TyroMotion GmbH (AT)

New material harvests energy from water vapor

Engineers have created a new polymer film that can generate electricity by drawing on a ubiquitous source: water vapor.

Heidelberg showcases visionary print applications

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG is showcasing visionary application concepts based on innovating printing processes at the Heidelberg site's Research & Development Center.

Pilot production line for the fabrication of tailor made thin-film PV

The inkjet OPV project aims at establishing an inkjet printing production line for the manufacturing of tailor-made organic PV modules.

Tera-Barrier Films

Tera Barrier is a spin-off from the A*Star Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore. They are developing a thin film flexible barriers for use in organic electronics and thin film PV industries. The technology utilities metal nanoparticles and can be deposited using high-speed techniques such sputtering. Their display grade layer has been evaluated by the Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science and has been found to have a 10E-6 WVTR using the Tritium test. Tera-Barriers will be ramping up production via partnership with a Japanese manufacturer.

E Ink Holdings

Electrophoretic display maker expands into new applications.

World record battery performance using yolk-shell design

Scientists have set a world record for energy storage, using a clever "yolk-shell" design to store five times more energy in the sulfur cathode of a rechargeable lithium-ion battery than is possible with today's commercial technology.

Paul Heremans Technology Director Flexible Electronics at Holst Centre

As per January 7, imec-Fellow Paul Heremans has become Technology Director for the Flexible Electronics Research activities at Holst Centre.

New pricing structure good news for single wall carbon nanotube users

In a move that's sure to be welcomed by research and development labs, Thomas Swan & Co. Ltd. have announced a new, improved-value pricing structure for their high quality Elicarb® Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes.

Electric Vehicles: Lessons of success and failure

You do not look at penguins to judge how the world's birds are prospering. You should not look at on-road electric cars to assess how electric vehicles in general are progressing. Both are somewhat special cases - find out more...

Piezoelectric energy harvesting: Developments, challenges, future

The days when piezoelectric energy harvesting was considered unreliable and had low power output are long gone. Hand in hand with the development of ultra low power electronics, energy harvesters have been drastically improving also.

Industry leaders team up for electric energy initiative

Ford Motor Company announced a strategic collaboration that will demonstrate how a typical American family can significantly reduce their electricity bills and CO2 footprint by integrating home appliance technology with a plug-in vehicle to achieve an energy-efficient lifestyle.

Largest flexible memory arrays to date

The EU-funded eMbedded Organic Memory Arrays (MOMA) project has announced the largest re-programmable non-volatile memory arrays yet produced on flexible substrates.

Longer battery life for electric locomotive

A leading cause of damage and death in lead-acid batteries is sulfation, a degradation of the battery caused by frequent charging and discharging that creates an accumulation of lead sulfate.

Will iron batteries return?

Electric vehicles whether hybrid or pure electric or for land, water or air, employ batteries on board, where supercapacitors have not replaced them.

Future tablets to be thin and flexible as sheets of paper

The PaperTab tablet looks and feels just like a sheet of paper. However, it is fully interactive with a flexible, high-resolution 10.7" plastic display developed by Plastic Logic, a flexible touchscreen, and powered by the second generation Intel® CoreTM i5 Processor.

Kodak sued over ownership of 18 patents

Global OLED Technology LLC (GOT) has hit Eastman Kodak Co. with a lawsuit in New York bankruptcy court seeking a declaratory judgment that 18 patents Kodak has laid claim to actually belong to GOT, which said it bought the patents in a 2009 deal.

Efficient military mobile power

Reference designs for the world's lightest, and highest energy density, flexible military charging mats.