and computer screens may seem worlds apart but they're not. When associate professor Qi Hua Fan of the electrical engineering and computer science department set out to make a less expensive supercapacitor for storing renewable energy he developed a new plasma technology that will streamline the production of display screens.
For his work on thin film and plasma technologies Fan was named researcher of the year for the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering.
His research focuses on nanostructured materials used for photovoltaics energy storage and displays. Last spring Fan received a proof-of-concept grant from the Department of energy through the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center to determine
Applied Nanofilms and Wintek a company that makes flat panel displays for notebooks and touch screens in Ann arbor Michigan provided matching funds.
Through this project Fan developed a faster way of treating the biochar particles using a new technology called plasma activation.
The technique that treats biochar electrodes for supercapacitors can also be used in making displays explained Fan who was a research scientist at Wintek more than 10 years ago.
Since last fall Fan has been collaborating with Wintek on ways of producing more efficient better performing materials such as silicon and carbon thin films for the company's displays.
The high-energy plasma can deposit highly transparent and conductive thin films create high quality semiconductors and pattern micro-or nanoscale devices thus making the display images brighter and clearer.
or computer screen that are produced solely by combinations of red, green and blue pixels. The yellows, oranges and purples those displays make,
however, are a trick of perception, not of physics. Red and blue light are experienced simply simultaneously,
and monitor the current through the nanotube,"says Zang, a professor with USTAR, the Utah Science Technology and Research economic development initiative."
high energy densities for future flexible electronic devices such as smart electronics and roll up displays. y
#New self-assembly method for fabricating graphene nanoribbons First characterized in 2004 graphene is a two-dimensional material with extraordinary properties.
and optimization of the device which is based on a phosphor screen and single-walled carbon nanotubes as electrodes in a diode structure.
The electrons then fly through the vacuum in the cavity and hit the phosphor screen into glowing.
In my opinion the best nanosystems are going to be done by 3-D printing because it would bypass the problems of standard microfabrication Velsquez-Garca says.
3-D printing is going to make a big difference in the kinds of systems we can put together
and bendable smart displays poses a challenge to manufacturers. They want to offer consumers flexible touchscreen technology but at an affordable and realistic price.
Co-author Professor Jonathan Coleman AMBER added This is a real alternative to ITO displays and could replace existing touchscreen technologies in electronic devices.
Gallium nitride micro-rods grown on graphene substrates Bendy light-emitting diode (LED) displays and solar cells crafted with inorganic compound semiconductor micro-rods are moving one step closer to reality thanks to graphene and the work of a team of researchers in Korea.
and optoelectronics devices such as flexible and wearable LED displays for commercial use said Yi. Explore further:
Because picene displays its high carrier mobility when exposed to oxygen the researchers hope to investigate its properties under varying levels of oxygen exposure
The researchers have shown that these display similar properties to those of a classic p-n-junction
and electricity better than any other known materialas potential industrial uses that include flexible electronic displays, high-speed computing, stronger wind turbine blades,
with the transistor and display processing steps that Plastic Logic has developed already for flexible electronics.
The new prototype is an active matrix electrophoretic display, similar to the screens used in today's e readers,
except it is made of flexible plastic instead of Glass in contrast to conventional displays, the pixel electronics,
or backplane, of this display includes a solution-processed graphene electrode, which replaces the sputtered metal electrode layer within Plastic Logic's conventional devices,
bringing product and process benefits. Graphene is more flexible than conventional ceramic alternatives like indium-tin oxide (ITO) and more transparent than metal films.
For this prototype, the backplane was combined with an electrophoretic imaging film to create an ultra-low power and durable display.
"We are happy to see our collaboration with Plastic Logic resulting in the first graphene-based electrophoretic display exploiting graphene in its pixels'electronics,
This will target the realisation of an advanced, full colour, OELD based display within the next 12 months h
S protein displays is much lower than ours, "says Burkhard.""The homogeneity of our vaccine is much higher,
"Every single protein chain that forms our particle displays one of the pathogen's protein molecules that are recognized by the immune system,
which are prevalent in electronic displays), future applications of this technique to other industries appears straight forward."
