New approach to radio interference provides all-optical detection of micro- and radiowaves with noise mitigation 1000x better than existing methods.
Electronics
Deuterium changes the electronic properties of organic solar cells
Multidisciplinary ORNL team discovers unexpected effect of heavy hydrogen in organic solar cells.
Cu(In,Ga)Se2 outperforms multicrystalline silicon
Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) thin-film solar cells have now reached a high efficiency level with a new record efficiency of 20.8 %.
Useful Uncertainty Causes Ultrafast Charge Transfer in Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells
In a Review Article in the Advanced Materials 25th anniversary series, Nobel Laureate Alan J. Heeger discusses BHJ solar cell operation and how efficiencies can top 20%.
New candidate for interfacial phase-change materials
Researchers combine computational and experimental methods to study novel (SiTe)2(Sb2Te3)n superlattice structures.
Easy and cheap fabrication gives brilliant OFET performance
Researchers use C12-BTBT and a simple, cheap and easily up-scalable method to provide outstanding OFET performance.
Fabricating integrated circuits from functionalised oxides
A collaboration between researchers in the US and Germany produces monolithically integrated logic circuits in NMOS-technology.
A week in the materials industry: February 11th 2014
A roundup of news from the past week in the materials science industry.
Europewide challenge to Moore's law begins
New pan-european research projects aims to extend Moore’s law by reducing costs and improve the energy efficiency of electronic devices.
Vanadium dioxide holds the key to spintronic smart sensors
Researchs integrate vanadium oxide onto a silicon chip, paving the way for multifunctional spintronic smart sensors and next-generation spintronic devices.
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