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Liquid-OLED Offers More Light-Emitting Possibilities

Liquid-OLED Offers More Light-Emitting Possibilities

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- As organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are poised to go mainstream in the near future, scientists continue to explore new twists on the technology. Recently, researchers have fabricated ...


Quantum dots as midinfrared emitters

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- “People are interested in the mid-infrared,” Dan Wasserman tells PhysOrg.com. Infrared light has a wavelength longer than visible light, and many molecules have numerous very strong optical resonances in the ...





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Electroluminescence from Electrolyte-Gated Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors

Electroluminescence from Electrolyte-Gated Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Field-effect transistors (FETs) based on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) exhibit a range of optoelectronic effects including near-infrared electroluminescence.


Reverse current sheds new light on solar cells

Reverse current sheds new light on solar cells

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The electric breakthrough of solar cells cannot be ascribed to the surface preparation as has now been demonstrated by physicists at the University of Leipzig and the company Q-Cells SE in ...


Researchers Control the Spin of Semiconductor Quantum Dot Shell States

Researchers Control the Spin of Semiconductor Quantum Dot Shell States

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have recently demonstrated the ability to control the spin population of the individual quantum shell states of self-assembled indium arsenide (InAs) quantum ...


Silicon Spin-LED

NRL scientists demonstrate efficient electrical spin injection into silicon

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 16, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have efficiently injected a current of spin-polarized electrons from a ferromagnetic metal contact into silicon, producing a large electron spin polarization ...


Switchable two-color light source on a silicon chip

Switchable two-color light source on a silicon chip

Physics / General Physics

created May 22, 2007 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Silicon is the most important material for electronic chips and processors. Yet it has a big drawback: being a so-called indirect semiconductor, it hardly emits any light. Therefore worldwide efforts in the ...


Solar cells make OLEDS luminous enough for mobile devices

Solar cells make OLEDS luminous enough for mobile devices

Physics / General Physics

created May 03, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (80) | comments 0

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) offer an alternative to conventional electronic displays (such as LCDs) and have advantages generally including wide viewing angles, rapid response and thin shapes. However, ...


Nano scientists to develop next-generation LEDs

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 19, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (42) | comments 0

Nanotechnology may unlock the secret for creating highly efficient next-generation LED lighting systems, and exploring its potential is the aim of several projects centered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.


Light-emitting transistor uses light to transfer an electrical signal

Light-emitting transistor uses light to transfer an electrical signal

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 01, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (107) | comments 0

In one of the early discoveries of the current "silicon electrophotonics era," scientists from Hitachi, Ltd. in Tokyo have built a light-emitting transistor (LET) that transfers, detects and controls an electrical ...


Organic semiconductors make cheap, flexible photovoltaics and LEDs

Organic semiconductors make cheap, flexible photovoltaics and LEDs

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 07, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (76) | comments 0

Imagine T-shirts that light up, or a beach umbrella that collects solar energy to run a portable TV. How about really cheap solar collectors for the roof? All this and more could come from cutting-edge research ...


Next Generation Light Source

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created Nov 23, 2005 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 0

The Technische Universität Dresden partakes in one of the world’s largest projects on the development of innovative organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Scientists at the Institute of Applied Photophysics have been developing ...



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