MoS2 Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:10:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Revolutionary Solar Cell Absorbs More Sunlight, More Efficiently https://www.greenoptimistic.com/revolutionary-solar-cell-absorbs-more-sunlight-more-efficiently-20121129/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/revolutionary-solar-cell-absorbs-more-sunlight-more-efficiently-20121129/#respond Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:10:30 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=28998 Based on a computer model developed by MIT engineers, it is possible to capture a broad spectrum of sunlight  using a very thin film (about 6 Angstroms) of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) that is poked with a microscopic needle at the center, creating a field of varying (non-uniform) elastic strain, and thus, varying band gap across […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/revolutionary-solar-cell-absorbs-more-sunlight-more-efficiently-20121129/feed/ 0 28998 New Molybdenite Transistors Could Consume Some 100,000 Times Less in Standby Mode https://www.greenoptimistic.com/molybdenite-transistors-consumption-20110131/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/molybdenite-transistors-consumption-20110131/#respond Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:44:11 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=16938 The joint efforts of a team of researchers from the Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures in Lausanne (LANES), Switzerland, have produced a new semiconducting material, made with molybdenite (MoS2). The new discovery could have important applications in transistors that are superior to silicon or graphene-based ones, in terms of size and energy efficiency.

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