News tagged with control electronics


Mass production micro-hybrid technology set to cut emissions and fuel use in cars

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The EUREKA (Belgium) i-StARS project is developing a compact, fully integrated and low-cost start-stop system for cars to replace conventional alternators in mass production. This second-generation starter alternator reversible ...





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Tilting at wind farms

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 4

A way to make wind power smoother and more efficient that exploits the inertia of a wind turbine rotor could help solve the problem of wind speed variation, according to research published in the International Journal of ...


RF remote control is a superior alternative to infrared control

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The ZigBee Alliance and the RF4CE Consortium, founded by Panasonic, Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics and Sony have reached an agreement to deliver a standardized specification for radio frequency-based (RF) remote ...


Carbon nanotube 'ink' may lead to thinner, lighter transistors and solar cells

Carbon nanotube 'ink' may lead to thinner, lighter transistors and solar cells

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a simple chemical process, scientists at Cornell and DuPont have invented a method of preparing carbon nanotubes for suspension in a semiconducting "ink," which can then be printed into ...


AFOSR funds super-fast, secure computing

Michigan scientists working on super-fast, secure computing

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Air Force Office of Scientific Research(AFOSR)-supported physicists at the University of Michigan are developing innovative components for quantum, or super-fast, computers that will improve security for data ...


Peeling stickers may lead to stretchable electronics

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A study of stickers peeling from windows could lead to a new way to precisely control the fabrication of stretchable electronics, according to a team of researchers including one at MIT.


Engineers develop new power line de-icing system

Engineers develop new power line de-icing system

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth engineering professor and entrepreneur Victor Petrenko—along with his colleagues at Dartmouth and at Ice Engineering LLC in Lebanon, N.H.—have invented a way to cheaply and effectively ...


Better control of carbon nanotube 'growth' promising for future electronics

Better control of carbon nanotube 'growth' promising for future electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in efforts to use tiny structures called carbon nanotubes to create a new class of electronics that would be faster and smaller than conventional ...


Industrial dye holds the key to advancing spintronics

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 10, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Commonly used industrial dyes hold the key to advancing the new science of 'spintronics', say researchers working on a new a £2.5 million study.


Researchers find better way to manufacture fast computer chips

Researchers Find Better Way To Manufacture Fast Computer Chips

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at Ohio State University are developing a technique for mass producing computer chips made from the same material found in pencils.


James Webb Space Telescope Begins to Take Shape at Goddard

James Webb Space Telescope Begins to Take Shape at Goddard

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is starting to come together. A major component of the telescope, the Integrated Science Instrument Module structure, recently arrived at NASA Goddard Space ...



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