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Mitsubishi Electric achieves Worlds highest conversion efficiency rate of 18.6 percent in a 150-millimeter square multi-crystalline silicon solar cell

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2008-03-19 11:45:08 by HASH0x8b2abc0 in Fareastgizmos.com
...crystalline silicon solar cell, an improvement of 0.6 percent over the companys previous record. In a 150-millimeter square practical-use multi-crystalline silicon solar cell, Mitsubishi Electric has achieved the worlds highest conversion efficiency rate of 18.6 percent by adding a low reflectivity surface texture on the multi-crystalline...
 
Tags: silicon, silicon solar cell, silicon wafer, mitsubishi electric, efficiency, conversion efficiency, percent, 150-millimeter square practical, 150-millimeter square practical-use
 
 
 
 
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Nanowire storage system has a creamy crystalline center, stores 3 bits

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2008-07-02 17:50:48 by Devin Coldewey in CrunchGear
...crystalline structure in the tiny wires by an electrical pulse and itll stay that way - so all they have to do is decide whats a 0, whats a 1, and in this case whats a 2 as well This kind of customizable, non-volatile storage medium could be very handy for extremely small electronics that cant power a solid-state disk or hard drive. Bonus :...
 
Tags: alternative storage stuff, non-volatile storage medium, two-layer nanowire, hard drive, electrical pulse, store information, crystalline structure, tiny wires, disk
 
 
 
 
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Scientists Achieve Organized 3D Nanomaterials With Help of DNA

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2008-01-31 08:00:02 by Michael in Medgadget
...crystalline form would appear Results from a variety of analysis techniques, including small angle x-ray scattering at the National Synchrotron Light Source and dynamic light scattering and different types of optical spectroscopies and electron microscopy at the CFN, were combined to reveal the detail of the ordered structures and the...
 
Tags: dna, dna designs, scientists, dna molecules, nanoparticles, gold nanoparticles, dna flexibility, thermal expansion, significant thermal expansion
 
 
 
 
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Freeloader Solar Charger

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2007-10-07 10:25:00 by Grupo Gavilán in Green Gadget Inspector
...crystalline solar cells 1000mAh environmentally friendly Li-ion battery with a typical battery life of 2 years Freeloaders solar panels can charge its internal battery in as little as 5 hours or 3 hours when using the supplied USB charging cable Supplied with a computer USB charging cable Supplied with a power master cable and twelve adaptors...
 
Tags: usb charge cable, charge cable, freeloader, charge, cable, power master cable, usb, computer usb, battery charge
 
 
 
 
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NanoFlakes

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2008-02-04 11:51:00 by Rafa Minuesa in Tiny Gadget Inspector
...crystalline structure. That is a very rare sight. While being a perfect crystalline structure we could see that it also absorbed all light. It could become the perfect solar cell," "The potential is unmistakeable. We can reduce the solar cell production costs because we use less of the expensive semiconducting silicium in the process due to...
 
Tags: solar cell, solar cell technology, perfect solar cell, solar cell efficiency, energy, solar cells based, solar energy, solar cells, semiconductor nanostructures named
 
 
 
 
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Intel Doubles Capacity of Phase-Change Memory, the Next Step After Flash [Progress]

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2008-02-04 15:05:22 by Adam Frucci in Gizmodo
...crystalline). Now, Intel has discovered that there are two more distinct states between amorphous and crystalline that can be used to store information, doubling the capacity of the memory Phase-change is superior to flash as it's much faster. It's as fast as the DRAM and SRAM that's used in conjunction with flash memory now. When...
 
Tags: phase-change memory, memory, phase-change memory differs, memory technologies, flash memory drop, flash memory, phase-change, flash, capacity
 
 
 
 
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Organic Metal Hybrids Promise Materials of the Future

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2008-02-19 10:01:26 by Michael in Medgadget
...crystalline solids that form in highly regular patterns from solutions, just as salts and sugars do. Researchers need to learn how to manipulate the starting conditions to obtain just the crystalline composition and arrangement they want ESF: Novel organic metal hybrids revolutionise materials science and chemical engineering
 
Tags: materials, mofs, design mofs, mofs enables, storage, gas storage, innovative materials, mofs offer, gas
 
 
 
 
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Researchers Show How Nanomaterials Misbehave

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2008-03-26 18:21:23 by Michael in Medgadget
...crystalline or amorphous, for examplehave an effect on the observed ductility and tensile strength because those factors influence the mobility of surface atoms. In the simulations, the smaller the particles in the aggregate the more ductile the material behaved. Crystalline structures exhibited greater strength when stressed and deformed...
 
Tags: brittle, brittle cousins, brittle material, ductility, nanoscale ductility, nanoscale, atoms, surface atoms, properties
 
 
 
 
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X-Ray Linear Accelerator, A New Ultra-Microscope Into Life

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2008-06-13 06:18:20 by Michael in Medgadget
...crystalline material is revealed by analyzing the way X-ray beams are scattered from electrons in the crystal--the energy-recovery linac offers significant advantages. For one, materials subjected to ultrabright X-ray pulses need not be in crystalline form. And the tightly focused beam allows studies at much smaller scales As envisioned and...
 
Tags: linear accelerator, electrons, recycles electrons billions, energy, reuse energy, energy-recovery linac, cornell university, linac, beam