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

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (46) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

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

created Feb 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

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

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

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 ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0