11 Nov 2010

Preview of Energy Harvesting USA 2010 - Exclusive World Firsts
Next week the second annual IDTechEx event "Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2010" opens in Boston, USA. Since last year, the attendance has grown by 25% at this stage and there are a total of 28 exhibitors - compared to 20 last year.
21 Oct 2010

Energy Harvesting & Storage - WSN & RTLS Summit USA 2010: At a glance
IDTechEx Energy Harvesting & Storage and the WSN & RTLS Summit USA 2010 conference and exhibition areonly a few weeks away now, and the programme is already full of a wide array of speakers, representing different industries and requirements from energy harvesting devices as well as implementations of wireless sensor networks.
17 Sep 2010

TSMC begins building solar R&D center and fab in central Taiwan
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company enters into the thin-film solar photovoltaic (PV) market.
13 Sep 2010

Wireless Sensor Networks: Dream and Reality
At the IDTechEx joint event Wireless Sensor Networks & RTLS USA and Energy Harvesting USA in Boston, Massachusetts November 16-17, many noteworthy advances will be announced for the first time.
31 Aug 2010

Progress with thermoelectric harvesting
At the forthcoming Energy Harvesting USA event in Boston Massachusetts, 16-17 November, Prof Gang Chen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology will talk on "Power from temperature difference: thermoelectric technology for energy harvesting".
24 Aug 2010

Infinite Power Solutions raises $20 million in funding
Infinite Power Solutions, Inc has successfully completed its series C round of financing—raising $20 million. The new capital will be used to expand the company's manufacturing capacity, accelerate the build out of its global sales channels and further support advanced research and development of its eco-friendly, THINERGY® solid-state rechargeable energy storage devices.
28 May 2010

Some impressions of Energy Harvesting Europe
The IDTechEx Energy Harvesting Europe event in Munich had its first day on 26 May. Here are some impressions from the first day.
20 May 2010

Laminar batteries are better
Laminar batteries are increasingly adopted in electronics because they have better cooling, damage tolerance and performance in respect of charge and discharge speed when optimally designed for this shape. Companies such as Cymbet and Infinite Power Solutions already supply small laminar lithium batteries for such applications as backup power for electronics and some even continue to operate if a nail is driven through them.
19 May 2010

Energy Harvesting & Storage and Wireless Sensor Networks, RTLS Preview
Only the IDTechEx "Energy Harvesting and Storage" events are paired with "Wireless Sensor Networks & RTLS", covering the systems most in need of energy harvesting.
29 Apr 2010

Piezoelectric energy harvesting
Despite the embryonic market for piezoelectric energy harvesters, there is prolific development of the technology. The development focus is on creating stable, long life, lower cost and smaller piezoelectric energy harvesters.
4 Mar 2010

Summary from Virginia Tech's Annual Energy Harvesting Workshop
About 90 people from seven countries attended this fifth annual energy harvesting workshop in Roanoke, VA, USA, which serves as an excellent platform to air the latest technical progress with energy harvesters.
External press release
15 Jan 2010

Infinite Power Solutions and Arrow Electronics Sign Global Agreement
Infinite Power Solutions (IPS), an industry leader in solid-state, thin-film energy storage and energy-harvesting power management products, today announced a global distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW), a leading global distributor of electronic components and solutions. Under the agreement, Arrow will distribute IPS' award-winning INFINERGY™ Micro Power Module (MPM) product family.
18 Nov 2009

Printed electronics needs new design rules
The first cars looked like horse drawn carriages - suboptimal and using the design rules of the past. So it is with most printed electronics today. It is frequently burdened with old fashioned components like silicon chips, cylindrical capacitors, chip resistors and button batteries.
External press release
17 Nov 2009

ITN Energy Systems awarded $4.9 million ARPA-E grant
ITN Energy Systems (ITNES), a clean energy and technology incubator, announced that it has been awarded $4.9 million as part of the Department of Energy ARPA-E grant program.
External press release
6 Nov 2009

Nextreme and Infinite Power Solutions thin-film thermal charger
Thin-film thermoelectric technology enables thermal charging where energy scavenging from thermal sources is combined with solid-state, rechargeable thin-film battery technology to provide an alternative energy source for a variety of autonomous, self-powered applications.
6 Nov 2009

Energy Harvesting & Storage and RTLS & WSN conference summary
The first day of the conference (attended by more than 290 attendees) was focused on presentations from end users of energy harvesting and wireless sensor networks technologies, with the first presentation given by IDTechEx CEO Raghu Das, giving an overview of needs for energy harvesting as well as the three generations of technologies (active RFID, RTLS and mesh & WSN) that have evolved into the current market for Wireless Sensor Networks, a market due to reach US$1.75 Billion by 2019.
External press release
5 Nov 2009

INFINERGY Micro Power Module Product Family
Infinite Power Solutions, Inc., a global leader in the development and manufacturing of solid-state, rechargeable, thin-film energy storage devices, formally unveiled its INFINERGY(TM) Micro Power Module products at the Energy Harvesting & Storage USA conference in Denver, Colorado.