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How Nanotechnology Has Helped to Realize Flexible and Wearable Electronics

On 十二月 10, 2018 in All, Energy Harvesting, Industrial, IoT, Medical, Sensors by Liam Critchley

Flexible and wearable electronics are rapidly growing industries. The development and growth of these devices are due to the benefits and specific properties of the nanomaterials that are commonly used within these devices. Here we look at why nanomaterials are used in these electronic devices.

Tagged With: 2D materials, Carbon Nanotubes, Flexible electronics, Graphene, Health monitoring, Hexagonal Boron Nitride, Laptops, Medical, Nanotechnology, OLED, Phones, Polymers, Quantum Dots, Sensors, Solar cells, TMDCs, Touch screens, Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, Wearable electronics

Understanding the Chemistry of Semiconductor Junctions

On 九月 21, 2018 in All, Energy Harvesting, Industrial, Power by Liam Critchley

Chemistry plays a major part in why semiconductor materials behave the way they do, and why current can flow through a p-n semiconducting junction. Here, we discuss what effect chemistry has on these junctions, including some of the mechanistic variations that exist in electronics today.