Enhanced light harvesting for polymer solar cells via ladder-type polymer donors.
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Flexible Bragg Reflectors for Optical Applications
Spanish group creates materials that combine the intense structural colour achievable with inorganic materials with the mechanical properties of polymers.
A mesoporous persistent luminescence phosphor
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International Year of Light: Black Silicon Photovoltaics
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Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – March 2015
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
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Toward identification and characterization of molecular interactions in living cells: Quantifying molecular colocalization in live cell fluorescence microscopy.
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