12 Dec 2008

Highlights from the IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2008 event
Raghu Das covers the highlights at Printed Electronics USA 2008 where attendance reached almost 700 people and 55 exhibitors - making this event the largest in the World on the topic.
1 Dec 2008

Highlights from the Energy Harvesting Technology Event, London
Raghu Das, CEO at IDTechEx reports on the Energy Harvesting Technology event which looked at the use of technologies to generate electricity from the environment which can be used to power electronics and electrics.
13 Nov 2008

Printed electronics - The magic arrives
How Printed Electronics is changing consumer goods and services - highlights from the forthcoming Printed Electronics USA event
21 Oct 2008

An invisible cloak may be 5 years away using transformation optics
An electromagnetic cloak as seen in the Harry Potter movies may be only 5 years away believe scientists at Purdue University.
22 Sep 2008

SID Organic Electronics UK 2008
IDTechEx technology analyst Dr Harry Zervos attended the meeting of the Society for Information Displays in London, where the latest research and development efforts were discussed and presented.
12 Sep 2008

Printed Photovoltaics in Japan
The approach to the new photovoltaics is different in Japan. Unlike Western car companies, Honda is making photovoltaics partly because it could help to create the car of the future. The Western car companies take a shorter term view and even struggle to catch up with Japanese hybrid vehicle technology and the batteries required.
19 Aug 2008

Scientists mimic essence of plants' energy storage system
MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun doesn't shine.
1 Aug 2008

Huge growth of Printed Electronics Asia conference
Printed Electronics Asia will display some of the latest manufacturing technologies from across the world.
3 Jul 2008

Researchers developing printed electronics for creating RFID tags
European researchers have taken a major step towards the goal of developing printable electronics that can be used for creating radio frequency identification tags and flexible watch displays.
11 Jun 2008

Highlights of the Solar Innovation and Investment meeting, UK
IDTechEx provide feedback of the Solar Innovation and Investment meeting held between the 21st and the 23rd of May in London.
29 Apr 2008

Metamaterials: Printing the cloak of invisibility
Physicists no longer say that the invisibility cloak of Harry Potter, the vanishing car of James Bond or the Invisible Man are an impossibility. It may be possible to make things invisible by putting a thin layer of a specially patterned material in the way.
9 Nov 2007

Challenges in organic electronics UK
This two day meeting was organised by the Organic Materials Innovation Centre (OMIC) and the UK Displays & Lighting KTN and focused on research activities that address the major challenges in the chemistry, processing and physics of organic transistors, sensors, OLEDS and photovoltaic devices.
5 Jul 2007

Completing the Connection Between the Analogue and Digital Worlds
Imagine reading a book like the Da Vinci Code and being able to Google the name of one of the pieces of art or societies such as the Knights Templar by touching a word in the book.