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Faster computers, electronic devices possible after scientists create large-area graphene on copper

Scientists create large-area graphene on copper: Faster computers, electronics possible

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1

The creation of large-area graphene using copper may enable the manufacture of new graphene-based devices that meet the scaling requirements of the semiconductor industry, leading to faster computers and electronics, ...





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Infrared Nanotube Films Offer Advantages for Solar Cells and More

Infrared Nanotube Films Offer Advantages for Solar Cells and More

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have already known that carbon nanotube thin films have mechanical and conductive advantages that could make them useful as electrodes in solar cells, solid state lighting, and ...


Carbon nanotubes made into conductive, flexible 'stained glass'

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 09, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (30) | comments 0

Carbon nanotubes are promising materials for many high-technology applications due to their exceptional mechanical, thermal, chemical, optical and electrical properties.


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Graphene-based gadgets may be just years away

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 30, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (63) | comments 3

Researchers at The University of Manchester have produced tiny liquid crystal devices with electrodes made from graphene – an exciting development that could lead to computer and TV displays based on this ...


Will carbon nanotubes replace indium tin oxide?

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Up until now, George Grüner tells PhysOrg.com, most of the studies regarding the properties - and uses - of carbon nanotubes have been restricted to the visible spectral range. “We, however, were interested in the ...


Window display

Technology / Hi Tech

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Just one click and the window turns into a display. At the Hannover Messe from April 20 to 24, Fraunhofer research scientists will be demonstrating light-permeable conductive coatings as the basis for transparent displays. ...


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Unzipping Carbon Nanotubes Can Make Graphene Ribbons

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- By "unzipping" carbon nanotubes, researchers have shown how to make flat graphene ribbons. Graphene, which is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon that looks like chicken wire, has unique electrical ...


Electricity from a thin film

Electricity from a thin film

Technology / Energy

created Feb 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (30) | comments 0

Teams of researchers all over the world are working on the development of organic solar cells. The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg is presenting avenues towards industrial mass ...


Paperwork: Buckypapers Clarify Electrical, Optical Behavior of Nanotubes

Paperwork: Buckypapers Clarify Electrical, Optical Behavior of Nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 15, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using highly uniform samples of carbon nanotubes—sorted by centrifuge for length—materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have made some of the most precise ...


Researchers develop thin films showing promise for solar applications

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed thin films that exhibit carrier multiplication (CM). This development is of great interest for future solar cells.


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Rice researchers unzip the future

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Scientists at Rice University have found a simple way to create basic elements for aircraft, flat-screen TVs, electronics and other products that incorporate sheets of tough, electrically conductive material.



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