#Conductive nanofiber networks for flexible unbreakable and transparent electrodes Transparent conductors are required as electrodes in optoelectronic devices, such as touch panel screens, liquid crystal displays, and solar cells.
Examples of applications are large displays, large interactive touch screens, photovoltaic solar panels, light-emitting diode panels, smart phones,
Researchers use aluminum nanostructures for photorealistic printing of plasmonic color palettes More information: Zheng B. Y. Wang Y. Nordlander P. and Halas N. J. 2014) Color-Selective and CMOS-Compatible Photodetection Based on Aluminum Plasmonics.
and for flexible displays and touch screens. They can be used in rubberlike electronic devices that, unlike paperlike electronic devices, can stretch as well as bend.
the new holograms could have applications in 3d displays and information storage devices, among others.""This experiment is inspired by the very unique optical properties shown by the Lycurgus cup,
"Furthermore, this concept can be applied as the basis to produce dynamic three-dimensional color displays. In the area of informatics, these holographic configurations could store information in subwavelength areas.
"Future research is focused on the study of mechanisms for the tuning the plasmonic effect for display applications,
"The main goal is the integration of new modulation schemes to produce ultra-thin displays and dynamic holograms
#Graphene rubber bands could stretch limits of current healthcare New research published today in the journal ACS Nano identifies a new type of sensor that can monitor body movements
which offer the possibility of mass production by using the conventional printing technology and working with low-cost materials.
It was made by inkjet printing of an organic field-effect transistor (OFET) and subsequent functionalization of the insulator with specific antibodies.
The Biofet designed at ICN2 represents an important starting point for the design and fabrication of flexible organic biosensing devices by inkjet printing.
Formation of organic thin-film transistors through room-temperature printing More information: Mariana Medina-Sánchez Carme Martínez-Domingo Eloi Ramon Arben Merkoçi.
His team has made ultrathin nanowires that can monitor and influence what goes on inside cells.
For example it might eventually be embed possible to these printed flexible optoelectronic devices into clothes packaging wall papers posters touch screens or even buildings.
Everybody with a printer at home will be able to print their own artificial eye and physically stick it to a flexible mobile phone Felice said.
This represents a strong limitation for flexible electronics in a wide range of applications from active matrix displays to ultrafast light detectors and gas sensors.
and can be printed by a standard inkjet printer. The graphene-based ink enables cost-effective printed electronics on plastic.
and does not require much processing after printing. We used a simple sonication and centrifugation process to unveil graphene potential in inks
#An anti-glare anti-reflective display for mobile devices? If you've ever tried to watch a video on a tablet on a sunny day,
which continue to plague even the best mobile displays today. Valerio Pruneri and colleagues note that much effort has been poured into anti-reflective and anti-glare technology.
But for the most part, that hasn't included an integrated anti-glare, anti-reflective display. Users still typically have to dish out extra cash for a filter
or filmome of questionable effectivenesso lay on top of their glass screens so they can use the devices in bright light.
But the existing technique doesn't work well with glass, the material of choice for many electronic displays
uses 3-D printing technology that can be implemented now i
#New approach may be key to quantum dot solar cells with real gains in efficiency (Phys. org) Los alamos researchers have demonstrated an almost fourfold boost of the carrier multiplication yield with nanoengineered quantum dots.
Even heads-up displays on vehicle dashboards could soon be a reality. The new technology also has major medical implications.
#Shatterproof screens that save smartphones University of Akron polymer scientists have developed a transparent electrode that could change the face of smartphones, literally,
by making their displays shatterproof. In a recently published scientific paper, researchers demonstrated how a transparent layer of electrodes on a polymer surface could be extraordinarily tough and flexible,
"The annoying problem of cracked smartphone screens may be solved once and for all with this flexible touchscreen. The team's findings are published in the American Chemical Society's journal ACS Nano in the article titled"A Tough and High-performance Transparent Electrode from a Scalable and Transfer-Free Method
which can be used to screen for diabetes in resource-poor settings has been developed by researchers and tested in diabetic patients,
A low-cost, reusable sensor which uses nanotechnology to screen for and monitor diabetes and other conditions, has been developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Cambridge, for use both in clinics and home settings.
