Sentences with phrase «electrical fields from»

Nanocomp's carbon nanotube sheets are designed to act as a «Faraday cage» that can block out external static electrical fields from sensitive circuitry.

A vertical electrical field from dopant atoms of potassium added to the surface of a few stacked layers of phosphorene tunes the band gap of black phosphorous, possibly leading to novel electronic and optoelectronic devices.

Not exact matches

Sharks can sense electrical fields, so theoretically the pulse would be strong enough to bother them (and drive them away from the area), but not strong enough to harm them.

This makes me happy: By creating a small electrical field that removes salts from seawater, chemists have introduced a new method for the desalination of seawater that consumes less energy and is dramatically simpler than conventional techniques.

In the present case, it is important that we do not lose sight of the fact that, in reality, there is no such thing as an electrical field that is separable from current sources, a medium, chemical gradients, heat, gravity, and so on ad infinitum.

I've got a MSc in Electrical Engineering, a PDEng from TU / e Eindhoven and I'm currently working for an Italian engineering firm in the fields of automotive and automation electronics.

Unlike conventional liquid crystals where electrical connections on the plates create the fields required to switch individual pixels from light to dark, optically rewritable LCDs coat the plates with special molecules that realign in the presence of polarized light and switch the pixels.

In the new work, published June 10 in the journal Scientific Reports, Zhao, Reid and colleagues used a highly sensitive probe to measure electrical fields in the corneas of isolated eyes from three different lab mouse models with different types of diabetes: genetic, drug - induced and in mice fed a high - fat diet.

Thanks to Swarm's precise measurements along with those from Champ — a mission that ended in 2010 after measuring Earth's gravity and magnetic fields for more than 10 years — scientists have not only been able to find the magnetic field generated by ocean tides but, remarkably, they have used this new information to image the electrical nature of Earth's upper mantle 250 km below the ocean floor.

The project was funded by the Center for Brain Activity Mapping (CBAM) at UC San Diego and brought together experts from multiple fields, including neurosurgeons, neuroscientists, electrical engineers, materials scientists and experts in systems integration.

Researchers are proposing a new technology that might control the flow of heat the way electronic devices control electrical current, an advance that could have applications in a diverse range of fields from electronics to textiles.

The tether changes its orbit thanks to an electrical current flowing through the wires, which creates an electromagnetic field that attracts the debris and pushes the net away from Earth's geomagnetic field.

Functional materials are those with controlled composition, size, and structure to facilitate desired interactions with light, electrical or magnetic fields, or chemical environment to provide unique functionality in a wide range of applications from energy to medicine.

Power comes from the electrical cables buried under the surface of the road, creating magnetic fields.

Adding a particular metal to fishing lines could create an electrical field in seawater that would keep sharks from stealing bait and winding up entangled themselves.

Another student conceived the idea of a flooring material that would convert kinetic energy from rowdy football fans in the stands of the University of Maryland's stadium into electrical energy to power the lights on the field.

He notes that the group found that antenna deflections induced by an electrically charged honey bee wing are about 10 times the size of those that would be caused by airflow from the wing fluttering at the same distance — a sign that electrical fields could be an important signal.

Just last month, for example, a team reported that bumblebees may use electrical fields to identify flowers recently visited by other insects from those that may still hold lucrative stores of nectar and pollen.

In experiments conducted in small chambers with conductive walls that isolated the bees from external electrical fields, the researchers showed that a small, electrically charged wand brought close to a honey bee can cause its antennae to bend.

Piezoelectric materials can generate electricity from a mechanical force; conversely, they also can generate a mechanical strain from an applied electrical field.

The idea stems from the fact that, when a plane flies through an ambient electric field, its external electrical state, normally in balance, shifts.

A new study from the Cava lab has revealed a unifying connection between seemingly unrelated materials that exhibit extreme magnetoresistance, the ability of some materials to drastically change their electrical resistance in response to a magnetic field, a property that could be useful in magnetic memory applications.

«The equipment currently used to measure electric field strength has some significant downsides,» explains Andreas Kainz from the Institute of Sensor and Actuator Systems (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, TU Wien).

«By investigating these limits and characterizing them, you can gain quite a bit of insight about the performance of these schemes and how you can leverage tools from other fields, like coding theory and so forth, for designing and understanding security systems,» says Flavio du Pin Calmon, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on all three Allerton papers.

Lightning results from the electrical fields that are created when ice particles in clouds rub together.

When a nanowire made from a semiconductor is connected to a superconductive material, researchers see a so - called zero - bias peak in the case of certain magnetic fields and electrical charge.

