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Low cost versatile R&D platform for thin film deposition

Midsummer, a leading supplier of equipment for cost effective manufacturing of CIGS thin film flexible solar cells has announced the launch of the UNO, a low cost versatile research and development platform for thin film deposition specifically developed for universities and research facilities.

New generation GaN and SiC semiconductors will be designed into EVs

SiC devices will be widely designed into electric vehicles from 2014 and GaN from 2018. With manufacturers currently designing vehicles to be launched onto the market in 2018, it is predicted that by this date GaN semiconductors will attain price parity with silicon devices. This will make the technology attractive as a replacement for silicon for use in the power electronics in both pure electric and hybrid vehicles.

World first mass production of plastic substrate flexible OLED panels

Konica Minolta, Inc. has announced the construction of a plant at Konica Minolta Kofu Site (Chuo-shi, Yamanashi Prefecture) for mass production of plastic substrate flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) lighting panels toward a stronger development of its OLED lighting business in fiscal 2014 and forward.

Key speakers will discuss their energy harvesting needs

Delegates from 23 countries will converge in Berlin on 1-2 April at Energy Harvesting & Storage - Europe's leading event on the topic. The event features end users across multiple verticals presenting and attending to discuss their key energy harvesting needs.

Energica

Energica is an Italian company that designs and manufactures electric motorbikes.

Magnomatics

Magnomatics Limited has a range of patented products, including high efficiency, ultra compact motors and generators, as well as magnetic transmission systems.

Europe at the heart of innovations in printed electronic sensors

As the next Printed Electronics Europe event is now less than 2 weeks away, it is opportune to take a closer look at the successes of the printed electronics industry in Europe. One of the areas where Europe is making a huge impact is in printed sensors.

Funding to develop energy storage technologies

$1.4 million has been awarded to six companies working on new technologies in battery and energy storage.

3D printing landscape and opportunities

According to research by IDTechEx in the report "3D Printing 2014-2025: Technologies, Markets, Players", the market for 3D printing equipment, materials and software will grow from about $1.5 billion this year to $4 billion in 2025.

Battery that 'breathes' could power next-gen electric vehicles

Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) nearly doubled in 2013, but most won't take you farther than 100 miles on one charge.

Conductive Inks and Pastes- Markets and Technologies

IDTechEx will analyse the technologies and markets for conductive inks and pastes in a series of articles. Here, we will give our overall updated market forecast segmented by target application, including photovoltaics, touch screens (ITO replacement and edge electrodes), RFID, sensors, smart packaging, etc. IDTechEx will also provide market forecasts for silver flake and nanoparticle pastes, and will outline the competitive landscape. In the follow-on articles, IDTechEx will analyse the photovoltaic, touch screen and sensor markets in more detail.

Atomically thin solar cells

Ultrathin layers made of Tungsten and Selenium have been created at the Vienna University of Technology; experiments show that they may be used as flexible, semi-transparent solar cells.

AIXTRON puts demo cluster for OLED production processes into operation

AIXTRON SE, a leading provider of deposition systems for the semiconductor industry, has launched operations with a new R&D cluster that demonstrates the core processes used to produce organic semiconductors.

Driving down fuel usage

Despite their potential to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and fuel consumption, electric and hybrid cars and trucks struggled for years to find a solid customer base.

Promising news for solar fuels using bionic leaves

There's promising news from the front on efforts to produce fuels through artificial photosynthesis.

A way to low price polyimides for metal-alternation

Researchers have developed the novel bio-based polyimides with the highest thermoresistance temperature of all the reported bio-plastics by way of photo-chemistry of cinnamoyl products from genetically-manipulated microorganisms.

90% of heavy industrial EVs using regenerative braking by 2024

Energy harvesting is increasingly used in the tiniest electronic components right up to multiple KW lift and swingarm braking on huge construction vehicles where 1.5 KW thermoelectric harvesting is planned next. However, electrodynamics and photovoltaics are most popular so far, increasingly in combination, and application in vehicles is of increasing importance.

Paper Battery Company Inc

Paper Battery Co is a developer of thin film supercapacitor technology primarily for consumer electronic applications.

8.4 Percent Conversion Efficiency in Fullerene-Free Organic Solar Cell

imec presents the development of fullerene-free organic photovoltaic (OPV) multilayer stacks achieving a record conversion efficiency of 8.4 percent.

What you will learn at Supercapacitors Europe 2014

IDTechEx's Supercapacitor Europe 2014 conference is bringing the best of supercapacitor developments in the region and internationally to Berlin on 1-2 April.