Layer by Layer: How simulations help manufacturing of modern displays

20-Dec-2024 - Modern materials must be recyclable and sustainable. Consumer electronics is no exception, with organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) taking over modern televisions and portable device displays. However, the development of suitable materials - from the synthesis of molecules to the production of ...

Scientists awarded for innovative 2D materials research

Jena Research Team Receives “Thüringer Forschungspreis”

21-Jun-2024 - For their research into customized 2D materials, a team of four scientists from Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF have been awarded the “Thüringer Forschungspreis” (Thuringian Research Prize). The award for scientific ...

Breakthrough for next-generation digital displays

In addition to the screen reacting to touch, light, fingerprints and the user’s pulse, the device can also be charged through the screen

12-Apr-2024 - Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed a digital display screen where the LEDs themselves react to touch, light, fingerprints and the user’s pulse, among other things. Their results, published in Nature Electronics, could be the start of a whole new generation of displays for ...

Singles become pairs: New insights into the light scattering of atoms

Researchers at the Humboldt University of Berlin, partners of the DAALI project, have demonstrated a surprising effect present in the fluorescent light of a single atom

01-Nov-2023 - Researchers headed by Jürgen Volz and Arno Rauschenbeutel from the Department of Physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, partners of the DAALI project, have gained new insights into the scattering of light by a fluorescent atom, which could also be useful for quantum communication. The ...

Simply blue

New material concept allows more cost-effective production of blue organic light-emitting diodes

14-Sep-2023 - Blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), which can be used in smartphones, televisions or other devices, are still difficult to manufacture today. A team of researchers led by Gert-Jan Wetzelaer of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research has now developed a new material concept that ...

Molecular highway for electrons in organic light-emitting diodes

New material concept potentially allows efficient blue OLEDs with strongly simplified structure

27-Jul-2023 - Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are now widely used. For use in displays, blue OLEDs are additionally required to supplement the primary colours red and green. Especially in blue OLEDs, impurities give rise to strong electrical losses, which could be partly circumvented by using highly ...

Luminous Molecules

Chemists smooth the path for new and better light sources

13-Apr-2023 - Twisted molecules play an important role in the development of organic light-emitting diodes. A team of chemists has managed to create these compounds with exactly the three-dimensional structure that they wanted. In so doing, they are smoothing the path for new and better light sources. They ...

This ‘Harry Potter’ light sensor achieves magically high efficiency of 200 per cent

Riccardo Ollearo of the Eindhoven University of Technology has come up with a photodiode that has sensitivity that many can only dream of

22-Feb-2023 - Solar panels with multiple stacked cells are currently breaking records. Remarkably, a team of researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology and TNO at Holst Centre have now managed to make photodiodes - based on a similar technology - with a photoelectron yield of more than 200 percent. ...

Nanoantennas directing a bright future: White LEDs may soon be dethroned

Titanium oxides found to significantly increase efficiency and photoluminescence

23-Dec-2022 - White LEDs may soon be dethroned as the world's go-to light source by an alternative with a much better sense of direction. As a next-generation optical control technology, aphotonic crystalornanoantennais a two-dimensional structure in which nano-sized particles are arranged periodically on ...

New material will make locally flexible diodes possible

Temperature changes material characteristics: Researchers find new material with significant potential for electronics applications

08-Nov-2022 - Diodes allow directed flows of current. Without them, modern electronics would be inconceivable. Until now, they had to be made out of two materials with different characteristics. A research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now discovered a material that makes it possible to ...