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Efficient Cathode Interlayers Composed of Ionene Polymers Enhanced with Pendant Fullerenes

Organic photovoltaics have realized extraordinarily high efficiencies, but discovering ideal combinations of materials for high-performance organic solar cells, which are also economically competitive, still poses a challenge.

28 Mar 2019

New Thin-Film Perfect Light Absorbers Could Be Useful for High-Tech Applications

Scientists have learned that the early method of heating metal to produce vibrant colors forms a nanostructured surface that acts as a perfect light absorber.

21 Feb 2019

LED-Based Approach Could Lead to New Solid-State Cooling Technology for Future Microprocessors

In a recent discovery that contradicts a standard assumption in physics, a research team at the University of Michigan ran a LED (light emitting diode) with reversed electrodes to cool another device that was only nanometers away.

14 Feb 2019

Researchers Get a Step Closer to Developing Nanoscale Lasers with Preset Properties and Guaranteed Coherence

Recently, nanolasers have evolved as a new category of light sources with a size of just a few millionths of a meter and with special properties strikingly different compared to those of macroscopic lasers.

7 Feb 2019

New, Low-Cost Technique Uses Ultraviolet Light to Control Particle Motion and Assembly within Liquids

Chemical sensors, drug delivery, and fluid pumps could now be improved with an innovative, simple, and low-cost technique that utilizes ultraviolet light to regulate the motion and assembly of particles inside liquids.

23 Jan 2019

New Holographic Color Printing Increases Security and Prevents Counterfeiting

A new kind of anti-counterfeiting device that can be helpful in counterfeit deterrence of main documents like banknotes, passports, and identity cards has been developed by researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).

9 Jan 2019

New Flow Focusing Technology Facilitates Success of First Experiment Performed by European XFEL Project

The Flow Focusing technology (also referred to as Gas Dynamic Virtual Nozzle [GDVN]), has been one of the core elements in the triumph of the first experiments performed by the European XFEL project, the largest source of X-rays in the world currently.

26 Nov 2018

New Peltier Cooling Module Optimizes Conditions for Temperature Sensitive Assays

BioTek has released a Peltier Cooling Module for the Cytation™ Cell Imaging Multi-Mode Readers. The compact module keeps internal temperature rise to less than one degree over ambient, regardless of fluctuations from external and internal factors.

24 Oct 2018