CORK, IRELAND -- An Irish research lab is teaming with a major materials maker to develop a material that is reportedly simultaneously semiconducting and transparent.

Tyndall Institute and Umicore has signed a deal to jointly develop the novel material, a barium-doped strontium copper oxide, which is part of a group known as p-type transparent conductive oxides (TCOs), which is supposedly transparent across a range of wavelengths.

The lab's work is under the auspices of NATCO, an EU-based consortium whose members include electronics defense giant Thales and FORTH.

Tyndall designed the material using computer simulation, then turned to Belgium-based Umicore to fabricate the material. Thales and Forth are conducting the follow-up electrical experiments. 

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