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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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In addition to sharing his time and talents with IEEE, he was a professor of electrical engineering for 35 years at the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia. Laker joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 as an EE professor. He left in 1977 to join Bell Labs , in Holmdel, N.J., as a member of the technical staff.

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Researchers propose reason for capacity loss in metal-oxide battery materials

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The fade in battery capacity is due to the formation and thickening of internal and surface passivation layers during charge and discharge cycles. We call this barrier an internal passivation layer. Similarly, electrolytic decomposition hinders ionic conduction by forming a surface passivation layer.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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For his discoveries, Rao received the 2023 International Prize in Statistics. He left Pittsburgh eight years later to teach at Pennsylvania State University in State College, where in 2001 he became director of its multivariate analysis center. Rao authored more than 14 books and 400 journal articles during his career.

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Wireless Worries Overshadow Triumphs of RF Research

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The survey, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , looks at the last 75 years of research into RF exposure assessment and dosimetry. When you and your co-authors wrote your IJERPH article, was your goal to point out the success of exposure assessment research and the challenges of dosimetry?

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China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics

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The Beijing 2022 Organising Committee aims to make the games carbon neutral, or as close as possible—a benchmark for the International Olympic Committee’s mission to make the Olympics carbon positive by 2024. This article appears in the January 2022 print issue as “China’s Green Winter Olympics.”. will shuttle spectators around.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Ferreira authored or coauthored 130 journal and transactions articles and more than 400 conference papers. Ferreira served as 2020 chair of the IEEE PELS International Technology Roadmap on Wide Bandgap Power Semiconductors. from the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia, in 1959. He was granted 15 patents.

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Electric Car Quotes: List of the Best Electric Vehicle Quotes

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” – Elon Musk “Within a decade, the internal combustion engine automobile is likely to look exactly like what it is – a machine that converts gasoline into much more heat than forward motion, a bizarre antiquity.” ” – Alexandra Paul “In order to have clean air in cities, you have to go electric.”