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Location: Tokyo, Japan
The thin-film EL devices use perovskite oxides, typified by barium titanate
(BaTiO3), which has long been used as capacitor material for
electronic circuits. With an emission starting voltage of ≈10 V AC, the power
source...
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Location: California, United States
Abstract :
As robots designed to operate underwater become more common, it is useful to look at ways to make them more efficient. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) carry their power source with them, so improving the efficiency of the...
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Location: baijing, China
Researcher: Qingfeng Li and colleagues
Abstract: In an advance toward introduction of an amazing new kind of
internal combustion engine, researchers in China are reporting development and
use of a new and more...
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Location: University of Minnesota, United States
Researchers at the
University of
Minnesota studying bacteria capable of generating electricity have
discovered that riboflavin (commonly known as...
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Location: Université de Montréal, Canada
An international research team has discovered that a magnetic field can interact with the electrons in a superconductor in ways never before observed.
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Location: University of California - Riverside, United States
Using a computer model simulation, Haruichi Washimi, a physicist at UC
Riverside, has predicted when the interplanetary spacecraft Voyager 2 will cross the “termination shock,” the spherical shell around the...
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Location: 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
Researchers in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University's School
of Computer Science are building a robotic prospector for NASA that can creep
over rocky slopes and then anchor itself as a...
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Location: 77 Massachusetts avenue , Cambridge, Ma 02139-4307, United States
Researchers in the MIT Media Lab's
Biomechatronics Group
have created a device to lighten the burden for soldiers and others who carry
heavy packs and equipment.
Their...
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Location: Harvard Engineering and Applied Sciences,Maxwell Dworkin 149, United States
It weighs only 60 Milligramm, resembles its brothers in free nature and could a revolution in the monitoring technology cause: Scientists around Robert Wood of the Harvard MicroRobotics team developed a robot fly, which can actually take off. The...
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Location: The Biodesign Institute,1001 S. McAllister Ave.PO Box 875001,Tempe, AZ 85287-5001, United States
During the remarkable cascade of events of photosynthesis, plants approach
the pinnacle of stinginess by scavenging nearly every photon of available light
energy to produce food. Yet after many years of careful research into its exact...
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology,Materials Science and Engineering,771 Ferst Drive, N.W.,Atlanta, GA 30332-0245, United States
Researchers have demonstrated a prototype
nanometer-scale generator that produces continuous direct-current electricity by
harvesting mechanical energy from such environmental sources as ultrasonic
waves, mechanical vibration or blood...
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Location: Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
FXB Building 1320 Beal Avenue Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2140 , United States
The University of Michigan Department of Aerospace Engineering can boast among its many resources 10 wind tunnels for instructional and research work. These tunnels are run by the Gas Dynamics Laboratories (GDL), which consists of a closely...
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