Scientists in Germany applied vapor-based deposition techniques and laser scribed interconnection – both well established processes in existing thin-film solar manufacturing – to fabricate perovskite ...

Why do tin sulfide solar cells, a promising and eco-friendly material, struggle to reach their full theoretical potential? This question has long concerned scientists, while these devices ...

AVX has developed tiny low-pass filters and directional couplers using a thin-film process it developed for capacitor-related problems that result from using larger, thick-film hybrids. The low-pass ...

Thin films play a crucial role in the fabrication of several components and devices, such as protective coatings, integrated circuits, solar cells, and optical ...

Researchers from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) have developed a new low-temperature production process for bifacial thin-film solar cells based on copper ...

San Jose-based Novellus Systems Inc. today unveiled the latest enhancement to its 300-mm VECTOR plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) platform — VECTOR Express – which the company says ...

Semiconductor devices are becoming thinner and more complex, making thin deposited films even harder to measure and control. With 3nm node devices in production and 2nm nodes ramping toward ...

Thin films form the basis of many industries today, including semiconductors, electric vehicles, smart optical coatings, sophisticated medical equipment, and protective layers on high-temperature ...

This is the second part of a review article series about current topics in R&D concerning Cu(In,Ga)(Se,S)2 – or CIGS – solar cells. In the first part, which appeared in the previous edition of ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intevac, Inc. (Nasdaq: IVAC), (“Intevac” or the “Company), a leading supplier of thin-film processing systems, today announced the sale of its Photonics business ...