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New Insight into Electrolyte Additives Could Enhance Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Dye-sensitised solar cells used in low-light conditions could perform more consistently thanks to improved understanding of the role additives play in optimising electrolytes.

4 Sep 2020

Adding Background Noise to Make Better Photodetectors

Adding noise to enhance a weak signal is a sensing phenomenon common in the animal world but unusual in manmade sensors.

4 Sep 2020

Scientists Find New Way for Tuning the Luminescence of Light-Emitting Transparent Material

Scientists are looking at luminescent transparent films for use in energy-efficient displays and other applications, and the possibilities it opens up for advancing methodologies in several fields of biological and electronics research.

3 Sep 2020

$Altering Refraction in 2D Material Using Ambient Light Could Lead to Novel Applications$

Altering Refraction in 2D Material Using Ambient Light Could Lead to Novel Applications

Microscopic crystals contained in tantalum disulfide play a crucial role in what could turn into a huge success for virtual reality, three-dimensional (3D) displays, and even self-driving vehicles.

3 Sep 2020

New Webinar on “Getting Precise”

Current restrictions have seen a significant increase in the usage of digital communication formats.

From Optris GmbH 3 Sep 2020

New Device can Electronically Replicate the Way Human Skin Senses Pain

Researchers have developed electronic artificial skin that reacts to pain just like real skin, opening the way to better prosthetics, smarter robotics and non-invasive alternatives to skin grafts.

2 Sep 2020

Optically Transparent Glass Material Enables Efficient Sound Transmission Without Airflow

Glass windows typically offer some amount of soundproofing, sometimes unintentionally. In general, ventilation is required to achieve large sound transmission.

2 Sep 2020

New Way to Determine Cathode Emittance of Electron Beams for Wakefield Acceleration

The generation of a bright electron beam with unique properties is one of the most crucial challenges faced in an extensive range of high-powered scientific instruments, such as electron microscopes, free-electron lasers, and wakefield accelerators.

2 Sep 2020

World-Leading Pharmaceutical Developer Turns to TorqSense

TorqSense transducers are used to ensure caps are being properly fitted to pharmaceutical bottles in a high speed packaging line run by the Almac Group at its global headquarters in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, UK.

From Sensor Technology, Ltd. 2 Sep 2020

Researchers Demonstrate Photoluminescence Imaging with Sub-Nanometer Resolution

Prof. DONG Zhenchao and Prof. HOU Jianguo from University of Science and Technology of China of Chinese Academy of Sciences improved the spatial resolution from 8 nm to ~8 Å of photoluminescence imaging.

31 Aug 2020

Researchers Develop Optimized Tunable Two-Channel Vortex Beam Generator

Optical vortices are defined by a helical phase front and doughnut-shaped intensity distribution.

31 Aug 2020

Images from High-Speed Camera Help Predict the Behavior of Jet Breakups

A special kind of helium that is capable of flowing without being impacted by friction has now allowed a team of researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology to gain a deeper insight into the conversion of quickly moving liquids into small droplets.

31 Aug 2020