Printed Electronics Logic & Memory

Memristor discovery could lead to far more energy-efficient computing systems with memories that don't forget and never need to be booted up.

HP and Xtreme Energetics have announced that they have entered into an agreement for the development of a solar energy system designed to generate electricity at twice the efficiency and half the cost of traditional solar panels.

The extended joint collaboration is focused on developing reliable print manufacturing processes for high volume production of Thinfilm's memory technology. The work will be performed at InkTec's 2nd factory in Pyungtaek-city, Korea.

3M uses balls with self levelling RFID tags in them for location and identity of gas and other pipelines in the USA - a similar function is now being performed in China.

Chemists and physicists are hard at work developing production processes for graphene - one day it may even be printable.