Physicists explain the exceptional energy-harvesting efficiency of perovskites

Despite being riddled with impurities and defects, solution-processed lead-halide perovskites are surprisingly efficient at ...
Ars Technica

Silicon plus perovskite solar reaches 34 percent efficiency

As the price of silicon panels has continued to come down, we’ve reached the point where they’re a small and shrinking cost of building a solar farm. That means that it might be worth spending more to ...
Business Wire

OKI Develops Tiling crystal film bonding (CFB) Technology for Heterogeneous Integration of Optical Semiconductors onto 300 mm Silicon Wafers

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OKI (TOKYO: 6703) has successfully developed Tiling crystal film bonding (CFB; Note 1) technology using its proprietary CFB technology. This technology makes possible the ...
C&EN

Aromatic 5-silicon rings synthesized at last

Move over cyclopentadiene anion—there’s a new five-membered aromatic ring in town, and this one is made of silicon. Two research teams working independently report the first examples of ...