(Phys.org) —The next breakthrough in highly efficient battery technologies and solar cells may very well be nanoscopic crystals of silicon assembled like skyscrapers on wafer-scale substrates. An important route for growth ...
Nanophysics
Jun 14, 2013
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Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, and University of Illinois developed the large-scale heteroepitaxial growth III-V nanowires on a Si wafer.
Nanophysics
Jun 10, 2013
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(Phys.org) —The potential energy available via solar power might seem limitless on a sunny summer day, but all that energy has to be stored for it to be truly useful. If you see a solar panel on a rooftop, in a large-scale ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 7, 2013
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A hybrid transparent and stretchable electrode could open the new way for flexible displays, solar cells, and even electronic devices fitted on a curvature substrate such as soft eye contact lenses, by the UNIST(Ulsan National ...
Nanomaterials
May 30, 2013
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Researchers at MIT have developed a new way of controlling the motion of magnetic domains—the key technology in magnetic memory systems, such as a computer's hard disk. The new approach requires little power to write and ...
Nanophysics
May 30, 2013
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Researchers in Japan and US have developed a new technique for efficiently creating functionalized nanowires for the first time ever.
Nanophysics
May 27, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Researchers have created a new type of transparent electrode that might find uses in solar cells, flexible displays for computers and consumer electronics and future "optoelectronic" circuits for sensors and ...
Nanomaterials
May 22, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A team led by Berkeley Lab Materials Sciences Division's Jeffrey Urban and Rachel Segalman have discovered highly conductive polymer behavior occurring at a polymer/nanocrystal interface. The composite organic/inorganic ...
Nanomaterials
May 7, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Two French researchers, Guilhem Larrieu and Xiang‑Lei Han, may have succeeded in possibly setting back the date to which Moore's Law would no longer apply by creating a new kind of nanowire Field-Effect Transistor ...
Using bundles of vertical zinc oxide nanowires, researchers have fabricated arrays of piezotronic transistors capable of converting mechanical motion directly into electronic controlling signals. The arrays could help give ...
Nanophysics
Apr 25, 2013
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