News tagged with lighting devices

Tandem polymer solar cells that set record for energy-conversion

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the effort to convert sunlight into electricity, photovoltaic solar cells that use conductive organic polymers for light absorption and conversion have shown great potential. Organic polymers ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

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Physics team calculates that graphene disks could be complete optical absorbers

(PhysOrg.com) -- In optical devices designed and used to collect light, there has always been a loss of light due to reflection, now, new research by a team of physicists from Spain and England has found, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Light makes write for DNA information-storage device

Researchers have demonstrated a write-once-read-many-times information-storage device, made of DNA embedded with silver nanoparticles, that uses ultraviolet light to encode data.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Pentagon-backed 'time cloak' stops the clock (Update)

Pentagon-supported physicists on Wednesday said they had devised a "time cloak" that briefly makes an event undetectable.

Physics / General Physics

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New technique makes it easier to etch semiconductors

Creating semiconductor structures for high-end optoelectronic devices just got easier, thanks to University of Illinois researchers.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Alternative LED lighting combats energy crisis

Alternative lighting is emerging as a potent method to combat the energy crisis. Light-emitting diode (LED) lighting technologies could provide an innovative way to save energy and make wasteful lighting obsolete.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

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Researchers adapt classic antennas to harness more power from the sun

Some solar devices, like calculators, only need a small panel of solar cells to function. But supplying enough power to meet all our daily needs would require enormous solar panels. And solar-powered energy collected by panels ...

Physics / General Physics

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Chemically assembled metamaterials may lead to superlenses

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanomanufacturing technology has enabled scientists to create metamaterials -- stuff that never existed in nature -- with unusual optical properties. They could lead to "superlenses" able ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

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SideBySide projection system enables projected interaction between mobile devices

Researchers at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon University have devised a system called SideBySide that enables animated images from two separate handheld projectors to interact with each other ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

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Researchers use new video gaming technology to detect illness, prevent falls in older adults

Many older adults lose their independence as their health declines and they are compelled to move into assisted care facilities. Researchers at the University of Missouri and TigerPlace, an independent living community, have ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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Panasonic turns on OLED lighting roadmap, announces record efficiency

(PhysOrg.com) -- Japan-based Panasonic Electric Works (PEW) has announced an aggressive roadmap to make organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) lighting a part of the not so distant future. The company has said ...

Technology / Engineering

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Building chips from collapsing nanopillars

By turning a common problem in chip manufacture into an advantage, MIT researchers produce structures only 30 atoms wide.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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One-pot synthesis provides simpler, faster route to highly efficient solar cells

Preventing the recombination of free charges produced when light strikes a solar cell is one of the main goal of engineers attempting to extract the maximum energy conversion efficiency from their devices. One way to achieve ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Light speed hurdle to invisibility cloak overcome by undergraduate

(PhysOrg.com) -- An undergraduate student has overcome a major hurdle in the development of invisibility cloaks by adding an optical device into their design that not only remains invisible itself, but also has the ability ...

Physics / General Physics

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New scientific research reveals diamonds aren't forever

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper published in the US journal Optical Materials Express this week, Macquarie University researchers show that even the earth's hardest naturally occurring material, the diamond, is not ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

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