Ultrathin light-emitting diodes create new classes of lighting and display...
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new process for creating ultrathin, ultrasmall inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and assembling them into large arrays offers new classes of lighting and display systems with...
View ArticleNew inorganic semiconductor layers hold promise for solar energy
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has demonstrated a method that could produce cheaper...
View ArticleRoll-to-roll process prints thousands of cheap, flexible memory elements
(Phys.org) -- In an attempt to lower the cost of making flexible write-once-read-many (WORM) memory devices, a team of researchers from Finland has developed a fabrication process that can mass-print...
View ArticleProduction process doubles speed and efficiency of flexible electronics
Stretched-out clothing might not be a great practice for laundry day, but in the case of microprocessor manufacture, stretching out the atomic structure of the silicon in the critical components of a...
View Article3Qs: The 3-D printing of tomorrow
Ahmed Busnaina, the William Lincoln Smith Professor and director of the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing at Northeastern, has developed a method called...
View ArticleNew solar-cell design based on dots and wires
Using exotic particles called quantum dots as the basis for a photovoltaic cell is not a new idea, but attempts to make such devices have not yet achieved sufficiently high efficiency in converting...
View ArticleImec unveils fully organic imager for X-ray applications
At this week's International Image Sensor Workshop (IISW 2013, Snowbird, Utah, June 12-16 2013), imec and Holst Centre presented a large-area fully-organic photodetector array fabricated on a flexible...
View ArticleWearable Electronics: Highly conductive textiles and paper with aluminum
(Phys.org) —Jackets with built-in mobile phones, sports clothes that warn you when your heart rate gets too high, wallpaper with glowing patterns—these are not concepts from a science fiction movie,...
View ArticleTailored flexible illusion coatings hide objects from detection
Developing the cloak of invisibility would be wonderful, but sometimes simply making an object appear to be something else will do the trick, according to Penn State electrical engineers.
View ArticleInorganic nanowire follows the crystal structure of its graphene template
(Phys.org)—Graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon, has many properties making it uniquely suited for nanodevices. For one, even though it is comprised of a network of carbon atoms, it displays...
View ArticleResearch group creates bendable electronics that hold up under abuse
(Phys.org) -- A team made up of researchers from the Korean Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul University and Rice University in the United States have created a flexible test substrate...
View ArticleSamsung readies first batch of super-thin bendable AMOLED displays
(Phys.org) -- Samsung is set to begin manufacturing its "Youm" displays which have been generating pre-launch excitement as ultra-thin AMOLED panels that will be bendable, stretchable, rollable and...
View ArticleNew flexible electronics technology may lead to new medical uses
A Wayne State University researcher has developed technology that opens new possibilities for health care and medical applications of electronic devices.
View ArticleOrganic solar cells with high electric potential for portable electronics
(Phys.org)—A new breakthrough in solar technology means portable electronic devices such as e-book readers could soon be re-charged on the move in low light levels and partial shading. Scientists from...
View ArticleDecal-like application process allows thin, flexible solar panels to be...
For all their promise, solar cells have frustrated scientists in one crucial regard – most are rigid. They must be deployed in stiff, often heavy, fixed panels, limiting their applications. So...
View ArticleFlexible organic photovoltaic cells with in-situ non-thermal photoreduction...
Researchers from Greece have demonstrated a groundbreaking methodology for controlled in-situ reduction of spin-casted graphene oxide (GO) nanometric films on flexible substrates and the subsequent...
View ArticleGraphene-based transistor seen as candidate for post-CMOS technology
(Phys.org)—A new graphene-based transistor in which electrons travel both over a barrier and under it (by tunneling) has exhibited one of the highest performances of graphene-based transistors to date....
View ArticleInkjet-printed graphene electrodes may lead to low-cost, large-area, possibly...
(Phys.org) —Using an ink containing tiny graphene flakes, scientists have inkjet-printed graphene patterns that can be used for printing finely detailed, highly conductive electrodes. Although...
View ArticleResearchers develop 'smart' paper and antennaless RFID tags
Research teams at North Dakota State University, Fargo, have developed a method to embed radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in paper, which could help combat document counterfeiting, and have...
View ArticleTeam develops in vivo flexible large scale integrated circuits (w/ Video)
A team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST has developed in vivo silicon-based flexible large scale integrated circuits (LSI) for bio-medical...
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