News tagged with power electronics


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 ...


The hybrid offensive

Technology / Energy

created Oct 01, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fraunhofer research engineers are busy converting a standard production gasoline-engine car into a hybrid. By doing so, they aim to demonstrate what hybrid technology can do, and prove that it can even be ...





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New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law

New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (57) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers of the future could be operating not on electrons, but on tiny waves traveling through an electron "fluid," if a new proposal is successful. The new circuit design, recently introduced ...


PCs shed pounds and CD drives, gain touch screens (AP)

PCs shed pounds and CD drives, gain touch screens

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(AP) -- Personal computers are changing - and not just because of the recent launch of Windows 7. Visit an electronics store and you might also find laptops are missing a familiar component. You could experiment ...


Cell phones become handheld tools for global development

Cell phones become handheld tools for global development

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment.


Pinning Down Superconductivity to a Single Layer

Pinning Down Superconductivity to a Single Layer

Physics / Superconductivity

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using precision techniques for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a single layer ...


Lighter, cheaper, LED light bulbs are starting to enter the marketplace

Technology / Energy

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 6

Just when you were finally warming up to the idea of swapping out your old light bulbs with compact fluorescent ones, you may soon find a new alternative at your local hardware store.


Researchers create molecular diode

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, N.J. Tao and collaborators have found a way to make a key electrical component on a phenomenally tiny scale. Their single-molecule diode is described ...


ARM Delivers The Internet Everywhere With Most Power-Efficient and Cost-Effective Multicore Processor

ARM Introduces New Cortex-A5 Power-Efficient and Cost-Effective Multicore Processor

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- ARM today announces the launch of the ARM Cortex-A5 MPCore processor, the smallest, lowest power ARM multicore processor capable of delivering the Internet to the widest possible range of ...


Pushing through brain barriers

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Understanding the inner workings of the brain remains one of the last frontiers in all of neurobiology. A Case Western Reserve University engineering professor is developing a miniaturized low-power device to detect how electrical ...


PayPal is owned by California-based online auction titan eBay

PayPal opening doors to outside developers

Technology / Internet

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

PayPal plans to throw open the doors of its software platform to enable outside developers to build innovative tools using the online financial transaction service.


Going plasmonic in search of faster computing, communications

Going plasmonic in search of faster computing, communications

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications and computing in which electronic ...



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