University of California

Unique 3D printed electronic demonstrations

You are cordially invited to visit CERADROP MGI at the Printed Electronics USA 2015 Conference (Booth C12) to view live production demonstrations of the X-Series digital deposition system and reserve a personal presentation at the University of California Berkeley, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) Dept. Laboratory of Advanced 3D Electronic Printing.

Improved stability - the game changer for perovskite photovoltaics

Organo-lead halide perovskite materials, commonly used in high-efficiency perovskite solar cells, are materials that can easily decompose in moisture conditions. They cannot survive even for one day without proper encapsulation.

Chemist aims to put his nanohoops into future devices

Nanohoops, can be made using both carbon and other atoms. Because they efficiently absorb and distribute energy, they may be useful in solar cells, organic light-emitting diodes or as new sensors or probes for medicine.

Bathing suit cleans the water as you swim

A material created engineers is the key component of a swimsuit that won an international design competition for its ability to clean water as a person swims.

Powering marine science sensors with ambient energy

Researchers are assisting marine scientists with wildlife monitoring research and will explore energy harvesting from the environment, using elephant seals for the initial experiments.

Future tradeoffs analysed at IDTechEx conference

At IDTechEx's forthcoming event, Electric Vehicles: Everything is Changing, taking place in Santa Clara on Nov 18-19, there will be many presentations on the next wave of battery technology for electric vehicles.

Perovskite solar cells made stable by metal oxide sandwich

UCLA professor Yang Yang, member of the California NanoSystems Institute, is a world-renowned innovator of solar cell technology whose team in recent years has developed next-generation solar cells constructed of perovskite, which has remarkable efficiency converting sunlight to electricity.

Scientists grow organic semiconductor crystals vertically

Scientists have discovered a way to make organic semiconductors more powerful and more efficient.

Electric Vehicles: Everything is Changing 2015, Nov 18-19, Santa Clara

What to expect at the Future Battery Technology Session at IDTechEx's Electric Vehicles: Everything is Changing Show!

Making batteries with portabello mushrooms

Can portabello mushrooms stop cell phone batteries from degrading over time?

Graphene band gap heralds new electronics

Regular graphene has no band gap - its unusually rippled valence and conduction bands actually meet in places, making it more like a metal. Nonetheless, scientists have tried to tease them apart.

Single layer perovskite sheet rises to the fore

To the growing list of two-dimensional semiconductors, such as graphene, boron nitride, and molybdenum disulfide, whose unique electronic properties make them potential successors to silicon in future devices, you can now add hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites.

Magnetic fields provide a new way to communicate wirelessly

Engineers have demonstrated a new wireless communication technique that works by sending magnetic signals through the human body.

DNA-guided 3-D printing of human tissue is unveiled

Development of a technique to 3-D print tiny models of human tissues, called organoids, more precisely than ever before using a process that turns human cells into a biological equivalent of LEGO bricks.

Solar cell absorbs high-energy light at 30-fold higher concentration

By combining designer quantum dot light-emitters with spectrally matched photonic mirrors, a team of scientists created solar cells that collect blue photons at 30 times the concentration of conventional solar cells, the highest luminescent concentration factor ever recorded.

g2o

Dr Khasha Ghaffarzadeh caught up with Tim Harper from g2o to learn the latest news from the company, including developments following their recent grants and funding rounds.

These microscopic fish are 3-D-printed to do more than swim

Nanoengineers used an innovative 3D printing technology they developed to manufacture multipurpose fish-shaped microrobots - called micro fish - that swim around efficiently in liquids, are chemically powered by hydrogen peroxide and magnetically controlled.

A partnership to secure and protect the emerging Internet of Things

National Science Foundation and Intel Corporation team to improve the security and privacy of computing systems that interact with the physical world using a new cooperative research model.

Hydrogen fuel cell technology for maritime applications

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration has announced that it is providing $500,000 to support a feasibility study for the design, construction, and operation of a high-speed passenger ferry powered by hydrogen fuel cell technology and a hydrogen refueling station.

Water-splitting project may boost clean power research

By smoothing the surface of the mineral hematite, a team of researchers achieved "unassisted" water-splitting, using the abundant rust-like mineral and silicon to capture and store solar hydrogen.