Solarmer Energy Inc., founded in 2006 to commercialise polymer solar cell technology developed by the Yang Yang group at UCLA, are using a new semiconducting material (”PTB1″) invented by University of Chicago chemists.
The University licensed the patent rights to the technology to Solarmer last September. The license covers several polymers under development in Yu’s [...]
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed flexible photodetectors consisting of 250 nm thick single-crystal germanium membranes transferred onto 175 µm thick PET substrates using a dry printing technique. This could allow distortion-free photos without the need for fancy lenses.
Inspired by the human eye, Ma’s curved photodetector could eliminate that distortion. In the eye, light enters [...]