The sensors use nanotechnology to monitor levels of glucose, lactate and fructose in individuals with diabetes or urinary tract infections
Earlier this year, clinical trials of the sensors were carried out at Addenbrooke's Hospital to monitor glucose levels in 33 diabetic patients.
"These sensors can be used to screen for diabetes in resource-poor countries, where disposable test strips and other equipment are simply not affordable,
#Flexible transparent thin film transistors raise hopes for flexible screens (Phys. org) he electronics world has been dreaming for half a century of the day you can roll a TV up in a tube.
Thin film transistors are a particular subset of these that are used typically in screens and displays.
Virtually all flat-screen TVS and smartphones are made up of thin film transistors today; they form the basis of both LEDS and LCDS (liquid crystal displays."
nearly invisible screen,"said Andreas Roelofs, a coauthor on the paper and interim director of Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials."
"Imagine a normal window that doubles as a screen whenever you turn it on, for example."
so you could make not just a screen but an entire flexible and transparent TV or computer."
The device monitors these changes the magnitude of which are directly related to the concentration/number of markers in the patient blood
#Liver-like device via 3-D printer (Phys. org) Nanoengineers at the University of California San diego have developed a 3-D-printed device inspired by the liver to remove dangerous toxins
Woven into uniforms the battery-like supercapacitors could power displays or transistors used for communication.
and display the translated version. It's not the first gadget to tinker with the idea
or 3-D painting#(you know like printing) could also be used to make entirely new parts.
A 3-D Printer Made From E waste#The circle of electronic life: useless printer scraps become a way to print scraps of other things!
Resourceful 33-year-old inventor Kodjo Afate Gnikou of the West african country Togo has created a cheap DIY 3-D printer out of electronic waste scavenged from junk yards.
Gnikou is part of Woelab a hackerspace in the city of Lomã as well as a geographer and an occasional maintenance technician according to a crowd funding page for his project.
All together the printer ended up costing him about $100 a far cry from the hundreds or thousands of dollars you'd shell out to buy one.
He and his printer system are#part of this year's NASA International Space Apps Challenge in Paris proposing to use e waste to make 3-D printers that would print tools to colonize Mars. euronews
#Watch A 3-D Printer Make A Pizza#This summer we heard about a 3-D printer for food developed with NASA funding
Now#lo and behold the printer has shown up at SXSW Eco and we caught a short demonstration from the makers a group from#Systems and Materials Research Corporation.
The printer#served up a pie made with dough#ketchup and cream cheese(?.The printer is still in its earliest stages so the creators haven't quite perfected the process.
Instead of making a classic slice they're showing off the proper levels of pizza viscosity with similar ingredients:
the printer lays down a layer of dough from a stock of simple non-perishable ingredients then layers the sauce (ketchup) and cheese (cream cheese) on top.
send up a printer instead of boxes of food and you save space plus you give the astronauts a home-cooked meal.
Here you can see the printer laying down the cheese layer and one of the printer technicians being directed to add more pressure.
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#An Open-source Hive To Save The Bees#You may have heard by now: bees are dropping like flies continuing to die at unprecedented rates
A screen in the front of the piano shows the action. Gamasutra LOL Knee deep on piano o
But if that's somehow not enough you can help fund Priovr a set of sensors that monitor your movements
Bend your knee and your on-screen (or on-Oculus Rift) avatar bends along with you.
And instead of being made of plastic (3-D printing's go-to material) it's printed from sand.
Called Wristify the prototype monitors air and skin temperature and then shoots thermal pulses into the wrist to cool
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#Women's Breasts Age Way Faster Than The Rest Of Their Bodies A new technique for identifying the precise biological age of human tissue reveals that not all tissues grow old at the same rate.
true or false questions flashed by on a computer screen and the patients answered them. When the questions dealt with math (Does#2 plus 4 make 5?
while different sensors above the ground monitor for elevated amounts of gas byproducts of the bomb-making process in the area.
In this single proof displays we should not toy exploit human embryos and make a commodity of embryos for they are full human life.
