Voltage-controlled liquid metal antenna extends tuning range

Using electrochemistry, NC State researchers have developed a reconfigurable, voltage-controlled liquid metal antenna that may play a huge role in future mobile devices and the coming Internet of Things. Michael Dickey and Jacob Adams, engineering, featured.

Smarter smart grids

Researchers are using cloud computing resources to analyze smart grid data from thousands of sensors, called phasor measurement units, or PMUs. Aranya Chakrabortty, electrical and computer engineering, featured.

Cyborg Cockroaches: How They Work

In 2012, researchers at North Carolina State University steered Madagascar hissing cockroaches by attaching electrodes to their antennae. Now, the scientists are developing tiny roach backpacks to pick up sound. Alper Bozkurt, electrical and computer engineering,...

Duke Energy invests in renewable energy research

Duke Energy is partnering with NC State to further their renewable energy efforts. The utility awarded the university with a $1.5 million grant to focus on renewable energy research, which will help fund the Future Renewable Electric Energy Distribution and Management...

Energy Harvesters Power Wearables

NC State researchers are using nanotechnology to create energy harvesting and storage devices for ultra-low power sensors. Tom Snyder, Advanced Self-powered Systems of Integrated Sensors Technologies, featured.

N.C. State researchers: RFID tags could save farmers cash

NC State electrical engineering students are using RFID tags to improve the already cash-strapped North Carolina dairy industry with technology. Dan Poole, animal science, and students Anthony Laws, Bryan Campbell and William Carr, electrical engineering,...

Tunable liquid metal antennas

Using electrochemistry, NC State researchers have created a reconfigurable, voltage-controlled liquid metal antenna that may play a huge role in future mobile devices and the coming Internet of Things. Jacob Adams et al., engineering, featured.

Lassie text home: Pooches get technological

Yet dogs are an integral part of our everyday lives, and that creates a growing need for them to interact with technology. “Dogs are already used in search and rescue, in medicine, as service animals, to help autistic kids and …

In pictures: Amsterdam’s rainbow train station

For a short amount of time every evening, one of the arches in Amsterdam’s Central train station glows in the dark. The technology was designed by the company ImagineOptix and an NC State researcher to help scientists produce images of “exoplanets”...

Natural Disaster? Cyborg Cockroaches to the Rescue

Researchers have harnessed nature’s most enduring survivor, the cockroach. By outfitting the insects with remote controls and audio sensors, scientists can use the bugs to explore disaster sites and find survivors.

Creating the energy Internet

The power grid is based on technology from the early 20th century, says Iqbal Husain, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University. “That needs to change.” Husain is director of the FREEDM Systems Center, a...