Business
The magnets in wind turbines come from China, and the materials in our electric car batteries are for the most part sourced from Congo. Today, key minerals and metals are being transported to Europe from politically unstable ...
May 3, 2023
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Engineering
In the face of the ever-growing threat of climate change, the past few decades have witnessed great progress in solar energy technology. In particular, silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells have become a hot topic in this ...
Mar 5, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
An electric car with a long range, a cell phone that you only need to charge once a week. Not only are we using more and more batteries, but we also want them to be compact, able to store a lot of energy and to charge quickly. ...
Jan 27, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
A research team, led by Professor Hyesung Park in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST has succeeded in manufacturing potentially high efficiency, stable, and scalable perovskite solar cells (PSCs) ...
Oct 20, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are shining a light on promising new strategies for storing solar power. The efforts could help overcome one major limitation of energy generation from solar sources—namely, ...
Apr 27, 2018
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Skoltech researchers have studied the electronic properties of indium arsenide, a semiconductor that is currently widely used for photodiodes in the infrared range and proposed as a building block for alternative infrared ...
May 19, 2021
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Engineering
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a manufacturing method at the atomic and near-atomic scale. Since its invention in the 1970s, ALD has been industrially applied in fields such as displays, semiconductors, and solar cells. ...
May 9, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Resistive switching memory devices offer several advantages over the currently used computer memory technology. Researchers from the MIPT Atomic Layer Deposition Lab have joined forces with colleagues from Korea to study ...
Nov 23, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Lithium-air batteries, sometimes known as lithium-oxygen batteries (Li-O2), comprise a lithium metal anode, an organic electrolyte and a porous carbon cathode. During discharge, oxygen in the surrounding air reacts with lithium ...
Nov 14, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
In a recently-published study, 3-µm-thick commercially available parylene-C was deposited on the top of pre-cleaned glass via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and then the flip-over transferring (FOT) process was employed ...
May 31, 2022
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