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Virus will improve solar power

Researchers at MIT have found a way to make significant improvements to the power-conversion efficiency of solar cells by enlisting the services of tiny viruses to perform detailed assembly work at the microscopic level.

Self powered sensor detects pancreatitis

The sensor could be of use in situations where batteries are in short supply, such as after a natural disaster or in remote locations.

Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint Network

Coulomb Technologies furthers innovation on the ChargePoint network: announces industry-first charging station reservation system.

Solar-thermal device uses a spray-on polymer photovoltaic

A new polymer-based solar-thermal device that uses a spray on polymer is the first to generate power from both heat and visible sunlight - an advance that could shave the cost of heating a home by as much as 40 percent.

Electric Vehicles - But Not As We Know Them

Today's electric family cars are useless in telling us anything about the future. The design and adoption of electric vehicles is subject to sudden change driven by surprising factors. The unique event "Electric Vehicles - Land Sea Air" in Stuttgart, Germany is alone in looking at the big picture in order to clarify what is really going on.

World's largest CIS solar module plant

Solar Frontier celebrated the official opening of its gigawatt-scale Kunitomi factory, the world's largest CIS thin-film solar module production plant, located in Miyazaki, Japan.

OLED Ink boost lifetime and lower operating voltage at UDC

Universal Display Corporation's phosphorescent OLED technology has been integrated with Plextronics' OC NQ ink to lower operating voltage and longer lifetime in test devices.

AVS1000 large aperture lift stage

AVS1000 lift stage with large aperture offers precise elevation of large & heavy loads

Miasole hires Chip Giant Intel

Chip Giant Intel has been hired by Silicon Valley start-up company Miasole to ramp up its production of thin-film photovoltaic panels over the next couple of years.

EnOcean now fully interoperable with TCP/IP

The EnOcean Alliance, a consortium of companies working to standardize and internationalize energy harvesting wireless technology for green intelligent buildings, announced that its wireless, battery-less energy harvesting sensors and associated control systems are now fully interoperable with TCP/IP.

OLED microdisplay based eyetracking HMD

The Fraunhofer IPMS works on the integration of sensors and microdisplays on CMOS backplane for several years now. For example the researchers have developed a bidirectional microdisplay, which could be used in Head-Mounted Displays (HMD) for gaze triggered augmented-reality (AR) aplications.

Battery-less, RF-powered energy harvesting wireless sensor system

Powercast Corporation has announced its Lifetime Power® Wireless Sensor System for wireless environmental monitoring in HVAC control and building automation. Remote radio frequency (RF) transmitters broadcast RF energy that perpetually powers wireless sensor nodes without batteries or wires.

Replacement for rare material indium tin oxide found

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology have developed a replacement for indium tin oxide (ITO), an important material used in displays for all kinds of everyday products such as TVs, telephones and laptops, as well as in solar cells.

Global benchmarking for e-mobility at last

Best practice in e-mobility first occurs in very different countries and with very different vehicles. The most useful events on the subject therefore need an international speaker lineup. Indeed, they must cover much more than on-road vehicles and the rather narrow electromobility programs of governments that tend to focus on cars, with some effort on other on-road vehicles and little else.

Turning windows into a source of power

If a new development from labs at MIT pans out as expected, someday the entire surface area of a building's windows could be used to generate electricity — without interfering with the ability to see through them.

More on 2nd vs 3rd Generation Range Extenders

There is no doubt that hybrid electric vehicles by land sea and air are transitioning from having small traction batteries and near useless all electric range of about 15 miles to something nearer to market needs. In prospect is all-electric plug-in range as good or better than today's affordable pure electric land, sea and air vehicles at 100 miles or so (162 km) and use of on-board range extenders that give a total plug-in powered plus on-board energy range that even exceeds that of most of today's conventional vehicles.

New military supercapacitor funding

ADA Technologies, Inc. has been awarded a $70,000 contract from the U.S. Army to begin Phase 1 of the development of an electrochemical supercapacitor (ultracapacitor) for use in hybrid military vehicles.

Backpack harvests energy from walking

Singapore designer Joel Lim YM has created the Alppac energy harvesting backpack as his final year project at Temasek Polytechnic.

Researchers develop golden window electrodes for organic solar cells

Researchers at the University of Warwick have developed a gold plated window as the transparent electrode for organic solar cells.

Intense interest in energy harvesting for electric vehicles

Two forthcoming events in Germany reflect the intense interest in energy harvesting for electric vehicles.