Full profile interview
15 Jun 2015
Ultrahaptics
Ultrahaptics are a UK startup developing projected ultrasonic haptic actuators. Their solution enables touchless haptic feedback, using arrays of ultrasonic speakers to generate sound wave fields that can be felt by the user.
12 Jun 2015
Power electronics for electric vehicles: $45 billion market
Power electronics is at the heart of the disruptive change of all electric vehicle parts.
11 Jun 2015
Supercapacitors with batteries or fuel cells: result happiness
IDTechEx interviews in Japan have established that supercapacitors across lithium-ion batteries in cars can increase range by 10% by permitting deep discharge, provided suitable batteries are used that can tolerate such a regime.
10 Jun 2015
ITO alternative leaders will emerge despite the pending consolidation
At IDTechEx we have been closely following and analysing the transparent conductive film market for the past five years.
9 Jun 2015
2015 marks the start of manufacturing in metals using 3D Printing
Metal 3D printing is allowing the technology to be adopted for part production in the aerospace, orthopaedic, dental and jewellery industries, and is now being developed for the oil and gas, printed electronics, and general engineering.
9 Jun 2015
Growth in High-powered Energy Harvesting
The new reality is that energy harvesting - creation of off-grid electricity where it is needed, using ambient energy - is now one subject from microwatts for wireless sensors to tens of kilowatts for vehicles and buildings. This is because it increasingly involves the same technologies, locations and companies. One structure, such as a remote building, will tend to use a range of energy harvesting from very low power EH for wireless sensors to very high power EH for charging those newly announced Tesla house batteries.
Full profile interview
8 Jun 2015
Kimoto
Kimoto Co is a Japanese firm founded in 1952. It specialises in coating films.The company offers the Ohmlex Film, a transparent conductive film targeted to touch panel applications as an alternative to ITO.
Background
8 Jun 2015
Toppan Printing
Toppan Printing is a large Japanese printing company founded over a century ago. It has 1.5 trillion Japanese yen sales and employs 15,000 persons globally. The company has developed an alternative to ITO as a transparent conductive film (TCF) - it uses copper mesh, which it says is suitable for screen sizes ranging from 15" to 55". This has a sheet resistance of 0.01Ohms/square.
Full profile interview
5 Jun 2015
Perpetuus Carbon Technologies Limited
Perpetuus Advanced Materials is commercializing plasma-exfoliated graphene nanoplatellets or nano-graphite, as they put it. The versatility of their production method is in its ability to tune amorphousity, surface area and functionalisation. It claims to be operating an independently-verified production capacity of >100 tpa.
Background
5 Jun 2015
GSK - an end user view on Wearable Technology and Sensors
The Platform Technology & Science division of GSK is a group of around 3000 people that provides technology innovation support to the three main sections of GSK: consumer, pharmaceutical and vaccines. Within the PTS, the Innovation PTS division (iPTS) is a group of 25-30 staff looking for novel science to support the main divisions. Luis said that the majority of work they do is purely investigational, and only select projects will ever see application in other parts of the company.
5 Jun 2015
The industrialisation of truly flexible AMOLED displays
Building on a series of flexible AMOLED demonstrators made previously by FlexEnable, the two companies have now manufactured a glass-free, full-colour, flexible AMOLED display based on FlexEnable's low-temperature process for plastic transistors and CPT's RGB OLED technology.
5 Jun 2015
Fuel cell electric vehicles 2015-2030: surprises continue
This article shares some of the findings of the new IDTechEx Research report, Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles 2015-2030: Land, Water, Air and some of what will be discussed in the forthcoming IDTechEx webinar on 9th June.
Full profile interview
2 Jun 2015
Faradion
Faradion Limited is an early stage company (est. 2011) engaged in the development of low-cost, non-aqueous sodium-ion (Na ion) rechargeable batteries for automotive, utility and consumer sectors (grid energy storage).
Full profile interview
2 Jun 2015
NinjaFlex
Fenner Drives make NinjaFlex and SemiFlex, flexible polyurethane thermoplastic filaments.
Full profile interview
2 Jun 2015
Varibel Innovations
Varibel was established in 2003, based in Arnhem in the Netherlands. The company was formed as a way to commercialize technologies developed at TU Delft. Varibel purchased the key patents for 'hearing glasses' and the associated technology in 2003. They brought this product to market in 2006.
1 Jun 2015
The direction of development in autonomous vehicle research
Autonomous vehicles uses a portfolio of sensors that is highly dependent on Lidar technology, given the high price of these sensors, researchers are looking how to reduce the reliance on this technology through enhancing the capabilities of cheaper sensor technologies.
1 Jun 2015
Wearable technology in healthcare: characterizing the largest sector
This article presents a view of the current medical sensor landscape. With huge revenue potential and clear drivers, many companies from the electronics, textiles and manufacturing industries alike are interested. This article describes some of the business plans adopted to date.
29 May 2015
P&G, L'Oreal push 3D bioprinting from research to commercial products
Consumer goods giant, Procter & Gamble, has today announced they are pursuing 3D bioprinting.
28 May 2015
Webinar 9 June: Fuel Cell Vehicles 2015-2030
IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 9 June 2015.
24 May 2015
Printed and organic electronics in healthcare
Printed, organic and flexible electronics is an industry that includes various components and technologies, from relatively simple electrochemical sensors to flexible X-ray detectors. From an end-user's point of view, the main advantages are disposability, large area, and conformability. In this article we focus on healthcare and review the wide range of devices targeted for medical applications.