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Solar energy harvesting innovation

Once again the question arises: What can new technologies bring to the table and how can they compete?

Pacemaker powered by heartbeats

Aerospace engineers from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have developed a prototype device that could power a pacemaker using vibrations in the chest cavity that are due mainly to heartbeats.

Graphene can behave like a piezoelectric material

Engineers at the University of Houston have used quantum mechanical calculations to show that by creating holes of a specific pattern in a sheet of graphene, they can make graphene behave like a piezoelectric material.

New Energy appoints business partnering and scientific experts

New Energy Technologies, Inc. a developer of technologies for generating sustainable electricity, is pleased to announce the appointments of Dr. Scott R. Hammond as Principal Scientist, and Dr. Christopher M. Harris to the Company's Board of Advisors.

Breakthrough in low loss high frequency carbon nanotube electronics

A collaboration between researchers at the University of Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute and the Faculty of Mechatronics of Warsaw University of Technology in Poland reports that low electrical loss at frequencies of up to 220 GHz are possible in screen printed carbon nanotube - polymer composites. Producing such low electrical loss materials potentially opens up new types of high frequency large area electronic devices.

Warmed-up organic memory transistor has larger memory capacity

Scientists show that non-volatile memory made from a sandwich of silver nanoparticle-laced plastic retains its on/off state over a wider voltage range when operating at toasty temperatures.

New Energy generates electricity on flexible plastic

New Energy Technologies, Inc. has announced that researchers developing its SolarWindow™ technology, capable of generating electricity on see-through glass, have now successfully generated electricity on flexible plastic using the Company's 'spray-on' coating methods - an important technical achievement necessary for the development of electricity-generating window films.

Swiss cheese design for Micromorph solar cells

'Swiss cheese' design enables thin film silicon solar cells with potential for higher efficiencies

Progress with artificial muscles

Researchers in New Zealand are creating "wearable energy harvesters" capable of converting movement from humans or found in nature into battery power.

Fuel-cells power German super-stealth submarine

In 1994 German naval manufacturer Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft began developing technology for a non-nuclear, super-stealth, hybrid submarine. The first models were released in 2003 with the updated versions recently revealed.

Waste heat into power using tiny generators

A joint team of Ukrainian and American scientists has proposed a novel "pyroelectric" method to power tiny devices using waste heat.

Printed oxide diodes and memory

Researchers at Taiwan's National Chiao Tung University have made a discovery that opens this door, allowing them to build electronic components like diodes on many different substrates.

Spray on solar glass coming soon

A major breakthrough by researchers at New Energy Technologies could soon see the unveiling of a working prototype of the first ever glass window capable of generating electricity.

World's smallest working solar cells applied to flexible plastic

New Energy researchers apply world's smallest working solar cells to transparent flexible plastic.

Windows coated with world's tiniest solar cells

New Energy Technologies, Inc has announced that the Company is continuing to further advance the development of its tinted transparent glass SolarWindows™ capable of generating electricity by coating glass surfaces with the world's smallest known organic solar cells.

The future for military sensors may be in tiny solar cells

Tiny solar cells that power tiny microelectronic machines (MEMS) could be sprayed onto a soldiers backpack, uniform or military vehicle possibly eliminating the use of heavy portable batteries carried by soldiers for their electrical requirements.

Sprayed Silicon Nanoparticles Boost PV Performance

Octillion Corp. (Symbol: OCTL), announced that a published research study has demonstrated, among other achievements, that the same silicon nanoparticles used in development of the Company's first-of-its-kind transparent glass window capable of generating electricity, are able to drastically increase the power performance of conventional silicon solar cells.