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FEDC and PARC Successfully Manufacture Largest Flexible X-ray Detectors using TFTs

The Flexible Electronics and Display Center (FEDC) at Arizona State University and PARC, a Xerox company, announced today that they have successfully manufactured the world's largest flexible X-ray detector prototypes using advanced thin film transistors (TFTs).

18 Dec 2015

Innovative Flexible Wire-Shaped Microsupercapacitors Woven Into Garments

Wearable power sources for wearable electronics are limited by the size of garments.

17 Dec 2015

Sentient Energy to Deliver 20,000 Intelligent Distribution Grid Sensors to Florida Power & Light

Sentient Energy, Inc., a leading provider of advanced grid monitoring and analytics solutions for electric utilities, today announced that it has signed a contract with Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) to deliver 20,000 Sentient MM3™ intelligent distribution grid sensors. These sensors will help FPL locate outages quicker and get crews to an electric fault location faster to speed restoration for its 4.8 million customers in Florida.

9 Dec 2015

NASA Launches DXL-2 Payload to Study X-Ray Emissions in Space

The blackness of space. There isn't much visible light in space - but there are numerous other wavelengths of light and scientists want to know what's out there and where it comes from.

7 Dec 2015

Festo's New Service Unit Module MSE6-E2M Efficiently Reduces Energy Consumption

The new energy efficiency module MSE6-E2M from Festo makes energy saving in compressed air systems as simple as can be. This intelligent service unit system monitors and regulates operating parameters in new and existing plants fully automatically.

27 Nov 2015

Wi-Fi Router Tapped to Power Devices

University of Washington engineers have developed a novel technology that uses a Wi-Fi router — a source of ubiquitous but untapped energy in indoor environments — to power devices.

19 Nov 2015

New High-Precision Technique to Examine Magnetic Fields in the Sun’s Atmosphere

An international team of researchers, led by Queen’s University Belfast, has devised a high-precision method of examining magnetic fields in the Sun’s atmosphere, representing a significant leap forward in the investigation of solar flares and potentially catastrophic ‘space weather’.

18 Nov 2015

Latest STMicroelectronics Power-Supply Chip Could End Vampire Power

The reign of dreaded "vampire power" could be about to end thanks to the latest power-supply chip from STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications.

28 Oct 2015

Tihany Magnetic Observatory Registers Large Solar Storm

According to observations from the Tihany Magnetic Observatory in Hungary, the indices used by scientists to assess the Sun's geomagnetic perturbations to the Earth are unable to detect some of these events, which could put both power supply and communication networks at risk.

19 Oct 2015

Dual Frequency Wireless Charging Platform Could Charge Multiple Devices Concurrently

A wireless charger that's compatible with different consumer electronics from different brands is one step closer to becoming a reality thanks to research by electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego.

14 Oct 2015