News tagged with amorphous silicon
Silicon Micro-islands and Nano-spikes Channel Water on Glass Slides
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Working at the nanoscale level, University of Arkansas engineering researchers have created stable superhydrophilic surfaces on a glass substrate. The surfaces, made of randomly placed and densely distributed ...
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'Core-Shell' Silicon Nanowires May Improve Lithium-Ion Batteries
Jan 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have found a way to incorporate silicon into the structure of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which are used to power a wide variety of portable electronic devices, including ...
Sharp Develops Mass-Production Technology for Triple-Junction Thin-Film Solar Cells
Jan 25, 2007 |
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Sharp Corporation has successfully developed mass-production technology for stacked triple-junction thin-film solar cells by turning a conventional two-active-layer structure (amorphous silicon plus microcrystalline ...
Novel low temperature laser processing of silicon for hybrid organic/inorganic solar cells
May 30, 2007 |
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Researchers at the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) at the University of Surrey have reported a new technique to UV laser processing of thin film silicon for applications such as display control circuits and solar cells, ...
An organizer for silicon
Apr 21, 2008 |
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Organizers make life easier; aluminum could help the semi-conductor industry to convert silicon from a disordered to an ordered form at low temperatures. This crystalline silicon functions much more efficiently ...
Samsung Intros First 1.98'' LCD to Achieve VGA with Amorphous Silicon
Jun 08, 2006 |
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the industry's first 1.98” LCD panel to achieve VGA resolution, using the company's amorphous silicon (a-Si) technology. Mobile phones equipped with ...
Engineers revolutionize nano-device fabrication using amorphous metals
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Yale engineers have created a process that may revolutionize the manufacture of nano-devices from computer memory to biomedical sensors by exploiting a novel type of metal. The material can be molded like plastics to create ...
SSRL Aids Development of Plastic Electronics
May 04, 2006 |
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For close to a decade, researchers have been trying to improve the performance of plastic semiconductors to the level of amorphous silicon—the semiconductor used in low-cost electronics such as photovoltaic ...
Scientists design first robot using mould
Aug 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of the West of England are to design the first ever biological robot using mould.
Toppan Demonstrates Flexible Electronic Paper Driven by Oxide Semiconductor TFT
Apr 24, 2006 |
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Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. has developed an amorphous oxide semiconductor thin film transistor (TFT) array and succeeded in driving an electrophoretic E Ink front panel laminate to fabricate a prototype flexible ...
Coming Soon: Improved Lithium Ion Batteries?
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Rechargeable lithium ion batteries provide portable devices that require a lot of energy, such as mobile telephones, digital cameras, and notebook computers, with power. However, their capacity, and thus ...
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