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Watching crystals grow provides clues to making smoother, defect-free thin films (Science Daily)
To make thin films for semiconductors in electronic devices, layers of atoms must be grown in neat, crystalline sheets. But while some materials grow smooth crystals, others tend to develop bumps and defects — a serious problem for thin-film manufacturing. Physicists shed new light on how atoms arrange themselves into thin films. (read on…) Related items Spasers... »
High-tech origami: Water droplets direct self-assembly process in thin-film materials (Science Daily)
Researchers have developed a technique for fabricating 3-D, single-crystalline silicon structures from thin films by coupling photolithography and a self-folding process driven by capillary interactions. (read here…) Related items Water droplets direct self-assembly process in thin-film materials (PhysOrg) Water droplets direct self-assembly process in thin-film materials (EurekAlert!) Single-Step Doping Process Developed for Graphene (Newswise) A huge step toward mass production... »
Water droplets direct self-assembly process in thin-film materials (PhysOrg)
You can think of it as origami - very high-tech origami. Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a technique for fabricating three-dimensional, single-crystalline silicon structures from thin films by coupling photolithography and a self-folding process driven by capillary interactions. (read here…) Related items Water droplets direct self-assembly process in thin-film materials (EurekAlert!) High-tech origami: Water droplets... »
Water droplets direct self-assembly process in thin-film materials (EurekAlert!)
Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a technique for fabricating 3-D, single-crystalline silicon structures from thin films by coupling photolithography and a self-folding process driven by capillary interactions. (more…) Related items Water droplets direct self-assembly process in thin-film materials (PhysOrg) High-tech origami: Water droplets direct self-assembly process in thin-film materials (Science Daily) Illinois’ AuraSense garners $2.5M investment... »
Natcore Initiates Sponsored Research Program With Rice University to Explore Quantum-Dot Tandem Solar Cells (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire - 09/23/09) - Natcore Technology Inc. (TSX-V: NXT - News ) (”Natcore” or the “Company”) reports that it has signed a Sponsored Research Agreement with Rice University to develop thin films incorporating silicon quantum dots. These quantum dots are an important step in the development of tandem solar cells that could... »
