Sentences with phrase «nanostructured silicon»

He has pioneered the use of nanomaterials in energy storage devices and has created numerous breakthrough materials - based solutions that dramatically improve battery capacity and cycle life, including nanostructured silicon anodes, sulfur cathodes, and stable lithium metal anodes.

To create the anodes, the team used a three - step process that involved crushing and grinding the glass bottles into a fine white power, a magnesiothermic reduction to transform the silicon dioxide into nanostructured silicon, and coating the silicon nanoparticles with carbon to improve their stability and energy storage properties.

In addition, they applied the method to thermal transport in nanostructured silicon, a system of current interest with high potential impact on thermoelectric technology, using simulations of unprecedented size.

This solution yielded a new problem, however: the method of producing nanostructured silicon was prohibitively expensive for commercial adoption.

Not exact matches

«What's interesting about this hologram is that it controls only the phase of the light by varying the orientation of the silicon nanostructures.

The bandwidth - tunable silicon filter uses periodic nanostructures to filter a single channel from all input frequencies.

Nanostructured materials containing ordered arrays of holes could lead to an optoelectronics revolution, doing for light what silicon did for electrons

Although traditional nanofabrication techniques rely on a hard substrate — usually glass or a silicon wafer — Shih said researchers wanted a flexible nanostructure, which would be more suited to wearable electronics.

Recently highlighted in a C&EN article titled Simple Process Creates Near - Perfect Mirrors Out of a Metamaterial, researchers out of Vanderbilt University developed a method to self - assemble silicon nanostructures -LSB-...]

The latest investigations on the thermal properties of silicon, the most common material in electronics, micro - and nano - electro - mechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) and photonics, have pointed to nanostructuring as a highly efficient approach to acoustic phonon engineering [1 - 3].

At small scales, the thermal properties of silicon nanostructures are significantly reduced compared to their bulk counterparts.

So even if the new nanostructures only achieve 10 or 15 % efficiency, they could beat out silicon on volume.

Optically thick and elec - tronically thin amorphous silicon «nanocoax» cells are in the range of 8 % efficiency, higher than any nanostructured thin film solar cell to date.

Nanostructured, enhanced with silicon oxide, covered with a nanometer - thin layer of aluminum oxide and cobalt oxide — these treatments optimize the electrochemical properties of the material, but are nonetheless simple to apply.