Sentences with phrase «thin film materials»

A proven professional scientist offers expertise in developing leading - edge ALD / PVD of hybrid metal - organic thin film materials for renewable energy conversions and storage devices.

The potential for breakthroughs in solar PV technology, such as next - generation thin film materials, reduced capital intensity of manufacturing capacity as well as continued improvements in the scale and capacity factor of wind technology means the levelized cost of energy could continue to fall.

Research and development has found new ways to improve efficiency, including with back contact cells for solar PVs (cells without electric contacts on the light - collecting side), improved thin film materials for solar PVs, and modulating blade position in real time for wind.

For example, the Japanese company Nitto will provide the thin film materials, while Nissha Printing will provide the touchscreen modules.

The HTE capabilities include combinatorial synthesis, spatially - resolved characterization, and semi-automated data analysis for thin film materials (see Figure below).

Following an original device concept, Mr. Joyprokash Chakrabartty, the researchers have developed this new composite thin film material which combines two different crystal phases comprising the atomic elements bismuth, manganese, and oxygen.

Not exact matches

This type of solar cell is lightweight and affordable, but requires very careful processing so the materials used mix and crystallize properly into thin films.

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.

The soil to be treated should be cleared of plant material, loosened, watered, and covered with a thin, clear, polyethylene film.

, Senior Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, developed new hybrid materials in his doctoral research project for use in the manufacture and modification of thin - film composites.

The focus of this investigation is a hybrid material consisting of a thin nickel film on a vanadium oxide substrate; this hybrid material exhibits magnetic properties unlike any other magnetic material.

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 was initiated into life in a laboratory in the final year of his degree, spending 6 months designing laser ablation experiments to make thin films of superconducting materials.

This process enhanced the material's optical response to electrical signals by allowing more of the thin film to contribute to coloration reactions.

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.

«We believe that thin film was a great solution for the rooftop, and our ability to hermetically seal it in glass was a good way to ensure that you could use a CIGS material and not run into degradation with exposure to air or water,» says Solyndra spokesman David Miller.

«High efficiency solar power conversion allowed by a novel composite material: A composite thin film developed at INRS improves significantly solar cells» power conversion efficiency..»

Structures such as bridges connecting posts become possible because material can be written atop the thin films.

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.

Therefore, in a system that has interface, such as biomembranes and polymer thin films, the interfacial slip phenomena is definitely one of the most important variables for determining the properties of polymeric materials.

280 °C, which is a trait that is highly desired for an electrode material, but rather unusual for hybrid organic?inorganic thin films.

A composite thin film made of two different inorganic oxide materials significantly improves the performance of solar cells, as recently demonstrated by a joint team of researchers led by Professor Federico Rosei at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), and Dr. Riad Nechache from École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), both in the Montreal Area (Canada).

«Thin films of metals like iron, cobalt, and nickel, unlike 2 - D van der Waals materials, are structurally imperfect and susceptible to various disturbances, which contribute to a huge and unpredictable spurious anisotropy,» said Gong.

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While small amounts of materials like zinc or silicon are required to produce thin film devices, Cadien says the costs are not insignificant — they can come in at $ 500 or $ 600 per gram and the current processes are wasteful, dosing surfaces with anywhere from 100 to 10,000 times the molecules required.

«Our hope is that this could be used not only for perovskite nanocrystals but also for bulk materials and thin films used in applications such as photovoltaics.»

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.

A research group led by Junichi Isoya, professor emeritus, University of Tsukuba and Tokuyuki Teraji, principal researcher, Optical and Electronic Materials Unit, NIMS, has successfully fabricated for the first time in the world single - photon sources of SiV (silicon vacancy) centers — one of the color centers in diamond during the growth of thin film diamond, which have high purity and crystalline quality — by introducing them at extremely low concentrations.

The new material has a refractive index of 1.05, the team reports in the March issue of Nature Photonics, the lowest ever reported for a thin film.

That needs to counterbalance the increased costs of production,» due to the cylinder design and specialized thin - film materials.

In 2003, in collaboration with the group of Ramamoorthy Ramesh (now at UC Berkeley), we succeeded in producing and understanding thin films of what is now one of the most - studied multiferroic materials, bismuth ferrite.

«The next step will be investigation of the spin - phonon interaction in nanoscale thin films and structures made of this important antiferromagnetic material.»

Christos G. Takoudis's interdisciplinary team plans to wield a unique atomic layer deposition / chemical vapor deposition (ALD / CVD) hybrid reactor that can lay down novel thin - film cell materials and structures that run cooler by design.

Since thin films of material can also be patterned onto sheets of plastic, the same work could point toward thin, flexible, bright, color displays.

Materials science and engineering postdoctoral researcher Hyungwoo Lee looks inside a thin film deposition system during oxide thin film structure growth.

Jonathan Petrie led the epitaxial synthesis of strained oxide materials and catalytic testing, and Tricia Meyer assisted thin film deposition using a technique that employs a high - power excimer laser to vaporize material and deposit it as high - quality thin films under precisely controlled conditions.

In contrast to many existing ferroelectric materials, the new thin - film exhibits compatibility with Si - based CMOS and is robust in miniature forms.

Funakubo's team are hopeful that their new thin film ferroelectric material will have applications in novel random - access memory and transistors, along with quantum computing.

With this data, they analyzed two solar cell materials: silicon (commonly used in solar cells) and cadmium telluride (thin - film competitor material).

Funakubo's team decided to measure the properties of the material when it was deposited in thin - film crystal form onto a substrate.

The fact that thin films made of low cost metal - organic perovskites can be produced on a large scale for example by spin coating and subsequently baking (whereby the solvent evaporates and the material crystallizes), makes this technology additionally attractive.

The first big breakthrough came in 2003 when, in collaboration with the group of Ramamoorthy Ramesh (now at UC Berkeley), we succeeded in producing and understanding thin films of what is now the most - studied multiferroic material, bismuth ferrite.

A paper in the latest issue of The Optical Society (OSA) journal Optical Materials Express describes a new type of thin film that achieves just that.

«The fundamental advantage of thin film comes in the form of the amount of material you need,» says electrical engineer Jeff Britt, chief technology officer of thin - film manufacturer Global Solar Energy in Tucson, Ariz. «These are direct bandgap semiconductors.

Many touch screens are made of layered thin (billionths of a meter thick) films of indium - tin oxide, an inorganic material that is electrically conductive, which allows electrical signals to travel from the «touch» to the edges of the display, where they are sensed by the device — as well as optically transparent.

The optimal material for the photosensitive layer still needs to be identified, and the researchers have proposed a range of candidate materials — including thin films of diamond, which would be very robust and long - lasting.

The thin - film solar cells can be used in more flexible applications, such as so - called solar shingles, roofing materials that double as electricity generators.

Joël Marthelot of ESPCI ParisTech in France and his colleagues noticed the cracks when studying thin films of silicate materials, which are used as a coating inside lasers.

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.

«Therefore,» said Park, «acid - free methods of synthesizing organic - inorganic hybrid materials are needed for optical thin - film applications.»