Researchers in Japan have created indium phosphide (InP) nanowire (NW) solar cell structures with internal quantum efficiencies (IQEs) that beat the performance of bulk InP-based devices in the short-wavelength range of 300-570nm [Masatoshi ...
Tags: INP Nanowire solar cells, InP SA-MOVPE p-type, InP substrates
Sometimes when I think of the human brain,the theme from"Star Trek"starts playing in my own head.It's the music of great unknowns—and in certain ways the human brain,with more connections between its cells than there are galaxies in ...
Tags: human brain, Brain Research
3M has announced a joint venture with Cambrios Technologies, a nanotechnology company, to produce a new line of touch sensitive screens based on silver nanowire ink developed by Cambrios. The announcement marks a move by 3M into nanowire ...
Tags: 3M, Cambrios Technologies, touch sensitive screens, silver nanowire ink
International conglomerate The 3M Company and nanotech startup Cambrios Technologies jointly announced this week that 3M would be marketing a suite of products that will be based on conductors made from Cambrios silver nanowire ink. The ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Display
The patent-pending LED creates a more precise wavelength of UV light than today's commercially available UV LEDs, and runs at much lower voltages and is more compact than other experimental methods for creating precise wavelength UV light. ...
Tags: Ultraviolet LED
UK-based etch, deposition and growth system maker Oxford Instruments is co-hosting a seminar entitled ‘Nanoscale Plasma Processing’ with Cornell University (20 – 21 August). The event will feature talks by invited guest ...
Tags: OIPT Etch, Electrical, Electronics, Nanoscale Plasma Processing
According to reports, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a sensor device capturing signatures with tiny piezo-phototronic LEDs, that's to say, the device converts mechanical pressure from a signature or a ...
Tags: Sensor Device, Tiny LEDs
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology want to put your signature up in lights – tiny lights, that is. Using thousands of nanometer-scale wires, the researchers have developed a sensor device that converts mechanical ...
Tags: Piezo-Phototronic Effect
LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany, which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications, and Sweden's Nanometer Structure Consortium at Lund University have jointly ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that in second-quarter 2013 it delivered a Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) reactor (ordered in fourth-quarter 2012) to the ...
Sol Voltaics AB of Ideon Science Park, Lund, Sweden says that the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA), the national authority for energy policy issues, has provided a $6m conditional loan (one of the largest it has ever issued to a company) to ...
Tags: Nanowire GaAs PV, Electrical, Electronics
A previously misunderstood magnetic phenomenon has been apparently explained by a paper published on Sunday in Nature Materials and the explanation could lead to wholesale transformation in magnetic storage. Essentially, according to MIT ...
Former OSRAM General Manager and CTO Has Played Key Role In Industry's Evolution, Will Aid Aledia's Move Towards Industrialization Aledia, a pioneering developer of WireLED®, a new microwire-based 3D LED technology that dramatically ...
This breakthrough development is the result of a collaboration by Cambrios and Novaled to demonstrate the functionality of a high performance large area OLED tile enabled by Cambrios’ silver nanowire material. Commercially ...
Tags: OLED Lighting, OLED, Lighting
Dual-colour lasers could pave way for more energy efficient LED lighting Researchers in the US have come up with a new semiconductor device that is capable of emitting two distinct colours and could potentially open up the possibility of ...
Tags: LED, LED lighting