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SANYO completes installation of solar parking lots

SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. has announced that it has completed installation of two "Solar Parking Lots," incorporating solar panels and lithium-ion battery systems, and provision of 100 electric hybrid bicycles, "eneloop bike," in Setagaya, Tokyo Japan. The "Solar Parking Lot" is a completely independent and clean system eliminating the use of fossil fuels, and the clean power generated from the solar panels installed on the roof is stored to be used to recharge the electric hybrid bicycle batteries and illuminate the parking lot lights.

Breakthroughs with sensing in the human body

Holst Centre and others are working on body area networking to monitor vital signs, control drug delivery according to need and otherwise progress towards bionic man and woman and care of the disabled and elderly. Unfortunately cutting into your body to change batteries brings with it a significant percentage of mortalities, not just pain and infection. Energy harvesting within the body is potentially helpful but biobatteries and thermoelectric generators provide only weak amounts of electricity in such applications.

ECOtality's joint ventures for manufacturing & distribution in China

ECOtality Finalizes $15 Million Joint Ventures to Manufacture & Sell Charging Systems in China

Portable, easy-to-wear mind speller typing words with your brain

Imec, Holst Centre and the lab of neuro- and psychophysiology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven on the 23rd March presented the Mind Speller, a portable, easy-to-wear, intelligent textual and verbal communications prototype device enabling people with motoric disabilities (suffering from for example brain paralysis or speech or language disorders) to communicate.

Wireless temperature transmitter powered by heat

Energy harvesting is used by the ABB R&D Centers Ladenburg, Germany and Daettwil, Switzerland, and Micropelt, Freiburg, Germany to replace the battery with an unlimited, green, sustainable, maintenance-free power supply.

The truly integrated circuit is printed and flexible

For 40 years, so called integrated circuits have integrated little more than transistors, diodes and sensors onto one piece of material but now there are much more integrated circuits arriving where most electrical and electronic components are co-deposited on flexible substrates. Those flexible substrates are key, because this new electronics will be affordable and desirable on everything from apparel to human skin and electrical and consumer packaged goods, where surfaces are only rarely flat.

Nanobased printed RFID will reduce the cost of printing tags

Long checkout lines could be history with a new printable transmitter that can be invisibly embedded in packaging.

The Holst Centre

The Holst Centre an R&D facility sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Government of Flanders is another step closer to fast roll to roll (R2R) manufacturing of flexible OLEDs, OPVs and Smart Packaging.

Changing sides

LDS technology and the innovative Fusion3D laser structurer under-pin the good performance figures of the German laser specialist LPKF. Elis Hirvonen brings along a great deal of process expertise into his new LDS Product Manager job.

Ascent Solar aligns with Kirloskar Integrated Technologies Ltd. India

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. signs strategic alliance agreement with Indian conglomerate Kirloskar Integrated Technologies Limited, India

Development of energy-harvesting mat

Morgan Technical Ceramics ElectroCeramics (MTC ElectroCeramics), is undertaking a Shorter Knowledge Transfer Partnership (sKTP) project with Glyndŵr University in Wales. The project, which will last 26 weeks, is to design and build an energy harvesting demonstration system that will provide a renewable source of energy.

Ingmar Wilhelm of Enel Green Power elected President of the EPIA

Gathered together in Rome on the occasion of its Annual General Meeting last week, the members of the largest photovoltaic (PV) industry association worldwide have elected their new Board of Directors.

SunRay Scientific launches NANOGLOW™ conductive silver inks

SunRay Scientific, a leader in solutions for flex circuit and printed electronics manufacturing, announced today that it is launching NANOGLOW™ water-based, nano-silver inks for roll-to-roll printing of conductive traces on low temperature substrates such as polyester and paper. The NANGLOW™ products are designed for flexographic/gravure printing and will be complementary to SunRay's existing MAXIGLOW™ portfolio of silver/carbon inks, dielectrics, and epoxies which are designed for screen printing of membrane switches, and other printed electronics applications.

Nissan to build LEAF electric vehicle in Sunderland

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., has announced the Nissan LEAF will be manufactured at its plant in Sunderland, UK.

The memristor

The memristor "the missing link of electronics" was finally built in 2008, using nothing more than titanium dioxide and metal electrodes in thin films. In 2009 NIST printed them on plastic film. Now a new version involving silicon and silver thin film seems to have advantages.

Improved thermoelectric coupling

Thermoelectric energy harvesting is less popular than the three leading forms of energy harvesting - photovoltaics, electrodynamics and piezoelectrics.

POLARIC revolutionises production of organic electronic circuits

A new EU-funded project POLARIC was launched in January 2010 to develop roll-to-roll printing of high-performance organic electronic circuits. The project will revolutionise the way printed electronic circuits are made by combining large-area fabrication methods with high-performance organic electronic circuits on a scale not previously attempted.

NILT launch nickel standard stamp with microlens structures

The new standard stamp features a large area of 50 mm x 50 mm with closely packed microlens array structures. The features are concave so that imprinting/embossing into a polymer film forms a microlens array in a low cost and feasible manner.

Printed Electronics Europe on track to exceed 1000 attendees

With a month still to go, more than 650 unique attendees from 24 countries have registered for Europe's largest show covering printed electronics and its many variants (flexible, organic and inorganic electronics). As of this week, there are 74 exhibiting companies - the World's largest exhibition on the topic.

Novel method accelerates progress in OLED lighting efficiency

Scientists from Philips Research and the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUe) have developed a novel method for accurately measuring the active layer in organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting. This is an important step forward for OLED device optimization and efficiency that is determined by the position of the very narrow zone in which the light is generated.