A new computational framework maps 3D atomic positions in amorphous materials, achieving full accuracy for silica using ...

Researchers uncovered how soft regions in amorphous silicon mix order and disorder, offering new insights for designing stronger amorphous materials. Persistence diagram obtained from the structure of ...

Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA published a step-by-step framework for determining the ...

Machine-learning approaches are being developed to produce accurate simulations of the structure and chemical bonding of disordered solids and liquids, modelling a sufficient number of atoms to enable ...

Fine-tuning the thermal conductivity of amorphous silicon used in technologies such as solar cells and image sensors should become much easier thanks to the computational topology and machine-learning ...

Solar cells, devices that convert sunlight into electricity, are helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, ...

Alkaline water splitting has the advantages of low cost, long lifetime and ease of maintenance, and is widely applied commercially. However, the sluggish kinetics of HER inhibits the further ...

For the first time, a team has identified the atomic substructure of amorphous silicon with a resolution of 0.8 nanometers using X-ray and neutron scattering at BESSY II and BER II. Such a-Si:H thin ...

pv magazine: In “Solar Cells and Modules,” which was recently published by Springer, you dedicate a long chapter to amorphous silicon solar cells, which is very much still a niche technology reserved ...