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Beneq awarded for best business potential

Beneq, world-leading manufacturer of ALD and aerosol coating equipment, has won the prestigious Nanotech Finland Award in the category for Best Business Potential. Beneq CEO Mr Sampo Ahonen received the award at the final seminar of Finland's nanotech initiative FinNano.

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.

IDTechEx interviews Zoe Robson, Managing director of Zed-Studio

In line with IDTechEx's interest in innovative electronics designs and form factors, last week Dr Harry Zervos interviewed Zoe Robson, Managing director of Zed-Studio , a spin off from London's South Bank University. Zoe shared her views on the potential of collaborative efforts between electronics developers and designers with inspirational ideas, facilitating the transition of printed electronics from the lab onto everyday life.

Web coater built under development contract to Flex Tech Alliance

Web coater built under development contract to Flex Tech Alliance

IDTechEx exhibiting at SID later this month

Visit IDTechEx at our booth at SID (1309), where you will have a chance to speak with the IDTechEx team as well as the opportunity to discuss specific developments with our analysts.

Photovoltaic solar sails in space

The Japanese Space Agency succeeded with an origami space orbiter and zero-gravity sushi experiments. Now comes the first "space yacht". This month in a trial run that will captivate space researchers and science-fiction writers alike, a Mitsubishi H-IIA rocket goes into orbit from the island of Tanegashima and releases its small satellite into the void.

POLARIC underway producing high volume organic electronic circuits

A new EU-funded project, POLARIC, has been launched to develop roll-to-roll printing of high-performance organic electronic circuits.

Advance made in thin film solar cell technology

Researchers have made an important breakthrough in the use of continuous flow microreactors to produce thin film absorbers for solar cells - an innovative technology that could significantly reduce the cost of solar energy devices and reduce material waste.

Tokyo taxis to trial battery switch technology

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry commissioned Better Place to conduct a trial of the company's battery switch technology, in partnership with Nihon Kotsu, Tokyo's largest taxi operator, in a real-world application with taxis that will be in service nearly around-the-clock for a 90-day period.

DOE closes a $529 Million loan to Fisker Automotive

The Department of Energy has closed a $528.7 million loan with Fisker Automotive for the development and production of two lines of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV).

PLACE-it makes lighting flat and flexible

Leading companies and institutes in lighting and flexible electronics, including Philips, Holst Centre/TNO, imec, Freudenberg, TU Berlin and more have joined forces to co-develop the route to integrate light into people's surroundings be it ceilings, walls, floors, furniture, soft furnishings, and even garments. The ultimate aim of this PLACE-it (Platform for Large Area Conformable Electronics by InTegration) initiative is to realize an industrial platform for thin, lightweight and flexible optoelectronics systems that will not only open new dimensions in product design, but will also create unique opportunities for on-body applications in healthcare and wellness.

Automated pilot manufacturing facility for dye sensitised solar cells

Dyesol Limited and Singapore Aerospace Manufacturing Pte Ltd have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaboratively design, develop and build an automated pilot manufacturing facility for Dye Sensitised Solar Cell otherwise known as DSSC or DSC products.

Innovalight hires Chief Financial Officer

Innovalight, Inc., a privately-held firm selling silicon ink-based high efficiency solar cell materials and technology, hires Michael Johnson as chief financial officer.

Department of Defense flexible solar cell Army Natick contract

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc, a developer of state of the art flexible thin-film solar modules, has announced that Cambrios Technologies Corporation, a firm that has developed innovative, wet-processed, transparent conductive films, has selected Ascent as their research partner to investigate how these films can be applied to lightweight, flexible copper-indium-gallium-selenium (CIGS) photovoltaics.

Worlds smallest superconductor

Scientists have discovered the world's smallest superconductor, a sheet of four pairs of molecules less than one nanometer wide.

Intrinsiq Materials acquires new technology licence

Intrinsiq Materials Ltd. (IML) has secured exclusive, worldwide rights on a novel, low temperature route to making nanoparticles for an undisclosed sum. The technology was developed by a leading European chemical company, and the transfer of title has been completed as part of a negotiated package. The technology transfer was carried out during the first quarter of 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.

Growth of electric vehicles

Integrating emerging business models and new value chains

Early printed electronics revisited

There was an element of back to the future at the hugely successful recent Printed Electronics Europe event in Dresden. Although a high proportion of printed electronics has progressed from screen printing to other printing technologies, notably inkjet, for better control, less waste of these expensive inks and other benefits, at least one company has reverted to advanced rotary screen printing to gain throughput. Indeed, Professor Edgar Dörsam reported that his team has achieved feature size of better than one micron with its advanced screen printing methods. Daetwyler even announced a capability of gravure printing below five microns in feature size with its machines.

Heliatek and IAPP achieve record efficiency levels

As part of a joint research project carried out together with the Technical University of Dresden's Institute of Applied Photo-Physics, the Dresden-based Heliatek GmbH company has achieved a break-through in organic solar-cell efficiency