8 Jun 2010

Walls of light
Organic LEDs are extremely thin and lightweight surface-emitting lights that will radically change the way we provide illumination. Although mostly confined to labs, OLED technology is moving toward commercialization. In 2009 Osram became the first manufacturer to put an OLED tile on the market.
10 May 2010

Regenerative braking to power trains
South West Trains is the UK's biggest commuter rail network, running nearly 1700 train services a day in the south-west of England out of London Waterloo and carrying around 190 million passengers a year. The company is investing £2.2 million in a major regenerative braking project to save energy and make its trains greener.
7 May 2010

Munich - global hub of energy harvesting
The Munich region has been a high-tech area for many years, and was once referred to as the silicon valley of Germany but it is much more than that, one major focus being the technology and use of energy harvesting.
29 Apr 2010

Growth of electric vehicles
Integrating emerging business models and new value chains
External press release
1 Apr 2010

DELO presents adhesives for e-readers
DELO Industrial Adhesives, a manufacturer of tailor-made adhesive solutions, is introducing newly developed light-curing adhesives for e-reader encapsulation and organic photovoltaics applications.
3 Mar 2010

Oled100.eu wins - best ICT for energy efficiency project
The European Commission's ICT for Energy Efficiency (ICT4EE) has granted its Best ICT4EE Award to the OLED100.eu project. OLED100.eu has received the First Place Award for its ICT contribution by showing that adoption of OLED lighting can lead to substantial improvements in energy efficiency and for its efforts to educate the public and disseminate the OLED (organic LED) lighting vision.
External press release
26 Feb 2010

Echoflex solutions releases $149 EnOcean Evaluation Kit
Echoflex Solutions is proud to introduce the EEK200C Evaluation Kit. For only $149, integrators and OEMs can explore the breadth and performance of EnOcean wireless energy harvesting technologies within the context of their own buildings.
25 Feb 2010

An interview with EnOcean
IDTechEx CEO Raghu Das recently interviewed Graham Martin, the Chairman and CEO of EnOcean Alliance.
External press release
4 Dec 2009

EnOcean's Emergence as Wireless Leader
11 EnOcean Alliance members showcased more than 100 building automation products at GreenBuild - 5x more than any other wireless standard.
External press release
3 Dec 2009

EnOcean technology integrates Seamlessly, LEEDing to sustainability
EnOcean-based wireless controls have renovated the building automation industry providing unmatched sustainability and flexibility options.
External press release
29 Oct 2009

Self-Powered Wireless Keycard Switch Unlocks Hotel Energy Savings
Batteryless, wireless control simplifies hotel energy management installations.
External press release
16 Oct 2009

World's first ASIC modules designed for energy harvesting
3rd generation wireless modules extend market-leading position via two-way communications, radically low power requirements and peerless energy harvesting capacity.
External press release
6 Oct 2009

PolyIC: high-resolution, conductive structures on transparent film
PolyIC presents highly conductive transparent, high-resolution structures on film
External press release
23 Sep 2009

Polymer memory products manufactured in roll-to-roll printing process
POLYIC and THINFILM announce high-volume pilot production of roll-to-roll printed memories enabling next-generation interactive toys and games
7 Aug 2009

Researchers develop organic photodiodes
Siemens has partnered with the Universities of Linz and Karlsruhe (TH) to produce organic photodiodes that are very sensitive to infrared radiation with wavelengths of more than one micrometer (µm).
4 Jun 2009

Energy Harvesting & Storage Europe, Cambridge, UK
Now in its second day, the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and Storage conference in Cambridge, UK, has 150 attendees discovering the latest in harvesting and storage technologies and the applications that drive such innovation.
29 Apr 2009

The latest on printed RFID from PolyIC
Printed RFID tags have been one of the most important drivers of the new electronics.
External press release
29 Apr 2009

First use of printed radio chips realized in public field tests
Researchers performed tests on printed radio chips, produced from polymer circuits on thin, flexible polyester foil, for the first time in electronic ticketing and security.