In fact I believe they are leading the pack in thin-film CIGS companies on flexible substrates.
Corning manufactures glass substrates for LCDs and is one the major players in the LCD TV industry.
However, it is not possible to anneal the metal oxides, an active material, at this high temperature on flexible polymer substrates.
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Following the summer's seasonal manufacturing shutdowns, higher light-duty diesel product sales were offset by lower sales of heavy-duty diesel filters and substrates.
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Corning, which makes the ceramic substrates for catalytic converters, had been working on a filter for diesel passenger cars, which are popular in Europe.
Crystal Systems is a crystalline growth technology company that manufactures high-quality, large area sapphire substrates used in the LED, defense, medical and aerospace industries.
Since leaving 11 years ago, Godshall has launched four startups, including companies that plan hydrogen transport and look for microelectronic substrates superior to silicon.
Samsung says this scaled-up approach will allow them to lower production costs relative to most LED manufacturers, which rely on sapphire, rather than glass substrates.
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These sensors can be manufactured on transparent and flexible substrates like the one pictured above, which allows for various real-world applications -- just use your imagination.
The thin film LIB fabricated on a mica substrate with high annealing temperature is transferred onto polymer substrates through a simple physical delamination of sacrificial substrates.
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Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University have jointly devised a patent-pending method to build organic solar cells using plant-derived substrates.
Many fuel cell technologies are actually based on petrochemical substrates.
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Known as cellulose nanocrystal substrates (or CNC), these solar cells benefit from being truly disposable, eliminating the waste that results from the use of alternative materials like petroleum or glass.
He had spent a career figuring out how to deposit chemicals very carefully on substrates, first at Los Alamos National Laboratory and later at the semiconductor machinery companies Novellus and KLA-Tencor.
Helyar expects a 10%-15% shortage of 300mm wafers in the second quarter, with a more than 20% shortfall in BT-based substrates, with additional shortages of hard-drives, oscillators, multi-layer ceramic capacitors and other parts.
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This image sensor layers the pixel section containing formations of back-illuminated structure pixels onto chips containing the circuit section for signal processing, which is in place of supporting substrates for conventional back-illuminated CMOS image sensors.
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The researchers developed the solar cells using natural substrates derived from trees and fabricated them on cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) substrates which means the solar cells can be quickly recycled in water at the end of their lifecycle.
Today, the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology announced that its engineers have successfully created "single crystalline Gallium Nitride on amorphous glass substrates" -- an achievement that would allow the manufacturer to produce jumbo-sized LEDs from normal glass, including window panes.
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Rubicon Technology shares are trading sharply lower in late trading Wednesday after the provider of sapphire substrates used by LED and chip makers reported disappointing fourth quarter results - and provided even more alarming guidance for the first quarter.
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Sony has succeeded in establishing a structure that layers the pixel section containing formations of back-illuminated structure pixels over the chip affixed with mounted circuits for signal processing, which is in place of supporting substrates used for conventional back-illuminated CMOS image sensors.
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