Sentences with phrase «semiconducting films»

This effectively proved that these three - atom - thick semiconducting films can be made into multi-level electronic devices of unsurpassed thinness.

But Solyndra was always a dicey technology proposition: Take a temperamental semiconducting film that must be perfectly applied at high speed and pair it with a shape that is both hard to manufacture and ship.

Not exact matches

Simply put, by employing less expensive semiconducting material thin - film solar cells would be cheaper to make, a fact born out by thin - film solar manufacturer First Solar's world - beating module that costs 73 cents per watt in 2011, albeit before the expense of installing it on the roof.

He also had a slogan — «the new shape of solar» — that encapsulated the idea, much as a cylinder of glass encapsulated the thin - film semiconducting material that made Gronet's solar tubes work.

Making thin films out of semiconducting materials is analogous to how ice grows on a windowpane: When the conditions are just right, the semiconductor grows in flat crystals that slowly fuse together, eventually forming a continuous film.

Hiroshi Yoneyama and his colleagues at Osaka University projected an image onto a thin film of polyaniline which contains particles of semiconducting titanium dioxide.

Enter thin - film solar cells — devices that use a fine layer of semiconducting material, such as silicon, copper indium gallium selenide or cadmium telluride, to harvest electricity from sunlight at a fraction of the cost.

When applied to semiconducting materials such as silicon, the nickel oxide film prevents rust buildup and facilitates an important chemical process in the solar - driven production of fuels such as methane or hydrogen.

«The ultimate goal is to use these atomic - layer semiconducting thin films to create devices that are extremely flexible, but to do that we need to transfer the thin films from the substrate we used to make it to a flexible substrate,» says Cao, who is senior author of a paper on the new transfer technique.

Stable solar - driven oxidation of water by semiconducting photoanodes protected by transparent catalytic nickel oxide films.

However, his main interests in Dresden have been novel semiconductor systems like semiconducting organic thin films; with special emphasis to understand basics device principles and the optical response.

They typically focus on semiconducting materials, which are usually silicon - based materials or organic compounds, because most solar panels are made of semiconducting materials and some newer thin - film panels are made out of organic materials.

Chemical engineers in the solar industry typically focus on semiconductors or organic chemistry, since most solar panels are made of semiconducting materials and some newer thin - film panels are made out of organic materials.