Easily processable conjugated polymers for optoelectronics, in general, and for photovoltaic energy conversion, in particular, is an attractive research field, in which the combined efforts of material science, device engineers, and spectroscopists are welcomed.
After the final landing of Philae at the Abydos site on comet 67/P Churyumov Gerasimenko, the MUPUS (Multipurpose Sensors for Surface and Sub-Surface Science) device started hammering itself into the cometary ground on 14th November 2014, and continued hammering for more than 3 h.
Microfluidics, and its tinier and more advanced cousin nanofluidics, is the science of devices that deal with volumes of fluid on the order of nanoliters or picoliters.
But "Melancholia" is just one movie in a long line of arthouse films to use science fictional devices as convenient narrative machines that force characters to uncomfortable realizations -- about themselves, about each other, and about the societies they live in.
We review developments in both materials science and device physics for organic photovoltaics.
The successful fabrication of two-dimensional lateral heterostructures (LHS's) has opened up unprecedented opportunities in material science and device physics.
Controlling epitaxial interfaces at the atomic scale is actively being researched in the broad fields of materials science and device engineering.
However, a more direct and immediate application of d-dimensional Green's functions in materials science and device engineering concerns scattering in low-dimensional structures.
The possible uses of these silicon microcavity LEDs are considered and the challenges that need to be met in terms of materials science and device design are examined.
This chapter gives a general introduction to the advantages of organic PVs, the basic science underpinning device operation and outlines areas for development.
For these, and related technological challenges, close coupling of basic material and wide bandgap semiconductor science to device design and fabrication is required.
