A new material provides high-performance conversion of heat into electricity, offering a way to make electronic devices more ...

By shining a focused laser beam onto a sample of material, a team at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and ETH Zürich showed ...

Addressing the staggering power and energy demands of artificial intelligence, engineers at the University of Houston have developed a revolutionary new thin-film material that promises to make AI ...

A research team from the Energy & Environment Materials Research Division, led by Drs. Dong-Chan Lim and So-Yeon Kim, have created a next-generation thin-film material technology that substantially ...

A recent SNS Insider report indicates that the Thin Film Material Market size was USD 13.25 billion in 2023 and is expected to reach USD 18.99 billion by 2031, witnessing a CAGR of 4.6% over the ...

Thermoplastic films have been used in flexible medical product applications since the 1960s, when plasticized polyvinyl chloride (PVC) blood storage bags replaced glass bottles. 1 In the 1970s, PVC ...

Imagine having a super-powered lens that uncovers hidden secrets of ultra-thin materials used in our gadgets. Research led by University of Florida engineering professor Megan Butala enables a novel ...

Diboride thin films represent a class of advanced ceramic coatings that combine outstanding hardness, high melting points and excellent electrical and thermal conductivity. These films play a crucial ...

Researchers create a scalable thin-film X-ray material, enabling large-area, customizable detectors for medicine, industry, security and science. (Nanowerk News) Most people picture a doctor checking ...

Recent developments in thick-film and thin-film technologies enable higher power ratings in a given chip size. It is well known that thin-film resistive elements provide a number of performance ...

Often no thicker than a piece of paper, thin-film solar panels are among the least visible advancements in renewable energy technology today. Unlike traditional silicon panels, which are rigid and ...