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First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Plastics

A plastic revolution for displays by Jan Provoost, imec science writer

This year’s ITF closed with a much-noted talk of Paul Heremans, imec’s technology director for flexible electronics.Heremans started with a short sketch of the future of displays. For a number of reasons (ease-of-use, lightness, robustness, quality ...), ... [Published Chip Design Magazine - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Jan Provoost, Plastics, IMEC, thin-film

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

Chemical Stability and Electrical Performance of Dual-Active-Layered Zinc–Tin–Oxide/Indium–Gallium–Zinc–Oxide Thin-Film Transistors Using a Solution Process

We investigated the chemical stability and electrical properties of dual-active-layered zinc–tin–oxide (ZTO)/indium–gallium–zinc–oxide (IGZO) structures (DALZI) with the durability of the chemical damage. The IGZO film was easily corroded or removed by ... [Published ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Gallium, Indium, thin-film, Oxide, Tin

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Ascent Solar Raises $6 Million From Private Investor in Asia

Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. (ASTI), the U.S. thin-film photovoltaic manufacturer that’s shifting its focus to consumer electronics, will receive $6 million from a private investor in Asia.Ascent, based in Thornton, Colorado, will issue Series A preferred ... [Published Bloomberg - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Ascent Solar Technologies Inc, Series A Preferred Stock, thin-film, Registration Statement

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Champion CIS thin-film module at Solar Frontier verified at 14.6% conversion efficiency

The PV manufacturer said that the rated capacity of its 1257mm x 977mm sized module has been certified by Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) at 179.8W and was produced at its Kunitomi Plant in Miyazaki, Japan.Claiming to be closing the gap with mainstream ... [Published PV-Tech - 22 hours ago]

Entities: thin-film, Miyazaki, Underwriters Laboratories Inc.

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 reports

Surprising turns in magnetic thin films could lead to better data storage

A magnetic phenomenon newly discovered by MIT researchers could lead to much faster, denser and more energy-efficient chips for memory and computation.The findings, reported in the journal Nature Materials , could reduce the energy needed to store ... [Published MIT News feed - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Data Storage, Tantalum, thin-film

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

Voltaix LLC

The Week in Cleantech – June 10 – 16

Posted in Cleantech Investment InsightLast week saw several significant deals in clean technology. First, it was revealed that Google had ultimately won the bidding war to acquire Waze, a Palo Alto, California-based developer of a smart phone app enabling ... [Published Cleantech - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Clean Technology, Horizon Ventures, Voltaix LLC, Bloom Energy Corp, Qualcomm Ventures

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Nearly-transparent screen adds solar charge to phones

French startup hopes to market in 2014“Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good” seems to be the motto of a French startup that believes it has a good-enough approach to adding solar charging to smartphones.Rather than wait until fully-transparent ... [Published The Register - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Solar Cell, Startup, thin-film

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Interfacially Polymerized Layers for Oxygen Enrichment: A Method to Overcome Robeson’s Upper-Bound Limit

Interfacial polymerization of four aqueous phase monomers, diethylenetriamine (DETA), m-phenylenediamine (mPD), melamine (Mela), and piperazine (PIP), and two organic phase monomers, trimethyl chloride (TMC) and cyanuric chloride (CC), produce a thin-film ... [Published ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Monomer, Membrane, Aqueous

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Letter: Bag ban was a good idea and is ‘at most a minor inconvenience’

Corvallis wisely joined the growing list of cities and even countries that have banned thin-film plastic bags. It makes environmental sense to abandon their use.Ken McCracken’s June 11 letter, “Corvallis’ bag ban was a bad mistake that needs fixing,” ... [Published Corvallis Gazette-Times - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: thin-film, Plastics, Lebanon

First reported Jun 15 2013 - Updated Jun 15 2013 - 1 reports

Use of Thin-Film Thermoelectrics in PCR Thermal Cycling

Rapid thermal cycling is becoming increasingly important as PCR becomes more widely used in point-of-service, field-level applications. New applications pushing for portability and reduced analysis time offer the promise of large new markets beyond the ... [Published EE Times - Jun 15 2013]

Entities: thin-film, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Food Safety, Forensics

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Solution-processable metal oxide semiconductors for thin-film transistor applications

Chem. Soc. Rev. , 2013, Advance ArticleDOI : 10.1039/C3CS35402D, Review Article Stuart R. Thomas, Pichaya Pattanasattayavong, Thomas D. AnthopoulosRecent developments in the field of solution-processable metal-oxide semiconductors and their application ... [Published RSC - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: thin-film, Semiconductor, Thomas D

