These somewhat contradictory theories, none of which is universally valid for all cases, have now been unified by Oehzelt and developed into a single coherent model based on
the electrostatic potential caused by the charge carriers in the metal and the organic semiconductor.
Although such solar cells are still on the horizon, the new technique could even now be incorporated into new types of sensors that detect light based on
the electrostatic potential.
«So similarly, exciting these metal nanostructures near their resonance charges up those metal structures, producing
an electrostatic potential that you can measure.»
«These applications tend to be compute - intensive and regular in their computation,» he adds, «regular in the sense that you're calculating
electrostatic potential between pairs of points.»
Not exact matches
Using a computer equipped with both a CPU and an AMD GPU, the Virginia Tech researchers were able to compute and visualize biomolecular
electrostatic surface
potential (pdf) 1,800 times faster (from 22.4 hours to less than a minute) than they could with a similar computer driven only by a CPU.
* Editor's Note (4/6/17): A paragraph was added after posting to reflect the ongoing debate over the
potential risks of
electrostatic sand for surface explorations on Titan.