Sentences with phrase «use electric current»

Shock collars use electric current passing through metal contact points on the collar to give your dog a signal.

Just as silicon - based components use electric current to represent 1's and 0's, bio-based circuits use concentrations of DNA molecules in a test tube.

Electric eels use electric current to navigate, communicate and hunt for small prey.

The work is still in it's early stages — «Any effort to use electric current for stimulating the brain outside the laboratory or clinic could be dangerous and should be strongly discouraged,» Green cautions — but there are already places where the idea of electrical stimulation is being tested out in the real world.

Japanese researchers developed a prototype electric fork that uses an electric current to stimulate the sense of salt on the tongue.

He began by using an electric current to open holes in the bacteria's cell walls.

It has already been shown that brain stimulation using electric currents can boost a number of cognitive functions (see «Apply the electrodes...»).

Unlike standard glass or plastic lenses, which have fixed parameters, the optical properties of an electrically tunable lens can be dynamically controlled using an electric current.

That heat is a byproduct of the microprocessors in your device using electric current to power computer processing functions — and it is actually wasted energy.

Scientists found they could prod these skyrmions to move using electric currents, and an idea was born: could we use them to represent 1s and 0s in computer memory?

The 2015 GT350 also features Ford's first - ever use of its new MagneRide dampers, which uses electric current to stiffen iron particles floating in a hydraulic fluid in the dampers.

[23]... [T] he evidence is that much of this equipment is commonly used in university science laboratories and in other settings involving the production of magnetic fields using electric currents through coiled wires.

A future Apple Watch might detect more than just your steps and heart rate: using an electric current, it could even detect...

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Musk, the chief executive of electric car maker Tesla Inc (tsla) and rocket company SpaceX (spacex), recently started the Boring Company to build transport tunnels for the system, which he says would be far faster than current high - speed trains and use electromagnetic propulsion.

This rapid - freezing system uses both alternating and direct current, high «electric potential,» at the same time to rapidly cool the product without oxidization, reducing the size of ice crystals that form in food cells.

Occasionally, your doctor may suggest laparoscopic surgery, using a small electric current to damage a tiny section of the ovary in order to decrease the abundance of male hormones, thereby increasing ovulation.

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«There shouldn't be any use of electric current,» says Director Claire Nouvian.

Ang and co-workers, in collaboration with researchers across Singapore and in Australia, wanted to investigate whether patients could get better at using a BCI if their brain was first subjected to transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)-- the application of an external electric current to the skull.

They did this by using electric field tomography — sequentially running small amounts of current through the electrodes in pairs and noting any voltage differences.

Using electrical measurements he collected during the eel attacks, Catania came up with an equation to estimate the amount of electric current flowing from the eel into his arm.

And they should be easy to create and destroy, using something simple like an electric current.

OLED screens use organic molecules that emit light when an electric current is applied.

Some of this thermal energy could be harvested using thermoelectric materials; they create electric current when they are used to bridge hot and cold objects.

«Conventional computers use the starting and stopping of electric currents at gates to communicate.

The material they were using, antimony sulfide, is a molten semiconductor, which normally would not allow for the kind of electrolytic process that is used to produce aluminum and some other metals through the application of an electric current.

In April neuroscientist Liane Young and her colleagues at MIT and Harvard University reported that they had altered people's moral judgments using transcranial magnetic stimulation, a procedure that briefly disrupts neural processing with a magnetic field induced by electric current.

For instance, using light pulses of a precisely controlled waveform, physicists aim to switch electric currents in electronics circuits with light frequencies.

Using electroporation — in Corn's words, «we run an electric current and make holes in the cells» — he'll inject the complex and replacement parts through the cells» protective membrane.

During use, lithium ions stored in the graphite flow to the lithium - based electrode, where they form chemical bonds with oxygen atoms, a reaction that generates an electric current.

Boeing has experimented with them in smaller aircraft, in anticipation of using them on its 787 - 8, the current state - of - the - art electric airplane.

The trouble, from an electric utility's perspective, is the tens of thousands of Arizona's total of three million or so homes that have installed small solar: photovoltaic panels made from wafers of semiconducting material, typically silicon, that use incoming sunlight to create an electric current.

It relies on an electric current between two electrodes sitting in a solution of brine — the same process used to generate chlorine commercially.

In addition, ARPES can not be used to visualize electron behavior in insulators — materials within which electric current does not flow freely.

Shankar Ghosh (left) and Ajay Sood show some of the equipment they used to turn gas into electric current.

Current research and development is largely centered on «hybrid» vehicles that use both electric power and internal combustion.

Those technologies include the «driver» used to crush the fuel capsule, such as lasers, heavy ion beams, or powerful pulses of electric current.

In July a report from MIT, On the Road in 2035, found that if a market for lightweight hybrid and plug - in hybrid electric vehicles were developed, the United States could cut its gas consumption by 68 billion gallons — about half our current fuel use — within 27 years.

The HEMS system helps consumers use data on driving times, solar intensity forecasts and current household energy consumption to synchronize electric vehicle charging times with rooftop energy production, so they can maximize the proportion of household - produced energy they use.

Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»

Nocera and his postdoctoral student, Matthew Kanan, discovered that cobalt (a widely available metal) can be used to create a catalyst that similarly splits water molecules — in this case, in the presence of an electric current.

We know electric fields can be used to push the microrobots in any direction, like a boat carried by the ocean's currents, but in this paper we're exploring how those same fields can be used to help the robot detect obstacles and navigate around them,» Kim said.

Here, the fingerprint material acts like a mask or stencil, blocking an electric current that is used to deposit a coloured electro - active film.

It might be possible, the researchers say, to eventually excite the internal emitters using tiny fiber optic lines, or perhaps electric current.

Piezoelectric materials, which generate an electric current when compressed or stretched, are familiar and widely used: think of lighters that spark when you press a switch, but also microphones, sensors, motors and all kinds of other devices.

The technique is usually used to image molecules, by measuring attractive forces between the tip and sample, or the electric currents that pass between them.

The Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy organization, estimated that almost 42 percent of U.S. households are already in a position to use electric vehicles based on their access to power sources and parking space, and their current travel patterns.

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The researchers built the device — which uses about one - billionth the electric current needed to power a hair dryer — while exploring how to use quantum dots, which are bits of semiconductor material that act like single atoms, as components for quantum computers.

Using a rotating electric current that induces a magnetic field, computer data could be transferred to small particles of magnetic materials, with each particle aligned either up or down, representing a one or a zero.