Researchers find optimal pattern for solar harvesting

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Organic solar cells design could lead to more efficient, less expensive solar power.

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Organic ferroelectric material for future electronics applications

Electrical response overlaid on the newly characterized organic molecular crystal. Image: Jiangyu Li, University of Washington.

Researchers have discovered a molecule that shows promise as an organic alternative to today’s silicon-based semiconductors.

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Cobalt/organic nanomagnets for molecular electronics

The layer system of cobalt (bottom) and organic molecules can serve to store magnetic information that is indicated in the image by ones and zeros. The green and red arrows show the orientation of the spin. Image: Forschungszentrum Jülich.

International researcher team develop method for producing magnets for information technology.

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Ultra-thin organics for creating better CMOS sensors

Strong performance: During tests, the organic sensors proved to be up to three times more sensitive to light than conventional CMOS sensors. Image: Photo: A. Heddergott / TUM.

Organic sensors developed at TU Munich increase light sensitivity of cameras.

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New organic metamaterials developed with mechanical metaproperties

Under an electron microscope the material is revealed to consist of tiny "bird's nests" of tangled DNA, top, which are tied together by more DNA stands into a mass, bottom. The tangled structure creates many tiny spaces that absorb water like a sponge. Image: Luo Lab.

A new hydrogel created by Cornell researchers is so soft that it can flow like a liquid and then return to its original shape.

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Improved materials for all-optical signal processing

SEM image of waveguide

Alex Jen and co-workers publish work describing a new series of anionic polymethine dyes, designed for application in improved guest-host materials.

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Tuning high quantum efficiency in light-emitting organic materials

Fluorescence Emission of Polydiphenylacetylene Films

Researchers demonstrate that the fluorescence of PDPA in solid film can be tuned by copolymerization of monomers with different alkyl side chain lengths.

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Approaching an Organic Semi-metal

Approaching an organic semi-metal

Zwitterion films with a significant bandwidth in the intermolecular band dispersion show evidence of electron pockets at the Fermi Level.

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