News tagged with light absorption
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Solar Cell Researcher Explores Nanotech Ideas
(PhysOrg.com) -- A UT Dallas researcher envisions a time soon when plastic sheets of solar cells are inexpensively stamped out in factories and then affixed to cell phones, laptops and other power-hungry mobile ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 05, 2009 |
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New X-ray technique illuminates reactivity of environmental contaminants
Thanks to a new analytical method employed by researchers at the University of Delaware, scientists can now pinpoint, at the millisecond level, what happens as harmful environmental contaminants such as arsenic ...
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Light-absorbing nanowires may make better solar panels
(PhysOrg.com) -- A century after German physicist Gustav Mie derived the math to explain why the colors in some stained glass windows look especially resplendent in the sunlight, a team of Stanford engineers ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Self-cleaning, low-reflectivity treatment boosts efficiency for photovoltaic cells
Using two different types of chemical etching to create features at both the micron and nanometer size scales, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a surface treatment that boosts ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 24, 2009 |
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