The capacitors of electronic circuits function something like batteries – storing electrical chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the act of forcing of electrons onto the capacitor's plates. See ...
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"Supercapacitors" take the energy-storing abilities of capacitors (which store electrical charge that can be quickly dumped to power devices) a step further, storing a far greater charge in a much smaller package. In AIP Advances, ...
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Electrical engineering deals with the study of electromagnetism, electricity, and electronics. It's quite an exciting field - electrical engineering has been on the forefront of technology for more than a century. It covers wide range of ...
Researchers from North Carolina State University and Johns Hopkins University have found that an increase in the use of wind power generation can make the power grid more fragile and susceptible to disruptions. But the researchers didn't ...
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This year's 30th Chaos Communication Congress (30C3) in Hamburg from December 27 to December 30 carried numerous informative presentations, including a reverse-engineering story about SD cards, which two investigators explored for malware ...
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Storage elements that buffer energy of the most diverse forms, and make it available for subsequent conversion processes, are significant components in modern power supplies and frequencyThe number of complete cycles or vibrations per unit ...
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A noteworthy tripartite initiative to stimulate technology start-ups by Sri Lankan university students and recent graduates gets underway in January 2014 with corporate sponsorship and participatory inputs from Brandix. Sri Lanka’s ...
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At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2013) in Washington DC (9-11 December), epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK, Pennsylavania State University and the US Commerce Department's National ...
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Eaton has named Jeff Lowinger senior vice-president and chief technology officer for the Industrial Sector. Lowinger will report directly to Craig Arnold, vice-chair and COO, Industrial Sector and, functionally, to Ram Ramakrishnan, ...
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Linde Hydraulics has symbolically broken ground on the new construction for its main plant in Aschaffenburg. The new complex of buildings will be built on the 70,700 m² site over the next two and a half years: a new production and ...
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Phoenix Contact - A Strong and Reliable Partner for Cutting-edge Products and Solutions: Phoenix Contact is a global manufacturer of electrical engineering components, systems, and solutions, with over 70 subsidiary companies in 50 ...
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Qingdao Hanhe Cable announces that it plans to spend CNY 28.63 million own capital taking over 100% equities that Qingdao Hanhe Group, controlling shareholder, holds in Qingdao Hanhe Electrical Engineering so as to further optimize business ...
There are too few data scientists in the world and education needs to change in order to maximise the true potential of data science, one of the leading authorities in the field has told Computing. "The answer is 'no', there aren't enough ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, has named Joe Kishkill as chief commercial officer. ...
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Craftsman Fabricated Glass president Bob Lawrence says he has friends, family and golf in mind now that he has retired. Lawrence, who has been in the business for 45 years, delivered the news Monday in a widely-circulated e-mail to ...
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