Fibre optic research can give us better medical equipment, improved environmental monitoring, more media channels—and maybe better solar panels. “Optical fibres are remarkably good at transmitting signals without much loss in the transfer,” says Professor Ursula Gibson at NTNU’s Department of Physics. However: “Glass fibres are good up to a wavelength of about 3 microns. […]
Keeping Electric Car Design On The Right Road
Does it really help to drive an electric car if the electricity you use to charge the batteries come from a coal mine in Germany, or if the batteries were manufactured in China using coal? Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s Industrial Ecology Programme have looked at all of the environmental costs […]
New Electron Spin Secrets Revealed
Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the University of Cambridge in the UK have demonstrated that it is possible to directly generate an electric current in a magnetic material by rotating its magnetization. The findings reveal a novel link between magnetism and electricity, and may have applications in electronics. The […]