News tagged with films
How much longer can photographic film hold on?
(AP) -- At Image City Photography Gallery, Gary Thompson delights in pointing out qualities of light, contrast and clarity in one of his best-selling prints - a winter-sunset view of Yosemite National Park's ...
May 30, 2011 |
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Nanopillars significantly boost the power conversion efficiency of thin-film solar cells
One of the major challenges in the world today is the energy crisis. The high demand and low supply of fossil fuel are driving up oil and food prices. Silicon-based solar cells are one of the most promising ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 30, 2011 |
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Flexible films for photovoltaics
Displays that can be rolled up and flexible solar cells -- both are potential future markets. Barrier layers that protect thin-film solar cells from oxygen and water vapor and thus increase their useful life ...
May 26, 2011 |
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Reusable templates for the production of nanowires
Scientists from Argonne National Laboratory CNM's Nanofabrication and Electronic and Magnetic Materials and Devices groups, working with users from the University of Wisconsin-Stevenson Point, discovered a ...
May 23, 2011 |
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Experiments settle long-standing debate about mysterious array formations in nanofilms
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have conducted experiments confirming which of three possible mechanisms is responsible for the spontaneous formation of three-dimensional ...
May 19, 2011 |
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Nano-tuned solar cells
Solar cells that are more effective and cost less in production: Within the EU-project N2P (Nano to Product) researchers developed nano tuned surfaces to gain both.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 18, 2011 |
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Bollywood marketing goes mobile
Times have changed in Bollywood from the days when all that was required to promote a film was a giant, hand-painted poster, a television or cinema trailer and the pulling power of a star actor.
May 18, 2011 |
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Netflix video 'king' of US Internet traffic: study
Films and television shows streamed online by Netflix amount to nearly 30 percent of the content racing downstream on the US Internet during peak periods, according to a study released Tuesday.
May 17, 2011 |
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Physicists accelerate simulations of thin film growth
A Toledo, Ohio, physicist has implemented a new mathematical approach that accelerates some complex computer calculations used to simulate the formation of micro-thin materials.
May 17, 2011 |
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CU method projected to meet DOE cost targets for solar thermal hydrogen fuel production
A report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy has concluded that a novel University of Colorado Boulder method of producing hydrogen fuel from sunlight is the only approach among eight competing technologies that ...
May 12, 2011 |
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Downloading case to have 23,000 defendants
(PhysOrg.com) -- How many of you remember the film The Expendables? It was an action flick, featuring some of the biggest names in blowing things up, and soon it will be known as the film that has created ...
May 11, 2011 |
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China web giant Tencent buys into film maker
Chinese Internet giant Tencent has bought a 4.6 percent stake in mainland film and TV producer Huayi Brothers Media to look at possible ways to combine film and new media, the firms said Tuesday.
May 10, 2011 |
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'Swiss cheese' design enables thin film silicon solar cells with potential for higher efficiencies
A bold new design for thin film solar cells that requires significantly less silicon – and may boost their efficiency – is the result of an industry/academia collaboration between Oerlikon Solar ...
May 06, 2011 |
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Pentagonal tiles pave the way towards organic electronics
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research paves way for the nanoscale self-assembly of organic building blocks, a promising new route towards the next generation of ultra-small electronic devices.
May 06, 2011 |
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Materials face ultimate test in space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mark Hersam of Northwestern University will be more interested than most Americans when the space shuttle Endeavour lifts off for the last time Friday, April 29. Six little pieces of himself and his research ...
Apr 29, 2011 |
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