Electronics

Saint-Gobain to open new PV facility in Korea

By / October 11, 2010

Hyundai Heavy Industries Chairman Min Keh-sik, left, sits with Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA Chairman Pierre-Andre de Chalendar, center, after HHI and Saint-Gobain agreed to build a new CIGS solar module…

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KNBT promising as lead-free substitute for PZT in piezo applications

By / October 8, 2010

Crystal structure of KNBT after the application of an electric field. The purple spheres are either sodium or potassium atoms, the red spheres are oxygen atoms, the small blue sphere…

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Tesla unveils new battery pack

By / October 7, 2010

The battery pack that will make Tesla’s upcoming Model S luxury sedan run.(Credit: San Jose Mercury News. Courtesy of Tesla.) Tesla Motors is most known for its all-electric sports car,…

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Paper-grown ZnO nanorods, nanoneedles

By / October 6, 2010

a) FESEM image of aligned ZnO nanorods. b) TEM image of a single nanorod. c) HRTEM image takenfrom the edge of the ZnO nanorod. Inset: Corresponding SAED pattern.(Credit: Nanowerk.com. Reprinted…

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Silicon nanomesh demonstrated as thermal conductivity barrier for improving thermoelectrics

By / October 5, 2010

Top: A scanning electron microscope image shows the grid of tiny holes in the nanomesh material. Bottom: In this drawing, each sphere represents a silicon atom in the nanomesh. The…

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“Fathers of graphene” awarded Nobel Prize

By / October 5, 2010

Researchers use electron-beam lithography to microfabricate graphene devices. (Credit: University of Manchester, UK) Two University of Manchester researchers have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics for their work…

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5 new research sites to be built with $50M in NIST grants

By / October 5, 2010

Architect’s drawing of the planned Western Institute of Nanotechnology on Green Engineering anMetrology at UCLA. Credit: Stenfors Associates Architects. NIST waded through over 100 proposals over the past few months…

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Graphene clocks spin rate at 60M rpm

By / October 4, 2010

New Scientist reported that scientists at the University of Maryland at College Park have managed to clock a floating piece of graphene at an astounding rate of 60 million rpm,…

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Serendipity: Nano LEDs accidentally produced during NIST nanowire research

By / September 30, 2010

Graphic illustrates a single row of nanowires (cylinders with red tops) with fin-shapednanowalls extending outward. Credit: NIST. Speaking of ZnO nanowires, chemists at NIST who were perfecting new methods of…

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Intriguing scientists and engineers among 2010 MacArthur ‘genius’ Fellows

By / September 29, 2010

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named 23 new MacArthur Fellows for 2010. Included in this list is John Dabiri whose work with fluid dynamics we’ve featured several…

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