30 Nov 2010

1st Energy Harvesting Network: part 2
The afternoon session of the Human Power Workshop part of the 1st Energy Harvesting Network as discussed in Part 1 of this article, focused on Human Powering of Devices Outside of the Body.
1 Nov 2010

Third generation batteries are needed
Most of today's pure electric vehicles and those announced for the next few years offer only 100 miles range. Ask a roomful of people if they would buy a car with that range and usually no hands go up.
22 Oct 2010

Solar Frontier and IBM to develop solar technology
Solar Frontier, a developer and manufacturer of thin-film solar technology, has signed an agreement with IBM to create a cost competitive product that is inexpensive and uses earth-abundant materials.
18 Oct 2010

Printed electronics killer applications
Printed and partly printed electronics and electrics are not being applied to very expensive things or electronic things first. It is more about modernising printing more than it is about modernising electronics.
27 Aug 2010

New world record with efficient CIGS solar cell
The new record-breaking solar cells from ZSW are made of extremely thin layers of copper, indium, gallium and diselenide (CIGS for short).
21 Jul 2010

Breakthrough in thin-film solar cells
Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have made a major breakthrough in their search for more efficient thin-film solar cells.
5 Jul 2010

Electric Vehicles in East Asia
The Western media obsess about electric cars to be made in the West, many of them being both overpriced and underperforming in global terms. This misses the fact that 56% of the value of sales of electric vehicles is and will remain in East Asia and cars only account for about half of the value of the electric vehicle business worldwide.
12 Apr 2010

A step toward lighter batteries
Lightweight batteries that can deliver lots of energy are crucial for improving the range of electric cars.
25 Feb 2010

Printed electronics technology - back to basics
Find out the most exciting advances and applications in the new world of stretchable, invisible, morphable, tightly rollable, edible and other previously impossible electronics.
17 Feb 2010

IBM claims world record by creating high-efficiency solar cell
IBM announced it has built a solar cell - where the key layer that absorbs most of the light for conversion into electricity, is made entirely of readily-available elements - that set a new world record for efficiency and holds potential for enabling solar cell technology to produce more energy at a lower cost.
15 Feb 2010

IBM claims world record by creating high-efficiency solar cell
IBM announced it has built a solar cell - where the key layer that absorbs most of the light for conversion into electricity, is made entirely of readily-available elements - that set a new world record for efficiency and holds potential for enabling solar cell technology to produce more energy at a lower cost
10 Feb 2010

Again - IBM claim world's fastest graphene transistor
IBM believe they have achieved the highest cut-off frequency so far for any graphene device of 100 billion cycles/second (100 GigaHertz).
9 Feb 2010

Development of energy efficient computer chips
Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science has been awarded $2.8 million from the Department of Energy (DOE) to develop energy-efficient computer chips.
2 Nov 2009

How to improve lithium traction batteries
Dependence on increasingly troublesome oil supplies and rapid degradation of the environment provide every reason why electric cars, whether hybrid or pure electric, should now be adopted rapidly.
27 Aug 2009

Self-assembled DNA scaffolding to build tiny circuit boards
Nanotechnology advance could lead to smaller, faster, more energy-efficient computer chips
26 Aug 2009

Summary of the quarterly FlexTech Alliance meeting
IDTechEx presented at the well-attended FlexTech Alliance meeting at Binghamton, NY, last week. The session focussed on the use of printed and flexible electronics for medical applications.
11 Aug 2009

Motoring without the gas station
Hybrid cars are a great success. In addition, pure electric cars are at last moving beyond the golf car and neighbourhood vehicle stage with serious volumes beginning to be sold.
7 Aug 2009

Lithium Air - batteries on steroids
Better traction batteries will lead to better batteries for energy harvesting. After all, both need to affordably pack more energy in a given space while improving battery life, fast charging and affordability.