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Low-cost solution processing method developed for CIGS-based solar cells
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Though the solar industry today predominately produces solar panels made from crystalline silicon, they remain relatively expensive to make. New players in the solar industry have instead been looking at panels that can harvest ...
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Infrared Nanotube Films Offer Advantages for Solar Cells and More
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Will carbon nanotubes replace indium tin oxide?
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 09, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Super-thin carbon sheets poised to revolutionize electronics
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Super-thin films of carbon with exotic properties, now taking the scientific world by storm, may soon mean a new era of brighter, faster, and smaller computers, smart phones, and other consumer electronics. Brighter digital ...
Transparent Carbon Nanotube Films Likely Successor to ITO for Commercial Applications
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Will the legacy of Nobel prize winner Richard Smalley finally be fulfilled? Ever since his pioneering work in the mid 1990's on the synthesis of carbon nanotubes, companies have been struggling ...
A Wafer of Polyethylene: Ultrathin polyethylene films made of nanocrystals
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Layers of plastic, much thinner than a strand of hair—this type of ultrathin polymer film is of great interest to scientists and engineers. Applications include protective coatings, for example. A research ...
Researchers create freestanding nanoparticle films without fillers
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Nanoparticle films are no longer a delicate matter: Vanderbilt physicists have found a way to make them strong enough so they don't disintegrate at the slightest touch.
Toward a new generation of paper-thin loudspeakers
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 17, 2008 |
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In research that may redefine ear buds, earphones, stereo loudspeakers, and other devices for producing sound, researchers in China are reporting development of flexible loudspeakers thinner than paper that ...
Carbon nanotubes made into conductive, flexible 'stained glass'
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 09, 2008 |
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Carbon nanotubes are promising materials for many high-technology applications due to their exceptional mechanical, thermal, chemical, optical and electrical properties.
Researchers develop thin films showing promise for solar applications
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 08, 2009 |
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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.
Sculptured materials allow multiple channel plasmonic sensors
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sensors, communications devices and imaging equipment that use a prism and a special form of light -- a surface plasmon-polariton -- may incorporate multiple channels or redundant applications if manufacturers ...
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