The 5th generation wireless systems will allow much faster data exchange than the current 4G networks. But what are the promises and pitfalls of 5G? Delft researchers will investigate this with telecommunications company KPN.
28 March 2018. “We have final, definite proof of the Majorana.” The timeline ‘The Quest for the Majorana’ on the website of QuTech is a thrilling read. This week, the quantum scientists, the group of Professor Leo Kouwenhoven at QuTech and Microsoft, added a new important chapter.
Analysis of ‘inaudible’ infrasound high in the stratosphere can lead to improved weather forecasting and climate models, believes Dr Pieter Smets (Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences).
MIT is regarded as one of the leading technical universities in the world. Actually, the university is the best. Or so a panel of ‘thought leaders’ concludes in a review commissioned by … MIT. But don’t fret: TU Delft is also amongst the world’s top 10, according to this report.
Researcher Dr Gautham Ram Chandra Mouli developed a system which charges electric cars quickly and directly using solar power. He defended his PhD research last Monday at TU Delft.
It is a tough nut to crack. Give people car technology that should make driving safer and they’ll take more risks, annulling part of the safety advantage.
They are around us everywhere, fuelling our cars, phones, and laptops, yet we know so little about batteries. Dr Marnix Wagemaker explains how he will use his recently earned Vici grant worth 1.5 million euros to investigate the inner workings of batteries.
With a tobacco retailer on every corner and youth loitering on the street smoking on every bench, you would expect that growing up in a deprived neighbourhood would increase the probability of kids ending up smoking. Delft researchers showed otherwise.
De TU Delft doet het uitzonderlijk goed in de vorige week verschenen toonaangevende universiteitsranglijst QS-Ranking. De universiteit staat in twee vakgebieden in de top tien: ‘Architecture’ (3) en ‘Civil Engineering’ (4). In tien vakgebieden behoort de TU tot de top 50 van de wereld.
