A UNSW-led team found that annealing conditions significantly affect stress, strain, and microstructure in copper-plated heterojunction solar cell contacts, with fast annealing increasing microstrain ...

Researchers at Macquarie University in Sydney have developed a microwave technology they say will improve the production of solar cells, while making them easier to recycle. During the fabrication of ...

This research introduced an innovative approach utilizing the electron wind force (EWF) to achieve defect annealing at significantly lower temperatures. The primary goal was to assess this method’s ...

Microwave radiation has been found to be a viable alternative to conventional annealing methods during the fabrication of solar panels, according to a recent study by a team of researchers led by Dr.

Research teams from Wuhan University and the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) have revealed new insights into the formation mechanism of nitrogen-vacancies (NV) centers in type-Ib diamonds, a ...

There is a seemingly endless list of problems to be solved and issues to be addressed in vendors’ steady march toward quantum computing. Researchers in Europe say they recently solved a “decades-old ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki, Ph.D.) developed a hybrid signal processing method that integrates an annealing-based quantum ...

A recent study published in Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research demonstrated the effectiveness of microwave annealing in activating hydrogen within hydrogen-rich dielectrics (AlO x, SiN y, and ...