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LG Display will release HD panel for smartphones

(Phys.org) -- LG Display is getting ready to showcase a five-inch smartphone display that turns out to be a full HD LCD panel supporting up to 1080p video, something like having a high-quality TV in your hand. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

Researchers develop technique to keep cool high-power semiconductor devices used in wireless applications, electric cars

A group of researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have developed a technique to keep cool a semiconductor material used in everything from traffic lights to electric cars.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Vestas to install research wind turbine at Sandia facility in Texas

The initial phase of Sandia National Laboratories' Scaled Wind Farm Technology facility (SWIFT), currently being constructed in partnership with Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, will be a little bigger ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Powerful magnets help scientists create new materials for use in low-carbon energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- West Midlands scientists have created and studied new materials set to make low-carbon energy technologies like fuel cells cheaper and more efficient to run.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Best marketing for renewable energies

Transmission system operators must assess precisely the supply of electricity from renewable energies for the next day in order to market this electricity on the European Power Exchange as effectively as possible. The sharply ...

Technology / Software

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Faster computational methods could simulate the power and signal integrity of next-generation electronic systems

The overall performance of modern computers and communications networks is dependent on the speed of electronic components, such as transistors and optical switches, as well as the quality of the wire network ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Wind turbines that learn like humans

Depending on the weather, wind turbines can face whispering breezes or gale-force gusts. Such variable conditions make extracting the maximum power from the turbines a tricky control problem, but a collaboration of Chinese ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Hall effect magnetic field sensors for high temperatures and harmful radiation environments

Toyohashi Tech researchers have fabricated Hall effect magnetic field sensors operable at least 400 C and in extreme radiation conditions using gallium nitride-based heterostructures a with two-dimensional ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ageing wooden power poles increase risk of fires

Research at RMIT University has proven conclusively that wooden poles used for electricity distribution deteriorate with age and that their electrical performance worsens over time.

Technology / Other

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fukushima lesson: Prepare for unanticipated nuclear accidents

A year after the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, scientists and engineers remain largely in the dark when it comes to fundamental knowledge about how nuclear fuels behave under extreme conditions, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Toshiba develops the circuit technique for power efficiency improvement in CMOS power amplifier for mobile phones

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed the world's first circuit technology to remove distortion in wireless transmissions that can be directly integrated into a CMOS radio frequency (RF) power amplifier. ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Putting the squeeze on planets outside our solar system

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using high-powered lasers, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and collaborators discovered that molten magnesium silicate undergoes a phase change in the liquid state, abruptly ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists predict an out-of-this-world kind of ice

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell scientists are boldly going where no water molecule has gone before -- that is, when it comes to pressures found nowhere on Earth.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Wind energy lessens under heat wave conditions

During the summer 2003, high temperatures and drought conditions in Europe led to a reduction of the wind force with direct consequences on the wind energy power, reduced by 22%.  The study was recently ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Japanese Team Tokai wins the 3,021 km 2011 Veolia World Solar Challenge

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Japanese Tokai University Solar Car Team has won the Veolia World Solar Challenge, a 3,021 kilometer race between tiny cars relying on mostly solar power. Running between Darwin, a remote ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 32 | with audio podcast report