When water freezes or boils, its atomic structure undergoes a phase transition in response to temperature change. Phase transitions are common in nature, and have been exploited to make devices such as digital memories. Complex ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 6, 2010
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Like most technologies, work on solar devices has proceeded in generational waves. First came bulk silicon-based solar cells built with techniques that borrowed heavily from those used to make computer chips. Next came work ...
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 31, 2010
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Fogged or frozen windows are the bane of drivers' lives in winter. German researchers have developed a process that allows them to manufacture not just transparent, but heatable films. These films also prevent condensation, ...
Materials Science
Aug 31, 2010
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When you tear open a bag of potato chips or pop in a DVD, you're probably putting your hand on sputter deposition. No, don't run for the soap.
Nanophysics
Aug 25, 2010
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It's the Clark Kent of oxide compounds, and - on its own - it is pretty boring. But slice europium titanate nanometers thin and physically stretch it, and then it takes on super hero-like properties that could revolutionize ...
Condensed Matter
Aug 18, 2010
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An international team of scientists and industrialists is to meet at the University of Leicester to develop of a revolutionary new technique for harnessing green energy.
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 10, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At first, nanoshocks may seem like something to describe the millions of aftershocks of a large earthquake.
General Physics
Jul 6, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A surprising MIT laboratory finding about the behavior of a thin sheet of material -- less than a thousandth of the thickness of a human hair -- could lead to improved ways of studying the behavior of electrodes ...
Materials Science
Jun 24, 2010
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Organic semiconductors are very promising candidates as starting materials for the manufacture of cheap, large area and flexible electronic components such as transistors, diodes and sensors on a scale ranging from micro ...
Nanophysics
Jun 23, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and the Brookhaven National Laboratory has fabricated thin films patterned with large arrays of nanowires and loops that are superconducting -- able ...
Superconductivity
Jun 14, 2010
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