Shifting Winds in Turbine Arrays
October 22, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 22, 2013 — Researchers modeling how changes in air flow patterns affect wind turbines’ output power have found that the wind can supply energy […]
Low-Priced Plastic Photovoltaics
October 22, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 22, 2013 — Photovoltaic devices, which tap the power of the sun and convert it to electricity, offer a green — and potentially unlimited […]
Salmonella Sensing System
October 18, 2013
WASHINGTON D.C. Oct. 18, 2013 — As anyone who has ever consumed bacteria-contaminated food and experienced “food poisoning” can tell you, it’s a miserable experience. Yet it’s […]
Wrangling flow to quiet cars and aircraft
October 18, 2013
WASHINGTON D.C. Oct. 18, 2013 — Plasmas are a soup of charged particles in an electric field, and are normally found in stars and lightning bolts. With […]
Promising New Alloy for Resistive Switching Memory
October 17, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. Sept. 20, 2013 — Memory based on electrically-induced “resistive switching” effects have generated a great deal of interest among engineers searching for faster and smaller […]
Bright, Laser-Based Lighting Devices
October 17, 2013
WASHINGTON D.C. Sept. 27, 2013 — As a modern culture, we crave artificial white lights — the brighter the better, and ideally using less energy than ever […]
Solar Power’s Future Brawl
October 17, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 1, 2013 — A trio of researchers at North Dakota State University, Fargo and the University of South Dakota have turned to computer modeling to […]
A Better Device to Detect Ultraviolet Light
October 17, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. Sept. 20, 2013 — Researchers in Japan have developed a new photodiode that can detect in just milliseconds a certain type of high-energy ultraviolet light, […]
Ultraviolet Light to the Extreme
October 17, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 4, 2013 — When you heat a tiny droplet of liquid tin with a laser, plasma forms on the surface of the droplet and […]