New Design Improves Performance of Flexible Wearable Electronics

In a proof-of-concept study, North Carolina State University engineers have designed a flexible thermoelectric energy harvester that has the potential to rival the effectiveness of existing power wearable electronic devices using body heat as the only source of...

New design improves performance of flexible wearable electronics

In a proof-of-concept study, North Carolina State University engineers have designed a flexible thermoelectric energy harvester that has the potential to rival the effectiveness of existing power wearable electronic devices using body heat as the only source of...

Breaking the Multicore Bottleneck

Researchers at North Carolina State University and at Intel have come up with a solution to one of the modern microprocessor?s most persistent problems: communication among the processor?s many cores.

Wearable sensor measures skin hydration

Engineers from North Carolina State University have created a wearable sensor for measuring skin hydration, which has a range of potential medical and lifestyle applications._

AI Tapped to Improve Design

Nine companies and three universities, including NC State, have launched a research effort to see if machine learning can solve some of the toughest problems in electronics design. The center is one of many efforts across the industry trying to tap into the emerging...

NASA’S ‘POINTER’ Tracks First Responders Where GPS Fails

The basic technique isn’t entirely new, says David Ricketts, an associate professor in North Carolina State University’s electrical and computer engineering department. He worked with Arumugam several years ago on a project that looked at a sports...

How Cyborg Insects Could Save Lives and Stop Our Enemies

At North Carolina State University, engineer Alper Bozkurt and his team steer roaches (specifically Madagascar hissing cockroaches, which is another large, slow species) by spoofing their senses. With this approach, manually controlling the biobot roaches isn’t...

The ‘Matrix’ Reboot Will Be Boring, Thanks to Tech

Later in 2016, a team of Chinese researchers announced that their “shape-adaptive triboelectric nanogenerator,” a wearable, could harness human movement to power small objects, while a few months later a team of North Carolina State University researchers...

Monolith makes availability 1200V SiC Schottky engineering samples

Monolith says that its collaboration with the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Power America (the Next Generation Power Electronics National Manufacturing Innovation Institute, led by North Carolina State University) has been key in achieving manufacturing of the SiC...

Breaking the Multicore Bottleneck

Researchers at North Carolina State University and at Intel have come up with a solution to one of the modern microprocessor?s most persistent problems: communication among the processor?s many cores.