Sentences with phrase «making electrical devices»

Researchers have invented a new trick for making electrical devices from nanoscale wires ¿ blowing bubbles.

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It still might sound a little sci - fi, but scientists and entrepreneurs are already experimenting with wearable devices that use electrical stimulation to make your brain work better in a host of intriguing ways.

Medical device giant Medtronic has received FDA clearance for its latest non-medication pain treatment: Intellis, a system which stimulates the spinal cord with electrical impulses to block pain messages from making it to the brain.

«We designed it to eliminate the need for clean - room facilities and trained personnel to fabricate such a device,» said Rahim Esfandyarpour, an electrical engineer who authored a new study on the chip, adding that a single chip can be made in just 20 minutes.

In addition to being light and flexible, it can extract electrical energy from human blood and sweat, making the device potentially usable as a power source for tiny medical devices inside the human body.

«If we are able to convert light, which is electromagnetic energy, into motion, or convert motion into electrical energy, then we have the potential to make molecular devices much smaller,» he said.

For several years, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas has investigated various materials in search of those whose electrical properties might make them suitable for small, energy - efficient transistors to power next - generation electronic devices.

Islam, U-M professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering, and his team built their device with off - the - shelf fiber optics and telecommunications components, save one custom - made optical fiber.

«These are fundamental properties which can tell us what kind of electrical devices we can make.

Although the device has a diode - like structure, its light - emitting system is not based on a diode system, which are made from layers of semiconductors, materials that act like a cross between a conductor and an insulator, the electrical properties of which can be controlled with the addition of impurities called dopants.

Many of today's homes in the developed world already include a lot of the sensors and networking devices needed to make the smart home a reality, wrote Diane Cook, a professor in Washington State University's School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, in the March 30 issue of the journal Science.

Many touch screens are made of layered thin (billionths of a meter thick) films of indium - tin oxide, an inorganic material that is electrically conductive, which allows electrical signals to travel from the «touch» to the edges of the display, where they are sensed by the device — as well as optically transparent.

Purdue University doctoral student Yang Xu, lead author of a new research paper on «topological insulators,» an emerging class of materials that could make possible «spintronic» devices and practical quantum computers far more powerful than today's technologies, is shown here inspecting devices made from topological insulators under a microscope before electrical measurements.

Currently, they are manufactured using indium tin oxide (ITO), which has the advantage of excellent electrical conductive properties but the disadvantage of poor flexibility, making it unsuitable for wearable devices.

Howard Dorey, a professor of electrical engineering at Imperial College, London, says Britain can now make good prototypes of devices such as chemical and pressure sensors.

Mirkin's team used the technique, reported online this month in Nature Communications, to make working electrical devices including inductors, capacitors, and surface acoustic wave transducers, and even drew a 9 - millimeter - square map of the world.

He and his colleagues say the electrical potential of the device could be driven up further by improving how the gels repel the ionised atoms and by making the gel layers even thinner.

To be any use as a material for making optoelectronic devices, porous silicon has to be made to luminesce in reponse to electrical excitation, and researchers are already making progress towards this goal.

What if one day, your computer, TV or smart phone could process data with light waves instead of an electrical current, making those devices faster, cheaper and more sustainable through less heat and power consumption?

«The materials are so thin and flexible that the device can be made transparent and can conform to curved surfaces,» said Der - Hsien Lien, a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley and a co-first author along with Matin Amani and Sujay Desai, both doctoral students in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at Berkeley.

electrode A device that conducts electricity and is used to make contact with non-metal part of an electrical circuit, or that contacts something through which an electrical signal moves.

The mechanism, known as a responsive neurostimulation device, would monitor the brain's reward center for signs of the electrical signal that occurs right before an impulsive decision is made and deliver a dose of electricity to suppress the impulse.

Wife also makes her patients turn off their wifi routers at night, leave their cell phones out of the bedroom and remove electrical devices within a 12 foot radius of the bed (one's pillow should also not be near a power outlet).

A rechargeable device most often made of lead plates covered in an electrolyte and protected by a plastic shell which supplies consistent electrical energy to a motor vehicle.

When using your Vehicle, UVO eServices automatically (or passively), including, through the use of telematics, collects and stores information about your Vehicle, such as: (i) information about your Vehicle's operation, performance and condition, including such things as diagnostic trouble codes, oil life remaining, tire pressure, fuel economy and odometer readings, battery use management information, battery charging history, battery deterioration information, electrical system functions; (ii) driver behavior information, which is information about how a person drives a Vehicle, such as the actual or approximate speed of your Vehicle, seat belt use, information about braking habits and information about collisions involving your Vehicle and which air bags have deployed; (iii) information about your use of the Vehicle and its features, such as whether you have paired a mobile Device with your Vehicle); (iv) the precise geographic location of your Vehicle; (v) data about remote services we make available such as remote lock / unlock, start / stop charge, parking location, climate control, charge schedules, and Vehicle status check; (vi) when there is a request for service made; and (vii) information about the Vehicle itself (such as the Vehicle identification number (VIN), make, model, model year, selling dealer, servicing dealer, date of purchase or lease and service history)(collectively, «Vehicle Information»).

Make sure that all cords are either inaccessible to your pets, or that you unplug the cords when the electrical device is not in use.

The desk space was very tight and a single electrical outlet made charging more than one device very inconvenient.

Unfortunately, numerous complaints have been made concerning electrical system failure on cars with this type of device installed.

The strong tendency to link other devices to the Internet — from fridges to cars to electrical generating stations — makes new kinds of businesses into information intermediaries: appliance manufacturers, auto dealers, power utilities — and many more.

Make sure you do not have too many electrical devices plugged into outlets since that could easily cause an electrical fire.

And, finally, due to the tropical life style, many people will make use of air conditioners, fans and other electrical devices that can sometimes cause electrical fires as well as leakage issues in your building.

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Electrician resume objective 4: - To make career in a well known corporation where I can employ my talent and know - how of signal systems, troubleshooting and repairing of electrical devices.