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Tech Xplore / Scientists develop high-boost and high-efficiency DC power converter
A new electrical power converter design achieves a much higher efficiency at lower cost and maintenance than before. The direct current voltage boost converter developed by Kobe University is poised to be a significant contribution ...
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Tech Xplore / Powering the future: Advanced energy harvesting for loT devices
Researchers have developed a high-performance energy management unit (EMU) that significantly boosts the efficiency of electrostatic generators for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. This breakthrough addresses the challenge ...
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Tech Xplore / Researchers set new efficiency record for stable binary organic solar cells
A research group led by Prof. Ge Ziyi from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed two self-assembled molecules (SAMs) with large dipole moments ...
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Tech Xplore / A new strategy for fabricating high-density vertical organic electrochemical transistor arrays
Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are an emerging class of transistors based on organic superconducting materials known for their ability to modulate electrical current in response to small changes in the voltage ...
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Tech Xplore / Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago. People thought it was Google's April Fool's Day joke
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool's Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago. One year, Google ...
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Tech Xplore / An optimization-based method to enhance autonomous parking
Vehicles that can drive themselves have been a long sought after goal both of robotics research and the automotive industry. While various companies have been investing in these vehicles and testing them, they have so far ...
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Tech Xplore / OpenAI unveils voice-cloning tool
OpenAI on Friday revealed a voice-cloning tool it plans to keep tightly controlled until safeguards are in place to thwart audio fakes meant to dupe listeners.
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Tech Xplore / Universal brain-computer interface lets people play games with just their thoughts
Imagine playing a racing game like Mario Kart, using only your brain to execute the complex series of turns in a lap.
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Tech Xplore / Increasing the efficiency of eco-friendly solar cells by converting wind energy into high-voltage electricity
A research team led by Professor Lee Ju-hyuck of DGIST in the Department of Energy Science & Engineering has successfully developed an energy harvesting device that enhances solar energy efficiency by removing and preventing ...
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Tech Xplore / DeepMind develops SAFE, an AI-based app that can fact-check LLMs
A team of artificial intelligence specialists at Google's DeepMind has developed an AI-based system called SAFE that can be used to fact check the results of LLMs such as ChatGPT. The group has published a paper describing ...
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Tech Xplore / Next-generation AI semiconductor devices mimic the human brain
A research team led by Prof. Kwon Hyuk-jun of the DGIST Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has developed a next-generation AI semiconductor technology that mimics the human brain's efficiency in AI ...
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Tech Xplore / A first-ever complete map for elastic strain engineering
Without a map, it can be just about impossible to know not just where you are, but where you're going, and that's especially true when it comes to materials properties.