Not to mention the potential applications of stem cell-derived organs in toxicology screens for new pharmaceutical compounds
State-run news agency Ria Novosti has said that it will carry dust monitors and plasma sensors to sense high-energy cosmic rays as well.
and alerted the driver on a screen fixed to the clean knob-less dashboard that the limit was 25 mph.
We re creating a clone of the platform that enables election monitors to identify tweets related to intimidation bribery corruption or violence.
She does this by using her thoughts to move the white circle on-screen to different corners of the screen.
and in April 2013 the Mayo Clinic used a 3-D printer to create a customized artificial hip.
and so we remove the screen in order to encourage direct interaction with Wigl. After extensive testing at a number of schools and children s museums over the past year and a half by hundreds of children and their parents Wigl is now ready for pre-orders!
In reality however in the current state mind controlled robots at least using Openbci translates to looking at a flashing screen
and helping him train for the All Star Games through a sequence of animated storybooks that play on a screen in his belly.
Nagpal#s team overcame this challenge by implementing strategies that allowed robots to rely on their neighbours to cooperatively monitor for faults.
and monitor health blood pressure or sugar levels for example. They also allow the persons caregivers to monitor their wellbeing remotely and to check for falls.
A robot moves around the home and allows family friends and carers to virtually visit the person.
The most defining feature of the system on display at the company showroom in Yokohama is its 3-dimensional use of space. his is tiered a 5 cultivation system.
if playing music was as simple at looking at your laptop screen. Now it is thanks to Kenneth Camilleri
The user can control the music player simply by looking at a series of flickering boxes on a computer screen.
As the user looks at the boxes on the screen the computer program is able to figure out the commands allowing the music player to be controlled without the need of any physical movement.
This means that even an individual with complete body paralysis can still move their eyes over images on a screen.
Packbotâ#other attributes include a state-of-the-art GPS video image display system monitoring electronic compass temperature sensors.
if the timing is correct the braking energy of one axis can be used as energy for another in the same way as a regenerative braking system reducing energy usage. his system is used currently in the automotive chip-making printing and food industries.
"The actors are filmed against a green screen, and the background, created by the studio's graphic designers,
nor do their names appear on the screen.""They never state that they are the instructor,
The instructor would use his or her slides on a monitor as a form of teleprompter.
the monitor wasn't exactly in line with the camera, and student feedback could be harsh:"
But because of the screen constraints and the way people typically use their smartphones, it's traditionally been hard to push mobile ads for anything other than branding purposes that is,
Walmart plans to use drones from DJI to monitor inventories outside their warehouses, deliver packages to customers, many of
there hasn been a simple, inexpensive and quick way to monitor water quality. But a team of entrepreneurs from Calgary, Canada, has developed a solution.
and then from there you can wirelessly monitor remote locations without needing to go there and physically take a sample yourself,
and you can say same thing for screens on laptops and phones. A team from the University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Science are working toward that goal.
Moving forward with 4-D printing Another active area of investigation for the lab is-D printing,
After demonstrating the 4-D printing concept, the lab soon found itself pursuing a number of intriguing applications with several companies.
Commercializing collaborations Self-Assembly Lab researchers may have certain applications in mind as they develop new concepts such as 4-D printing.
Simultaneously, the cost of 3-D printers has fallen sufficiently to make them household consumer items.
Now a team of MIT researchers has opened up a new frontier in 3-D printing:
Like other 3-D printers now on the market, the device can print designs created in a computer-assisted design program,
far higher than the temperatures used for other 3-D printing. The stream of glowing molten glass from the nozzle resembles honey as it coils onto a platform,
Klein says the printing system is an example of multidisciplinary work facilitated by MIT flexible departmental boundaries in this case
the device then monitors how these reflections vary as someone moves in the environment and intelligently stitches the person reflections across time to reconstruct his silhouette into a single image.
Preventing kinase over-activity The'Phosphosense'technology screens compounds for use in drugs and has produced a new way of detecting the activity of enzymes called kinases.
#Shape changing display could spell the end for the 2d graph Imagine your computer screen could change shape.
