What do toffee, volcanic lava; enameled baths and Perspex have in common? They are all examples of what has been called the fourth state of matter-they are GLASSES, just as much as a bottle or windowpane. A glass is a material with the ...
Organic electronics has already hit the market in smartphone displays and holds great promise for future applications like flexible electroluminescent foils (a potential replacement for conventional light bulbs) or solar cells that convert ...
Researchers at the University of Oxford have found a way to make wafer-sized graphene with good electrical characteristics. Grown on copper using chemical vapour deposition (CVD), the material is not mono-crystalline, but crystal ...
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US scientists have created a bright efficient area light source to compete with fluorescent tubes and OLEDs, it is claimed. Developed at Wake Forest University of North Carolina, the field-induced polymer electroluminescent (FIPEL) is a ...
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US scientists have created a bright efficient area light source to compete with fluorescent tubes and OLEDs, it is claimed. Developed at Wake Forest University of North Carolina, the field-induced polymer electroluminescent (FIPEL) is a ...
Tags: fluorescent tubes, OLED, light source
Professor Yue Kuo, from the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University , has fabricated a new type of LED, capable of producing a wide spectrum light while operating for long periods of time at atmospheric ...
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Microstructures of alternative TCE materials: e, Scanning electron microscopy image of a Cu grid with a line width of 200 nm (ref. 41). f, Scanning electron microscopy image of an Ag nanowire network (mass density 93 mg m−2)77. g, ...
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The fundamental idea is that, all crystals are glasses but all glasses are not crystals. We use crystal wares and glass wares in our houses, mostly for decorative purposes. Different types of spectacle glasses are widely used in our ...
Professor Yue Kuo of the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University has fabricated a new type of LED, capable of producing a wide spectrum light while operating for long periods of time at atmospheric ...
Tags: LED, LED industry, Fluorescent lights
Seoul National University and Korea Electronics Technology Institute have been developing hafnium dioxide (HfO2) as a gate insulator for aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) metal-oxide-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors ...
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A device which allows an optical detector to pick up on the rotation of a twisted light wave, called an optical vortex or vortex beam, has been developed by researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). ...
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Australian scientists have produced a new two-dimensional material they believe could revolutionise the electronics market with thinner, faster and lighter gadgets. Silicon chips have reached their limit in terms of speed and ability to ...
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Why have satellite makers and astronomers beaten a path across Essex? To get to the best image sensors in the world, probably. E2V not only made the CheMin and ChemCam image sensors within NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, it is also the ...
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Dye-sensitized photoelectric film manufactured by UK company G24 Innovations eliminates need for batteries or chargers. New light-powered wireless keyboards for Apple tablets from the consumer electronics giant Logitech represent ...
Tags: Graetzel, G24, solar keyboard, iPad, Logitech
IDG News Service - An American and a Frenchman have won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on quantum optics, which could one day lead to faster computer processors, better telecommunications or more accurate timepieces. ...
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