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Berkeley Lab joins in broad federal effort to develop pathways for island's clean energy future Berkeley Lab and five other DOE national labs have launched the PR100 study, to help Puerto Rico meet its goal of achieving 100% renewable energy by 2050.

A new research project is setting out to find a solution to the growing problem of electronic waste by creating the world's first controlled degradable integrated circuits. Researchers from the University of Glasgow's James Watt School of Engineering have won a £1.5m grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for the project.

By Susanne Filzwieser If aircraft disappear from radar, it may be due to overloaded transponders. TU Graz has developed a simulation tool for Austro Control to determine the transponder occupancy.

By Christoph Pelzl TU Darmstadt and TU Graz want to decisively improve electrical machines through computer simulations.

For the past decade, Carnegie Mellon University has committed to protecting the planet's future by ensuring that all of its purchased electricity has come from renewable sources.

Berkeley Lab report finds historic lows in clean energy prices position India to transform electric system -By Karyn Houston Dramatic cost reductions over the last decade in battery storage and wind

A Q&A with two scientists aiming to overcome limits in computing power and energy efficiency by designing new microchips Our laptops and smartphones are compact yet powerful because of silicon microe

More power - less carbon dioxide Biogas is an important factor in the implementation of the energy transition.

Short-wave infrared light (SWIR) is useful for many things: It helps sort out damaged fruit and inspecting silicon chips, and it enables night vision devices with sharp images.

By Beate Mosing The photovoltaic system is working on the roof, the e-car is charging in the garage, or at least the e-bike is hooked up to the electricity.

The University of Manchester's Electromagnetic (EM) Sensing Group has showcased its work relating to the production of landmine detection technologies at the Royal Society Summer Science 2021 Exhibition.

The successful deployment of solar power will depend on many factors, including how well grid operators are able to balance supply and demand in order to incorporate renewable energy into their low-voltage grids.

A new wearable device turns the touch of a finger into a source of power for small electronics and sensors. Engineers at the University of California San Diego developed a thin, flexible strip that can be worn on a fingertip and generate small amounts of electricity when a person's finger sweats or presses on it.

As silicon-based technology reaches its absolute limits, a material engineered by University of Queensland researchers could herald the next generation of electronics with more memory, faster speeds and advanced features. The carbon-based material could contribute to a growing nanoelectronics market predicted to be worth $162 billion by 2027.

Carnegie Mellon University This year, a series of devastating events highlighted the growing gaps and weaknesses in the American energy infrastructure.

· Lead-acid batteries are an established alternative to Li-ion batteries as they are simpler safer to use and are recyclable · How to increase the lifespan and health of batteries will be researched by WMG, University of Warwick, in collaboration with Loughborough University.

Researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), together with Airbus Defence and Space (ADS), have developed a system that rapidly detects electric arcs in aircraft. This technological research project is being funded by the ADS with support from the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI, in its Spanish acronym) and will contribute to developing safer and cleaner aircraft.

2D material resists cracking and description by century-old theory of fracture mechanics It's official: Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is the iron man of 2D materials, so resistant to cracking that it defies a century-old theoretical description engineers still use to measure toughness.

Rice models help ID materials for advanced electronics, computer memories A new theory by Rice University scientists could boost the growing field of spintronics , devices that depend on the state of an electron as much as the brute electrical force required to push it. Materials theorist Boris Yakobson and graduate student Sunny Gupta at Rice's Brown School of Engineering describe the mechanism behind Rashba splitting , an effect seen in crystal compounds that can influence their electrons' "up" or "down" spin states, analogous to "on" or "off" in common transistors.

The tiniest microchips yet can be made from graphene and other 2D-materials, using a form of 'nano-origami', physicists at the University of Sussex have found.

Platform Optimizes Control and Readout of Qubits by Placing Control Electronics Near Quantum Chips Without Wire Bonding GRENOBLE, France - Feb.

Organic waste - whether from households, agriculture or agroforestry - can be used as energy resource, but is often underexploited.

UC Berkeley researchers have created a new device that combines wearable biosensors with artificial intelligence software to help recognize what hand gesture a person intends to make based on electrical signal patterns in the forearm.

The EU's Green Deal and Austria's efforts to generate the total demand for electricity in Austria based on renewable energies call for a boost of advancement in the hydropower industry.

Magic Cube is a new teaching tool developed by ETH Zurich, ABB and mint & pepper. It uses a playful approach to teach junior high and high school students the basics of electrical engineering and awaken their interest in the field.

The advent of inexpensive wearable sensors that can monitor heart rate and body temperature, as well as levels of blood sugar and metabolic byproducts, has allowed researchers and health professionals to monitor human health in ways never before possible. But like all electronic devices, these wearable sensors need a source of power.

New voting options, a contentious race and a global pandemic have turned the 2020 presidential race into an election unlike any other in modern memory.

A research team from Garching and Vienna discovered a remarkable echo effect - it offers exciting new possibilities for working with quantum information.

For decades Z-X Shen has ridden a wave of curiosity about the strange behavior of electrons that can levitate magnets.