(Nanowerk News) The technological world of the 21st century owes a tremendous amount to advances in electrical engineering, specifically, the ability to finely control the flow of electrical charges ...

Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have flipped the switch on a new type of computer circuit. Unlike conventional silicon, the new chip uses light -- not electricity -- to perform its logic.

One of the important challenges in electrical engineering is to make smaller and more complicated electrical circuits. In this pursuit, University of Pennsylvania researchers have taken a drastically ...