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New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays

New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Johns Hopkins materials scientists have found a new use for a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, a substance that allows electricity to flow through it. By orienting ...


Transparent aluminium is 'new state of matter'

Transparent aluminium is 'new state of matter'

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (99) | comments 49

(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. 'Transparent aluminium' previously only existed in science ...


Transparent solar cells

Transparent solar cells

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- If solar cells were transparent they could be fitted to windows and building facades. Physical modeling helps in the development of suitable materials for transparent electronics and thus ...


Metal Becomes Transparent Under High Pressure

Metal Becomes Transparent Under High Pressure

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 10

An international team of scientists have discovered a transparent form of the element sodium (Na). The team, led by Artem Oganov, Professor of Theoretical Crystallography at Stony Brook University, and Yanming ...


LG Unveils Transparent Mobile Phone: LG-GD900

LG Unveils Transparent Mobile Phone: LG-GD900

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 2

LG Electronics today unveiled the world's first transparent design phone, the LG-GD900, at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona, Spain.


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Scientists print dense lattice of transparent nanotube transistors on flexible base

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 16, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (28) | comments 2

It's a clear, colorless disk about 5 inches in diameter that bends and twists like a playing card, with a lattice of more than 20,000 nanotube transistors capable of high-performance electronics printed upon ...


The clear future of electronics

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 09, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (25) | comments 3

A group of scientists at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has fabricated a working computer chip that is almost completely clear -- the first of its kind. The new technology, called transparent resistive ...


Transparent Semiconductors May Be Future of Flat Panel Display Industry

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 11, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (29) | comments 0

Some types of “amorphous oxide” transparent semiconductors originally developed in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University may form the basis for the next generation of flat panel displays, providing better ...


MU engineers develop safer, blast-resistant glass (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

To protect from potential terrorist attacks, federal buildings and other critical infrastructures are made with special windows that contain blast-resistant glass. However, the glass is thick and expensive. Currently, University ...


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. ...


Toward 'invisible electronics' and transparent displays

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Researchers in California are reporting an advance toward the long-sought goal of "invisible electronics" and transparent displays, which can be highly desirable for heads-up displays, wind-shield displays, and electronic ...


Laser surgery does not appear to have long-term effects on corneal cells

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Laser eye surgery to correct vision problems does not appear to be associated with lasting changes to cells lining the inside of the cornea at nine years after the procedure, according to a report in the November issue of ...