Host Frank Stasio talks with Ewan Pritchard, program manager for North Carolina State University’s Advanced Transportation Energy Center, about the future of electric cars and why we might be seeing more of them on I-40 very soon.
It might look like a poor man’s game of Pong now, but a new laser steering system coming out of North Carolina State University could make blowing things up Star Wars-style cheaper and more efficient. […] The system’s creators point out its not only...
Security concerns are one of the key obstacles to the adoption of new non-volatile main memory (NVMM) technology in next-generation computers, which would improve computer start times and boost memory capacity. But now researchers from North Carolina State University...
The Triangle has quietly emerged as a national hub for an industry that barely existed just five years ago: Smart Grid. The term describes the digital technology that’s increasingly used to monitor and manage the movement of electricity from the power plant to...
Researchers in the US believe they have solved the problem of gallium nitride (GaN) failing when exposed to a high voltage. GaN is said to be a promising material for use in emerging high-power devices that are more energy efficient than existing technologies....
By implanting a buffer made of argon, researchers have created GaN devices that can handle 10 times as much power as those without. Gallium nitride (GaN) based materials hold promise for emerging high-power devices that are more energy efficient than existing...
In the same section, North Carolina State University and Nitronex presented a normally-off nitride semiconductor transistor that included a silicon dioxide (SiO2) gate tunnel dielectric and tantalum nitride (TaN) floating gate layers [20.6]. The structure is described...
Engineers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have refurbished flash memory in an attempt to create something new: a ‘unified memory’ type that can be fast but volatile, like the memory workhorse dynamic RAM, or slow but nonvolatile, like the flash...
N.C. State expects its Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering to receive a $1.2 million jolt thanks to a $632,000 boost from ABB Inc. The university will put that money toward annual scholarships and faculty support for power engineering research and...
Computer programs are incorporating more and more safety features to protect users, but those features can also slow the programs down by 1,000% or more. Researchers at North Carolina State Univ. have developed a software tool that helps these programs run much more...
A single “universal” memory technology that combines the speed of DRAM with the non-volatility and density of flash memory was recently invented at North Carolina State University, according to researchers.
A new form of computing memory which could lead to faster starting, user-friendly computers has been developed by US researchers. The device, developed by a team at North Carolina State University, claims to combine the advantages of two commons forms of memory used...
A new gallium nitride (GaN) process purifies that high-energy material by eliminating up to 1,000 times as many defects as are typically present, according to its inventors at North Carolina State University (NCSU). The NCSU researchers predict that light-emitting...
At issue are security attacks in which an outside party successfully compromises one computer application (such as a Web browser) and then uses that application to gain access to the OS. For example, the compromised application could submit a “system call”...
Defects in the gallium nitride LED film are drawn to voids and become trapped leaving the portions of the film above the voids with far fewer defects. Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that reduces defects in the gallium...
In certain computer security attacks, an outside party compromises one computer application (such as a web browser) and then uses that application to submit a ‘system call’ to the operating system, effectively asking the operating system to perform a...
Gallium nitride is lauded as the next-generation material for high-power electronics, but until now has been plagued by breakdown above about 250 volts, according to researchers at North Carolina State University. The researchers claim to have discovered a technique...
‘Everybody’s got ideas,’ said Miller. ‘It seems creativity really happens when people with ideas get together … and people from different disciplines get together.
‘This is a very important development,’ said Dr. Alex Huang, Progress Energy distinguished professor of electrical engineering, FREEDM Systems Center, of the ABB announcement. ‘This new initiative by ABB will further enhance our collaboration. We are...
Dr. Michael Steer, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at NCSU, says one technology that could emerge from this research is a pocket-sized device that warns soldiers of nearby roadside bombs and suicide bombers.
