by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 14, 2025 | Machine learning & AI, Robotics, TECHXPLORE
Electronic skins (e-skins) are flexible sensing materials designed to mimic the human skin’s ability to pick up tactile information when touching objects and surfaces. Highly performing e-skins could be used to enhance the capabilities of robots, to create new...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 14, 2025 | Energy & Green Tech, Engineering, TECHXPLORE
Solar cells based on perovskites, a class of materials with advantageous optoelectronic properties, have recently achieved power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) comparable to those of some silicon-based photovoltaics. Moreover, perovskite-based solar cells could be...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 14, 2025 | nanomaterials, Nanophysics, Nanotechnology, PHYS.ORG
Semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of layered materials exhibiting unique optoelectronic properties that could be leveraged to develop transistors, sensors and other nanoelectronics. Despite their advantages, creating robust ohmic...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 14, 2025 | Consumer & Gadgets, Machine learning & AI, TECHXPLORE
Generative models, artificial neural networks that can generate images or texts, have become increasingly advanced in recent years. These models can also be advantageous for creating annotated images to train algorithms for computer vision, which are designed to...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 14, 2025 | Energy & Green Tech, Engineering, TECHXPLORE
Perovskites are materials with advantageous optoelectronic properties that could be used to develop more affordable photovoltaics (PVs). While in recent years engineers were able to significantly improve the power-conversion efficiencies of perovskite solar cells,...
