News articles tagged with 'voltage'
New technique boosts high-power potential for gallium nitride electronics
— 3 Feb 2011 17:15 | TechnologyGallium nitride (GaN) material holds promise for emerging high-power devices that are more energy efficient than existing technologies - but these GaN devices traditionally break down…
Power grid of the future saves energy
— 8 Nov 2010 17:16 | TechnologyCars and trucks race down the highway, turn off into town, wait at traffic lights and move slowly through side streets. Electricity flows in a similar way - from the power plant via…
New equation could advance research in solar cell materials
— 22 Oct 2010 19:58 | TechnologyA groundbreaking new equation developed in part by researchers at the University of Michigan could do for organic semiconductors what the Shockley ideal diode equation did for inorganic…
First step toward electronic DNA sequencing: Translocation through graphene nanopores
— 27 Jul 2010 10:25 | TechnologyResearchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new, carbon-based nanoscale platform to electrically detect single DNA molecules…
Solving the puzzle of the BK ion channel
— 24 Jun 2010 11:49 | HealthIn 2004, Washington University in St. Lous researcher Jianmin Cui was handed a puzzling clue to the structure of an ion channel his lab had been studying for five years…
Synthetic cells shed biological insights while delivering battery power
— 23 Oct 2009 12:51 | TechnologyTrying to understand the complex workings of a biological cell by teasing out the function of every molecule within it is a daunting task. But by making synthetic cells that include…
High-speed signal mixer demonstrates capabilities of transistor laser
— 20 Mar 2009 11:02 | TechnologyScientists at the University of Illinois have successfully demonstrated a microwave signal mixer made from a tunnel-junction transistor laser. Development of the device brings researchers…
Researchers design electronic amplifier capable of functioning in extreme temperatures
— 9 Mar 2009 15:00 | TechnologyMissions to space require 'warm' boxes, which protect electronic circuitry from extreme temperatures and exposure to radiation. Electrical engineering researchers at the University…
Improved measurements could mean safer, more reliable electroshock weapons
— 14 Nov 2008 19:24 | TechnologyElectroshock weapons - such as stun guns and other similar devices that temporarily incapacitate a person by delivering a high-voltage, low-current electric shock - have helped law…
An engineer develops new methods to protect wind generators during voltage dips
— 6 Sep 2008 21:39 | TechnologyTo provide a solution to the problems caused to wind turbines by sudden dips in voltage in a part of the electric grid. This was the objective of industrial engineer and member of INGEPER…