Sentences with phrase «thin flexible film»

«These adhesives take the form of thin flexible films with bioinspired mushroom - shaped micropillars uniformly spread on the surface of microstructure,» says Hyun - Ha Park in the Ph.D. program of Mechanical Engineering, the first author of the study.

Not exact matches

The flexible packaging manufacturer explained that it developed a PE film to be used in a laminate structure which is lighter and thinner than previous designs used for Tesco's own label Ultra Soft baby wipes.

«They allow us to use the same trusted chemistry on which we've relied for decades in flexible and rigid food packaging in the thin - film coatings that line metal cans.

«But beyond that, we are looking to create flexible and elastic thin films that could be used on a whole range of surfaces, opening up the horizons of holographic applications.»

So Steve Dunn at Queen Mary University in London and James Durrant at Imperial College London have been experimenting with zinc oxide, which is much cheaper and can be made into thin, flexible films.

With this technique, the Empa team has again been able to significantly increase the energy conversion efficiency from sunlight into electricity using CIGS thin film solar cells on flexible plastic foils — to a new record level of 20.4 %, representing a marked improvement over the previous record of 18.7 % established by the same team in May 2011.

Empa scientists have developed a new technique for manufacturing high - efficiency, flexible, thin film solar cells from CIGS (copper indium gallium di - selenide) semiconductors.

The research team fabricated high - performance flexible nanogenerators utilizing a bulk single - crystal PMN - PT thin film (iBULe Photonics).

On a separate silicon chip, they grow a thin, flexible film of silicon nitride, upon which they deposit the superconductor niobium nitride in a pattern useful for photon detection.

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

These ultra-thin carbon filaments have high mobility, high transparency and electric conductivity, making them ideal for performing electronic tasks and making flexible electronic devices like thin film transistors, the on - off switches at the heart of digital electronic systems.

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.

The nanogenerator itself includes thin electrode sheets on the front and back of the mesoporous polymer film, and the researchers can attach this soft, flexible film seamlessly to flat, rough or curvy surfaces, including human skin.

Instead of printing with normal ink, electrically - functional electronic ink is printed on flexible, thin films (so - called substrates).

Organic electronic devices such as OLEDs and organic solar cells use thin films of organic molecules for the electrically active materials, making flexible and low - cost devices possible.

The researchers use a tissue to soak up the water and then lift the thin film with tweezers and place it on a flexible substrate.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new way to transfer thin semiconductor films, which are only one atom thick, onto arbitrary substrates, paving the way for flexible computing or photonic devices.

«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.

Even without switching, Strano thinks graphene will find many uses — as a flexible conductor in thin - film batteries or roll - up LCD screens, for instance.

These include electronic - skin coatings that can detect blood oxygen levels, contact lenses made from metal - oxide thin films that can detect glucose levels in tears and flexible integrated sensor arrays based on plastic and silicon integrated circuits that can detect molecules like glucose in sweat.

The CMOT project aims to tailor and develop solution based metal oxide thin - film transistors (MOTFTs) with graphene electrodes for the field of flexible, low - cost electronics.

Researchers from South Korea have developed a thin, highly - flexible film that could enable a new generation of wearable devices that wrap around your finger or wrist.

South Korean researchers have moved us one step closer to having wearables that are designed to bend, with a thin, highly - flexible multiferroic film that retains its electrical and magnetic properties even when bent around in a cylinder.

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SmartKem's organic thin film transistor (OTFT) backplanes are designed for both glass and flexible displays.

The prototype display uses a new polyamide film at the back instead of the usual plastic to make it thinner and, in turn, more flexible.

For it's all about a technique that comprises of silk in liquid form, which is converted to a membrane that exhibits properties of insulators and can function as flexible thin film transistors.

Durable, flexible displays have been made possible by our leadership in plastic electronics technology and our development and industrialisation of the organic thin film transistor (OTFT).

This is not the first flexible ePaper display Sony's showcased, the company prototyping a while ago 4.8 - inch e-paper device with organic TFTs (thin - film transistors) that use the «PXX,» an organic semiconductor material stable to oxygen, moisture and light.

They are more flexible than many other companies offerings because instead of using traditional silicon transistors, their active - matrix backplane consists of organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) on PET; that's exactly the same plastic used to make cola bottles.

The collaboration is based on the deposition of organic printed photodetectors (OPD), pioneered by ISORG, onto a plastic organic thin - film transistor (OTFT) backplane, developed by Plastic Logic, to create a flexible sensor array.

Plastic Logic has developed a flexible plastic display technology using organic thin film transistors (OTFT).

The invention heralds a new generation of computers that are super lightweight, thin - film and flexible.

The display technology used in the product's creation makes use of a rugged, metal - foil e-paper display and a flexible, stainless - steel substrate for silicon thin - film - transistors (TFT).

«This is another step in the direction of radically new interaction techniques afforded by smartphones based on thin film, flexible display technologies» says Roel Vertegaal (School of Computing), director of the Human Media Lab at Queen's University who developed the flexible PaperPhone and PaperTab.

But with their Un-plugged Flexible E-paper Display, AUO has sandwiched a flexible organic TFT display to a thin - film photovoltaic battery to create a self - powered e-reader that can be bent and twisted just like a piece oFlexible E-paper Display, AUO has sandwiched a flexible organic TFT display to a thin - film photovoltaic battery to create a self - powered e-reader that can be bent and twisted just like a piece oflexible organic TFT display to a thin - film photovoltaic battery to create a self - powered e-reader that can be bent and twisted just like a piece of paper.

The device has a 9.5 - cm (3.74 - inch) thin film flexible E-Ink display, underneath which is a flexible printed circuit incorporating resistive bend sensors.

Researchers have created a thin film flexible smartphone, known as the Paperphone (Photos: Queen's University)

Nanosolar has a thin - film PV production tool that «prints» PV panels by depositing nanopartical ink on rolls of flexible substrate.

This prototype paves the way for flexible thin film solar technology.

Second, CIGS thin - film can, depending on the application, be flexible.

Flexible, thin - film solar cells are widely considered the future of power generation.

In testing they found that the cell was flexible enough to bend around a radius as small as 1.4 millimeters and the solar cells themselves had an energy conversion efficiency similar to thicker thin - film ones.