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Fraunhofer ISE Receives f-cell Award 2020 for Fuel Cell Screen Printing Process
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE received the f-cell Award this year in the category "Research & Development". The prize distinguished their work on the development of flatbed screen printing... -
Multishot Lensless Camera Could Diagnose Disease and Make Skinnier Cellphones
A new type of imaging that does not require a lens and uses reconfigurable particle-based masks to take multiple shots of an object is being developed by researchers at Penn State. The electric-field directed self-assembling... -
Molecular Probes Made of Proteins that Squid and Octopi Use to Change Color
The seemingly effortless and instantaneous colour and iridescence changes displayed by octopuses, squid and cuttlefish is one of Nature’s most amazing sights. Now, researchers have discovered how to use the... -
Thin and Ultra-fast Photodetector Sees the Full Spectrum
Researchers at RMIT in Australia have developed the world’s first photodetector that can see all shades of light, in a prototype device that radically shrinks one of the most fundamental elements of modern technology.... -
Echo Effect Offers New Possibilities for Working with Quantum Information
A research team from Garching and Vienna discovered a remarkable echo effect. What they found was that small particles can have an angular momentum that points in a certain direction - the spin. This spin can be manipulated by a... -
US DOE Offers $35 Million to Support R&D in Recycling, Reuse of Electronic Waste
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Reducing EMbodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Manufacturing Institute announced approximately $35 million to support research and development (R&D)... -
Mirror-Like Photovoltaics Get More Electricity Out of Heat
New heat-harnessing “solar” cells that reflect 99% of the energy they can’t convert to electricity could help bring down the price of storing renewable energy as heat, as well as harvesting waste heat from...
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Optical Tools Enable the Study of Microplastics
Plastics have only been around since the 1950s and yet they’re everywhere: scattered in our lakes, rivers, floating on the top of oceans, and dropping to the bottom. Back in the 1950s and 60s, plastics were hailed as a useful invention, used... -
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...
