Generating electrical power from waste heat
Directly converting electrical power to heat is easy. It regularly happens in your toaster, that is, if you make toast regularly. The opposite, converting heat into electrical power, isn't so easy.
Directly converting electrical power to heat is easy. It regularly happens in your toaster, that is, if you make toast regularly. The opposite, converting heat into electrical power, isn't so easy.
General Physics
Jul 9, 2018
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The research team that announced the first optical rectenna in 2015 is now reporting a two-fold efficiency improvement in the devices—and a switch to air-stable diode materials. The improvements could allow the rectennas ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 26, 2018
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(Phys.org) —Can your microwave oven power other gadgets in your kitchen? That is the question explored in the paper, "Power Harvesting from Microwave Oven Electromagnetic Leakage," by researchers from the University of ...
A novel fabrication technique developed by a University of Connecticut engineering professor could provide the breakthrough technology scientists have been looking for to vastly improve the efficiency of today's solar energy ...
Nanophysics
Feb 27, 2013
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In three studies published in the current issue of Technology and Innovation – Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors, innovators unveil creative technologies that could change our sources of energy, change our ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 19, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- The newspaper-style printing of electronic equipment has led to a cost-effective device that could change the way we interact with everyday objects.
Nanophysics
Aug 9, 2012
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Researchers from Nihon Dengyo Kosaku Co., Ltd, (DENGYO) a Japanese communications infrastructure company, have developed a device they call the rectenna that can convert radio waves moving around in the air, to ...