Soft-switching inverters represent a significant advancement in power electronics, enabling reduced switching losses and enhanced overall efficiency. These devices utilise techniques such as ...

Switching has almost always meant “hard" switching, which is simple but comes with all kinds of electrical and thermal ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Soft robotics is designed to create flexible, adaptable devices capable of safe interaction with humans and delicate objects. This field has captivated researchers and engineers ...

(From left) Postdoctoral researcher Dong Hae Ho and Associate Professor Michael Bartlett examine a soft electronic made with their method of producing soft circuits. If a phone or other electronic ...

Soft circuits -- circuits based on flexible substrates -- have been a hot topic for years now, in fields from medicine to consumer electronics. Graphene would be a nearly perfect material to use for ...

Designers are familiar with rigid print circuit boards (PCBs) typified by the classic FR4 substrate as well as more advanced substrates which are compatible with multi-gigahertz applications. It’s ...

Researchers from the Stanford Center for AEroSpace Autonomy Research (CAESAR) in the robotic testbed, which can simulate the movements of autonomous spacecraft. Small wearable or implantable ...