Sentences with phrase «thin absorbing material»

Not exact matches

While most of its peers make silicon - based panels, First Solar manufactures thin - film panels made with cadmium - telluride, which absorbs more frequencies of light and uses fewer materials.

Hemp materials are quite thin while still absorbent, but they do not absorb as quickly as cotton or polyester.

The key discovery consists in the observation that the composite thin film — barely 110 nanometres thick — absorbs a broader portion of the solar spectrum compared to the wavelengths absorbed in the thin films made of the two individual materials.

Pendry discovered that the electrical properties allowing the material to absorb radiation came not from the carbon per se but from the shape of its long, thin fibers.

Theoretically the thin conducting skins that could be woven with this material could also have applications in stealth aircraft, as the material would be an ultralight radio - frequency radiation absorber that could foil radar.

The layer is so thin that 95 % of the light just passes through — but a tenth of the remaining five percent, which are absorbed by the material, are converted into electrical power.

Many new, lower cost designs are limited as their layer of light - absorbing material is too thin to extract enough energy.

As you wear these masks, you will notice that the longer you wear them, the material gets thinner because your skin is absorbing the ingredients from the hydrogel.

They're like thin layers of rubber but in reality that material is extremely hard to penetrate so if your device ever slides on to the floor, everything is absorbed by the rubber.

During the plating process, thin metal films are deposited onto another material, mainly glass, resulting in a coating that allows light to be reflected, transmitted and absorbed simultaneously.