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

Thin-film ratiometric fluorescent chemosensors with tunable performance characteristics

Chem. Commun. , 2013, Accepted ManuscriptDOI : 10.1039/C3CC43309A, Communication Brian G. Imsick, Jiba Raj Acharya, Evgueni E. NesterovA simple method of tuning the performance characteristics of fluorescent ratiometric sensors based on surface-immobilized ... [Published RSC - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: thin-film, Molecule

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...they will be able to exit when appropriate, reminiscent of Ashly Lorenzana's definition of addiction in her journal Sex, Drugs & Being an Escort: "When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday." In reality, these policies may be hard, if not impossible, to reverse

Even Pessimists Feel Optimistic About the American Economy [Published Proactive Investors.co.uk - 1 hour ago]

"Not only did we demonstrate for the first time that we can 3D- print a battery, we demonstrated it in the most rigorous way" senior author Jennifer Lewis of the Harvard University said in a statement

3D-printed tiny batteries developed [Published ProKerala.com - 1 hour ago]

"Jennifer's innovative microbattery ink designs dramatically expand the practical uses of 3D printing, and simultaneously open up entirely new possibilities for miniaturization of all types of devices, both medical and non-medical. It's tremendously exciting" said Wyss Founding Director Donald Ingber, M D , Ph DD The work was supported by the National Science Foundation and the DOE Energy Frontier Research...

Printing tiny batteries [Published EurekAlert! - 14 hours ago]

"But we quickly realized that this technique could also be adapted to other research regimes, most notably imaging for biological and cellular samples, wet samples, samples with rough surfaces, as well as organic photovoltaics. We are anxious to make this technique available to the wider research community and see the results."

New quantum dot technique combines best of optical and electron microscopy [Published Space Daily - 20 hours ago]

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Ascent Solar to Receive $6.0 Million Funding Bo... [Published EON Consumer - 22 hours ago]
Ascent Solar to Receive $6.0 Million Funding Bo... [Published Business Wire Energy News - 22 hours ago]
Champion CIS thin-film module at Solar Frontier... [Published PV-Tech - 22 hours ago]
Altatech installs one more CVD system at Fraunh... [Published Electronics Engineering Herald - 23 hours ago]
The Week in Cleantech – June 10 – 16 [Published Cleantech - 23 hours ago]

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3-D Printing tiny lithium batteries (video) [Published Treehugger - 5 hours ago] © Video: Teng-Sing Wei, Bok Yeop Ahn, Jennifer Lewis; Inset: Ke Sun, Teng-Sing Wei, Jennifer Lewis, Shen J. Dillon; courtesy of Harvard Wyss InstituteA printing head narrower than a human hair delivers a toothpaste-consistency stream of a special lithium ...
Surprising turns in magnetic thin films could l... [Published MIT News feed - Jun 18 2013] A magnetic phenomenon newly discovered by MIT researchers could lead to much faster, denser and more energy-efficient chips for memory and computation.The findings, reported in the journal Nature Materials , could reduce the energy needed to store ...
Self-Charging Cell Phone Screens Coming Soon [Published IEEE Spectrum - Jun 12 2013] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Today’s mobile devices are constantly in use—so constantly that battery life is a huge problem. I recently hosted an afternoon barbecue at a community pool; over in one corner, folks jockeyed for a turn ...
New Process Allows for Increased Efficiency, Lo... [Published CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com - Jun 05 2013] Solar power is a renewable source of energy but still can be expensive to use so any cost reduction is good. Solar engineers from UNSW have developed an innovative method to dramatically improve the quality of low-grade silicon, promising to significantly ...
Don't miss the first Biomimicry Global Conference [Published Treehugger - Jun 03 2013] Science / BiomimicryHouse Ad lloydAfter Janine Benyus wrote Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, she tried to find it in a big-box bookstore. The bookseller asked what it was about, and she tried to explain that it was "about looking to nature ...

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Ascent Solar to Receive $6.0 Million Funding Bo... [Published EON Consumer - 22 hours ago]
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AVX INTRODUCES THE SMALLEST THIN-FILM 10W 3dB D... [Published GlobeNewswire: Acquisitions News - Jun 06 2013]
Ascent Solar’s EnerPlexTM Products Reach New He... [Published EON Consumer - Jun 05 2013]
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