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Plextronics & Coatema hosted masterclass at PE Europe 2011 tradeshow

Plextronics & Coatema Hosted Masterclass on Thin Film Photovoltaics at Printed Electronics Europe 2011 Tradeshow.

XsunX signs CIGSolar purchase

XsunX signs CIGSolar purchase and license commitment with energy company

Mechanical, acoustic and ultrasonic harvester wins award

Students at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates have developed an award winning device that generates power through piezoelectric technology by harnessing mechanical energy, acoustic noise and ultrasonic waves.

Thinfilm& PARC extend printed electronics commercialization engagement

Thinfilm & PARC extend printed electronics commercialization engagement By working together to further co-develop Addressable Memory technology, PARC and Thinfilm are complementing each other's strengths to move the industry beyond components and devices towards consumer-facing applications.

NovaCentrix receives AIMCAL award for copper-based screen ink

NovaCentrix is pleased to announce that it's Metalon® ICI-020 Copper-Oxide Reduction electrically-conductive screen ink has been recognized by AIMCAL in the Materials category of the Technology of the Year competition. NovaCentrix Chief Scientist Dr. Kurt Schroder accepted the award at the recent AIMCAL March Management Meeting 2011 held at The Boulder Resort in Carefree, Arizona.

Auria & MHI enter discussions in production & sales of thin-film PV

Auria Solar Co. Ltd. (Auria) of Taiwan and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, LTD. (MHI) of Japan have entered a MOU for business cooperation in Auria's new expansion project.

Harvesting power from ambient energy

Siemens researchers have developed a small machine that is capable of converting mechanical energy into electricity in a particularly efficient manner.

Shining a light on research

Monash University is involved in two promising areas of science research that could deliver low cost, no-emission alternatives for our future fuel and energy needs.

Printechnologics present AirCode touch invisible identification tag

On April 5th and 6th, Printechnologics will present AirCode touch - an invisible identification tag readable by standard touchscreens, communicating with the online world just through a simple touch - at the Printed Electronics Europe Trade Show in Düsseldorf. As leading technology developer in field of printed electronics, we are proud to present our tech-nology at Europe's largest event on printed and flexible electronics.

OLED Joint venture between Panasonic Electric Works and Idemitsu Kosan

Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd. (headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka; President: Shusaku Nagae; hereinafter referred to as PEW) and Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. (headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Kazuhisa Nakano; hereinafter referred to as Idemitsu) announced that they had resolved to establish a joint venture for developing, manufacturing and marketing organic light-emitting diode (hereinafter referred to as OLED) lighting panels.

New Energy and NREL cooperative research and development agreement

New Energy Technologies, Inc. has announced that as part of its efforts to advance the commercial development of SolarWindow™, capable of generating electricity on see-thru glass, the Company has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Intrinsiq's innovative screen print copper ink for paper substrates

New product launch - 'Intrinsiq CP' low temperature copper nanoparticle based ink for printed electronics applications

Land Rover's 4WD hybrid prototype

The recent Geneva Motor Show provided the platform for numerous manufacturers to exhibit their new environmentally friendly vehicles as such ranges become common-place in the lines of commercial car companies. One of these corporations was Land Rover who showcased their hybrid prototype from Range-e.

Energy harvesting for electric vehicles

Over twenty million electric vehicles produced in 2010 will employ on-board energy harvesting to help charge the traction batteries. That includes both hybrid and pure electric vehicles.

Japan installs EV charging vending machines

Adapting small, populous, publically available units into electric vehicle charging stations is appearing to become something of a trend. Telekom Austria have renovated archaic phone booths into charging stations and now Panasonic Electric Works are set to lead an initiative that will see Japanese motorists charging up at vending machines.

PARC Battery Electrode Breakthrough

Palo Alto Research Center PARC, developed laser printing, object-oriented programming, and personal workstations with graphical user interfaces. Now it is building a cleantech portfolio.

Applying energy harvesters to textiles

Energy harvesters enabling micro-power generation provide new levels of efficiency and automation in the built environment, process control, vehicles and healthcare.

Tata Motors to boost UK engineering base with University of Warwick

The UK's technology base was given a major boost today when Tata Motors European Technical Centre (TMETC), a wholly-owned UK-based subsidiary of Tata Motors, announced that it will be expanding its partnership with WMG at the University of Warwick. TMETC plans to increase their team of highly skilled engineers working on the campus by 40 per cent over the next two years.

Subsidy powers growth in Indian two wheel sales

Mr Sohinder Gill, director, Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles in India has recently declared that, powered by an incentive package for electric vehicles announced by the Ministry of New and Renewable energy in November 2010, average monthly sales of electric two-wheelers in India has risen 20%.

More demonstrators at Printed Electronics Europe 2011

As part of its initiatives, the Northern Way sponsored a competition that started about 2 years ago, which required companies to come up with proposals for making printed electronics demonstrators with technologies currently available. Out of all the proposals, 11 were selected and out of those, 8 were funded in order to continue their development.