Science news articles about 'polymer thin films'

... Solar Cells and Nanowires Meet As in more traditional organic polymer thin-film solar cells ... to their electrode means that researchers can make thin-film polymer solar cells that are a little bit ...

... inside the polymer film of a solar cell behaves differently when the film is ultra thin. A film ... savings in material costs, as the organic polymer thin films and other materials used are less expensive than silicon ...

... leads to a continuously conductive thin film comprised of a single monolayer of polymer nanofibers. The uniformity ... development." Other techniques exist for creating thin films of conducting polymers, but each technique tends ...

... better design and engineering for a variety of thin-film technologies, particularly reverse- ... , 10 days. "It may be an aging effect in polymers," says Stafford. "We're continuing to study that to ...