Building blocks for GaN power switches
WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 15, 2015 – A team of engineers from Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame and the semiconductor company IQE has created gallium nitride […]
A New Theory Describes Ice’s Slippery Behavior
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 8, 2015 – Winter is coming, promising the usual bouts of frozen precipitation for northern locations. The slickness of snow and ice is a […]
Exploring the limits for high-performance LEDs and solar cells
Washington, D.C., Dec. 2, 2015 – Hybrid optoelectronic devices based on blends of hard and soft semiconductors can combine the properties of the two material types, opening […]
Climate Macroscope: New Software for Finding Tipping Points and Critical Network Structures
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 17, 2015 – If you wanted to know whether shifts in the African climate during Paleolithic times correlated with the appearance and disappearance of […]
Ultra-thin, tunable, broadband microwave absorber may advance radar cloaking
Washington, D.C., Nov. 10, 2015 – Microwave absorbers are a kind of material that can effectively absorb incident microwave energy to make objects invisible to radar; therefore […]
New Derivation of Pi Links Quantum Physics and Pure Math
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 10, 2015 – In 1655 the English mathematician John Wallis published a book in which he derived a formula for pi as the product […]
Forming glass shapes: Lowering the ‘softening temperature’ via electric field
Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 2015 – On a serendipitous occasion, while attending a conference and listening to Rishi Raj, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University […]
Wall-less Hall thruster may power future deep space missions
Washington, D.C., Oct.27, 2015 – Hall thrusters are advanced electric rocket engines primarily used for station-keeping and attitude control of geosynchronous communication satellites and space probes. Recently, […]
Canadian Researchers Find Geothermal Heat Pumps Most Feasible in Halifax
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 23 — Researchers at the Université du Québec have recently conducted a survey of four Canadian cities to determine the economic feasibility of installing […]