Emergence

Conductive Inks: 5G, Automotive, Power Electronics, PV, E-Packaging

Conductive ink business is inherently wonderfully diverse, which has allowed the industry to rejuvenate itself time and again and to remain relevant through generations of product lifecycles. This diversity, however, presents a market segmentation, evaluation, and prioritization challenge for many small and large players across the world.

AI Can Help With The COVID-19 Crisis, But The right Human Input is Key

Artificial intelligence has the potential to help us tackle the pressing issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is not the technology itself, though, that will make the difference but rather the knowledge and creativity of the humans who use it.

Computer Vision for Boosting Pest Control

One of the strategies used for biological control of the South American fruit fly is sterilization of males by X-ray or gamma-ray irradiation. The aim of the procedure is to bring about a decrease in the wild population of these insects.

Die Attach Materials in Electric Vehicles: How Will the Market Grow

The rise of electric vehicles is creating many new material opportunities. One such material class is the die attach material used in power electronics.

World-First Trial of Self-Flying Air Taxi in New Zealand

The New Zealand Government has signed a memorandum of understanding with urban air mobility company Wisk (the new trading name of Zephyr Airworks) to support a world-first passenger transport trial of the company's all-electric, self-flying air taxi 'Cora' in Canterbury.

Reliable Pedestrian Recognition: Supports Analysis of Neural Networks

Highly advanced artificial intelligence and convolutional neural network technology has made the automatic detection of a range of objects possible. Still, it will never be possible to fully eliminate erroneous classifications—one reason the reliability of automatic image processing must continue to improve.

Robotics Startup Aziobot Lands Koolen Industries Investment

Dutch clean energy conglomerate Koolen Industries has invested in Dutch robotics startup Aziobot to help fund an expansion of its team ahead of its introduction of autonomous cleaning robots to the market.

Diagnosing Cardiovascular Disease

Diagnosing CVD is the first step in patients' road to recovery. It is imperative to detect the disease early in order to administer treatment while it is still treatable. In addition, preventing the disease altogether is becoming more important in healthcare. The main approaches for detecting CVD are currently in vitro diagnostics (IVD) at point-of-care (POC) and the use artificial intelligence (AI) in cardiovascular imaging.

Ahhm Radiant Systems LLC

Ahhm Radiant Systems LLC specialise in roll-bonded aluminium with integrated coolant channels for applications in residential buildings. In the last few years they have become involved in the automotive sector and have an interest in the thermal management of electric vehicles.

SananBio US

SananBio is a Chinese-American horticultural lighting company that supplies the vertical farming industry. In December 2019, IDTechEx Analyst Dr Michael Dent spoke with George Carter III from SananBio US about the company's RADIX hardware for vertical farming.

Graphene at the IDTechEx Show! Santa Clara 2019

This article shows the graphene highlights from the IDTechEx Show! USA 2019. There were two full days of conference track as well as relevant presentation in parallel sessions related to energy storage, and sensors. In addition, there was a graphene pavilion with many key exhibitors.

Xarvio, a BASF Digital Farming brand

Xarvio is a software platform for digital agriculture owned by global chemicals company BASF. Xarvio tools help improve decision making on farms by letting users monitor and manage their fields, as well as identify weeds and pests during field inspections. In December 2019, IDTechEx Analyst spoke with Louis Wells, Solutions and Services manager at BASF, about the Xarvio platform.

Radars: Key Technology Trends Towards 4D Imaging Radars

These are exciting times for radar technology. Many changes are taking place. In this article, we outline some key trends from the recent IDTechEx report "Radars 2020-2030: Technologies, Future Trends, Forecasts".

NASA Glenn Research Center

NASA GRC have been working on boron nitride nanosheets (BNNS) and boron nitride nanoutubes (BNNT) since 2010. IDTechEx interviewed Dr Diana Santiago (Principal Investigator).

Alstom to Test its Hydrogen Fuel Cell Train in the Netherlands

Plans for a pilot project to test the Coradia iLint, the world's first passenger train powered by hydrogen fuel cells, for the first time in the Netherlands.

Stretch Film Easily Deforms and Quickly Returns to Original Dimensions

An elastic film that easily recovers its original shape and size after folding and rolling. Diverse potential applications include displays and wearable devices.

New IDTechEx Research Report: Radars 2020-2030

Radars evolve towards 4D imaging with improved resolution and object detection AIs, surpassing $15Bn as forecast by IDTechEx Research in their latest report on the topic, covering ADAS and autonomous driving, 4D imaging radars, semiconductor technology, low insertion loss materials, advanced packaging, deep learning, object detection/ classification/ tracking.

New Form Factors for Energy Storage Batteries

Flexible, thin and/or printed batteries (or batteries with novel form factors) are back on the agenda thanks to the rise of Internet of Things (IoT), wearables, and environmental sensors. Find out more at the forthcoming IDTechEx Show, Nov 20-21.

Global Graphene Group Delivers Graphene-Engineered Solutions

From Invention to Implementation - Global Graphene Group Inc. (G3) was the first company to discover and patent graphene in 2002. Since then, Global G3 has been developing processes for mass production of both single layer and multilayer graphene and their derivative composites.

Electric Vehicle Research at Advanced Materials Osaka July 2019

Here we give the abstracts relevant to electric vehicles from BIT Advanced Materials Conference Osaka Japan July 2019. The organisers failed to provide slides but we have photographs of some of these if you are interested. The selected abstracts are divided into energy storage, wide bandgap semiconductors, energy harvesting and other.