News tagged with metal substrate

AGC creates 15% lighter glass for mobile devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Asahi Glass Co. (AGC), a Tokyo-based makers of flat glass, automotive glass, display glass, chemicals and other high-tech materials and components, has announced the creation of a the world's ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

Interaction of free falling copper droplets with heated substrates

Controlling the physical properties of the surfaces of materials, such as metals, is critical for industrial applications ranging non-stick frying pans to the fuselage of aircraft.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Electron gas on insulator's surface opens way to multifunctional transistors

French researchers have succeeded in creating a conductive layer on the surface of strontium titanate (SrTiO3), a transparent insulating material considered to be very promising for the development of future microelectronics applicatio ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Carbon nanotubes as transistor material

Swiss researchers have built a transistor whose crucial element is a carbon nano-tube, suspended between two contacts, with outstanding electronic properties. A novel fabrication approach allowed the scientists ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Shining Light on Graphene-Metal Interactions

(PhysOrg.com) -- By controlling the layered growth of graphene - a relatively "new" form of carbon that's just a single atom thick - researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered intriguing ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 02, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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