Thursday, May 19, 2011

Record Efficiency of 18.7 Percent for Flexible Solar Cells on Plastics, Swiss Researchers Report

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The measurements have been independently certified by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg, Germany. It's all a...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Original Versus Copy: Researchers Develop Forgery-Proof Prototypes for Product Authentication

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For this, all the data has to be electronically checked. In the framework of the"Crypta" project supported by the Federal Ministry...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Forecast Calls for Nanoflowers to Help Return Eyesight: Physicist Leads Effort to Design Fractal Devices to Put in Eyes

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These flowers are not roses, tulips or columbines. They will be nanoflowers seeded from nano-sized particles of metals that grow, or self as...
Monday, May 9, 2011

Electronic Life on the Edge: Scientists Discover the Edge States of Graphene Nanoribbons

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A graphene nanoribbon is a strip of graphene that may be only a few nanometers wide (a nanometer is a billionth of a meter). Theorists have ...
Sunday, May 8, 2011

High Temperature Milestone Achieved in Silicon Spintronics

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The electron possesses an internal angular momentum called the spin. The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors has identified ...
Saturday, May 7, 2011

Transistors Reinvented Using New 3-D Structure

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The three-dimensional Tri-Gate transistors represent a fundamental departure from the two-dimensional planar transistor structure that has p...
Friday, May 6, 2011

'Swiss Cheese' Design Enables Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells With Potential for Higher Efficiencies

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One long-term option for low-cost, high-yield industrial production of solar panels from abundant raw materials can be found in amorphous si...