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Transphorm to demonstrate 99% efficiency power switching with a 1200V GaN power transistor at ISPSD 2022

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Our 1200-volt GaN FET will enable excellent performance with greater designability and cost effectiveness than SiC solutions. The 1200V GaN device delivers greater than 99%$ efficiency and performs well against a leading SiC MOSFET of similar on-resistance. We see this as an important milestone for the GaN power electronics industry.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He reported that he felt as though a part of him had come back thanks to the prosthesis.

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Turing Award Winner On His Pioneering Algorithms

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For 16 weeks he worked with a group of researchers designing and developing EISPACK , a package of Fortran routines that compute the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices—calculations common in scientific computing. He received US $1 million as part of the award, which is known as the Nobel Prize of computing. a nearby U.S.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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That was the case for Melba Crawford , who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career. I was interested in the design and operation of airplanes and spacecraft.” As part of that effort, she installed and operated a receiving station to acquire and analyze data from the U.S.

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How MIT’s Muriel Medard Pioneered the Universal Decoder

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After graduating, she joined the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1998 as an assistant professor. Each code is designed to correspond with a decoding algorithm that can be computationally complex. Having conferences at which we exchange information is key,” she says. She returned to MIT as a faculty member in 2000.

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General Motors Kicks Off National Electric Vehicle Training Tour For First Responders

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during a demonstration at the 2010 Fire-Rescue Conference. Using a pre-production example of the Chevrolet Volt as a teaching tool, General Motors launched a nationwide electric vehicle training tour and outreach project for emergency personnel this week at the 2010 Fire-Rescue International Conference in Chicago. Click to enlarge.

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USDA and DOE award $12.2M to 10 research projects to accelerate bioenergy crop production and spur economic impact

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The investments are part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to develop domestic renewable energy and advanced biofuels. Because such properties can confer faster growth, this project addresses a challenge posed by the long generation time of trees through fast and cost-effective nontransgenic genetic manipulation.