A novel ultra-black broadband absorber concept based on a needle-like silicon nanostructure has been developed by Jena researchers.
Electronics
Solvay acquires Plextronics to improve OLED offerings
Expansion also includes new electronics lab in Seoul, South Korean.
Book review: Handbook of Organic Materials for Optical and (Opto)Electronic Devices
Antonio Facchetti reviews the first edition of the Handbook of Organic Materials for Optical and (Opto)Electronic Devices.
Improving radio reception by converting the waves to light
New approach to radio interference provides all-optical detection of micro- and radiowaves with noise mitigation 1000x better than existing methods.
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.
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