The MESSENGER observations and data from the two earlier Mariner 10 flybys are consistent enough to describe a dipolar field with an active electrical dynamo in which the magnetic field is produced by electrical currents flowing in an outer core of molten metal (more discussion and images from MESSENGER's January 2008 flyby).

The high honor from the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recognizes outstanding contributions to research and development in the field of fusion technology.

Many of the frontiers of fusion science exist at the extremes of the plasma state, a state of matter where gases are hot enough that electrons disassociate from atomic nuclei (ions), forming an ensemble of ions and electrons that can conduct electrical currents and be confined by electric and magnetic fields.

Isolated quartz crystals, as seen today, would not have formed if the granite crust slowly cooled and solidified from a melt — even if a strong electrical field had been present.

Neural engineering is a cutting - edge field that draws students from diverse backgrounds such as bioengineering, biochemistry, electrical engineering and applied math.

Localization of the human frontal eye fields: anatomical and functional findings from fMRI and intracerebral electrical stimulation

If you get within a few feet of your pet, you can even share an electrical field emanating from your heart and theirs that work together in a pattern called coherence.

Plus, this will create a force field for your electrical body, and you will feel protected from the elements.

The electromagnetic fields we encounter daily come from every day things such as power lines, radar and microwave towers, television and computer screens, motors, fluorescent lights, microwave ovens, cell phones, electric blankets, house wiring and hundreds of other common electrical devices.

For example, students could be building a speaker from scratch (in which amplified electrical signals are converted into magnetic fields) and the system would display the flow of electrons, magnetic forces or sensor values.

All the fields from aeronautical to chemical to civil to electrical took in 9.3 % of the freshmen, and the entirety of the Physical Sciences garnered only 3.2 % -LRB-!).

This advance is rooted primarily in advances made to the battery cell technology, which in turn stem from the BMW Group's ever - increasing expertise in the field of electrical energy storage.

From Civil Engineering, Supply Chain Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Electrical Engineering, to Electronics and Communication, and others we have covered almost all the fields of engineering.

The electrical energy between Alice and Lucy crackles with kinetic menace, as Mangan turn the mood and the setting of the story into a kind of composite force field that sucks the reader in almost instantly, like a wave of humid air blanketing you after emerging from an air - cooled room.

I am an Electrical Engineering expert having completed my masters from the University of Manchester and have sufficient experience in this field for more than seven years.

Others on the short list were poet E. Pauline Johnson; Elsie MacGill, who received an electrical engineering degree from the University of Toronto in 1927; Quebec suffragette Idola Saint - Jean; and 1928 Olympic medallist Fanny Rosenfeld, a track and field athlete.

On its website, the bank says an independent committee has narrowed down the finalists to poet E. Pauline Johnson; black rights activist Viola Desmond from Nova Scotia; Elsie MacGill, who received an electrical engineering degree from the University of Toronto in 1927; Quebec suffragette Idola Saint - Jean; and 1928 Olympic medallist Fanny Rosenfeld, a track and field athlete.

Gunnar Davis is a heavy weapons specialist with an assault rifle as a primary weapon and a pistol for a secondary weapon, while his special abilities include Shockwave which sends a powerful electrical impulse that knocks down enemies; Stasis projects a stasis field that stops time for enemies albeit while simultaneously protecting them from incoming fire, but could still be useful to strategically change position, finding cover or running past a large group of enemies; Barrier creates a protective energy bubble that prevents damage from being received by Gunnar; and Storm hits enemies with a lightning strike.

As an artist working predominantly with sound, she has created a unique body of performances, installations, and sculptures based on electromagnetic fields, a line of inquiry that stems from a deep urge to listen to an invisible world, here the world of electrical conduits and systems.

Students entering the Master of Engineering program in electrical engineering are expected to have a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field from an accredited institution.

A chemistry professor at UC Santa Cruz, working with teams from California, Mexico and China, has published a paper reporting a breakthrough which may improve the conversion efficiency of incoming light photons to electrical current by as much as three times.The material developed by Jin Zhang relies on two existing technologies from the field of nanotechnology.

Capacitors store energy as an electrical field, making them more efficient than standard batteries, which get their energy from chemical reactions.

In that view, this electrical energy is transferred from space to the Van Allen radiation belts, where it awaits discharge to the planet's surface, and eventually to the core, in the process creating the magnetic and electric fields which we observe to be affiliated with the Earth.

An electrical engineer and Stanford grad, he came from a background where technology played a role in many aspects of work only to enter the legal field where the idea of high tech was using Microsoft Excel.