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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 ...





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Will carbon nanotubes replace indium tin oxide?

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | 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 ...


Green light from Silicon

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (15) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of St Andrews have made a surprise discovery that the material at the heart of the microelectronics industry can emit green light.


Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...


Hollow gold nanospheres show promise for biomedical and other applications

Hollow gold nanospheres show promise for biomedical and other applications

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 22, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new metal nanostructure developed by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has already shown promise in cancer therapy studies and could be used for chemical and biological ...


Nanocrack Evolution

Tension in the nanoworld

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...


'Strained' quantum dots show new optical properties

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 07, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Quantum dots, tiny luminescent particles made of semiconductors, hold promise for detecting and treating cancer earlier. However, if doctors were to use them in humans, quantum dots could have limitations related to their ...


Nanocrystals reveal activity within cells

Nanocrystals reveal activity within cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created bright, stable and bio-friendly nanocrystals that act as individual investigators of activity within ...


Researchers demonstrate 100-watt-level mid-infrared lasers

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Northwestern University researchers have achieved a breakthrough in quantum cascade laser output power, delivering 120 watts from a single device at room temperature.


AKARI's observations of asteroid Itokawa

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 23, 2007 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The space-borne infrared observatory AKARI, observed asteroid Itokawa last month with its Infrared Camera. The data will be used to refine estimates of sizes of potentially hazardous asteroids in the future.


Milky Way's infrared portrait gives new view of galaxy

Milky Way's infrared portrait gives new view of galaxy

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 03, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 1

Humans have always had a ringside seat for viewing the Milky Way. Now, however, thanks to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have obtained an entirely new perspective of our home galaxy: a complete ...



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