CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. & EWING, N.J., Feb. 9, 2011 — To help it develop white PHOLED (phosphorescent OLED) lighting, the US subsidiary of Moser Baer India Ltd. has signed a deal to license Universal Display Corp.’s PHOLED and other OLED technologies and materials. The agreement follows a program that the two companies announced last year in which they received $4 million from the US Department of Energy to design and build the first white OLED lighting pilot manufacturing facility in the US. Moser Baer Technologies Inc. will license...

BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 27, 2011 — A solar cell that not only responds to virtually the entire solar spectrum, but can also readily be made using one of the semiconductor industry’s most common manufacturing techniques has been demonstrated by a team at Lawrence Berkeley...

BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 20, 2011 — Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have coaxed polymers to braid themselves into wispy nanoscale ropes that approach the structural complexity of biological materials. X-ray...

AMES, Iowa, Jan. 6, 2011 — Advancements in fabrication technologies may lead to superlenses and other designer optical materials, according to an Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory physicist. In an article titled “Improving Metamaterials” published in...

Jan 1, 2011 — General Electric Co.’s product mix runs from jet engines to lightbulbs. Now one is benefiting from the other, after scientists combined jet engine cooling technology with LED bulbs. The researchers, from GE’s Global Research and...

BERKELY, Calif., Dec. 28, 2010 — After years of searching, scientists have discovered Möbius symmetry in metamaterials – materials engineered from artificial "atoms" and "molecules" with electromagnetic properties that arise from their structure rather than their...

BERKELEY, Calif. – There’s a new world record, according to researchers who were able to preserve the spin-polarization of atoms in an alkali vapor for about 60 seconds at room temperature, roughly 100 times the previous best. During that time, atoms within the...

EWING, N.J., & ATLANTA, Nov. 15, 2010 — Universal Display Corp., the company enabling energy-efficient displays and lighting with its UniversalPHOLED technology and materials, and Acuity Brands Inc., an innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions company, announced today...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Nov. 9, 2010 — Sandia National Laboratories announced that four of its researchers have received three-year grants totaling $2.6 million from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science to pursue computational research proposals that would help to create an...

UPTON, N.Y., Nov. 5, 2010 — Scientists at Brookhaven and Los Alamos national laboratories have fabricated transparent thin films capable of absorbing light and generating electric charge over a relatively large area. Described in the journal Chemistry of Materials, the...

Oct 12, 2010 — Fiber optic sensing is one of the fastest developing technologies today, and fiber sensors have seen increased acceptance and widespread use in many commercial applications. These include structural sensing, smart structures and civil engineering;...

Oct 5, 2010 — The US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., has selected general contractor E.W. Howell of Plainview, N.Y., to construct laboratory office buildings for the National Synchrotron Light Source II, an advanced...

RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 30, 2010 — In a discovery inspired by nature, a team of researchers have found that water-gel-based solar devices, or artificial leaves, can act like solar cells to produce electricity. According to the team from North Carolina State University, these solar...

ATLANTA, Sept. 2, 2010 — Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new class of electronic logic devices in which current is switched by an electric field generated by the application of mechanical strain to zinc oxide nanowires. The devices, which...

UPTON, N.Y., July 27, 2010 — By linking individual semiconductor quantum dots with gold nanoparticles, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated the ability to enhance the intensity of light emitted by individual quantum dots by up to 20 times. According to...

BERKELEY, Calif., July 8, 2010 — Researchers have created the first nano-sized light mill motor whose rotational speed and direction can be controlled by tuning the frequency of the incident light waves. STM image shows a gammadion gold light mill nanomotor embedded in a 300...

BERKELEY, Calif., July 7, 2010 — In transformation optics, light waves can be controlled at all lengths of scale through the unique structuring of metamaterials, composites typically made from metals and dielectrics — insulators that become polarized in the presence of an...

EWING, N.J., June 18, 2010 — Universal Display Corp., maker of the UniversalPHOLED technology, announced that it has been awarded a new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I $99,900 program from the US Department of Energy (DoE). During this program, the company...

BEDFORD, Mass., June 14, 2010 — Spire Corp., a solar company that provides capital equipment and turnkey production lines to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Spire Semiconductor LLC received a contract from the Missile...

UPTON, N.Y., June 2, 2010 — Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, have deciphered the structure of a molecular ‘switch’ much like the one plants use to sense...

May 10, 2010 — Researchers anticipate that the world’s energy needs will double by 2050. To help meet these ballooning needs, the US Department of Energy (DoE)’s Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois recently launched an Alternative Energy &...

May 10, 2010 — The need for technologies that can detect explosives with high sensitivity and from far away is as great as ever. A number of groups are working to develop such technologies. At the University of Málaga, researchers have demonstrated a novel...

BERKELEY, Calif. May 7, 2010 — Scientists working at beamline 9.0.1 of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have used x-ray diffraction microscopy to make images of whole yeast cells, achieving the highest...

ATLANTA, Ga., March 29, 2010 — By combining a new generation of piezoelectric nanogenerators with two types of nanowire sensors, researchers have created what are believed to be the first self-powered nanometer-scale sensing devices that draw power from the conversion of...

EVANSTON, Ill., March 26, 2010 — Flexible and stretchable electronics that can map waves of electrical activity in the heart with better resolution and speed than that of conventional cardiac monitoring technology have been demonstrated. Researchers from Northwestern University,...