Solution-processed organic solar modules with 10% power conversion efficiency
A new formulation for manufacturing organic solar panels exhibits an impressive, certified power conversion efficiency to help bring this technology closer to commercialization. Organic solar cells are a promising alternative to conventional PV solar panels, offering lighter-weight materials, flexibility, transparency, and low-cost manufacturing. They use organic molecules such as conductive polymers or small molecules to […]
Reducing traps increases performance of organic photodetectors
Flexible organic photodetectors (OPDs) have a huge potential for applications in low-cost imaging, health monitoring and near infrared sensing. Credit: Christian Körner Physicists at the Dresden Integrated Center for Applied Physics and Photonic Materials (IAPP) discovered that trap states rule the performance of organic photodetectors, ultimately limiting their detectivity. These highly promising results have now […]
Determining Dissolved Organic Carbon Flows into the Gulf of Alaska
Amid ongoing climate change, understanding how and where carbon is moving across ecosystems has become a top research priority. This type of “carbon accounting” helps scientists determine where the planet is sequestering and releasing atmosphere-warming carbon compounds and is especially important at the boundaries between different ecosystems. In a new study, Edwards et […]
Organic meats found to have approximately the same greenhouse impact as regular meats
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A trio of researchers from the Technical University of Munich, the University of Greifswald and the University of Augsburg have found that the meat production process for organic meats produces approximately the same amounts of greenhouse gases as does the conventional meat production process. In their paper published in the journal […]
Key building block for organic molecules discovered in meteorites
IMAGE: A fragment of the Murchison meteorite, one of the three carbon-rich meteorites that was sampled in this study (Photo: Daniel P. Glavin). view more Credit: Daniel P. Glavin Scientists from Japan and the USA have confirmed the presence in meteorites of a key organic molecule which may have been used to build other organic molecules, […]
Novel glass materials made from organic and inorganic components
IMAGE: Dr Courtney Calahoo from the University of Jena presents organic glass (l.) and inorganic glass (r.) – two starting materials for the new composite glass. view more Credit: Image: Jens Meyer/University of Jena Cambridge/Jena (16.11.2020) Linkages between organic and inorganic materials are a common phenomenon in nature, e.g., in the construction of bones and skeletal […]
Scientists develop method to detect charge traps in organic semiconductors
Lead author, Nasim Zarrabi measuring the photo-response of organic solar cells at Optoelectronics Laboratory of Swansea University. Credit: Swansea University Scientists at Swansea University have developed a very sensitive method to detect the tiny signatures of so called ‘charge traps’ in organic semiconductors. The research, published in Nature Communications and supported by the Welsh Government […]
Increasing the efficiency of organic solar cells — ScienceDaily
Organic solar cells are cheaper to produce and more flexible than their counterparts made of crystalline silicon, but do not offer the same level of efficiency or stability. A group of researchers led by Prof. Christoph Brabec, Director of the Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET) at the Chair of Materials Science […]
Pristine 'fireball’ meteorite contains extraterrestrial organic compounds
The meteorite was recovered from a frozen lake in Hamburg, Michigan in January 2018. (Brannon Naito/) Meteorites are little bundles of scientific evidence, holding secrets to deep space and how life was seeded on Earth. The problem is, it’s rare that they’re actually recovered before they are contaminated by liquid water and terrestrial microbes, rendering […]
‘Fireball’ meteorite that crashed in Michigan holds extraterrestrial organic compounds
A meteorite that landed on a frozen lake in 2018 contains thousands of organic compounds that formed billions of years ago and could hold clues about the origins of life on Earth. The meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere on Jan. 16, 2018, after a very long journey through the freezing vacuum of space, lighting up skies […]
