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X-Ray Laser Used to Study Possible Role of Iron Carbene as a Photosensitizer

Photosensitizers can be described as molecules with the ability to absorb sunlight and transfer that energy to drive chemical reactions or produce electricity.

7 Feb 2020

Modulight Designs & Manufactures Customized Laser Chips for Fortune 500 Companies - Meet us at #1567 PW-2020

Quite often the off-the-shelf lasers are not suitable for specialized needs in software, hardware, interfaces, wavelength or pulsing.

From Modulight, Inc. 29 Jan 2020

High Precision Mirrors Forming Key Components in World's Largest Solar Telescope

Optical Surfaces Ltd. has announced that it has delivered, to the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) located in Big Bear Lake, California, three high precision off-axis parabolic mirrors that will form key focusing components in the adaptive optical system associated with BBSO's new 1.6 metre solar telescope.

From Optical Surfaces Ltd. 21 Oct 2019

High-Throughput Computational Method for Designing New Materials for Next-Generation Solar Cells and LEDs

At the University of California San Diego, engineers have come up with a new high-throughput computational technique to design innovative materials for sophisticated LED devices and solar cells.

23 May 2019

Study Shows Solvent Additive-Free Ternary Polymer Solar Cells Achieve Optimized Efficiency of 16.27%

Enhancing the efficiency of polymer solar cells (PSCs) from device physics has turned out to be a hot topic.

15 May 2019

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

Artificial Intelligence Techniques Could Help Improve Energy Production of Photovoltaic Panels

A team of researchers from the Spanish National Research Council and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid has come up with a novel approach based on artificial intelligence methods that accounts for the difference in the atmosphere when fabricating the solar cells to generate more amounts of energy.

27 Mar 2019