News tagged with high power


Graphene

Researcher Uses Graphene Quilts to Keep Things Cool

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Riverside Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering Alexander Balandin is leading several projects to explore ways to use ...


TL12W02-D

Toshiba Introduces High Power, High Flux 90 Lumen White LED

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 08, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Toshiba today announced TL12W02-D, a new high power, high brightness white LED for commercial, residential and industrial lighting applications that can provide a typical flux of 90 lumens (lm) when driven ...





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Panasonic develops direct methanol fuel cell system with high power output and durability

Technology / Energy

created Dec 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (23) | comments 9

Panasonic Corporation announced it has developed a direct methanol fuel cell system which can produce an average power output of 20 W by increasing the output per cubic centimeter twice that of its previous prototype. Using ...


Gallium nitride transistor could replace silicon

Gallium nitride transistor could replace silicon

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (36) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell researcher has created an extremely efficient transistor made from gallium nitride, which may soon replace silicon as king of semiconductors for power applications.


Hot electron solar cell

Hot Electrons Could Double Solar Cell Power Efficiency

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 2 weblog

Scientists have experimentally verified a theory suggesting that hot electrons could double the output of solar cells. The researchers, from Boston College, have built solar cells that successfully use hot ...


Lehigh receives grant to reduce cost of carbon capture at coal-fired power plants

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Lehigh University's Energy Research Center (ERC) has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop methods of recovering and reusing the heat that would be generated by the carbon-dioxide (CO2) compressio ...


Solar energy powers Marines on battlefield

Solar energy powers Marines on battlefield (w/ Video)

Technology / Energy

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A year ago, U.S. Marines operating in the Arabian Desert only viewed the sun as the source of the region's relentless heat. Recently, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Advanced Power Generation Future Naval ...


Aircraft dubbed 'Solar Impulse', HB-SIA prototype, flies for the first time

Pioneering solar-powered plane makes airborne hop

Technology / Energy

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The prototype of Solar Impulse, a pioneering Swiss bid to fly around the world on solar power, briefly took off for the first time on Thursday but under battery power, the organisers said.


Panasonic Starts Mass-Production of High-Capacity 3.1 Ah Lithium-ion Battery

Technology / Energy

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Panasonic Corporation developed a 18650-type high-capacity 3.1 Ah lithium-ion battery and began mass production of the battery this December. The new 3.1 Ah battery has a nickel positive electrode and an energy density of ...


Smashing trash with solar power

Technology / Energy

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

They seem to turn heads wherever they're installed: new solar-powered trash compactors that are meant to save time and energy.


Researchers demonstrate 100-watt-level mid-infrared lasers

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Northwestern University researchers have achieved a breakthrough in quantum cascade laser output power, delivering 120 watts from a single device at room temperature.


High-performance plasmas may make reliable, efficient fusion power a reality

High-performance plasmas may make reliable, efficient fusion power a reality

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (40) | comments 48

In the quest to produce nuclear fusion energy, researchers from the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have recently confirmed long-standing theoretical predictions that performance, efficiency and reliability ...



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