All News News Type - Any -AlumniAwards and AccoladesGeneralGraduateIn the NewsIndustry and BusinessNewsletterResearchUndergraduate Year - Any -2024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012 Related IEE Person Apply Reset New Sunflower-Inspired Pattern Increases Concentrated Solar Efficiency By arranging the mirrors of a concentrating solar power plant (CSP) in the pattern of sunflower florets, researchers estimate these… January 11, 2012 Research UC Santa Barbara Researchers Uncover Fundamental Limits on Optical Transparency in Conducting Oxides January 8, 2012 Research New Switch Could Improve Electronics Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have invented a new type of electronic switch that performs electronic logic functions… December 1, 2011 Research PVSEC-21: High-Efficiency Heterojunction Silicon Solar Cells with Copper Electroplating By replacing expensive silver with ubiquitous copper for electroplating, researchers have developed a silicon solar cell with higher… December 1, 2011 Research In Search of the Ideal Grid Battery Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new, cost-effective electrode using nanomaterials that can withstand 40,000 charge… November 22, 2011 Research New Technology Improves Both Energy Capacity and Charge Rate in Rechargeable Batteries By layering graphene sheets and silicon, researchers have developed an anode with storage capacity and recharge rates 10x higher than… November 14, 2011 Research Plasmonic Device Converts Light Into Electricity A simple, easily fabricated metal-insulator-metal device has the ability to create electricity from a range of infrared and visible… November 9, 2011 Research NASA Using Solar to Achieve Limitless Flight NASA is investing $89 million to see if it can achieve limitless flight using solar photovoltaic technology. November 8, 2011 Research Engineers Solve Energy Puzzle: How Energy Levels Align in a Critical Group of Advanced Materials Researchers have made a critical discovery mapping out the energy interaction between transition metal oxides and organic materials,… November 7, 2011 Research Research Sparks Record-Breaking Solar Cell Performances Berkeley Lab researchers approach theoretical efficiency for a solar cell by designing gallium arsenide panels that emit photons to… November 7, 2011 Research Use of Supercritical Water Could Cut Costs for Ethanol A faster sugar-producing process using hot, pressurized water to break down wood chips could be the missing link in the evolution of… November 4, 2011 Research Batteries Get a Quick Charge with New Anode Technology Researchers have developed an anode made of titanium dioxide nanotubes that, remarkably, improves battery performance over time by self-… November 3, 2011 Research Solar Power Could Get Boost from New Light Absorption Design A unique arrangement of silicon oxide and metal allows the absorption of broad wavelengths from many angles, an improvement that could… November 2, 2011 Research Zinc Oxide Microwires Improve Performance of Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) Through the Piezo-Phototronic Effect An advance in gallium nitride LEDs boosts the efficiency at which they produce ultraviolet light, with promising applications for… October 31, 2011 Research High-Quality White Light Produced By Four-Color Laser Source Scientists at Sandia National Labs have developed a diode laser with lighting quality comparable to incadescents and the new lights… October 26, 2011 Research The Quasicrystal Laureate Professor Dan Schechtman received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last week for his discovery of quasicrystals, a new form of matter with… October 12, 2011 Research Pagination First page « Previous page ‹ … Page 15 Current page 16 Page 17 Page 18 … Next page › Last page »
