriculum.

Six Capstone Design teams win $10,000 each at annual Esch competition By Carol Truemner Faculty of Engineering Impressing judges with projects ranging from a unique alternative to traditional cancer t

Flat batteries could be a thing of the past thanks to lithium-ion battery nanotechnology developed by The University of Queensland.

By Christoph Pelzl On his journey from practical mathematics to theoretical electrical engineering, Niels Köster improved his scientific writing skills and discovered a love of (industry-related) research.