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Sharp Develops Solar Cell with World’s Highest Conversion Efficiency of 35.8%

Sharp Develops Solar Cell with World's Highest Conversion Efficiency of 35.8%

Technology / Energy

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 12

Sharp Corporation has achieved the world's highest solar cell conversion efficiency (for non-concentrator solar cells) of 35.8% using a triple-junction compound solar cell.


Sharp shows plant making 10th generation panels (AP)

Sharp shows plant making 10th generation panels

Technology / Business

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Huge sheets of glass are guided by robotic arms, sliding and turning in a towering germ-free plant, the world's first making giant "10th generation" panels for flat screen TVs.


Staying sharp: New study uncovers how people maintain cognitive function in old age

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Not everyone declines in cognitive function with age. Elderly people who exercise at least once a week, have at least a high school education and a ninth grade literacy level, are not smokers and are more socially active ...


Sharp's New Semiconductor Laser for Triple- and Quadruple- Layer Blu-ray Discs

Sharp's New Semiconductor Laser for Triple- and Quadruple- Layer Blu-ray Discs

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sharp Corporation has announced the development of a new 500 mW semiconductor laser for triple- and quadruple- layer Blu-ray discs.


Sharp Develops Five-Primary-Color LCD That Faithfully Reproduces Real Surface Colors

Electronics / Hardware

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Sharp Corporation has developed a five-primary-color display that faithfully reproduces the real surface colors that humans are capable of perceiving. A prototype of this display will be exhibited at the international symposium ...


EU antitrust regulators charge LCD panel makers

Technology / Business

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- European Union antitrust regulators have charged Royal Philips Electronics NV and LG Display with fixing the price of liquid crystal display monitors, Philips said Monday.


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Panasonic announces Q1 net loss of 560 mln dlrs

Technology / Business

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japanese high-tech giant Panasonic Corp. announced Monday a big first-quarter loss, blaming weak sales of televisions, digital cameras and other electronic goods during the recession.


Nokia sues top LCD, CRT display makers

Technology / Business

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Nokia Corp., the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said Tuesday it has filed suits against several leading liquid crystal display makers - including Philips, Toshiba, Sharp and Samsung - for alleged price fixing.


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File sharing drops in Sweden after govt crackdown

Technology / Internet

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (7) | comments 7

More than 40 percent of Swedes engage in illegal file sharing, but recording industry officials have noted a sharp drop since a government crackdown earlier this year, they said Monday.


You're never too old to learn

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Dr. Lixia Yang (above) and her co-author, Ralf Krampe of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany, found that seniors were able to retain 50 per cent of concepts they learned almost a year before.


Solar cell shipments in Japan hit record high in April-June

Technology / Energy

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Demand for solar cells has been growing rapidly in Japan with a record generating capacity of 83,260 kilowatts shipped to the domestic market between April and June, up 82.5 percent from the same quarter last year, a private-sector ...


Explained: RNA interference

Explained: RNA interference

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Every high school biology student learns the basics of how genes are expressed: DNA, the cell’s master information keeper, is copied into messenger RNA, which carries protein-building instructions to the ribosome, ...


Modern human brain

Direct evidence of role of sleep in memory formation is uncovered

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1

A Rutgers University, Newark and Collége de France, Paris research team has pinpointed for the first time the mechanism that takes place during sleep that causes learning and memory formation to occur.


Danish nanowires have great potential

Danish nanowires have great potential

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Danish nanophysicists have developed a new method for manufacturing the cornerstone of nanotechnology research - nanowires. The discovery has great potential for the development of nanoelectronics and highly ...


Gay, bisexual men who have social anxiety tend to engage in risky sex

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A Ryerson University HIV researcher has found a link between social anxiety and unsafe sexual activities among gay and bisexual men, some of whom are HIV-positive.