News tagged with power electronics
Tilting at wind farms
Jan 07, 2009 |
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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
Oct 01, 2008 |
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(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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Engineers develop new power line de-icing system
Jan 07, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Samsung Introduces UltraThin Touch of Color Photo Frame
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May 25, 2009 |
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Samsung Electronics today announced the release of the SPF-87H Photo Frame. With a slim screen depth of 23 mm (.91 inches) and 1 GB of internal memory, the SPF-87H can store up to 3,000 photos, while being ...
New AFOSR magnetron may help defeat enemy electronics
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Researchers funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research at the University of Michigan invented a new type of magnetron that may be used to defeat enemy electronics. A magnetron is type of vacuum ...
Samsung Announces 640-Gigabyte 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive for High-end Mobile PCs
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Samsung Electronics today announced its new 640-Gigabyte (GB) 2.5-inch Spinpoint M7 internal hard disk drive. The new 640GB hard drive, now the top-density drive of the popular M7 family, has an areal density of 516-Gigabit ...
Researchers shine light on compact fluorescent bulb problems
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Long touted as an energy-saving alternative for home lighting, compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) now have the potential to be even more efficient, as well as dimmable, thanks to research at Queen's University.
SKorean TV giants tout differing technologies
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Sep 06, 2009 |
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The world's top two makers of flat-panel televisions are stressing the energy-saving virtues of different display technologies in their race to dominate a huge global market.
Electrical circuit runs entirely off power in trees
Sep 08, 2009 |
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You've heard about flower power. What about tree power? It turns out that it's there, in small but measurable quantities. There's enough power in trees for University of Washington researchers to run an electronic ...
Keynote at CES will test Ballmer's star power
Jan 06, 2009 |
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Not that he needed one, but Bill Gates had rock star Slash help him cap his performance at the International Consumer Electronics Show last year.
Transparent solar cells
Jun 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If solar cells were transparent they could be fitted to windows and building facades. Physical modeling helps in the development of suitable materials for transparent electronics and thus ...
LG to Launch 15-inch OLED TV
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Sep 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Korean company, LG Electronics, the second largest television manufacturer in the world, has announced it will launch a 15-inch organic display TV set in early September. The announcement, ...
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