Editor’s Picks

41. New Fabrication Method Paves Way To Large-Scale Production Of Perovskite Solar Cells 3/18/2021

    A new, simpler solution for fabricating stable perovskite solar cells overcomes the key bottleneck to large-scale production and commercialization of this promising renewable-energy technology, which has remained tantalizingly out of reach for more than a decade.

42. Machine Learning Designs Mirrors For High-Power Lasers 2/2/2026

    Plasma mirrors capable of withstanding the intensity of powerful lasers are being designed through an emerging machine learning framework.

43. Platinum Nanocrystals Boost Catalytic Activity For Fuel Oxidation, Hydrogen Production 5/8/2007
    A research team composed of electrochemists and materials scientists from two continents has produced a new form of the industrially-important metal platinum: 24-facet nanocrystals whose catalytic activity per unit area can be as much as four times higher than existing commercial platinum catalysts
44. Silicon Austria Labs Joins €400M PIXEurope Initiative To Boost Integrated Photonics With Thin-Film Lithium Niobate 6/10/2025

    Silicon Austria Labs (SAL) is significantly contributing to PIXEurope, the European pilot line for Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs), through their strong expertise in thin films & integrated photonics.

45. Atoms Chat Long Distance 4/8/2016

    Simulations are a popular tool to study physical processes that cannot be investigated experimentally in detail. For example, scientists encounter challenges when investigating physical processes in materials since their properties are determined by the interactions of single particles, which are hardly measurable directly. Conventional computers quickly reach their limits when dealing with these complex simulations.

46. Faster Than Lightning - The New Measuring System For Flash Lamps 12/7/2009
    The new test system for flash lamps from Instrument Systems is particularly suitable for the measurement of solar flashes, which are used in development and quality control of solar cells.
47. An Innovative Method To Tune Lasers Toward Infrared Wavelengths 10/21/2020

    They collaborated with Austrian and Russian research teams to develop this innovation, which is now the subject of a patent application. The results of their work were recently published in Optica, the flagship journal of the Optical Society (OSA).

48. Ice-Cold Plasma Electron Beams Prepare To Power Future Hard X-Ray Laser Beams 9/11/2024

    Scientists have developed a blueprint for producing ultrabright and ultrashort pulses of electron beams for the next generation of particle accelerator science.

49. Solar Energy Gets A Boost 7/8/2014

    A perspective article published last month by University of California, Riverside chemists in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters was selected as an Editors Choice—an honor only a handful of research papers receive. By Iqbal Pittalwala

50. Nonlinear Ionization Dynamics Of Hot Dense Plasma Observed In A Laser-Plasma Amplifier 11/19/2020

    The last decade has been marked by a series of remarkable discoveries identifying how the universe is composed. It is understood that the mysterious substance dark matter makes up 85 % of the matter in the universe.