Jun 8, 2011 | New superstrate material enables flexible, lightweight and efficient thin film solar modules
DuPont™ Kapton® 1) colorless polyimide film, a new material currently in development for use as a flexible superstrate for cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin film photovoltaic (PV) modules, has enabled a new world record for...
May 27, 2011 | Mirko Roš Award
Oral Buyukozturk, Ph.D., Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, received the award for his most valuable and sustained contribution...
May 23, 2011 | 1st Swiss NanoConvention in Baden
Nanotech is opening up new markets and offering novel solutions to numerous challenges in a very varied range of areas. This was the tenor of the 1st Swiss NanoConvention which took place on May 18 and 19 in Baden. The...
May 21, 2011 | EmpaNews No 33 published
Every material – just like every substance – is made up of chemical elements. It’s no wonder, then, that a large number of chemists are hard at work at Empa. They are looking into new materials which are expected to be...