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New Strategies for Recycling Solar Photovoltaic Modules

Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have conducted the first global assessment into the most promising approaches to end-of-life management for solar photovoltaic modules.

15 Jul 2020

Five-Year Research Grant can Transform Landscape of Micro-CT Imaging

With a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Mini Das, associate professor of physics at the University of Houston, will help usher in the next generation of micro computed tomography imaging.

15 Jul 2020

T-Ray-Controlling Device Shows Promise for Advanced Wireless Communications

Terahertz radiation, or T-rays, has barely been exploited compared to most of the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum.

15 Jul 2020

New Transport Mechanism for Electron Optics in 2D Solid-State Systems

Electrons can interfere in the same manner as water, acoustical or light waves do.

15 Jul 2020

How Lasers can be Employed to Tackle the Global Water Crisis

In many developing countries there is a growing shortage of clean, drinkable water. Could the solution to this crisis be solved by the energy delivered by the Sun, and laser crafted solar energy-absorbing surfaces?

By Robert Lea 14 Jul 2020

New Podcast Series Features Conversations with Scientific Imaging Experts

Teledyne Photometrics and Teledyne Princeton Instruments, both Teledyne Technologies companies and world-renowned manufacturers of scientific imaging and spectroscopy equipment, are pleased to introduce a new podcast series, “Science Off Camera.”

From Teledyne Princeton Instruments 14 Jul 2020

New Research Shows that Laser Spectral Linewidth is Classical-Physics Phenomenon

New ground-breaking research from the University of Surrey could change the way scientists understand and describe lasers – establishing a new relationship between classical and quantum physics.

14 Jul 2020

Electron Cryo-Microscopy Helps Shed Light on Protein Structures

Biochemists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg have used a standard electron cryo-microscope to achieve surprisingly good images that are on par with those taken by far more sophisticated equipment.

14 Jul 2020

External Pressure Found to Degrade Performance of Solar Cells

A team, led by Dr. Jung-hoon Lee of the Computational Science Research Center of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, recently collaborated with a team, led by Professor Jeffrey B. Neaton from the UC Berkeley Department of Physics, to develop a theoretical explanation for the structural changes and metallization that take place when hybrid Perovskite solar cells are exposed to external pressure.

14 Jul 2020

Silicon Solar Cells Combined with Advanced Materials to Create Solar Flow Battery

Chemists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their collaborators have created a highly efficient and long-lasting solar flow battery, a way to generate, store and redeliver renewable electricity from the sun in one device.

14 Jul 2020

Localized States in 2D Materials Act as Quantum Dots that Emit Light

Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Montana State University report today that they have found that placing sufficient strain in a 2D material--tungsten diselenide (WSe2)--creates localized states that can yield single-photon emitters.

14 Jul 2020

Femtosecond Laser Pulses Help Etch Aluminum Surface for Water Treatment

Lasers etch a simple way to address global water crisis. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, people in developed countries are assured of ample supplies of clean water to wash their hands as often as needed to protect themselves from the disease.

14 Jul 2020

Novel van der Waals Heterostructure for Mid-Infrared Light-Emission Applications

Scientists have hypothesized a novel van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure for MIR light-emission applications, which has been developed from BP and TMDC (like MoS2 and WSe2).

13 Jul 2020

Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy Allows Precise Observation of Coatings as They Dry

But take a closer look at that paint--all the way down to the nanoscale--and there's a lot more going on than you might think.

13 Jul 2020

New Process to Fabricate Coupled Nanocrystals Could Improve Optoelectronics

An in-depth understanding of the fundamental science behind familiar techniques used to create quantum dots, which are tiny semiconducting nanocrystals, could help minimize the guesswork of existing practices used by material scientists to develop better digital displays and solar panels.

13 Jul 2020