Imagine if that screen could spring to life at the touch of a fingertip, translating numbers and trends into shapes
Researchers have developed a 3d prototype display which brings data to life in just this way sounding the death knell for the two dimensional bar chart.
which translates data into a three dimensional display. The interactive grid of 100 moving columns enables people to understand
The 3d display is radically different to interacting with data on a flat screen. A month's sales figures for example spring to life
Lancaster hosts a world-leading Human computer interaction research lab, developing the kind of shape changing displays which could one day make it into our homes, offices and perhaps even our mobile phones.
But for these shape-changing displays to be effective, researchers and developers first need to understand how people interact with them.
This tactile platform allows us to use those inherent skills to examine datasets normally confined to flat 2d displays."
if every pixel on your screen could move? Imagine the possibilities. Our lab works to develop new devices that merge the physical and digital worlds
The technology, using a large screen to enhance the sense of reality and interactive avatars, synchronises the different realities so they all coordinate as one.
says this idea of actively damaging QKD components was"not previously on the radar screen"of scientists working on quantum-communication technologies.
Applications of these devices include advanced microscopes, displays, sensors, and cameras that can be mass-produced using the same techniques used to manufacture computer microchips. hese flat lenses will help us to make more compact and robust imaging assemblies,
Manipulating the polarization of light is essential for the operation of advanced microscopes, cameras and displays;
Simultaneously, the cost of 3-D printers has fallen sufficiently to make them household consumer items.
Now a team of MIT researchers has opened up a new frontier in 3-D printing:
Like other 3-D printers now on the market, the device can print designs created in a computer-assisted design program,
far higher than the temperatures used for other 3-D printing. The stream of glowing molten glass from the nozzle resembles honey as it coils onto a platform,
Klein says the printing system is an example of multidisciplinary work facilitated by MIT flexible departmental boundaries in this case
At the macroscale, among other applications, invisibility cloaks could prove useful for 3d displays. This research was funded by the DOE Office of Science a
At the macroscale, among other applications, invisibility cloaks could prove useful for 3d displays. This research was funded by the DOE Office of Science i
and monitors to locate other vehicles on the road enables the Inspiration Trucks to remain in their lane,
Graphene has long been pursued as a potential replacement for indium tin oxide (ITO) as a transparent electrode material for displays.
Graphene has long been pursued as a potential replacement for indium tin oxide (ITO) as a transparent electrode material for displays.
#3-D Printing Software Turns Heart Scans into Surgical Models A new 3-D printing system can transform medical scans of a patient heart into a physical models that help
#Bright blue PHOLEDS Almost Ready for TV A new energy-efficient organic LED (OLED) that glows a deep blue is finally close to meeting the most stringent U s. video display brightness requirements,
OLEDS have enabled a new generation of bright, high-quality, low-cost, power-efficient, flexible, lightweight flat panel displays.
Each pixel in an OLED display typically consists of red, green, and blue OLEDS that shine with different brightnesses to produce any desired color.
but developing the kind of bright deep blue PHOLEDS needed for video displays has proven challenging.
work sponsored by Universal Display Corporation and the U s. Air force. The researchers added their new lights nearly meet the most stringent requirements of the National Television systems Committee (NTSC),
The key innovation Apple made with the iphone interaction model was based getting touch input right its capacitive screens
location and cell network strength to automatically determine whether youe available for a call and display that information to friends.
monitor farm land, and survey big tracts of land. Planes and helicopters can be terribly expensive for collecting this overhead video and measurement data, though.
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#Voxiebox Displays 3d Images Just Like R2d2's Message From Princess Leia Voxon, chosen out of the Hardware Alley to do the ildcardpitch during Techcrunch Disrupt NY, demonstrated a truly amazing
and a dome mirror projecting the image onto the screen. Specialized techniques render the 3d scene onto a spherical projection in real-time In other words,
your name comes up on a transparent LCD screen box, and you pull out a bowl of quinoa.
made from the same material found in smartphone and TV screens, which could improve vision in older people with presbyopia and cataracts.
which we probably know better as the material used in the screens of TVS and smartphones,
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