Nuclear Energy as a viable electric baseload supply option
Abundant energy is the base for advanced societies. America succeeded only because of a coal base that drove our…
Interview with Alvin Martin Weinberg (April 20, 1915 - October 18, 2006), a nuclear physicist and administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
Introduction to the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) by Prof. Vesna Sossi, President of the NPSS.
Larson Collection interview with Mark Oliphant, an Australian physicist and humanitarian who played a fundamental role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and the development…
The International Future Energy Challenge (IFEC) is an exciting global energy competition that gets future energy leaders to compete to develop the most efficient DC-DC converter for residential…
Overview of the NPSS 2018 Real Time Conference.
Whittaker haas spent his career at Carnegie-Mellon, where he has long been a principal in its Robotics Institutes. Among his achievements was the design and a deployment of a robot used in the…
Together, co-presenters Jelena Popovic, University of Twente, The Netherlands, and Liuchen Chang, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, discuss…
In this tutorial, we will talk about the basics of commonly used energy harvesters and how their characteristics differ from conventional energy sources. Specialized circuits used to…
CTO & SVP of Texas Instruments, Dr. Ahmad Bahai, presents his KeyTalk highlighting energy efficiency as it compares with the Internet of power and energy. Dr. Bahai addresses the challenges…
2011 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) plenary keynote speaker Dr. Dushan Boroyevich, IEEE Power Electronics Society President, speaks on "Intergrid: A Future Electronic Energy…
Have you wondered what are the skills, experience, and mindset needed to start a company? Have you pondered how to establish an entrepreneurial career path? Kunal Girotra will share insight from…
Short overview of the 2016 NSS/MIC/RTSD conference.
What happens when 23 teams of students compete to design and test a novel, high-efficiancy, high-density DC/DC converter? See how this annual international competition has come to be about more…
Energy storage is now emerging as an essential electric utility resource to effectively enable higher penetration levels of variable renewable generation resources. In California...
Pravin P. Varaiya received the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal in 2022 for seminal contributions to the engineering, analysis, and design of complex energy, transportation, and communication systems.
The plenary lecture considers important issues surrounding the energy consumption by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) which has been steadily growing and is now attaining…
Abstract: A 1310-nm (O-band) coherent optical receiver (CORX) is demonstrated with a monolithic electronic/photonic integrated circuit (MEPIC) process for short range optical interconnects. The…
Medical applications of power electronics may seem limited to AC/DC and housekeeping power supplies, but an entire class of medical devices exist where power converter outputs are directly…
"Over the past 50 years, the development of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies at intermediate and high magnetic…
To increase the utilization of renewable energy power generation technology and to provide a pathway to creating a truly zero-emission transportation system new magnetic energy conversion and…
A panel discussion with Mr. Lee Krevat, Mr. Micheal Austin, and Dr. Pourya Shamsi.Â