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DOE-funded PowerAmerica Institute at NCSU divvies out fresh $20M for innovationAugust 8, 2018 More than four years after then-President Barack Obama announced what would become the PowerAmerica Institute at North Carolina State University, the initiative is doling out a new $20 million tranche to fund innovation. Late Tuesday, the Department of Energy-funded center announced it had awarded funds to six new member projects aimed at enhancing next-generation semiconductors in the U.S. PowerAmerica also announced it had awarded funding for 20 projects, to be led by existing members, for a total of $20 million this cycle. |
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Satellite Imagery + Social Media = A New Way to Spot Emerging Nuclear ThreatsJuly 31, 2018 Hiding illicit nuclear programs might be getting harder, thanks to new ways of gleaning and combining clues from various rivers of digital data. |
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Social Media Helps Detect Nuclear Agreement ViolationsJuly 23, 2018 Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new computational model that draws on normally incompatible data sets, such as satellite imagery and social media posts, to answer questions about what is happening in targeted locations. |
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Spotlight Q&A: Dr. Subhashish BhattacharyaJuly 16, 2018 Dr. Battacharya recently talked with FREEDM industry member Typhoon HIL and discussed how Controller Hardware-in-the-Loop (C-HIL) reduced the cycle time of design, validation, and testing of DC Microgrid controllers from academia to industry. |
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How to build a solar powered EV? SolarPack has some stylish answersJuly 9, 2018 When some students at North Carolina State University decided to enter the American Solar Challenge — a biennial race for solar powered cars — they knew they would be up against some fierce competition from students at other colleges and universities. Typically, the cars that enter are little more than go-karts with a few solar panels held in place with cable ties. But Byron Sells, who began the solar car challenge at NCSU, wanted more than a car that would limp across the finish line as the wheels fell off. “I told the team, ‘Let’s make something compelling that the consumer actually wants to buy,’” he says. |
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Researchers Invent a Way to Speed Intel’s 3D XPoint Computer MemoryJune 13, 2018 Memory modules using Intel’s 3D XPoint technology are on their way, and researchers at NC State ECE have already figured out how to make them better |
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Researchers at NCSU develop tech for steering lightJune 5, 2018 “Until now, state-of-the-art diffraction gratings configured to steer visible light to large angles have had an angular acceptance range, or bandwidth, of about 20 degrees, meaning that the light source has to be directed into the grating within an arc of 20 degrees,” says Michael Escuti, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State and corresponding author of a paper on the work. “We’ve developed a new grating that expands that window to 40 degrees, allowing light to enter the grating from a wider range of input angles. |
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FREEDM Center celebrates 10 years of electric energy researchJune 3, 2018 This week, North Carolina State University’s renewable energy research lab is celebrating the many inventions, publications and programs it has spearheaded since its start 10 years ago. |
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Future smart clothes could pack serious gadgetryJune 1, 2018 If clothing were packed with thermoelectric generators, body heat could be turned into electricity. Researchers at North Carolina State University in Raleigh work with a button-sized generator containing a grid of semiconductor rods sandwiched between two ceramic plates. |
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Raleigh ranked No. 1 on Amazon’s finalist housing marketsMay 30, 2018 Raleigh ranks No. 1 for housing, quality of life in new Amazon HQ2 site study by research company ATTOM Data Solutions. |
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Two NASA astronauts headed for the space station have NC connectionsMay 25, 2018 Christina Hammock Koch and Andrew Morgan, both selected as astronauts in 2013, are scheduled for spaceflights next year. Koch, who grew up in Jacksonville, North Carolina, earned bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and physics, and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University. She has already had an adventurous career. |
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N.C. State is giving IBM a hand in pushing what might be computing’s next revolutionMay 14, 2018 A new tie-in with IBM is helping N.C. State University get in on the ground floor of quantum computing by allowing professors and students access to a network of the new machines that IBM has set up at its research lab in New York. |
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IBM chooses NC State as partner for first IBM Quantum Computing Hub in North AmericaMay 10, 2018 North Carolina State University will be the first in North America to establish a university-based IBM Quantum Computing hub as part of the global IBM Q Network. The hub is expected to be operational on Raleigh’s Centennial Campus by October. |
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Light diffraction technique holds promise for more immersive augmented realityMay 9, 2018 “Meaning that the light source has to be directed into the grating within an arc of 20 degrees,” said Michael Escuti, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University (NC State) and corresponding author of a paper on the work. |
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AI Expands Role in DesignJanuary 31, 2018 Several academia also shared their research progress under the auspice of Center for Advanced Electronics Through Machine Learning (CAEML) since its formation in 2016. Prof. Paul Franzon discussed how ML could shorten IC physical design step through the use of surrogate model. |