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Summary of the quarterly FlexTech Alliance meeting

IDTechEx presented at the well-attended FlexTech Alliance meeting at Binghamton, NY, last week. The session focussed on the use of printed and flexible electronics for medical applications.

Energy harvesting luggage

Interactive Telecommunications Program student Ohad Folman has created Pluggage as his final project - an item of carry-on luggage that harvests kinetic energy and solar power to charge small electrical devices.

Printing silicon in South Africa - Part two

Printed silicon transistors are now receiving increasing attention because they can provide good transistor characteristics at low cost on flexible substrates, including high frequency performance.

Printing silicon in South Africa - Part one

The engine of the new printed electronics will be printed transistors on flexible substrates that can be one tenth to one hundredth of the cost of those in simple silicon chips.

First video in print to appear in American magazine advert

The World's first video in print advertisement will appear in next months edition of the American show biz magazine "Entertainment Weekly". The screen uses thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT LCD) technology.

Plextronics closes $14 million financing round

$14 million funding will enable Plextronics to continue to advance their OLED lighting and OPV products.

IDTechEx: 10 Years of Excellence

IDTechEx celebrates its tenth year of business.

FlexTech Alliance announce the award of $450,000 contract to Solarmer

FlexTech Alliance awards contract to Solarmer Energy, Inc. to enhance performance and efficiency for organic photovoltaics. The solution is a top candidate for manufacturing low-cost, reliable, flexible & clean power.

IDTechEx Energy Harvesting USA Awards launched

Following the inaugural awards at Energy Harvesting Europe, IDTechEx will launch the Energy Harvesting USA Awards in Denver at the co-located Energy Harvesting, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and RTLS conferences.

A new cloaking method might shield buildings from earthquakes

Mathematicians develop a new cloaking method that might shield submarines from sonar, planes from radar, buildings from earthquakes, and oil rigs and coastal structures from tsunamis.

Electricity from insects

Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is conducting a Hybrid Insect MEMS (HI-MEMS) program which is aimed at developing technology that provides more control over insect locomotion.

Organic electronics a two-way street with new plastic semiconductor

About 30 years ago, it was discovered that some plastics, or polymers, could conduct electricity. Since then researchers have been working to make them more efficient.

Plextronics deploys organic solar modules at NREL

Plextronics becomes the first company to deploy organic solar modules at NREL's outdoor testing facility.

Marko Hanhikorpi appointed as new CEO of Enfucell

The board of Enfucell has appointed Mr. Marko Hanhikorpi, M. Sc. (Chem. Eng.), eMBA, as new CEO commencing August 12, 2009.

Synthetic leaves for energy scavenging

Researcher Michel Maharbiz from the University of California, Berkeley, together with researchers from the University of Michigan, and MIT have constructed leaves out of glass wafers with tiny veins through which water can flow.

First step towards strain-based graphene engineering

Researchers report the first direct observation and controlled creation of one- and two-dimensional ripples in graphene sheets. Using simple thermal manipulation, the researchers produced the ripples, and controlled their orientation, wavelength and amplitude.

Energy harvesting dance floors

Club Surya in London is one of a new generation of "eco-clubs" which encourages its patrons to work towards climate change. The club's main feature is the piezoelectric dance floor.

Solar powered bullet train more than a dream

On the back of US President Obama's latest strategic plan outlining his vision for high-speed rail in America comes an innovative public transportation concept of a high-speed train that runs on solar power.

Flood of traction battery money will benefit harvesting

The world is putting over $50 million in government funding into electric cars and the Obama administration is also putting a large sum into the enabling technologies, particularly batteries.

Scientists study how to stack the deck for organic solar power

NIST study a new measurement strategy for organic photovoltaics that reveals ways to control how they form