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News: Energy
MIT scientists have found that carbon nanotubes could be formed into tiny springs capable of storing as much energy, pound for pound, as the best lithium-ion batteries - potentially more durably and...
Videos: Green Design & Manufacturing
Lithium-ion batteries for advanced vehicles still have issues of safety and costs in terms of materials resources and abundances, synthesis, and recycling processes. Jean-Marie Tarascon, a professor at...
Products: Energy
Concentrated solar power (CSP) and concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) methodologies generate electricity by focusing a large amount of sunlight onto a much smaller area. To...
News: Energy
Blooms of Cladophora algae may be troublesome, but they do have a positive side. Researchers at the Ångström Laboratory of Sweden's Uppsala University have discovered that the cellulose...
Products: Green Design & Manufacturing
Signal Conditioners Ideal for Wind Turbines
The SCM5B, SCM7B, and SensorLex® 8B signal conditioning modules from Dataforth (Tucson, AZ) are all fully encapsulated, making them corrosion-resistant and well suited for use in rugged environments like wind turbines.
News: Energy
Hydrogen Storage Competition
DOE has launched the H-Prize competition, offering a $1 million award to an individual or team that creates the most advanced materials for hydrogen storage in vehicles.
Products: Energy
The AEGIS WTG™ grounding ring from Electro Static Technology (Mechanic Falls, ME) channels harmful shaft currents away from bearings to ground - preventing bearing damage that could cause wind turbine generator...
News: Energy
Last year, MIT researchers found that plants generate a voltage of up to 200 millivolts when one electrode is placed in a plant and the other in the surrounding soil. A University of Washington team followed...
News: Energy
Researchers at Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed thin films that exhibit carrier multiplication (CM) - a development that is of great interest for future solar cells.
News: Green Design & Manufacturing
Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of Alabama researchers have come up with a new method for recycling hydrogen-containing fuel materials, which could open the door to...
Techs for License: Electronics & Computers
Microscale Atomic Clock Enables Applications in GPS, and Radio Channel Density
Most atomic clocks are bench-bound, and even portable units can weigh in excess of 10 pounds. This invention is a cesium laser atomic clock that can be constructed using photoresist MEMS (microelectromechanical system) technology. The glass cell measures about 1 cubic...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Micro/sys (Montrose, CA) has released a host microcontroller equipped with StackableUSB architecture. The USB1032 industrial-grade microcontroller allows OEMs to fit their control system within a 1.85" x...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Fidelity Electronics (Toronto, Canada) has announced the release of the Very Personal Computer (VPC), a low-cost, fully preloaded, Wifi portable netbook computer. The VPC weighs only 1.5 lb. and measures 8.4" x...
Products: Electronics & Computers
LeCroy Corporation (Chestnut Ridge, NY) has introduced the WaveMaster 8 Zi Series digital oscilloscopes, Serial Data Analyzers, and Disk Drive Analyzers that provide up to 30 GHz of bandwidth, 80 GS/s of sample...
Products: Electronics & Computers
HI-TECH Software (Queensland, Australia) has launched an “omniscient” ANSI C compiler that increases DMIPS/MHz and cuts the power drain of Silicon Labs’ 8051-based mixed-signal MCU families, including the ultra...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. (Ottawa, Canada) has announced the ZL™30143 and ZL30142 Synchronous Ethernet devices that integrate analog and digital phase locked loops (APLL/DPLL) for central timing card...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Virtium Technology Inc. (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA) has added the SSDDR SODIMM to its family of memory and storage product lines. SSDDR is a memory and SSD board design that combines Serial ATA Solid State Drive...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Mouser Electronics, Inc. (Mansfield, TX) is now stocking the ZIC2410 RF Transceiver System-on-Chip (SoC) from California Eastern Laboratories. The ZIC2410 Transceiver IC is a fully-integrated System-on-Chip (SoC)...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
With more embedded systems using SSDs in critical applications, designers are now asking the question, “How long will this SSD last in my application?” To help answer this pressing...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Commonly available COTS solutions feature high-speed interconnected processing elements with ever decreasing geometries and ever increasing complexity. Modular COTS...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Every day we use complex mathematics, hidden inside products. When we listen to a song from an MP3 player, we are using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), a “complex domain” algorithm. The...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A new cell designed to mimic the photosynthetic processes of plants to convert carbon dioxide into carbonaceous products and oxygen at high efficiency, has an...
Briefs: Materials
Silicon Wafer-Scale Substrate for Microshutters and Detector Arrays
The silicon substrate carrier was created so that a large-area array (in this case 62,000+ elements of a microshutter array) and a variety of discrete passive and active devices could be mounted on a single board, similar to a printed circuit board. However, the density and...
Products: Energy
Portable media devices have increasingly larger displays and longer video playback, and require more power. The LM3530 from National Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) employs ambient...
Briefs: Information Technology
A recently developed method of constructing protograph-based low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes provides for low iterative decoding thresholds and minimum distances proportional to...
Briefs: Information Technology
Minimizing Input-to-Output Latency in Virtual Environment
A method and apparatus were developed to minimize latency (time delay) in virtual environment (VE) and other discrete-time computer-based systems that require real-time display in response to sensor inputs. Latency in such systems is due to the sum of the finite time required for information...
Briefs: Information Technology
PrimeSupplier Cross-Program Impact Analysis and Supplier Stability Indicator Simulation Model
PrimeSupplier, a supplier cross-program and element-impact simulation model, with supplier solvency indicator (SSI), has been developed so that the shuttle program can see early indicators of supplier and product line stability, while identifying the...
Briefs: Information Technology
Integrated Planning for Telepresence With Time Delays
A conceptual “intelligent assistant” and an artificial-intelligence computer program that implements the intelligent assistant have been developed to improve control exerted by a human supervisor over a robot that is so distant that communication between the human and the robot involves...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Battery Cell Voltage Sensing and Balancing Using Addressable Transformers
A document discusses the use of saturating transformers in a matrix arrangement to address individual cells in a high-voltage battery. This arrangement is able to monitor and charge individual cells while limiting the complexity of circuitry in the battery. The arrangement...
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