Interesting Engineering

STEP tokamak gets modular fusion reactor core design to reduce downtime, boost maintenance

UK engineers are rethinking the tokamak structure, replacing massive welded hulls with independent, modular rings.
IEEE

A Novel Double-Sided Cooling Silicon Carbide Power Module With Ultralow Parasitic Inductance Based on an Interleaved Power Loop

Abstract: Higher switching speed requires power module package to have lower parasitic inductance. This article summarized three methods to realize low parasitic inductance. Based on these methods, ...

In Test: Elixir's 1.20 New Intelligent Type System

Report do def user_age_to_string(user) do Integer.to_string(user.age) end end # An anderer Stelle im Projekt: Report.user_age_to_string(%{age: "42"}) Integer.to_string/1 is Elixir's usual notation for ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Never-Ending Race to Build the World’s Tallest Structure

Ever since humans began building, they’ve been building up. Throughout the millennia, our constructions have reached higher and higher into the sky, spurred by various motivations: religion, democracy ...
GitHub

Improving and Evaluating Hand-Object Interaction Detection

HOI-DETR is a transformer-based framework for detecting hands, hand-held objects, and their interactions in images and video. Built on the Co-DETR architecture, it adds a lightweight interaction ...
IEEE

A Low-Thermal-Stress Double-Sided Cooling Wire-Bondless Package Structure of SiC Power Modules for High-Temperature Applications

Abstract: To leverage the outstanding high-temperature resistance of silicon carbide (SiC), theoretically up to 500 °C, conventional packaging materials, and structures have become inadequate to meet ...