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New Low Cost Photovoltaic Base Material for High Efficiency Solar Cells

IMEC, one of the leading European research centers in photovoltaics, and BP Solar, a leading energy company, demonstrated a 18% conversion efficiency for silicon solar cells made of BP Solar's newly developed Mono2 T...

From IMEC 6 Oct 2009

Researchers Develop Self-Referencing Optrode that Can Measure Oxygen Intake in Real Time

A fiber-optic sensor created by a team of Purdue University researchers that is capable of measuring oxygen intake rates could have broad applications ranging from plant root development to assessing the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs.

5 Oct 2009

Resolving Some of the Problems Scientists Face in Quantum Mechanics

Using quantum systems to simulate other quantum systems could resolve some of the problems scientists face in quantum mechanics. A review in Science this week (Friday October 2nd) outlines the main theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum simulation and emphasizes some of the challenges and promises of this fast-growing field.

2 Oct 2009

Max Planck Chooses Mobius Photonics for STED Microscopy Experiment

Mobius Photonics, an innovative producer of short pulsed fiber laser sources (IR, green, and UV laser), announces that its G1+ Laser System has been used in stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy experiments at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Göttingen, Germany).

30 Sep 2009

Plasmonic Nanoguides and Circuits

Research and Market, has announced the addition of Pan Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd.'s new report "Plasmonic Nanoguides and Circuits" to their offering. Modern communication systems dealing with huge am...

From Research and Markets 29 Sep 2009

Researchers Successfully Reduced Size of X-Ray Sources

A team at the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics of Ludwig Maximilian's University of Munich and Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching has succeeded in reducing X-ray sources of typically several kilometres in size to the dimensions of a dining table. This involved a new method using a combination of laser light and hydrogen plasma.

29 Sep 2009