electrical engineering

In photo: sixteen year old inventor Arsh Shah Dilbagi demonstrating his breath to voice synthesizer. About 1.4% of the world's ...

Silicon polymer and battery used for the research. Photo: University of California

Silly Putty ingredient helps improve batteries

byTibi Puiu

May 16, 2014

Photo: momfabfun.com When you think about Silly Putty toys, the last thing that comes to mind is high-tech. A group ...

Jeong-Yun Sun (left) and Christoph Keplinger show off an ionically conductive material that is very stretchy and completely transparent. Photo by Eliza Grinnell/SEAS Communications

Novel ionic conducting material acts like artificial muscle and plays music

byTibi Puiu

September 2, 2013

In a breakthrough moment, researchers at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a novel material resembling a simple ...

Stretchy electronic circuits mimic nature and allow for flexible computers

byTibi Puiu

December 12, 2012

(c) Rafael Libanori, Randall M. Erb and André R. Studart Flexible electronics are still in their infancy, however scientists have ...

rdue and Harvard universities. The transistor is made from tiny nanowires of a material called indium-gallium-arsenide, which could replace silicon within a decade. The image was taken with a transmission electron microscope (Purdue University image)

Transistor nanowires stacked in ‘4-D’ hint to future tech

byTibi Puiu

December 10, 2012

rdue and Harvard universities. The transistor is made from tiny nanowires of a material called indium-gallium-arsenide, which could replace silicon ...

A typical light emitting diode, captioned here only for illustrative purposes. Not the actual LED used in the presently discussed research.

MIT engineers create LED that has 230% efficiency. Thermodynamics laws still in place

byTibi Puiu

March 9, 2012

A group of researchers at MIT have successfully managed to create a light emitting diode (LED) that has an electrical ...

3D perspective of a single-atom transistor. (C) RC Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication, at UNSW.

Scientists develop single-atom transistor with ‘perfect’ precision

byTibi Puiu

February 20, 2012 - Updated on August 15, 2022

3D perspective of a single-atom transistor. (C) RC Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication, at UNSW. Australian scientists at University of ...