News tagged with transparency
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 ...
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Molecular light sources sensitive to environment
A Dutch-French team of scientists led by FOM (Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter) researcher Dr Danang Birowosuto and University of Twente researcher Dr Allard Mosk has obtained the first experimental ...
Jul 30, 2010 |
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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 ...
Apr 15, 2011 |
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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
Mar 10, 2010 |
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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
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Metal Becomes Transparent Under High Pressure
An international team of scientists have discovered a transparent form of the element sodium (Na). The team, led by Artem Oganov, Professor of Theoretical Crystallography at Stony Brook University, and Yanming ...
Mar 12, 2009 |
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A see-through surprise: Scientists make solid material transparent to terahertz waves
Very often in science, the unexpected discovery turns out to be the most significant. Rice University Professor Junichiro Kono and his team weren't looking for a breakthrough in the transmission of terahertz signals, but ...
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Perfectly non-reflecting
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new nanocoating ensures a perfectly non-reflecting view on displays and through eyeglasses. The necessary surface structure is applied to the polymeric parts during manufacture, obviating ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 04, 2010 |
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Transparent solar cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- If solar cells were transparent they could be fitted to windows and building facades. Physical modeling helps in the development of suitable materials for transparent electronics and thus ...
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Bird-friendly glass looks like spider web to birds
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new bird-friendly glass has been developed that could prevent the deaths and serious injuries of countless birds that fly at high speed into glass windows.
Aug 26, 2010 |
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LG Unveils Transparent Mobile Phone: LG-GD900
LG Electronics today unveiled the world's first transparent design phone, the LG-GD900, at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona, Spain.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 18, 2009 |
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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 ...
Feb 01, 2011 |
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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 ...
Jun 01, 2010 |
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New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays
Johns Hopkins materials scientists have found a new use for a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, a substance that allows electricity to flow through it. By orienting ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Transparent electronics from graphene-based electrodes (w/ Video)
Flexible, transparent electronics are closer to reality with the creation of graphene-based electrodes at Rice University.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 01, 2011 |
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