US Solar Industry Could Catch Gold Fever From US Air Force
The US solar industry could be the future beneficiary of a flurry of gold nanoparticle research supported by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
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Brace Yourself, Here Comes The Plasmonic Solar Cell Of The Future
We’ve been keeping tabs on the plasmonics scene for a while and we just got wind of an interesting new development from the Netherlands in partnership with Caltech.
Black Metals Beat A New Path To Solar Cell Efficiency
It looks like black is the new black when it comes to solar cell efficiency. A team of researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has come up with a way to increase solar cell efficiency, by creating “black metals” etched with nanoscale structures that harvest energy from wavelengths all … [continued]
Stanford Engineers Weld Nanowires with Light
By Andrew Myers One area of intensive research at the nanoscale is the creation of electrically conductive meshes made of metal nanowires. Promising exceptional electrical throughput, low cost and easy processing, engineers foresee a day when such meshes are common in new generations of touch-screens, video displays, light-emitting diodes, … [continued]
Waffle Iron Inspires “Sputnik Moment” for Low Cost Solar Power
When President Obama recently called for a “Sputnik moment” to inspire a new generation of American innovation, he probably did not expect researchers at Stanford University to answer with a waffle iron. However, that pretty much summed up what happened, at least in the nanoscale world of plasmonics. It could … [continued]
