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What's so super about nickel supercapacitors?

What's so super about nickel supercapacitors?

The growing emphasis on environment-friendliness, energy-saving and general operational efficiency means there is a greater role in the transport industry for energy storage systems of all kinds, Marc Genicot turns his attention to the supercapacitor.

Active filters ensure reliable emergency power at Spain’s newest airport

Active filters ensure reliable emergency power at Spain’s newest airport

Interruptions to power supplies at airports can cause serious failures in aeronautical navigation systems, runway lighting and the like. Emergency generators must therefore be able to start up instantly and keep crucial systems online.

Chips with everything

Chips with everything

It looks just like a memory stick but that is where the similarity ends. Inside, the tiny black box is far more sophisticated, contains considerably more technology and is offering a revolution in space dosimetry.

TEMPEST: high-performance filtering for data security

TEMPEST: high-performance filtering for data security

A longstanding concern of governments, armed forces, municipal authorities and companies has been the fact that electrical and electronic equipment give off unintended electromagnetic emanations which can then be reconstructed as intelligible data by outside agencies.

High-power lasers: an energy source of the future?

High-power lasers: an energy source of the future?

This month, the German research organisation, Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) was invited to present the latest results of its CryoLaser project to an audience at CLEO 2013, an annual lasers and electro-optics conference held this year in San Jose, USA.

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