Professor Pieter Abbeel of UC Berkeley Department of Electrical engineering and Computer sciences said it is a new way to empower robot
The new technique consists of coating magnesium resistors (or silicon diodes), printed on very thin and flexible materials,
#Researchers Discover Electron Pairing without Superconductivity A team of physicists from the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Superconductors are used for many applications including in magnetic resonance imaging devices and for magnetic energy storage. The basis for all superconductors is the formation of electron pairs.
In the normal non-superconducting phase, the electrons in most metals move independentlyhe scattering of electrons causes electrical resistance.
In a superconductor, the paired electrons move in a highly coordinated fashion that has zero electrical resistance.
The discovery provides clues about the mechanisms causing superconductivity in strontium titanate, which may eventually help researchers to the discovery of a material that superconducts at room temperature.
says Cynthia R. Sung, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and one of the robot co-developers. n previous origami robots,
and motors to actuate the body itself. oining Sung on the paper describing the robot are her advisor, Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in MIT Department of Electrical engineering and Computer science;
Outside controlin their experiments, the researchers positioned the robot on a rectangular stage with an electromagnet at each of its four corners.
Scientists found they could prod these skyrmions to move using electric currents, and an idea was born:
are tiny devices that stop the flow of electric current (off and on, 1 and 0). But there a limit to how small we can make them,
When the scientists applied an electric current to the metal layers, the stripes stretched through the channel
By running a smaller electric current through the system they could make the skyrmions move: hese aren exotic materialsheye widely used already in the magnetics industry,
The electric current needed to move the skyrmions is much lower than what used in other experimental memory alternatives, like racetrack memory,
It is made of simple ordinary office paper on one side there is inexpensive air-breathing cathode created with nickel sprayed on
on another side the anode is screen printed with carbon paints, creating a hydrophilic zone with wax boundaries.
#Electrical engineers Break Power and Distance Barriers for Fiber optic communication Electrical engineers have broken key barriers that limit the distance information can travel in fiber optic cables
The electrical engineers used their frequency comb to synchronize the frequency variations of the different streams of optical information
said UC San diego electrical engineering Ph d. student Eduardo Temprana, the first author on the paper. The frequency comb ensured that the system did not accumulate the random distortions that make it impossible to reassemble the original content at the receiver.
the characteristic that controls how polarized atoms interact with external electric fields. The researchers who published their results this month in the American Chemical Society Journal of Physical chemistry Letters discovered they could calculate the flexoelectric effect of graphene rolled into a cone of any size and length.
advances the understanding and use of complex oxide materials that boast unusual properties such as superconductivity and colossal magnetoresistance but are notoriously difficult to control.
the friction between those two surfaces ultimately produces an electrical charge-a type of contact electrification known as the triboelectric effect.
and Mohammad Noshad, now a postdoctoral fellow in the Electrical engineering Department at Harvard university, have devised a way of using light waves from light-emitting diode fixtures to carry signals to wireless devices at 300 megabits per second from each light.
when he joined the electrical engineering department to pursue his Ph d. He received several prizes for his work
Jie Lian, another one of Brandt-Pearce graduate students who has finished his master degree in electrical engineering
Radio waves creeping over your head Kaj Bjarne Jakobsen is an associate professor at DTU Electrical engineering. He has acted as supervisor for the group of Phd students who,
was made in the lab of Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied science (SEAS).
such strains are only found at low levels within the human gut, according to Timothy Lu, an associate professor of biological engineering and of electrical engineering and computer science,
In addition, this material stores heat energy by various approaches such as (b) electric current flow or (c) light-irradiation.
Besides direct application of heat, heat energy can be stored by passing an electric current through the material
This material also has possibilities for use for advanced electronic devices such as pressure-sensitive sheets, reusable heating pads, pressure-sensitive conductivity sensors, electric current driven type resistance random access memory (Reram
Batteries consist of one electrode on either side an anode and a cathode and an electrolyte between them.
but in lithium air batteries, the much lighter oxygen in a sense acts as the cathode, creating a more efficient design.
an electrical engineer whose work often concerns the semiconductor industry. ut wee also excited for the huge number of people who can now use this technique in chemistry and biology.
which ideally produce electric current by migrating in opposite directions following their separation by photon-carrying sunlight.
whose electrical conductivity increases 200-fold when stretched. The research team is using the new fibers to make artificial muscles,
and the thin rubber layer is a dielectric, resulting in a fiber capacitor. These fiber capacitors exhibited a capacitance change of 860 percent
it captures the light and converts it to an electric current. A connection to the gadget battery would enable the layer to send power directly to it.
the researchers explained that it uses about one-billionth the electric current needed to power a hair-dryer."
"said Stanford electrical engineer Philip Wong.""Graphene has been promised to benefit the electronics industry for a long time, and using it as a copper barrier is perhaps the first realization of this promise."
Engineers Unveil Method to Dispel Noise Effects The fiber optic data transmission will soon be enhanced significantly as electrical engineers at the UC San diego Qualcomm Institute have divulged a method to increase the capacity limit of high-bandwidth fiber optic cables.
However, on application of electric field, things take an interesting turn. When the gold plating over the miniature robots interacts with an alternating electrical field passing through them,
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