Sentences with phrase «nanowires made»

«Highly conductive germanium nanowires made by a simple, one - step process.»

Copper's rippled surface could add to the electrical resistance of nanowires made from the metal.

And in 2006, researchers at Dresden Technical University, Germany, studied the swords with an electron microscope and discovered that their strength probably comes from carbon nanotubes and nanowires made from a mineral called cementite.

Their laser's target was an array of nanowires made out of a material called deuterated polyethylene.

When a nanowire made from a semiconductor is connected to a superconductive material, researchers see a so - called zero - bias peak in the case of certain magnetic fields and electrical charge.

Not exact matches

Gadgetry out of Rogers» lab has included everything from wireless electronic implants that fight a bacterial infection and then disappear, to stretchable batteries made of tiny nanowires arranged to resemble an accordion's bellows.

A team there recently printed what they call silver nanowire ink — a paste composed of 100 - nanometer - wide wires, jumbled together — onto paper made with fibers slightly wider than common paper.

That could lead to new materials like nanowires, which could help to make miniature versions of electrical components like batteries, and better drugs.

Nanowires for LEDs are made up of an inner core of gallium nitride (GaN) and a layer of indium - gallium - nitride (InGaN) on the outside, both of which are semiconducting materials.

«Given the technique's efficiency, direct writing capability, and scalability, we're optimistic that this can be used to advance the development of flexible, stretchable electronics using silver nanowires — making these devices practical from a manufacturing perspective,» Zhu says.

The researchers have used the new technique to create prototypes that make use of the silver nanowire circuits, including a glove with an internal heater and a wearable electrode for use in electrocardiography.

The editable supercapacitor is made of strengthened manganese dioxide nanowire composite material.

«Before we can put this discovery to use and make an actual device, we have many more studies to do, including determining how to separate out the individual nanowires, and overcoming technical challenges to manufacturing and mass production,» Kim said.

One reason it's tricky to make and hook up nanowires, made of single - crystal silicon, or nanotubes, made of molecule - thick sheets of carbon, is that they are fragile and can easily break when transported from one substrate to another.

The new approach uses yarns, made from nanowires of the element niobium, as the electrodes in tiny supercapacitors (which are essentially pairs of electrically conducting fibers with an insulator between).

Yarn made of niobium nanowires, seen here in a scanning electron microscope image (background), can be used to make very efficient supercapacitors, MIT researchers have found.

An experiment that, by design, was not supposed to turn up anything of note instead produced a «bewildering» surprise, according to the Stanford scientists who made the discovery: a new way of creating gold nanoparticles and nanowires using water droplets.

For the experiment, the team built a tiny battery with a lithium - cobalt anode and a cathode made from tin oxide nanowires just 200 nanometres wide.

This approach allowed them to lithographically define oxide templates and fill them via epitaxy, in the end making nanowires, cross junctions, nanostructures containing constrictions and 3 - D stacked nanowires using the already established scaled processes of Si technology.

The IBM team fabricated single crystal nanostructures, such as nanowires, nanostructures containing constrictions, and cross junctions, as well as 3 - D stacked nanowires, made with so - called III - V materials.

THE shimmering sea mouse, Aphrodita aculeata, may hold a key to creating nanoscale electronics, making it possible to produce nanowires 100 times longer than existing methods allow — and for a fraction of the price.

Georgia Tech scientists made piezoelectric generators out of nanowires and attached them to tiny hamster jackets.

The UMass Amherst teams knew from previous studies that Geobacter grow electrically conductive filaments known as microbial nanowires, which can transport electrons outside the cell to make electrical connections with minerals, electrodes or other cells.

Dr Matthew Large, University of Sussex, flexes a screen made from acrylic plastic coated in silver nanowires and graphene to illustrate the kind of touch screens that can potentially be produced using the new approach.

Another tweak could replace the silicon channel with «nanowires,» super-thin wires made of various semiconductor materials (including, it so happens, lowly silicon itself).

By creating a stamp — a bit like a potato stamp a child might make — the scientists can pick up the layer of atoms and lay it on top of the silver nanowire film in a pattern.

The team then developed a cathode made entirely from tellurium nanowires just seven nanometers wide, which they laid together to form a mat.

Unique patterns made from tiny, randomly scattered silver nanowires have been created by a group of researchers from South Korea in an attempt to authenticate goods and tackle the growing problem of counterfeiting.

«I am convinced that these strange particles exist in these nanowires, but only a non-local measurement establishing the underlying physics can make the evidence definitive.»

These nanowires can transfer electrons over long distances, and have incredible properties that are very different from our man - made wires.

For example, many electrodes are not made of nanowires; instead, they may be made of nanoparticles with additives to hold them together.

The detectors, made of superconducting nanowires, were 90 percent efficient, and total system efficiency was about 75 percent.

The silicon particles are made up of a series of nanowires connected by thin bridges, which allows for high flexibility and porosity.

The first is ultra-long hydroxyapatite nanowires, which are tiny threads made from a mineral form of calcium apatite commonly found in teeth and bones.

Researchers from North Carolina State University and Brown University have found that nanoscale wires (nanowires) made of common semiconductor materials have a pronounced anelasticity — meaning that the wires, when bent, return slowly to their original shape rather than snapping back quickly.

A coating made from copper nanowires could make those smartphone screens a lot tougher and help the gadgets to last longer.

For this new battery, the researchers used nanowires, which are highly conductive and have a large surface area, making them great at holding charge as electrodes.

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The wallpaper is made from fire - resistant materials like graphene oxide and hydroxyapatite nanowires.