News tagged with thin wafers
Controlling silicon evaporation allows scientists to boost graphene quality
Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have for the first time provided details of their "confinement controlled sublimation" technique for growing high-quality layers of epitaxial graphene on ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 22, 2011 |
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Solar cells thinner than wavelengths of light hold huge power potential
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ultra-thin solar cells can absorb sunlight more efficiently than the thicker, more expensive-to-make silicon cells used today, because light behaves differently at scales around a nanometer, ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Water droplets direct self-assembly process in thin-film materials
You can think of it as origami - very high-tech origami. Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a technique for fabricating three-dimensional, single-crystalline silicon structures from thin films by coupling ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Safer nanoparticles spotlight tumors, deliver drugs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Small is promising when it comes to illuminating tiny tumors or precisely delivering drugs, but many worry about the safety of nano-scale materials. Now a team of scientists has created miniscule ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 22, 2009 |
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Insights into polymer film instability could aid high tech industries
While exploring the properties of polymer formation, a team of scientists at the National Institute for Standards and Technology has made a fundamental discovery* about these materials that could improve methods ...
Jan 13, 2009 |
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