News tagged with transparency

Transparent phone display has front-and-back touch

(Phys.org) -- Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo and Fujitsu attracted attention at this week’s 2012 Wireless Japan expo, with their transparent, dual-sided smartphone touchscreen. This is a see through ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Stretchable graphene transistors overcome limitations of other materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to fabricating stretchable, transparent electronics, finding a material to make transistors from has been a significant challenge for researchers. They've explored a variety ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

Engineers develop novel system for producing conductive films

(Phys.org) -- Yale engineers have developed a novel automated system for generating strong, flexible, transparent coatings with promising uses in lithium-ion battery and fuel cell production, among other applications.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Transparent aluminium is 'new state of matter'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. 'Transparent aluminium' previously only existed in science ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (107) | comments 48

Researchers build transparent, super-stretchy skin-like sensor (w/ video)

Imagine having skin so supple you could stretch it out to more than twice its normal length in any direction - repeatedly - yet it would always snap back completely wrinkle-free when you let go of it. You ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Scientists get first detailed look at nitrogen doping in single-layer graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- The strength, flexibility, transparency and high electrical conductivity of single-layer graphene make it a potentially unique and valuable material for the next generation of electronic devices. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Turning windows into powerplants

If a new development from labs at MIT pans out as expected, someday the entire surface area of a building’s windows could be used to generate electricity — without interfering with the ability to ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Japanese researchers turn a crab shell transparent

A group of researchers working out of Kyoto University in Japan have successfully transformed a normal crab into one that is transparent. As they describe in their paper published in the British Royal Society ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Physicists scale up invisibility cloaks using natural crystals

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from the University of Birmingham, with colleagues at Imperial College, London, and Technical University of Denmark, have demonstrated an 'invisibility cloak' that can hide a three-dimensional ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Flexible and transparent OLEDs from TDK (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flexible and translucent organic displays have been developed by TDK for use in “bendable” mobile phones and other gadgets, and the bendable display is expected to go into mass production ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

Nanometer Graphene Makes Novel OLEDs Display

Researchers at Stanford University have successfully developed brand new concept of organic lighting-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with a few nanometer of graphene as transparent conductor. This paved the way for ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

BASF, Philips develop OLED lighting for use as transparent car roof

(PhysOrg.com) -- BASF and Philips have achieved a practical breakthrough in the development of OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology that allows it to be integrated in car roofs. The OLEDs are transparent ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Copper Nanowires Enable Bendable Displays, Solar Cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Duke University chemists has perfected a simple way to make tiny copper nanowires in quantity. The cheap conductors are small enough to be transparent, making them ideal for thin-film ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Researchers uncover transparency limits on transparent conducting oxides

Researchers in the Computational Materials Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have uncovered the fundamental limits on optical transparency in the class of materials known as transparent ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research explores applications for new field of electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- By looking at the way electrons are excited, researchers can gain a better understanding of the new field of transparent electronics.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast