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Scaled Perovskite Solar Modules Pass Three Critical Stability Tests
Solliance partners, TNO, imec and the Eindhoven University of Technology, demonstrated encapsulated perovskite solar modules fabricated using industrial processes that withstand three established lifetime tests, i.e. the light... -
Addressing Global Warming with New Nanoparticles and Sunshine
Harvesting sunlight, researchers of theCenter for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea) published in Materials Today a new strategy to transform carbon... -
MITRE Creates Mobile Autonomous Systems Experimentation Lab
Assistive technologies in autonomous vehicles are evolving quickly and occupying more important roles in the way we work, travel, and manage our homes. MITRE created the Mobile Autonomous Systems Experimentation (MASE)... -
Deep Learning Enables Real-Time Imaging for Autonomous Vehicles
Researchers have harnessed the power of a type of artificial intelligence known as deep learning to create a new laser-based system that can image around corners in real time. With further development, the system might let... -
Chlorophyll Molecule Could be Key to Better Solar Cells
Photosynthesis, the process by which some organisms convert sunlight into chemical energy, is well known. But, it is a complex phenomenon, which involves a myriad of proteins. The molecule Chlf, a new type of chlorophyll, is... -
Colloquium on Fast and Reliable Fuel Cell Manufacturing
Interest in the use of fuel cells is steadily increasing as a result of the shift toward e-mobility and the broader adoption of renewable energy sources. To examine this development, the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology... -
CEA-Leti Paper Presentations at Photonics West 2020
Leti, an institute of CEA-Tech, will present five invited papers, 21 in total (20 oral papers and 1 poster), at Photonics West 2020 in San Francisco, Feb. 1-6. In addition, its teams will introduce the...
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Light Research Advances Medical Diagnostics & Health
Light technologies are increasingly contributing to our health and longevity. While, for example, cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide, death rates for individual cancer types have declined in part due to advanced research on light... -
Thin Film Hides Objects from Infrared Detectors
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an aerogel film made of DuPont Kevlar fibers that makes objects invisible to infrared detectors. A successful method for hiding objects from heat-sensing cameras could be... -
Measuring and Self-Adjusting Spectral Power Distribution of LED Systems
Researchers from the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) at the University of Barcelona and its spin-off Ledmotive Technologies in Spain have combined two computational methods to enable solid-state lighting (SSL) to measure and... -
Perovskite NIR LED with Record External Quantum Efficiency
Researchers at Linköping University (LiU) in Sweden have produced near-infrared (NIR) light-emitting diodes (LED) of perovskite with a record external quantum efficiency of 21.6%. Because perovskites have good light-emitting properties and... -
Optical Tweezers Use Fluid Flow Instead of Light
Researchers from the universities of Glasgow, Bristol and Exeter have collaborated to create an entirely new kind of optical tweezers that use fluid flow instead of light to control particles of any material and hold light-sensitive biological... -
First of its Kind Quantum Sensor to Detect Single Photons
A new, groundbreakingly effective sensor developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario (Canada) is the first of its kind, based on semiconductor nanowires, that can detect photons. The research breakthrough promises to... -
Graphene-Based Wearable Health Monitoring and Spectroscopy Devices
The Graphene Flagship has introduced more than 20 graphene-based prototypes at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019. Four of the inventions were developed by Graphene Flagship partner ICFO — the Institute of Photonic Sciences, based in Barcelona,...
