External press release
12 Jun 2012

City Labs releases first commercially-available betavoltaic product
City Labs, Inc has released its first commercial product, a tritium-based betavoltaic power source that enables low-power microelectronic and sensor applications where battery replacement is difficult, impossible, or life-threatening.
External press release
19 Jan 2012

Flextech Alliance welcomes new governing board members
Industry veterans bring specialized expertise in business development and emerging applications to the alliance.
13 Jan 2012

Graphene rips follow rules
Research from Rice University and the University of California at Berkeley may give science and industry a new way to manipulate graphene, the wonder material expected to play a role in advanced electronic, mechanical and thermal applications.
19 Oct 2011

Energy harvesting sensors can resemble rocks
SPAN's innovative power management harvests energy from its surroundings to provide perpetually powered sensors. Its ultra low sensor cost is predicated on the fact that each node within the SPAN network incorporates an energy harvesting subsystem that re-charges itself using simple energy sources in its surrounding environment.
7 Oct 2011

Sandia awards for solar glitter, rescue robot & university partnership
Sandia National Laboratories will begin researching how to use glitter-sized photovoltaic cells in utility-scale solar power systems, which eventually could cut the costs of solar panels in half and nearly double their efficiency.
11 Aug 2011

Wireless sensor networks: creating a $2 billion market in 2021
According to IDTechEx research in the new report Wireless Sensor Networks 2011-2021, WSN will grow rapidly from $0.45 billion in 2011 to $2 billion in 2021.
11 Aug 2011

NASA's solar-powered spacecraft sets off for Jupiter
NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 9:25 a.m. PDT (12:25 p.m. EDT) Friday to begin a five-year journey to Jupiter.
10 Aug 2011

Dream screens from graphene
Technology developed at Rice could revolutionize touch-screen displays.
1 Jun 2011

Profiles of military electric vehicle suppliers
Suppliers and developers of electric vehicles for the US Military.
20 Apr 2011

Electric Vehicles for Military, Security and Police - Land, Water, Air
This article shares some of the research carried out for the new IDTechEx report, "Electric Vehicles, Military, Security, Police 2011-2021".
External press release
20 Jan 2011

City Labs achieves product regulatory licence for betavoltaic battery
City Labs is the first company in the betavoltaic battery industry to be granted a Product Regulatory General License to manufacture, sell, and distribute betavoltaic batteries.
19 Jan 2011

Smart Skin for Land, Sea and Air Vehicles
Cars that glow in the dark and have far more passenger space, aircraft and submarines that monitor their complete outer surface, military vehicles that destroy missiles that hit them. The common factor here is smart skin.
19 Jan 2011

Energy efficient aircraft - the next 15 years
During the next fifteen years, we shall be in the transition to much more energy efficient, quieter aircraft, with much less pollution and dependence on declining hydrocarbon reserves.
7 Jan 2011

Printed Electronics for EVs - The money floods in
Printed electronics is now seeing a surge in transactions in the form of orders, government and industry-funded development programs, acquisitions and company fund raising.
15 Dec 2010

Printed electronics for energy harvesting - the money floods in
Printed electronics is now seeing a surge in transactions in the form of orders, government and industry-funded development programs, acquisitions and company fund raising.
External press release
14 Dec 2010

City Labs welcomes Dr Larry Olsen to its in-house research team
City Labs, Inc, the pioneering innovator of long-life (20+ years) NanoTritiumâ„¢ batteries for microelectronics, welcomes Larry C. Olsen, Ph.D. and seminal pioneer of betavoltaic technology, to its in-house research team.
10 Dec 2010

Printed Electronics - The money floods in
Printed electronics is now seeing a surge in transactions in the form of orders, government and industry-funded development programs, acquisitions and company fund raising.
External press release
16 Nov 2010

City Labs completes first round of financing
City Labs' Tritium batteries enable applications where battery replacement is difficult or impossible, and a source of continuous nanowatt/microwatt power for twenty years or more is crucial.
18 Oct 2010

DARPA invests $89 million in Boeing's Solar Eagle
Boeing has announced that it has won $89 million in funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) who has selected a concept developed by the Boeing Company for the second phase of the Vulture long-endurance unmanned aerial system (UAS) program.