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All Articles Tagged As: electronics
 | The brown and yellow parts of the Oriental hornet's body are able to harvest solar energy, and if that function can be mimicked, a novel way of achieving high-efficiency solar energy collection might be just around the corner, says professor David Bergman of Tel Aviv University. He's demonstrated that the brown and yellow stripes on the insect's abdomen can absorb the sun's radiation, and the yellow pigment transforms that radiation into electric power. ...> Full Article |
 | A cat can recognize a face faster and more efficiently than a supercomputer. ...> Full Article |
 | Could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio and television signals ...> Full Article |
 | Applying modern engineering design tools to one of the basic units of life, they argue that artificial cells could be built that not only replicate the electrical behavior of electric eel cells but in fact improve on them. ...> Full Article |
 | New technology inspired by the human eye could push the photographic image forward even more by producing improved images with a wider field of view ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers have been unable to build an ideal "photonic crystal" to manipulate visible light, impeding the dream of ultrafast optical computers. But now, University of Utah chemists have discovered that nature already has designed photonic crystals with the ideal, diamond-like structure: They are found in the shimmering, iridescent green scales of a beetle from Brazil. ...> Full Article |
 | Engineers are looking to bats as role models for advanced radar systems. ...> Full Article |
 | Designing better solar cells might seem a question of electronics or chemistry, but for one University of Florida engineer, it starts with bugs. ...> Full Article |
 | A plant-like micro-organism mostly found in oceans could make the manufacture of products, from iridescent cosmetics, paints and fabrics to credit card holograms, cheaper and 'greener'. ...> Full Article |
Push two magnets together and you'll set off an avalanche of activity, forcing atoms on each magnet to align their polarity with the intruding magnetic field. It may sound like a party trick for physicists, but you do it every time you press "Save" on your computer.
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The electronics industry believes that when it comes to circuits, smaller is better -- and many foresee a future where electrical switches and circuits will be as tiny as single molecules.
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