The technological advance of thin and light flexible display has encouraged the development of flexible batteries with a high power density and thermal stability.
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The material is an organic photovoltaic semiconductor (called rr-P3HT) which, unlike the metal or silicon-based materials used until now for such biotechnological interfaces, is soft, light, flexible and highly biocompatible and naturally sensitive to visible light.
Our hollow, long bones are thick and strong where needed, and light and flexible where possible.
In foil events, only touches with the tip of the blade, which is light and flexible, score points.
In November, WinFlex, a wind-power company based in Kiryat Yam, Israel, received one of the most coveted prizes in the GE Ecomagination Challenge for developing a wind-turbine system that uses a light, flexible cloth sheets made out of composite materials as the rotor system for a wind turbine.
The company has since been focused on raising money to market its flexible and light-weight panels and building a factory to produce them.
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The design is certainly flexible and light, but the slim amount of padding supplied was hard to forget about when wrapped around this editor's ears.
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What's more, this innovative hybrid light-source technology enables flexible color settings and a wider color gamut to deliver better color saturation up to 85% NTSC and offers superior color fidelity through a system of three independent color lighting sources.
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Samsung favours smartphones with so-called flexible OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology, and is confident that they will be "very popular among consumers worldwide".
The inventors state that this could be used in flexible and efficient solar cells and light emitting diodes.
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Strips of eco-friendly, light-emitting diodes, known as LED lighting, are flexible and can be used to illuminate architectural details in a rainbow of colors.
The use of organic light-emitting diodes allows screens to be made thinner and more flexible than before.
Later this year Dr Tzou hopes to have one that will deliver femtosecond pulses along flexible fibre cables, which can be held like a light-pen.
The laparoscope is a flexible controllable tube, with a camera and a bright light at the end, which allows the surgeon to see inside a patient's body.
Corning is also pushing new glass products such as Willow Glass, a super-thin, flexible glass, and Lotus Glass, for use in organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and next-generation LCD displays.
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The sensor is a flexible copper-plated sheet patterned with small squares that capture various light frequencies all at once, functioning like one big aperture.
Though that also makes it more flexible (and makes the ability to grind and polish the glass to create a light-capturing parabolic surface without actually breaking the thing all the more impressive), this flexibility can be exploited to keep the reflective surface in shape.
Made from a flexible polymer film suffused with fluorescent particles, the prototypes catch only a specific wavelength of light and shoot it to an array of sensors that surround the sheet's edge.
Now consider the fact that all it would take to wipe out these emissions would be the introduction of a small photovoltaic device to replace each charger - one which is flexible, durable, cheap to produce and, crucially, works in ambient (indoor) light.
An academic reactor or reactor plant almost always has the following basic characteristics: (1) It is simple. (2) It is small. (3) It is cheap. (4) It is light. (5) It can be built very quickly. (6) It is very flexible in purpose. (7) Very little development will be required.
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