The electric charge on these plates creates an electric field inside the capacitor. Since there is an electric field, there must also be a change in electric potential across the plates.

"Our work shows a new path to using a magnetic capacitor which uses electric field to control magnetism," says Stewart Barnes, physicist at the UM College of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding ...

Researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a machine ...

How do you make a constant electric field? The most common way is with a parallel plate capacitor. If you get to plates near each other and connect one plate to one terminal of a battery and the ...

Applying an electric field to the polymer causes atoms within it to polarize, which enables the capacitor to store and release energy quickly. They found that when an electrical field was applied ...

This is where capacitors come in — they store electricity in an electric field that can be quickly charged and discharged for rapid access to power as needed. Smartphones, for example ...

1. Three packs of supercapacitors (in the blue package), consisting of six D-size cells were able to provide and store the same amount of electrical energy as the smaller pack of six AA-size TLI ...

Antony Ingram March 21, 2012 Comment Now! Drivers of hybrid and electric vehicles will be used to the feel of regenerative braking. As you brake, or even lift off the accelerator pedal in some ...

Jonny Smith's Flux Capacitor is one of the quirkiest (but most interesting) electric vehicles on the road today. Smith, a British automotive journalist, took an old Enfield 8000 electric city car ...