In the News
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NC State Futurist Marshall Brain On ‘The Second Intelligent Species’December 14, 2016 Marshall Brain? director of the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program at NC State University. |
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You Might Be Rescued By A Biobot CockroachNovember 21, 2016 The small size and nimbleness of cockroaches in getting to hard-to-reach places can be beneficial for humans, especially for rescue missions. This is why researchers at North Carolina State University are investigating the use of remotely controlled cockroaches in collapsed buildings and other dangerous areas. |
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UAVs and insect cyborgs collaborate to map disaster zonesNovember 18, 2016 The idea would be to release a swarm of sensor-equipped biobots such as remotely controlled cockroaches into a collapsed building or other dangerous, unmapped area, said Edgar Lobaton, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State and co-author of two papers describing the work. |
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An efficient approach for tracking physical activity with wearable health-monitoring devicesNovember 17, 2016 Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an energy-efficient technique for accurately tracking a user?s physical activity based on data from wearable devices. |
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Body Heat Powers This Smart WatchNovember 16, 2016 North Carolina State University researchers recently revealed a thermoelectric generator that they believe could be incorporated into shirts and other items of clothing. |
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Breaking the Multicore BottleneckOctober 28, 2016 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. |
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Breaking the Multicore BottleneckOctober 28, 2016 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. |
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Monolith makes availability 1200V SiC Schottky engineering samplesOctober 7, 2016 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 devices. |
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A Cheaper High Voltage SiC Switch?October 5, 2016 Researchers at NC State University say 15kV Super-Cascode switch could cost around half conventional high voltage SiC solutions. |
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New Cost-Effective Silicon Carbide High Voltage Switch CreatedOctober 4, 2016 Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a high voltage and high frequency silicon carbide (SiC) power switch that could cost much less than similarly rated SiC power switches. |
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Wearable tech efficiently converts body heat to electricitySeptember 23, 2016 NC State researchers have developed a new design for harvesting body heat and converting it into electricity for use in wearable electronics. Daryoosh Vashaee, engineering, featured. |
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Body chargerSeptember 21, 2016 Who needs batteries when you?re wearing a T-shirt? A team of NC State researchers have designed a skin patch that turns body heat into electricity to power wearable devices. By using the difference in temperature between your body and the surrounding air, the device can generate 20 microwatts of electricity per square centimetre of skin. |
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Inverter Boost for Hybrid and Electric VehiclesSeptember 20, 2016 Researchers at NC State’s Future Renewable Electric Energy Distribution and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center have developed an inverter using silicon carbide (SiC), a wide-bandgap semiconductor material. Iqbal Husain, engineering, featured. |
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New Patches Convert Body Heat Into ElectricitySeptember 20, 2016 NC State researchers are developing a new design that harvests body heat and converts it into electricity that can power wearables and smartphones. |
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New Tech Promises to Boost Electric Vehicle Efficiency, RangeSeptember 15, 2016 NC State researchers have developed a new type of inverter device with greater efficiency in a smaller, lighter package ? which should improve the fuel-efficiency and range of hybrid and electric vehicles. Iqbal Husain, Dhrubo Rahman et al., engineering, featured. |