Dongchan, my amazing postdoc, was able to make individual 100-nm-diameter tensile metallic glass nanopillar samples, which no one had ever done before, and then used our custom-built in situ mechanical deformation instrument, SEMentor, to perform the experiments. ❋ Unknown (2010)
To test cell-capture performance, researchers incubated the nanopillar chip in a culture medium with breast cancer cells. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This microscope image shows the layers of a solar cell built on a nanopillar substrate. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Dongchan, my amazing postdoc, was able to make individual 100-nanometer-diameter tensile metallic glass nanopillar samples, which no one had ever done before, and then used our custom-built in situ mechanical deformation instrument, SEMentor, to perform the experiments. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The researchers found that the cell-capture yields for the UCLA nanopillar chip were significantly higher; the device captured 45 to 65 percent of the cancer cells in the medium, compared with only 4 to 14 percent for the flat device. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Researchers at Berkeley, California, have found a way to make cheaper, better solar cells using tiny nanopillar semiconductors measuring just billionths of a meter wide. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"There are lots of ways to improve 3-D nanopillar photovoltaics for higher performance, and ways to simplify the fabrication process as well, but the method is already hugely promising as a way to lower the cost of efficient solar cells," says Javey. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Unlike a typical two-dimensional solar cell, a nanopillar array offers much more surface for collecting light. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Computer simulations have indicated that, compared to flat surfaces, nanopillar semiconductor arrays should be more sensitive to light, have a greatly enhanced ability to separate electrons from holes, and be a more efficient collector of these charge carriers. ❋ Unknown (2009)
To determine the actual cause of nanopillar formation, she and Caltech postdoctoral scholar Mathias Dietzel developed a fluid-dynamical model of the same type of thin, molten nanofilm in a thermal gradient. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley report on a new way to fabricate highly ordered nanopillar-based solar-cell modules with promising light-conversion efficiencies. ❋ Unknown (2009)
