Electrical Engineering and Electronics News

Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) technology uses fluidization to mix and circulate fuel particles with limestone as they burn in a low-temperature combustion process.

New design grows optically active semiconductors in arrays of nanoscale pillars, each a single crystal, with dimensions measured in billionths of a meter.

Called SunCatchers, the new dishes have a refined design that will be used in commercial-scale deployments of the units beginning in 2010.

For a long time, batteries were bulky and heavy. Now, a new cutting-edge battery is revolutionizing the field. It is thinner than a millimeter, lighter than a gram, and can be produced cost-effectively through a printing process.

Increased refining of telecommunications and infra-red equipment predicted..

Germany's effort to replace coal- and nuclear-fired electricity generation with renewables hinges on completing a large number of offshore wind farms--which are being developed at a troublingly slow pace.

Electronic devices of the future could be smaller, faster, more powerful and consume less energy because of a discovery by researchers.

Researchers at the University of Chicago have developed an “electronic glue” that could accelerate advances in semiconductor-based technologies, including solar cells and thermoelectric devices.

Scientists are on the trail of a new phenomenon, called the “colossal magnetoresistance effect” (CMR) which is up to a thousand times more powerful than current hard drive technology.

MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio and television signals.