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Ford and Mit Project Uses Lidar, Cameras to Predict Demand for New Electric Shuttles
Aug 2, 2016Ford Motor and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working together on a new research project that measures how pedestrians move in urban areas to improve certain public transportation services for ride-hailing and ...
Tags: Ford Motor, Electric Shuttles
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Cambridge Electronics Launches GaN Transistors and Power Electronic Circuits
Aug 10, 2015Cambridge Electronics Inc (CEI) – which was spun off from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2012 – has announced a range of gallium nitride (GaN) transistors and power electronic circuits targeted at cutting energy ...
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Promise for Optoelectronics Is Showed by Two-Dimensional Material
Mar 12, 2014A team of MIT researchers has used a novel material that's just a few atoms thick to create devices that can harness or emit light. This proof-of-concept could lead to ultrathin, lightweight, and flexible photovoltaic cells, light emitting ...
Tags: light emitting diodes, tungsten diselenide, new material
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MIT Researchers Found a Way to Extend Moore's Law
Mar 5, 2014Despite skepticism in the chip industry that Moore’s Law could be reaching its limits, MIT Researchers believe that they have found a way to enable semiconductor manufacturers to continue shrinking geometries below 20 nanometer and ...
Tags: Moore's Law, MIT Research
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The MIT Group Trys to Translate a Computer Model to a Real Product
Mar 4, 2014About 18 months ago, I wrote about an MIT project in which computer models demonstrated that graphene could act as a filter in the desalination of water through the reverse osmosis (RO) method. RO is slightly less energy intensive than the ...
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Traditional Photovoltaic Solar Cells Have an Inherent Limit on The Efficiency
Jan 21, 2014Traditional photovoltaic solar cells have an inherent limit on the efficiency at which they can convert sunlight into energy. This limit—based on the bandgap of the material used and known as the Shockley-Queisser limit—is about ...
Tags: Thermophotovoltaic, solar cells, Nature Nanotechnology, low-bandgap
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A New Approach to Harvesting Solar Energy, Developed by Mit Researchers
Jan 19, 2014A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency by using sunlight to heat a high-temperature material whose infrared radiation would then be collected by a conventional photovoltaic cell. ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Sunlight
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A New Water-Resistant Material Could Provide Another Tool for Medical Device Designers.
Dec 4, 2013A new water-resistant material could provide another tool for medical device designers. Boston University and MIT researchers in the journal Nature describe a material with a novel surface structure that provides very high level of very ...
Tags: water-resistant material, medicine
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A 110-Core Chip Has Been Developed by MIT as It Looks for Power-efficient Ways
Aug 30, 2013A 110-core chip has been developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology as it looks for power-efficient ways to boost performance in mobile devices, PCs and servers. The processor, called the Execution Migraine Machine, tries to ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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MIT Researchers Developed 3D Colonoscopy Technology Known as Photometric Stereo Endoscopy
Aug 5, 2013MIT researchers have developed a new 3D colonoscopy technology, known as photometric stereo endoscopy, which helps doctors to easily detect precancerous lesions in the colon. The 3D images produced by the new device could lead to earlier ...
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Researchers at Virginia Tech Have Built an Autonomous, Robotic Jellyfish
May 15, 2013Researchers at Virginia Tech have built an autonomous, robotic jellyfish that could someday work as an underwater military spy. The Virginia Tech College of Engineering unveiled the prototype robot, named Cyro. The life-like, autonomous ...
Tags: Virginia Tech, Computer Products
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Educator-Programmers Are Reaching out to a Younger Generation of Potential Coders
May 13, 2013As the need for mobile apps developers increases and interest in computer science courses wanes, professional educator-programmers are reaching out to a younger generation of potential coders: students as young as 10. In Utah this week, ...
Tags: Computer Products, mobile apps
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MIT Will Allow People to Interact with The Autonomous Systems in The Same Way
May 7, 2013You wake up in the morning and your robot starts the coffee maker and then sends the daily calendar to the car. The car then works on a plan that makes sure you keep to that schedule. It's not a scene out of a sci-fi movie. It's the ...
Tags: MIT, Computer Products
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Massachusetts Institute Developed an Etch Stop Technique to Improve Performance
Feb 17, 2013A team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed an etch stop technique to improve performance of recessed-gate nitride semiconductor metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MISFETs) [Bin Lu et al, IEEE Electron ...
Tags: GaN MISFET GaN MOCVD, Electronics, Etch
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Spider Silk Is One of The Strongest Materials Known
Jan 4, 2013Pound for pound, spider silk is one of the strongest materials known: Research by MIT’s Markus Buehler has helped explain that this strength arises from silk’s unusual hierarchical arrangement of protein building blocks. Now ...
Tags: Spider Silk, Textile, Mit Researchers, protein-based fibers