Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

Printed Electronics USA 2010 Highlights

Last week the annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics event was held in the heart of Silicon Valley in California. Almost 1200 people attended the conference and 49,000 square foot exhibition.

IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2010 award winners

The fourth annual printed electronics winners were announced on Dec 1st at the IDTechEx Awards Dinner in Santa Clara, USA.

Nantennas and metamaterials for EV photovoltaics

Photovoltaics could be applied to the whole of the outside and inside of the car, even over the lights and the windows

Major step towards low-power all-optical switching

The January issue of the premier scientific magazine Nature Photonics publishes an ultra-small and fast, electrically pumped all-optical memory on a silicon chip with record low power consumption.

IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA Award Winners Announced

IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA Award Winners Announced This week the IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA event opened to more than 900 attendees from 28 countries - by far the World's largest event on the topic. Held in San Jose, CA, the event featured more end users than ever before and grew by almost 25% compared to the same event in 2008. The event featured the annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA Awards ceremony, aimed to recognize outstanding achievement.

Printed Electronics uses more inorganics and composites

Printed electronics is using more inorganics and composites in the quest for higher performance, lower costs, finer feature size, stretchability and creation of radically new components such as memristors, supercabatteries and metamaterials.

Energy Harvesting and Storage Conference - Day Two

The second day of the IDTechEx conference on Energy Harvesting and Storage in Cambridge UK was dedicated to the technology roadmap.

University receives £6 million funding for Metamaterials

EPSRC, the UK Government's leading funding agency for research and training in engineering and the physical sciences has announced a new six-year program on nanostructured photonic metamaterials, to be established at the University of Southampton in England.

Energy Harvesting & Storage Conference expands

The conference Energy Harvesting in Cambridge UK on June 3-4 has enhanced its first and second day line up with carefully chosen speakers giving the big picture, with a particular emphasis on commercialisation.

Highlights of Photovoltaics beyond Conventional Silicon event

IDTechEx shed light on progress of technologies at Photovoltaics beyond Conventional Silicon conference held in Denver.

Harvesting the sun

A technology that could cost a few cents a yard to collect energy from the sun even after it has set and be imprinted on flexible materials is being developed by a team of researchers.