Imec realized large-area (70cm2) epitaxial solar cells with efficiencies of up to 16.3% on high-quality substrates. And efficiencies of up to 14.7% were achieved on large-area low-quality substrates, showing the potential of thin-film epitaxial solar cells for industrial manufacturing.
Jul 13th, 2010
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Imec sets major step towards 20nm half pitch interconnects with the realization of electrically functional copper lines embedded into silicon oxide using a spacer-defined double patterning approach.
Jul 13th, 2010
Read moreImec today reports promising results in its Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) mask cleaning program for defect-free EUV masks which are crucial in achieving high chip manufacturing yield.
Jul 13th, 2010
Read moreThe new report 'Can Nanotech Unlock the Fountain of Youth?', finds that the beauty industry has begun to make an aggressive foray into nanotechnology, using tiny molecular compounds to improve the performance of creams, sunscreens, shampoos and other personal-care products.
Jul 13th, 2010
Read moreNew initiative dedicated to enabling reliable, affordable, energy-efficient systems.
Jul 13th, 2010
Read moreHZB researchers observe atomic processes while doping semicon-ductor materials.
Jul 13th, 2010
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Franco Cerrina, 62, chair of the College of Engineering's electrical and computer engineering department, was found dead Monday morning in a laboratory on the fifth floor of the Photonics Center.
Jul 13th, 2010
Read moreA team of scientists led by Eugenia Kumacheva of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto has discovered a way to predict the organization of nanoparticles in larger forms by treating them much the same as ensembles of molecules formed from standard chemical reactions.
Jul 12th, 2010
Read moreNoel Wilck erhielt die Auszeichnung fuer seinen wissenschaftlichen Beitrag zur Steigerung des Wirkungsgrades von Solarzellen.
Jul 12th, 2010
Read moreSwiss and German materials scientists have created simple networks of organic nanowires for future electronic and optoelectronic components. The successful approach synthesises the complex and incredibly thin nanowire structures, and joins them to electrically conducting links (essentially creating an electronic circuit).
Jul 12th, 2010
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An international team measures the charge radius of the hydrogen nucleus and stumbles across some mysteries of physics.
Jul 12th, 2010
Read moreImmer kleiner, schneller und belastbarer - so soll die Zukunft der Elektronik aussehen. Forscher des Max-Planck-Instituts fuer Festkoerperforschung in Stuttgart tragen mit aktuellen Arbeiten dazu bei, dass sich diese Hoffnung erfuellt. Sie haben Wege gefunden, Graphen von elektrischen Ladungen zu befreien.
Jul 12th, 2010
Read moreMiSPiA (Microelectronic Single-Photon 3D Imaging Arrays for low-light high-speed Safety and Security Applications) is a new Collaborative research project funded by the European Commission in its Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007-2013), and was launched in June 2010 under the coordination of the Politecnico di Milano.
Jul 12th, 2010
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Neurobiologists use state-of-the-art methods to decode the basics of motion detection.
Jul 12th, 2010
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MIT researchers pass a milestone on the path to sophisticated fibers that interact with their surroundings in new ways.
Jul 12th, 2010
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Researchers at the University of Warwick and the University of Sheffield have applied computing power to crack a problem in egg shell formation. The work may also give a partial answer to the age old question 'what came first the chicken or the egg'?
Jul 12th, 2010
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