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The USA's photovoltaics hub

The establishment of statewide solar programs and government incentives lead to a budding photovoltaic industry.

University of Houston scientists investigate piezoelectrics

Driven by the vision of our society one day being basically self-propelled, a team of University of Houston scientists has set out to both amplify and provoke that potential in materials known as piezoelectrics, which naturally produce electricity when literally subjected to strain.

Nanosilver improves organic diodes

Organic Resonant Tunnelling Diodes ORTD may lead to improved printed memory, analog oscillators and RTD based circuits.

Multiple energy harvesting

Jennic Ltd of Sheffield, UK, a manufacturer of innovative 32-bit wireless microcontrollers and modules, has announced a demonstration platform that successfully harvests thermal, solar, radio frequency (RF) and vibrational energy, to power wireless sensor networks based on the IEEE802.15.4 standard such as ZigBee PRO and 6LoWPAN.

Plastic Logic eReader will wirelessly connect using AT&T 3G network

eReader built for mobile business professionals to debut in 2010.

Novacentrix wins R&D 100 Award for Pulseforge™ 3100

NovaCentrix announced that the PulseForge 3100 with Pulse Thermal Processing has been selected by R&D Magazine as a recipient of the 2009 R&D 100 Award in the Process Sciences category.

Dip coated SWCNT for flexible electronics

Dip coated SWCNT microstructures on wafer-scale polymer for flexible electronics

Energy harvesting volume driven by cars

In all forms of electric vehicle, power management is key and any form of energy harvesting is welcome. The modern car will therefore increasingly use regenerative braking, solar panels outside and maybe energy harvesting shock absorbers as well.

Nano ePrint developing printed nano-transistors in zinc oxide

Nano ePrint, formerly Plastic ePrint, the 2006 spin out from Professor Aimin Song's group at Manchester University in the UK, continues the development of its remarkable single layer transistor printing system.

Moving cars generate electricity at Burger King drive through

New Energy Technologies, Inc has announced that engineers have completed development of the Company's newest MotionPower™ prototype for generating electricity from the movement of cars and light trucks, and will now undertake active field tests of the device at a drive-thru located at a prominent Burger King® franchise in the New York metropolitan area.

New topics covered at Printed Electronics Asia

While some involved in OLEDs and OTFTs are moving out of the business of printed and potentially printed electronics, work on inorganic materials and compounds is increasing. The IDTechEx Printed Electronics Asia event in Tokyo will give a balanced view with many presentations being World firsts.

VDMA Photovoltaic Equipment

VDMA: Photovoltaic equipment reaches 60 per cent turnover growth in the first quarter of 2009, after two weak quarters incoming orders rise again.

Beginner's guide to electronic components - Part II

Part II of a beginner's guide to electronic components and how they are made.

Barnes & Noble launches world's largest eBookstore

Barnes & Noble, Inc., the world's largest bookseller, announced the launch of the Barnes & Noble eBookstore.

Beginner's guide to electronic components - Part I

Part one of a beginner's guide to electronic components and why we try to print them.

Converting solar energy using artificial leaf

An international team of researchers has modified chlorophyll from an alga so that it resembles the extremely efficient light antennae of bacteria. The team was then able to determine the structure of these light antennae. This is the first step to converting sunlight into energy using an artificial leaf.

Body area networking standard attracts industry attention

The recent IEEE 802.15.6 Working Group meeting in Montreal, Canada drew significant interest from major industry players including Philips, General Electric, Texas Instruments, Toumaz and Samsung.

RFID - a surge in orders

As forecasted by IDTechEx, there has been a surge in orders for RFID in 2009. Despite the world's largest RFID project, the $6 billion China National ID card scheme, being completed a year earlier, the global RFID market will rise by 5% this year to $5.56 billion.

Kovio Raises $20 Million in Venture Capital to Ship RF Barcodes

Kovio, Inc., a privately held company developing printed silicon electronics, today announced that to date it has raised $20 million in Series E financing

Southwest Nanotechnologies Inc. garners $3 million investment

SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc. (SWeNT), a leading developer and manufacturer of single-wall carbon nanotubes and specialty multiwall nanotubes will receive up to a $3 million equity infusion for carbon nanotube products from the Insight Technology Capital Partners, LP, (Insight) a growth capital fund based in Troy, Michigan.