In the News
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Patch-Like Body Heat Harvester Can Power WearablesSeptember 13, 2016 NC State engineers have developed an energy-harvesting patch that produces electricity from body heat to power wearable devices. Daryoosh Vashaee, engineering, featured. |
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A new wearable generator creates electricity from body heatSeptember 12, 2016 Now your sweaty body can power your phone. Like Neo in the Matrix, a new system created by researchers at North Carolina State University lets you generate electricity with a wearable device. |
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New System Could Break Bottleneck in MicroprocessorsSeptember 12, 2016 Engineers 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 between the processor?s many cores. |
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Intel, NC State Researchers Supercharge Chip-to-Chip Communication Performance By Up To 12xSeptember 10, 2016 Researchers from NC State and the Intel Corporation have developed a new way to significantly accelerate core-to-core communication. Their advance relies on hardware to coordinate efforts between cores for multiprocessor operations. Yan Solihi, engineering, featured. |
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Simulation Highlights Potential for Low-Cost Security Imaging DeviceSeptember 9, 2016 NC State researchers have used computer models to demonstrate the viability of a low-cost security imaging device that makes use of inexpensive radio components. Functional prototypes are under development and would be orders of magnitude less expensive than existing imaging devices. Brian Floyd and Vikas Chauhan, engineering, featured. |
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Researchers Use Hardware to Accelerate Core-to-Core On-Chip CommunicationSeptember 8, 2016 NC State researchers and Intel Corporation have developed a new way to significantly accelerate core-to-core communication. Yan Solihi, engineering, featured. |
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How Radio Components Research From NCSU Could Change Airport, Prison SecuritySeptember 8, 2016 NC State researchers have figured out a way to make security scanners cheaper ? and they hope that by eliminating the cost barrier, more places can take advantage of the technology, resulting in a safer world. Brian Floyd, engineering, featured. |
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NCSU, Intel Researchers Speed Up PC Core-to-Core CommunicationsSeptember 7, 2016 Researchers from NC State and the Intel Corporation have developed a new way to significantly accelerate core-to-core communication. Their advance relies on hardware to coordinate efforts between cores for multiprocessor operations. Yan Solihin, engineering, featured. |
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Researchers Use Hardware to Accelerate Core-to-Core on-Chip CommunicationSeptember 6, 2016 Researchers from NC State and the Intel Corporation have developed a new way to significantly accelerate core-to-core communication. Their advance relies on hardware to coordinate efforts between cores for multiprocessor operations. Yan Solihin, engineering, featured. |
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Researchers Use Hardware to Accelerate Core-to-Core on-Chip CommunicationSeptember 6, 2016 Researchers from NC State and the Intel Corporation have developed a new way to significantly accelerate core-to-core communication. Their advance relies on hardware to coordinate efforts between cores for multiprocessor operations. Yan Solihin, engineering, featured. |
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Jayant Baliga, the IGBT Inventor Who Wants to KILL His Own InventionJuly 28, 2016 NC State’s Jayant Baliga, the electrical engineer who is best known for his work in power semiconductor devices, has a lot of other achievements that he can justifiably claim to take pride in. The list, however, is topped by a theory that related the properties of semiconductor materials to the performance of power devices, way back in 1979. Jayant Baliga, engineering, featured. |
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Novel Lens Design Expands Field of View for Brain ImagingJuly 18, 2016 Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State have developed a novel lens for a two-photon imaging system that is able to capture images of the brain that are almost 10 times larger than those captured through a conventional two-photon microscope. ECE featured. |
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Breath-Saving BraceletJuly 15, 2016 NC State engineers have developed a possible solution to help detect factors leading to an asthma attack. The wearable wristband, called the Health and Environmental Tracker (HET), monitors heart rate, the environment and other physical factors. Veena Misra and Alper Bozkurt, engineering, featured. |
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How Teaching Robots to Identify Microscopic Fossils Could Help Us Understand OceansJuly 6, 2016 Researchers partner in an attempt to solve a tricky engineering challenge and advance our understanding of Earth’s oceans. Edgar Lobaton, engineering, featured. |
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Researchers Devise New Tool to Measure Polarization of LightJune 28, 2016 NC State researchers have developed a new tool for detecting and measuring the polarization of light based on a single spatial sampling of the light, rather than the multiple samples required by previous technologies. Michael Kudenov et al., engineering, featured. |