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Research focuses on implementing radio frequency MEMS resonators on a silicon chip

Semiconductor Research Corporation and Cornell University researchers are working to advance on-chip silicon development to enable new generations of smaller and more sophisticated mobile electronic devices.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Award-winning energy harvester brings practical applications closer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although the idea of harvesting ambient energy from the environment and using it to generate electricity is alluring, most of the technology so far is capable of generating only very small ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

Diagnosis based on remote ultrasound will soon be available

An ultrasound machine has been transformed into a telediagnosis tool. Specialists in other hospitals can see images in real time, pinpoint the exact zone they’re coming from, and interact.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High definition diagnostic ultrasonics on the nanoscale

Scientists and Engineers at The University of Nottingham have built the world's smallest ultrasonic transducers capable of generating and detecting ultrasound. These revolutionary transducers which are orders of magnitude ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Students harness vibrations from wind for electricity

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Vibro-Wind Research Group is working on an efficient, low-cost method of converting vibrations from wind energy to electricity.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 26, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Engineering professor creates mobile lab for testing bridges

(PhysOrg.com) -- Civil engineering students at the University of Rhode Island will soon take to the roadways to apply what they have learned in the classroom in real-world analyses of bridges, buildings and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Soldiers turn a march into a charge

Engineers at the University of Leeds (UK) are developing a way to capture the kinetic energy produced when soldiers march and use it to power their equipment.

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Revolutionizing the diagnosis of serious disease

Revolutionary ultrasonic nanotechnology that could allow scientists to see inside a patient's individual cells to help diagnose serious illnesses is being developed by researchers at The University of Nottingham.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1