Novel green solvent could help scale up fabrication of perovskite-based tandem solar cells

by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 14, 2025 | Energy & Green Tech, TECHXPLORE

In recent years, engineers have been trying to develop alternative photovoltaic (PV) technologies that could be more affordable and scalable than silicon-based solar cells, while also exhibiting good power-conversion efficiencies and retaining these efficiencies over...

Zero-shot approach allows robots to manipulate articulated objects

by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 14, 2025 | Machine learning & AI, Robotics, TECHXPLORE

To help humans to complete everyday manual tasks, robots should be able to reliably manipulate everyday objects that vary in shape, texture and size. Many conventional approaches to enable robotic manipulation of various objects rely on extensive training and precise...

Engineers develop device that merges sensing and computing functions for reconfigurable computing platform

by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 14, 2025 | Electronics & Semiconductors, Machine learning & AI, TECHXPLORE

Sensory stimulation enhances the capacity of human visual working memory, study finds

by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 14, 2025 | MEDICALXPRESS, Neuroscience, Psychology & Psychiatry

To complete tasks that require storing relevant visual details for short periods of time, such as solving a puzzle, reading or comparing different objects, humans leverage their so-called visual working memory. This is a cognitive system that allows people to store...

Observing gain-induced group delay between multiphoton pulses generated in a spontaneous down-conversion source

by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 14, 2025 | Optics & Photonics, PHYS.ORG, Quantum Physics

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) and spontaneous four-wave mixing are powerful nonlinear optical processes that can produce multi-photon beams of light with unique quantum properties. These processes could be leveraged to create various quantum...