News tagged with monocrystalline silicon

Sleek new MIT solar car heads to the races

MIT's Solar Electric Vehicle Team, the oldest such student team in the country, has just finished construction of its latest high-tech car and will be unveiling it to the public this Friday from 3 to 5 p.m. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1




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Research sparks record-breaking solar cell performances

(PhysOrg.com) -- Theoretical research by scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has led to record-breaking sunlight-to-electricity conversion ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (30) | comments 35 | with audio podcast

Organic chips - not just in your kitchen anymore

(PhysOrg.com) -- IMEC researchers at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, in San Francisco, California are expected to introduce a microprocessor made with organic semiconductors.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast weblog

High, not flat: nanowires for a new chip architecture

Nowadays, a myriad of silicon transistors are responsible to pass on the information on a microchip. The transistors are arranged in a planar array, i.e. lying flat next to each other, and have shrunk down ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

No-sweat pressure sensors

Microelectronic chips used to take pressure readings are very delicate. A new technology has been developed that makes pressure sensors more robust, enabling them to continue operating normally at temperatures ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

It Takes a Solar Village

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rain didn't ruin the 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. University teams successfully operated 20 net-zero, grid-connected solar power homes for a week on the National Mall. Some used ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

Unzipping Carbon Nanotubes Can Make Graphene Ribbons

(PhysOrg.com) -- By "unzipping" carbon nanotubes, researchers have shown how to make flat graphene ribbons. Graphene, which is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon that looks like chicken wire, has unique electrical ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 3 weblog

Easing concerns about pollution from manufacture of solar cells

In a finding that could help ease concerns about the potential environmental impact of manufacturing solar cells, scientists report that the manufacture of solar cells produces far fewer air pollutants than conventional fossil ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 25, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Sliver solar technology does it again

Solar technology developed at The Australian National University has won its second environmental award in less than a month. SLIVER solar cells, invented at the Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems at ANU ...

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created Jun 30, 2005 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0


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