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First LEDs fabricated on amorphous glass substrates
… Korea) have demonstrated the first LEDs to be fabricated on amorphous glass substrates. Because gallium nitride (GaN)-based ..... Si ) are an improved alternative. However, GaN LEDs on amorphous glass substrates offer even lower manufacturing costs, easier …
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Novel organic semiconductors from SmartKem best amorphous silicon
… SmartKem Limited, organic semiconductor materials and ink maker, tested its advanced semiconductor materials against amorphous silicon at the UK’s National Printable Electronics Technology Centre (PETEC) , where it achieved better thin-film …
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a-Si PV efficiency chases c-Si thanks to nano-structuring
… Technological University (NTU) used a nanostructure texture on amorphous silicon (a-Si) to boost solar cell efficiency without ..... crystalline-silicon (c-Si) solar cells , researchers report. Amorphous silicon is over 100x thinner than crystalline silicon and …
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a-Si, nano-Si PV developers order MVS tools
… received several tool orders for thin-film silicon photovoltaics development. The cluster tools will be used to develop amorphous and nano-silicon solar cells, as well as advanced heterojunction designs. MVS PECVD and sputtering process chambers order …
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3D micro-structuring, OLED display fab nab laser awards
… throughput over typical Gen-4 tools. In ELA, a laser processes amorphous silicon (a-Si) into low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS ..... orders of magnitude higher than the electron mobility of an amorphous silicon backplane. The output power of 1.2 kW was achieved …
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Creating phase-change memory devices with GeTe thin films
… to switch between crystalline and amorphous states. But the inherent instability of these materials in their amorphous states reduces the archival life of the ..... changed from its crystal phase to its amorphous phase by applying low voltages …
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Progress in Printed Electronics: An Interview with PARC’s Janos Veres
… metals, organic, oxide, and silicon ( amorphous , polycrystalline, printed nanowire ..... that they might one day compete with amorphous silicon,” Veres notes. “That’s ..... that are now performing better than what amorphous silicon offers. The progress will not …
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Thinfilm, PARC Win Award for Printed Addressable Memory
… We never believed that they might one day compete with amorphous silicon," Veres notes. "That's happened and probably ..... can build devices that are now performing better than what amorphous silicon offers. The progress will not stop there. We might …
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Conference Report: MRS Spring 2012, Day 5
… oxides have been synthesized and screened using a high throughput experimentation protocol developed in his lab. Thick film amorphous oxides are synthesized in parallel on a 64 cell multi-electrode ceramic substrate and fired concurrently, mimicking the …
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Thin-film solar PV suppliers unite under "PVThin" banner
… selenides, and tellurides, rather than oxides," the group says. That definition intentionally excludes, say, thin-film amorphous silicon (a-Si), preferring instead to emphasize chalcogenide compounds' "unique electrical and physical properties …
