Webinar: Tuesday, June 14, 10—10:45 AM PDT/1—1:45PM EDTAttention startups, small businesses, and entrepreneurs: The National Science Foundation (NSF) is now soliciting proposals for its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which means that money is on the table...
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Every year, US News & World Report publishes its annual ranking of the best graduate schools and programs.  For the materials engineering programs, what are the changes between the 2016 and 2017 rankings? MSE Supplies (www.msesupplies.com) has compiled the ranking data and found some interesting movement of ranking spots of some schools. Â
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The best-performing cell, which contains the FTO/Bl-TiO2/mp-TiO2+CH3NH3PbBr3 (~2-nm QDs)/PTAA/Au configuration shows the following results: open-circuit voltage (VOC)=1.110 V, current density (JSC)=14.07 mA cm−2, fill factor=0.73 and an 11.40% PCE.   MSE Supplies is a leading supplier of both standard and custom-made...
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The world’s highest efficiency solar cells have been developed at the University of New South Wales, which could eventually lead to zero-energy buildings equipped with ultra-thin panels. The cells are made from CZTS, a mixture of copper, zinc, tin, and sulphur;...
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Large optical nonlinearity of indium tin oxide in its epsilon-near-zero region Authors: M. Zahirul Alam, Israel De Leon, Robert W. BoydScience 28 Apr 2016:DOI: 10.1126/science.aae0330 Â By Amy Nordrum Posted 28 Apr 2016 There are plenty of reasons...
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Journal of the American Chemical Society published a new paper on April 18, 2016, titled "Exceptional Morphology-Preserving Evolution of Formamidinium Lead Triiodide Perovskite Thin Films via Organic-Cation Displacement". Â Â Perovskites, thin films of crystalline materials, are a promising...
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