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A new wave of companies are focusing on microchips designed for clean energy technology.
Solar is becoming a major player in electricity generation and scientists are trying to boost its efficiency still further.
A new generation of flexible solar cells has been pioneered using a material known as perovskite.
The world’s solar panels rely on technology pioneered in Australia. Now our researchers are working on ultra-low-cost, high efficiency solar cells.
There are ‘jewels’ among the piles of ash that remain once sugarcane’s fibrous material is burned.
Semiconductor chips are electronic devices that store and process information. Today they can contain billions of microscopic switches on a chip smaller than a fingernail.
Silicon is cheap and a good semiconductor, but it’s bulky and rigid. Using organic polymers as semiconductors could yield solar panels with the physical characteristics of plastics.
Organic semiconductors could make possible energy-generating windows that double as movie screens or computer displays.
The fossil fuel era won’t last forever. And a new set of countries will find their reserves of lithium, copper and rare earth metals are in high demand.
As electronic transistors get tinier, they approach a point at which they won’t be able to get smaller. How can we keep shrinking our devices, and making them more powerful at the same time? Light.
As we reach the limits of what can be done with silicon, the search for new and improved superconductors is on.
Silicon isn’t the perfect semiconductor, it’s just the one we’re using. How can we ensure our electronics keep get getting faster in the face of silicon’s natural physical limits?
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