California-based manufacturer of low-cost solar materials, Innovalight , has achieved record of 19 percent conversion efficiency for its silicon ink-based solar cells…

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Record 19 percent efficiency achieved with low-cost solar cells

Eric Schmidt, who holds the position of chief executive at Google, recently confirmed that the Silicon Valley giant will launch a tablet that will run the company’s own Android OS.

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We’re rapidly closing in on a decade since the first desktop processors cleared the 3GHz mark, but in a stunning break from earlier progress, the clock speed of the top processors has stayed roughly in the same neighborhood since. Meanwhile, the feature shrinks that have at least added additional processing cores to the hardware are edging up to the limits of photolithography technology. With that as a backdrop, today’s issue of Science contains a series of perspectives that consider the question of whether it’s time to move beyond semiconductors and, if so, what we might move to.

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Moving beyond silicon to break the MegaHertz barrier