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Electron Backscatter Diffraction Yields Microstructure Insights

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 14, 2017 — High-efficiency electric motors with tailored speed-torques, determined by their magnetic components, are essential for sustainable, successful electric automobile drive concepts. Soft […]

Soft Magnetic Material Characterizations Get a Harder Look

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 14, 2017 — In motors, generators and similar electric machines, the electrical current that powers them generates magnetic fields that magnetize some of the […]

Are Multiple H-Coils Needed to Accurately Measure Magnetic Field Strengths?

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 14, 2017 — Is more always better? Researchers from Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, sought to find out if that was the case for […]

Improving Sensor Accuracy to Prevent Electrical Grid Overload

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 7, 2017 — Electrical physicists from Czech Technical University have provided additional evidence that new current sensors introduce errors when assessing current through iron […]

New Portable Blood Analyzer Could Improve Anemia Detection Worldwide

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 3, 2017 — About one quarter of the world’s population suffers from anemia, a disease caused by a concentration deficiency of hemoglobin in red […]

Small Scale Energy Harvesters Show Large Scale Impact

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 28, 2017 — The production of nano-scale devices has drastically increased with the rise in technological applications, yet a major drawback to the functionality […]

Fluorescence microscopy on a chip — no lenses required

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 19, 2017 – Fluorescence microscopy gives researchers incredible power to illuminate the tiniest structures and capture the real-time activities of live cells by tagging […]

The Synchronized Dance of Skyrmion Spins

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 30, 2017 — In recent years, excitement has swirled around a type of quasi-particle called a skyrmion that arises as a collective behavior of […]

Managing Stress Helps Transistor Performance

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 16, 2017 — Tensile mechanical stress can have a useful effect for some transistors, where the resulting atomic strain allows its current-carrying electron-hole pairs […]