Engineering News

NASA has announced they are seeking proposals to replace battery technology with advanced energy storage solutions.  There are two types of proposals being requested: high specific energy system level concepts and very high specific energy devices.

A team of engineers have shown the capabilities of a stick-on patch including commercial, off-the-shelf chip-based electronics is advancing health monitoring wirelessly and could transform clinical monitoring.

Two research papers on the potential of the millimeter-wave band (58-63 GHz) were presented by University of Bristol researchers at the IEEE WCNC Conference last week. This band could be an ideal solution for short-range gigabit wireless communications, but there has been a lack of investigation of the ability of frequency reuse at 60GHz.

University of Arizona and University of Central Florida scientists are creating a new method that is capable of transmitting high-intensity laser beams through the atmosphere than what is currently possible. The goal of the project is to be able to guide electrical discharges, like lightning, away from buildings where lightning rods are limited.

A team of researchers from the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering have found a way to boost energy production using lightweight polymer vibration. This method could eliminate the need for manual recharging of batteries in microsensors and mobile devices.

A team of scientists in Singapore have produced ultra-fast electrical circuits that run at tens of thousands of times faster than today’s microprocessors. These new circuits were created using light-generated tunneling currents through a process called quantum plasmonic tunneling.

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) announced the release of a new international standard that begins to create a global structure for introducing solutions for the fast charging of electronic vehicles (EV). The standard was published in two parts, IEC 61851-23 and IEC 61851-24.