Light can generate an electrical current in semiconductor materials. This is how solar cells generate electricity from sunlight and how smart phone cameras can take photographs. To collect the ...

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (12/18/2017) -- Light can generate an electrical current in semiconductor materials. This is how solar cells generate electricity from sunlight and how smart phone cameras can ...

Jason Murdock is a staff reporter for Newsweek. Based in London, Murdock previously covered cybersecurity for the International Business Times UK and B2B tech for V3.co.uk. Winner of The Drum's ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Polymers are ideal for energy storage for transportation due to their light weight, scalability, low-cost manufacturing, and high dielectric strength. Dielectrics are materials ...

The fascinating properties of light and its electromagnetic partner electricity have been the focus for a great deal of physics research over the centuries. So, with all these years of study, it could ...

Certain materials can be used to rotate the direction in which the light is oscillating. This is known as a 'magneto-optical' effect. One variant of this type of effect has now been demonstrated for ...

A team of scientists from the University of Chicago and Penn State University has accidentally discovered a new way of using light to draw and erase quantum-mechanical circuits in a unique class of ...

Porcelain insulators have long been integral to electrical power systems, valued for their high dielectric strength, durability and reliability under challenging environmental conditions. Their ...

Superconductivity — where electrical resistance drops and current continues without power — is a unique property used to enable MRI machines and particle accelerators, but its temperature-based ...