26 Mar 2012

Energy Department announces $10 million to promote zero emission
The Energy Department's support for the development and demonstration of innovative alternative vehicle technologies is helping reduce the nation's reliance on gasoline and diesel and diversifying our nation's energy portfolio.
23 Mar 2012

UA engineer launches robotic planetary lake lander
Fink unveiled the lake lander, named Tucson Explorer II, or TEX II, in a paper titled "Robotic Lake Lander Test Bed for Autonomous Surface and Subsurface Exploration of Titan Lakes," which he presented March 8 at an aerospace conference organized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Big Sky, Mont.
22 Mar 2012

Applied Materials introduces advanced CVD films
Screens in tablets and TVs moving to metal oxide technology for higher performance. New AKT-PECVD films provide a cost-effective path for bringing metal oxide backplanes rapidly to market.
22 Mar 2012

Positive Adoption Trends Expected to Double the Market Within 5 Years
The 4th IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and Storage event will be taking place on the 15th and 16th of May in Berlin, Germany and will cover recent progress and developments in energy harvesting, wireless sensors and related technologies.
22 Mar 2012

Aurora Skate UAV wins border protection award
Aurora's Skate small unmanned air vehicle system (SUAS) was awarded first place in the 2012 Border Security Technology/Product Challenge at the recently held 2012 Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona.
22 Mar 2012

NIST Announces $2.6 million funding for novel semiconductor research
To launch the effort, NIST plans to provide up to $2.6 million in federal cost-shared funding for a project's first year, with the potential for continued funding for up to five years.
21 Mar 2012

Engineers create piezoelectric graphene
Materials engineers at Stanford have described how they have engineered piezoelectrics into graphene, extending for the first time such fine physical control to the nanoscale.
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21 Mar 2012

Novaled files registration statement for initial public offering
Novaled intends to apply to have its ADSs listed on the NASDAQ Global Market or New York Stock Exchange.
21 Mar 2012

New: The printed electronics manufacturing forum
Printed electronics manufacturing is becoming increasingly integrated as companies work on putting together different printing, lamination, substrate handling, curing and finishing processes.
21 Mar 2012

Boeing phantom eye conducts medium-speed taxi test
Phantom Eye reached speeds of up to 30 knots.
20 Mar 2012

Inorganic and composite printed electronics is favoured
At the forthcoming event, Printed Electronics and Photovoltaics Europe 3-4 April in Berlin, one third of the 94 presentations and masterclasses primarily concern organic compounds but two thirds primarily concern inorganic and composite devices. The organisers did not steer it that way: the customers did.
19 Mar 2012

Distance record for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
In 2012, four Liquid Robotics "PACX Wave Glider" AUV gliders set a new distance world record by travelling autonomously almost 6000 kilometers.
19 Mar 2012

'Invisible wires' for transporting electricity
Scientists have successfully collected and transported electricity using a virtually 'invisible' conductive wiring system.
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19 Mar 2012

Nano-imprinted photonic structures improve efficiency of silicon solar
Imec has successfully fabricated crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells including 2D periodic photonic nanostructures made with nano-imprint lithography.
19 Mar 2012

Graphene supercapacitor holding promise for portable electronics
Researchers develop graphene supercapacitor holding promise for portable electronics
16 Mar 2012

Nanotrees to cleanly harvest the sun's energy
University of California, San Diego electrical engineers are building a forest of tiny nanowire trees in order to cleanly capture solar energy without using fossil fuels and harvest it for hydrogen fuel generation.
16 Mar 2012

World's first digital interactive newspaper becomes a reality
Working with technology company Novalia and colleagues from the universities of Dundee and Surrey, the project aims to revolutionise the way we consume media.
16 Mar 2012

Smith and Wanxiang sign letter of intent for $25M investment
Smith Electric Vehicles and Wanxiang Group announce investment and joint venture.
15 Mar 2012

Biofuel cells implanted in snails
A team at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, have implanted tiny biofuel cells into brown garden snails that extract electrical power from the glucose and oxygen in the snail's blood to produce electricity.
15 Mar 2012

Running cars on sun and water
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems inaugurated a solar hydrogen filling station.