Modern researchers try to bring to life the idea of a scientist who lived more than a hundred years ago. We are talking about ...

Combining microwave and photonic components and their functions onto a single silicon chip can save power and space in future ...

Everyone loves wireless power these days, almost vindicating [Nikola Tesla’s] push for wireless power. One reason why transmitting electricity this way is a terrible idea is the massive losses ...

Wireless power transfer, especially for battery charging, is a growing and dynamic market trend in portable electronics and also Electric Vehicles in the near future. Nikola Tesla first ushered in the ...

Microwave tech is revolutionizing healthcare from diagnostics to wireless implants by enabling noninvasive, connected, and ...

A Caltech team successfully beamed power wirelessly in space and down to Earth, taking a step toward space-based solar power satellites.

January 15, 2009 The promise of wireless electricity has been around for over 100 years. Nikola Tesla spent much of his productive life experimenting with wireless power, the familiar Tesla coils ...

Researchers found that power could be sent to a free-flying drone via a beam of microwave radiation. The team estimated the efficiency of this process and compared it with that for a fixed ...

Dubbed the Microwave Array for Power-transfer Low-orbit Experiment (MAPLE), the experiment was launched back in January as part of an exciting triptych of tests from Caltech's Space Solar Power ...

The inside of the space-based Microwave Array for Power-transfer Low-orbit Experiment (MAPLE) which emits collected energy across empty space using an array of transmitters (right) to two ...