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KAUST Researchers Devise A Cooler Way to Make Solar Cells More Efficient

Bandgap engineering can improve the performance of optoelectronic devices that aim to harness the energy of "hot" electrons, research from KAUST shows.

8 Sep 2021

New Method for Efficient Conversion of Light from One Wavelength to Another

At the Samueli School of Engineering from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), electrical engineers have come up with a highly efficient method of converting light from one wavelength to another.

2 Aug 2021

Optical Chip Revolutionizes Data Rate for Processors and Technologies

As per data obtained from the United Nations’ telecommunications agency, 93% of the world’s population has access to a mobile-broadband network of some type. Since data has turned easily available to consumers, there is also a craving to get more of it with higher speeds.

23 Jul 2021

Neural Network Architecture can Guide Elastic Strain Engineering Efforts for Semiconductors

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from the U.S. and Singapore have created a neural network that can help tweak semiconductor crystals in a controlled fashion to achieve superior properties for electronics.

15 Jul 2021

Researchers Develop New Technique for Semiconductors, Transparent Displays

The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) under the Ministry of Science and ICT developed a roll-based damage-free transfer technique that allows two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials to be transferred into wafer scale without damage.

19 May 2021

New Synthetic Approach Could Help Perovskite Solar Cells Achieve Their Full Potential

A synthetic approach that improves absorber layers in perovskite solar cells could help them achieve their full potential and draw closer to the performance of leading gallium arsenide devices.

5 May 2021

'Twisting' Atomically Thin Semiconductor Materials may Convert Light into Electricity

A pair of physicists at the University of California, Riverside, are aiming to convert light falling on atomically thin semiconductor materials into electricity, having received more than $582,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of the Army.

3 May 2021

HORIBA Launches New Website Resource Centre Dedicated to Supporting Academia

HORIBA UK Limited announces that it has reinforced its provision to Academia by launching a new dedicated resource center on its website.

From HORIBA Scientific UK 22 Mar 2021

Researchers Reveal How Materials Become Harder When Illuminated by Light

Semiconductor materials play an indispensable role in our modern information-oriented society. For reliable performance of semiconductor devices, these materials need to have superior mechanical properties: they must be strong as well as resistant to fracture, despite being rich in nanoscale structures.

8 Mar 2021

VLC Photonics Receives New Wafer-Level Test System from ficonTEC

In order to support the growth of the Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) market and be able to timely serve the scaling of its customers when moving to engineer and pilot production stages, VLC Photonics S.L. is now one of a growing list of established PIC eco-system innovators to receive one of ficonTEC‘s new Wafer-level Test (WLT) systems.

From ficonTEC Service GmbH 5 Mar 2021