[Nanotechnology] – Something from nothing: Using waste heat to power electronics
22 février 2020
Collecting energy from environmental waste heat such as that lost from the human body is an attractive prospect to power small electronics sustainably. A thermocell is a type of energy-harvesting device that converts environmental heat into electricity through the thermal charging effect.
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[Nanotechnology] – Nanoantennas to improve ultra-fast wireless connections
6 août 2019
Researchers from the Nanophotonic Technology Centre (NTC) of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) have designed new silicon nanoantennas with direct applications in communication and data processing for the next generation of reconfigurable photonic chips.
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