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| MIT engineers have proposed a new way to improve solar cell performance by using special ‘funnels’ to capture photons. The funnels would be...

| Circuit Cellar A look at the best embedded technology at ESC Boston 2012 audioXpress The October issue: ESL cell fabrication, speaker cones,...

| Researchers at MIT have designed a novel device the size of a U.S. quarter that harvests energy from low-frequency vibrations, such as those...

| Remember the Concorde or the Tupolev Tu-144, the only civilian airliners to fly beyond the speed of sound? One of the main problems of the C...

| The Fourier transform is a method for representing an irregular signal as a combination of weighted sine waves or ‘frequencies’. To calculat...

| Much as humans and other animals see via waves of visible light that bounce off objects and then strike our eyes’ retinas, radar “sees” by s...

| The sheet of paper looks like any other document that might have just come spitting out of an office printer, with an array of colored recta...

| A new photovoltaic energy-conversion system developed at MIT can be powered solely by heat, generating electricity with no sunlight at all....

| In a paper published in the latest issue of Nature Photonics, an international team of researchers takes an important step toward giving phy...

| A new approach to battery design developed by researchers at MIT could provide a lightweight and inexpensive alternative to existing batteri...