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Best presentation award for Jonas ValentijnJonas Valentijn received a best presentation award at the SilicoNPV conference. His presentation "Investigation of Triangular Front Contact Performance and Fabrication Using String Printing" was ranked top 10 out of 94 presentations. The SilicoNPV Conference is a premier international event focusing on crystalline silicon photovoltaics, bringing together industry and research experts. The 16th edition took place on April 13-17, 2026, in Ankara, Turkey, with a hybrid format. It covered innovations in solar cell technologies, specifically TOPCon, heterojunction, back-contact, and tandem concepts.Read more
Order or chaos in a material: a matter of perspectiveSome materials behave unexpectedly. They crack differently than expected, or react in ways that are hard to explain. The answer often lies in their atomic structure. Is it neatly arranged, as in a crystal, or disordered, as in glass? Researchers at the University of Twente have now created a material that is both simultaneously. In two directions it is disordered; in the third, perfectly ordered. Their findings have been published in Nature Communications.Chip TechnologyResearchRead more