News tagged with transparency

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

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

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 ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 6

New method could lead to narrower chip patterns

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT have found a novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just by exposing it to certain ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 5