An electric vehicle battery for all seasons
Many owners of electric vehicles worry about how effective their battery will be in very cold weather. Now a new battery chemistry may have solved that problem.
May 17, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Thin oxide films for development of model materials for semiconductors, sensors and batteries
One of the first sights greeting visitors to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's (PNNL's) Energy Sciences Center are windows into busy lab spaces. Filled with equipment and researchers going about their work, the film ...
Mar 22, 2023
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Engineering
Mechanism of long-used solar cell treatment explained by unexpected crystalline structure
For more than three decades, photovoltaic researchers have known that the addition of a single chemical—cadmium chloride—creates better-performing cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells. But they have not understood exactly ...
Feb 22, 2023
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Researchers create a new etching method to improve smartphone circuit performance
In circuitry, etching is used to remove the deformed layer created during the grinding and polishing of metal components by selective chemical reactions. Now, a research group at Nagoya University in Japan has developed a ...
Feb 22, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Let machines do the work: Automating semiconductor research with machine learning
The semiconductor industry has been growing steadily ever since its first steps in the mid-twentieth century and, thanks to the high-speed information and communication technologies it enabled, it has given way to the rapid ...
Jun 16, 2022
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Scientists identify another reason why batteries can't charge in minutes
Haste makes waste, as the saying goes. Such a maxim may be especially true of batteries, thanks to a new study that seeks to identify the reasons that cause the performance of fast charged lithium-ion batteries to degrade ...
Dec 2, 2021
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Operator: Impact from release of Fukushima water minimal
The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant said Wednesday that a data simulation of its planned release of treated radioactive water into the sea suggests it would have an extremely small impact on ...
Nov 17, 2021
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New insight could lead to better silicon solar panels
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Colorado School of Mines are applying a new technique to identify defects in silicon solar cells that cause a drop in efficiency. ...
Oct 19, 2021
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Stable solar cells from perovskite
Perovskite is a promising material. It captures the sun's rays and efficiently converts them into solar energy. It is also much cheaper than the current generation of silicon solar cells. But why are the Dutch rooftops not ...
Oct 14, 2021
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Solid-state batteries line up for better performance
Solid-state batteries pack a lot of energy into a small space, but their electrodes are not good at keeping in touch with their electrolytes. Liquid electrolytes reach every nook and cranny of an electrode to spark energy, ...
May 20, 2021
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Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics)
In quantum mechanics, perturbation theory is a set of approximation schemes directly related to mathematical perturbation for describing a complicated quantum system in terms of a simpler one. The idea is to start with a simple system for which a mathematical solution is known, and add an additional "perturbing" Hamiltonian representing a weak disturbance to the system. If the disturbance is not too large, the various physical quantities associated with the perturbed system (e.g. its energy levels and eigenstates) can, from considerations of continuity, be expressed as 'corrections' to those of the simple system. These corrections, being 'small' compared to the size of the quantities themselves, can be calculated using approximate methods such as asymptotic series. We can therefore study the complicated system based on our knowledge of the simpler one.
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