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57th Electronic Materials Conference (EMC 2015)
June 24-26, 2015 | Columbus, Ohio
Abstract Submission Deadline—January 30, 2015
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Materials in Focus
Easy Method Yields High-Quality Bismuth-Antimony Nanowires for Thermoelectric Applications
A small modification to a well-known technique for making nanowires gives high-quality bismuth-antimony nanowires for thermoelectric cooling or power generation. The simple, inexpensive method produces billions of uniform, single-crystal nanowires that have a crystal orientation that has been predicted to maximize thermoelectric efficiency. More
Paper-based Device Produces Rapid 1000-fold Increase in Sample Concentration
A new study out of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology has adapted paper microdevices that create up to 1000-fold biomarker concentration increases of a solution within minutes. More
Landscape Inversion Mechanism Stabilizes Unstable Crystal Phases
Researchers at the University of Barcelona have found a way to stabilize states that should be thermodynamically unstable. When studying a polarized colloidal system, they observed a new type of first-order phase transition that could be used to tune the structure of two-dimensional crystals. More
Bio-solar Cell Gets a Power Boost
A new study published in Lab on a Chip shows how a change in device architecture of bio-solar devices can maximize solar energy capture and bacterial attachment. More
Australian Academy of Science Honors Materials Researchers
The Australian Academy of Science has announced its 2015 Honorific awards for scientific excellence. These include the Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal to Michelle Y. Simmons, the Inaugural John Booker Medal to Kylie R. Catchpole, and the Le Févre Memorial Prize to Yu Chengzhong. More
Materials Research Society Announces New Board Appointment for 2015
The Materials Research Society (MRS) announces a new appointment to its Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2015. David J. Parrillo, Global Research and Development Director, Packaging and Specialty Plastics for The Dow Chemical Company, has accepted a one-year appointment to the MRS Board of Directors and will serve on the MRS Finance Committee. More
Industry Focus
“Nanobuds” Could Turn Almost Any Surface Into a Touch Sensor
Transparent films containing carbon nanobuds—molecular tubes of carbon with ball-like appendages—could turn just about any surface, regardless of its shape, into a touch sensor. The films were developed by a Finnish startup, Canatu, and could be used to add touch controls to curved automobile consoles and dashboards. More
OF INTEREST TO THE MATERIALS COMMUNITY
Journal of Materials Research Issues Call for Papers – Deadline of January 15, 2015
The Journal of Materials Research is publishing a Focus Issue on Advances in Thermoelectric Materials II, scheduled for September 2015. More.
MEETINGS UPDATE
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MRS Energy & Sustainability—A Review Journal
A selection of papers:
Surface engineering for phase change heat transfer: A review
Daniel Attinger, Christophe Frankiewicz, Amy R. Betz, Thomas M. Schutzius, Ranjan Ganguly, Arindam Das, Chang-Jin Kim and Constantine M. Megaridis
Solid-state lighting with wide band gap semiconductors
Faiz Rahman
MRS Communications
Prospective Article:
Isotope engineering of silicon and diamond for quantum computing and sensing applications
Kohei M. Itoh and Hideyuki Watanabe
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MRS Bulletin
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Water at Functional Interfaces
December 2014
The structure of water—its molecular packing, orientation, organization, and electronic structure—has become central to understanding water-mediated interactions. The articles in this issue of MRS Bulletin address how the structure and dynamics of water respond in the chemical and topographical context, how these phenomena can be investigated, and their implications. Read more about the cover.
Water at functional interfaces
Shekhar Garde and Mark L. Schlossman, Guest Editors
Technical Feature
Next-generation electrocaloric and pyroelectric materials for solid-state electrothermal energy interconversion
S. Pamir Alpay, Joseph Mantese, Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Qiming Zhang and Roger W. Whatmore
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Journal of Materials Research
November 2014, Volume 29, Issue 22
A selection of papers:
a-Si:H/µc-Si:H tandem junction based photocathodes with high open-circuit voltage for efficient hydrogen production
Félix Urbain, Vladimir Smirnov, Jan-Philipp Becker, Uwe Rau, Friedhelm Finger, Jürgen Ziegler, Bernhard Kaiser and Wolfram Jaegermann
Selective solution shearing deposition of high performance TIPS-pentacene polymorphs through chemical patterning
Gaurav Giri, Eric Miller and Zhenan Bao
Thermal properties of a prospective thermal barrier material: Yb3Al5O12
Xiaofei Wang, Huimin Xiang, Xin Sun, Jiachen Liu, Feng Hou and Yanchun Zhou
MRS Online Proceedings Library
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From Volume 1633 - 2013 MRS Fall Meeting - Symposium R – Oxide Semiconductors:
Synthesis and Characterization of Copper Oxide Compounds
K.P. Hering, A. Polity, B. Kramm, A. Portz and B.K. Meyer
From Volume 1634 - 2013 MRS Fall Meeting - Symposium S – Diamond Electronics and Biotechnology—Fundamentals to Applications VII:
Progress on Preferential Etching and Phosphorus Doping of Single Crystal Diamond
Timothy A. Grotjohn, Dzung T. Tran, M. Kagan Yaran and Thomas Schuelke
SCIENCE AS ART
Oriental Painting—Orchid
by Jihyeon Yeom, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Scanning Electron Microscopy image taken for assembly of iron oxide nanoparticles in the magnetic fields.
A Finalist in the Science as Art competition at the 2014 MRS Fall Meeting.
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EDITOR'S CHOICE VIDEO
MRS TV
Hiroshi Amano – 2014 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics and 2014 MRS Fall Meeting Tutorial Instructor
Hiroshi Amano discusses his pioneering work in the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.
NEW PRODUCTS FOCUS
Calibrated OEM Thermal Imaging Core
FLIR Systems has announced its latest thermal imaging core, Muon™, which is designed specifically for volume OEMs capable of integrating uncooled FPAs into their own camera solutions. FLIR has greatly simplified the OEM process by offering a thermal subassembly that generates calibrated CMOS video out, using industry-standard interfaces. Because Muon is calibrated for TEC-less operation, OEMs no longer have to develop their own elaborate factory calibration equipment or processes. Muon is a thermal “engine” developed to operate on standard imaging device power and communication protocols.
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High Resolution Spectrometer
Spectrometer specialist McPherson recently introduced a new high-resolution spectrometer system with Pico meter resolution capability. The 1.3-meter focal length McPherson Model 209 spectrometer with new micro-step drive can make wavelength steps as small as 0.11 Pico meters. Software control is simplified since the wavelength steps are linear for uniform moves over 1000’s of nanometers free spectral range. The new models also support homing for wavelength calibration. All McPherson spectrometers are easy to use and can be systems’ integrated. All are available with the special micro-step controller with an extensive software package.
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