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A fast, versatile and high-resolution technique that combines the best of optical and scanning electron microscopy could provide surface and subsurface viewing of features as small as 10 nm in size. MORE >>
Multijunction solar cells with conversion efficiencies approaching 50 percent could become cost-effective via a collaboration between the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and equipment supplier EV Group of St. Florian, Austria. MORE >>

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A printing technique that focuses on the physics of the process rather than the chemical makeup of the semiconductor provides a tenfold improvement in organic electronics. The...
The market for photonics in North America and the rest of the world, as well as projections for the rest of 2013 and 2014, will be the subject of a keynote address by the Opti...
The Santa Barbara, Calif.-based company Solar3D Inc. has filed a patent application in China to protect the design and fabrication of its next-generation 3-D solar cells. The ...
Just as the leaves on trees capture sunlight and convert it to energy, so do solar cells – and now recyclable, sustainable and renewable photovoltaics can be made using ...
Just as the leaves on a tree capture sunlight and convert it to energy, so do solar cells – and now recyclable, sustainable and renewable photovoltaics can be made using...
In the wake of announcing “disappointing” results for 2012, including an 18 percent revenue slide from 2011, ProPhotonix Ltd. chairman and CEO Mark W. Blodgett sai...
Solar cells based on block copolymers, self-assembling organic materials that arrange themselves in distinct layers, could pave the way for a new class of solar energy devices...
A hybrid transparent electrode that overcomes the “electron-transport bottleneck” of thin films could pave the way for flexible solar cells and color monitors, head-up display...
The National Photonics Initiative — an alliance seeking to unite experts from industry, academia and the government to advance photonics R&D, to grow the US economy, and to im...
The solar photovoltaic (PV) market is on the path to recovery, expecting to reach $155 billion in 2018, according to market analyst firm Lux Research.
When it comes to creating nanostructured composite materials with specific optical and electrical properties, size matters.
Quantum Materials Corp. is moving its tetrapod quantum dot laboratories to San Marcos to take advantage of facilities at STAR (Science Technology and Academic Research) Park.
A procedure that reliably produces perfect quantum dots, each doped with exactly four copper ions, has opened up possibilities for fine-tuning the nanocrystals’ optical proper...
Most people use microwaves to reheat leftovers, and some even experiment with marshmallows, inflating them like a balloon; but what if you could use the same home oven to make...
CSEM SA, the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology, has joined a €11.2 million (about $14.7 million) project to help commercialize flexible OLEDs. The project ...



White Knight Fluid Handling Inc.’s new air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps, models PSD08 and PSD16, are dead-head capable and achieve up to 63-liters-per-minute (...
InnoLas Laser GmbH has expanded its Nanio line of UV lasers with the Nanio 355-6-V-80, a 355-nm laser delivering 6 W of power for micromachining applications including glass c...
Philips Lumileds’ Luxeon 3535 2D mid-power source combines two LED chips in a package and achieves an efficacy of up to 140 lm/W. It is suitable for retrofitting consume...
Oriel Instruments, a Newport Corp. brand, has introduced the LCS-100 series solar simulators for photovoltaic cell research requiring a certified system for small illumination...
Armstrong Optical Ltd. has introduced PV-LIT, a fully automatic optronic IR test system manufactured by InfraTec GmbH in Germany for use in solar cell and solar module testing...
Bruker Corp. has released the ContourGT-K, the latest addition to its ContourGT line of 3-D optical microscopes The scalable device features patented, higher-brightness dual-L...
Driven by the Sony ICX674 and ICX694 chips, the Kingfisher V from Raptor Photonics Ltd. is a deep-cooled vacuum interline scientific CCD camera. The digital monochrome camera ...
Sensors for monitoring environmental toxins and detecting explosives, powerful new lasers for manufacturing, and tools for non-invasive imaging deep inside the brain are among...

The Perfect Solution for Photoluminescence Studies of Lanthanide-Doped Semiconducting Nanocrystals
Photoluminescence (PL) studies of lanthanide-doped semiconducting nanocrystals have become very common in materials science. The increased research...
The Measurement of High Optical Densities (up to 8 Abs) in the Near-Infrared
The optical densities of various materials used in the manufacture of laser safety eyewear have been determined in the NIR. The lens materials were...
Hollow Silica Waveguides for Mid-Infrared Power Transmission and Spectroscopy
Applications in the Mid-Infrared often require a flexible conduit for transmitting light from source to destination. Hollow Silica Waveguides with...
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