-- Monday, 03 October 2016
An article in Advanced Materials, authored by ICN2 researchers Dr Amador Pérez-Tomás, Prof Mónica Lira-Cantú and ICREA Prof Gustau Catalan, reports the largest photovoltaic field ever observed in a photovoltaic device.
-- Monday, 26 September 2016
The discovery, published today in Nature, is a significant breakthrough in solid state physics and is also potentially relevant for technology. The phenomenon, called flexoelectricity, arises from the redistribution of atoms and electrons in a material when it is bent. This redistribution of charges can be used to generate an electrical current. It was already known that insulating materials can be flexoelectric. The surprise discovery is that semiconductors can also be flexoelectric, and moreover they can generate far more electricity than insulators.
-- Friday, 16 September 2016
PHENOMEN partners kick-off the project at a meeting in the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), coordinator of the initiative, on Friday September 16. The project PHENOMEN is at the intersection of photonics, radio frequency signal processing and phononics and proposes to build the first practical optically-driven phonon sources and detectors. The project was retained in a strong competition with a 1.4% success rate, in the last H2020 FET-Open call, "Novel ideas for radically new technologies".
-- Monday, 26 September 2016
Dr Neus Domingo, Dr Albert Verdaguer and ICREA Prof Aitor Mugarza co-led the organisation of Fuerzas y Tunel 2016. The Congress was held in the city of Girona (September 6-8, 2016) and included dissemination events at the Casa de Cultura de Girona. Prof Miquel Salmeron, also interviewed in the video, was the guest speaker of the event that opened the dissemination agenda.
-- Monday, 05 September 2016
Fuerzas y Tunel 2016 (September 5-7, 2016), a congress gathering every two years the Spanish community working on scanning probe techniques, and the exhibition Visions of the NanoWorld (until September 29), bring nanoscience and nanotechnology to Girona (Spain). Different dissemination events around the congress offer a didactic and attractive view of the research performed at ICN2 and the nanoscale.
