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DARPA’s Drive to Keep the Microelectronics Revolution at Full Speed Builds Its Own MomentumAugust 25, 2017 To perpetuate the pace of innovation and progress in microelectronics technology over the past half-century, it will take an enormous village rife with innovators. This week, about 100 of those innovators, including NC State ECE, gathered at DARPA headquarters at the kickoff meeting for the Agency’s new CHIPS program, known in long form as the Common Heterogeneous Integration and Intellectual Property (IP) Reuse Strategies program. |
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Solid State Transformers Could Be Key To Smart Grid FunctionalityJuly 26, 2017 There has been a lot of talk recently about “smart grids,” systems that would be able to react nearly instantaneously to fluctuations in demand and smooth the influx of energy from various sources, especially renewables like solar and wind power. Researchers at North Carolina State University have been using complex computational models to explore ways to make such a “smart grid” a reality. Their recommendation? Solid state transformers. |
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Machine Learning Offers Helping Hand To Edit ChipsJuly 6, 2017 It might not fit electronic design automation at all, said Paul Franzon, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University. |
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New Transformers Produce Smart GridJuly 6, 2017 Researchers from North Carolina State University believe this breakthrough could allow the power distribution system to route renewable energy from homes and businesses into the power grid. |
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Your body is a big battery and scientists want to power gadgets with itJuly 5, 2017 Thermoelectric generators pick up on the temperature difference and then use that to create energy, says Daryoosh Vashaee, an electrical engineer at North Carolina State University. |
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Smart Transformers Could Make Reliable Smart Grid A RealityJuly 5, 2017 In 2010, researchers at the National Science Foundation’s FREEDM Systems Center at North Carolina State University unveiled the first SST, which not only performed all of the functions of a traditional transformer, but could also redirect power as needed to address changes in supply and demand. |
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Electrical engineers develop flexible wearable electronics using body heat for energyJuly 3, 2017 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 energy. |
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Smart Transformers Will Make the Grid Cleaner and More FlexibleJune 29, 2017 It would be hard to overstate the importance of transformers in our electrical networks. They’re literally everywhere: on poles and pads, in substations and on private property, on the ground and under it. There are probably dozens in your neighborhood alone. It’s hard to imagine a world without them. But Subhashish Bhattacharya and his colleagues are doing just that. |
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Soon, wearable devices can be charged with body heatJune 27, 2017 We wanted to design a flexible thermoelectric harvester that does not compromise on the material quality of rigid devices yet provides similar or better efficiency, said Mehmet Ozturk, a professor at North Carolina State University in the US. Using rigid devices is not the best option when you consider a number of different factors. Superior contact resistance – or skin contact – with flexible devices, as well as the ergonomic and comfort considerations to the device wearer, researchers said. |
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Flexible, self-healing wearable device harvests energy from body heatJune 26, 2017 Wearable electronic devices are starting to save some battery power by harvesting an energy source that’s right underneath them: human body heat. But while flexible devices are more comfortable to wear, they aren’t quite as effective at soaking up that heat as rigid ones. Now a team from North Carolina State University has developed a system using liquid metal components, making it flexible, efficient and even self-healing. |
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Thermoelectric Harvester Could Power WearablesJune 26, 2017 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 energy. |
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Liquid metal makes flexible heat harvester reliableJune 23, 2017 Using liquid metal connections, North Carolina State University engineers have designed a flexible thermoelectric energy harvester. |
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New Design Improves Performance of Flexible Wearable ElectronicsJune 23, 2017 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 energy. |
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Engineers have designed a flexible thermoelectric energy harvester that could rival the effectiveness of existing power wearable electronic devices using body heat as the only energy sourceJune 22, 2017 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 energy. |
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New design improves performance of flexible wearable electronicsJune 22, 2017 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 energy. |