News tagged with carbon films

Carbon nanotube transistors could lead to inexpensive, flexible electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, researchers have been developing carbon nanotube-based thin-film transistors (TFTs) in the hopes of creating high-performance, flexible, transparent devices, such as e-paper and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (28) | comments 6 | with audio podcast feature

New organic material may speed Internet access

The next time an overnight snow begins to fall, take two bricks and place them side by side a few inches apart in your yard.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 5

Flexible, transparent supercapacitors -- bend and twist them like a poker card

It is a completely transparent and flexible energy conversion and storage device that you can bend and twist like a poker card.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 10

Scientists create large-area graphene on copper: Faster computers, electronics possible

The creation of large-area graphene using copper may enable the manufacture of new graphene-based devices that meet the scaling requirements of the semiconductor industry, leading to faster computers and electronics, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1

In new mass-production technique, robotic insects spring to life

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Scientists Study How to Stack the Deck for Organic Solar Power

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new class of economically viable solar power cells--cheap, flexible and easy to make--has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work at the National Institute of Standards ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 6

Infrared Nanotube Films Offer Advantages for Solar Cells and More

(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 ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 feature

Will carbon nanotubes replace indium tin oxide?

(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 ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2 feature

Stretchable Nanotube Films May Advance Medical Electronics (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the issues hindering the development of medical electronic devices capable of being implanted in the human body is the lack of suitable materials. Most semiconducting materials are ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (10) | comments 1 feature

With support, graphene still a superior thermal conductor

The single-atom thick material graphene maintains its high thermal conductivity when supported by a substrate, a critical step to advancing the material from a laboratory phenomenon to a useful component in ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 08, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Toward 'invisible electronics' and transparent displays

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 ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Graphene offers protection from intense laser pulses

Researchers from Singapore and the UK have jointly announced a new benchmark in broadband, non-linear optical-limiting behavior using single-sheet graphene dispersions in a variety of heavy-atom solvents and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Researchers demonstrate fully printed carbon nanotube transistor circuits for displays

Since the invention of liquid crystal displays in the mid-1960s, display electronics have undergone rapid transformation. Recently developed organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have shown several advantages over LCDs, including ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers print field-effect transistors with nano-infused ink

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rice University researchers have discovered thin films of nanotubes created with ink-jet printers offer a new way to make field-effect transistors (FET), the basic element in integrated circuits.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 25, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers uncover recipe for controlling carbon nanotubes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon nanotubes hold promise for delivering medicine directly to a tumor; acting as sensors so keen they detect the arrival or departure of a single electron; replacing costly platinum in ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1