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Applications for thermoelectric energy harvesters

Thermoelectric generators are devices that based on the Seebeck effect, convert temperature differences into electrical energy. Although thermoelectric phenomena have been used for heating and cooling applications quite extensively, it is only in recent years that interest has increased in energy generation.

New integrated plastic display system

deZign enables the user to change the content of a timetable at the push of a button, instead of having to manually replace paper timetables at stations and stops.

Stanford scientists develop high-efficiency zinc-air battery

Scientists have created an advanced zinc-air battery with higher catalytic activity and durability than similar batteries made with platinum and other costly catalysts. The results could lead to the development of a low-cost alternative to conventional lithium-ion technology widely used today.

Low-voltage display driver with complementary organic logic

Thinfilm Demonstrates Low-voltage Display Driver with Complementary Organic Logic for Printed Electronics. Begins installation of manufacturing line for 50 million integrated printed electronic systems.

3D printing looks set to pack a $4B punch by 2025

3D printing has come of age, surpassing $1B in revenues during 2012 and with growth expected to continue across all target markets to 2025.

World's first image sensor on plastic

ISORG and Plastic Logic have co-developed the first conformable organic image sensor on plastic, with the potential to revolutionise weight/power trade-offs and optical design parameters for any systems with a digital imaging element.

Breakthrough in efficiency of new class of solar cell

A significant step forward in the scale-up and commercialisation of Oxford Photovoltaics (Oxford PV) new photovoltaic technology has been achieved by establishing a new high of 15.4% efficiency for its perovskite solar cells.

The diabetes 'breathalyzer'

Chemists have demonstrated a sensor technology that could significantly simplify the diagnosis and monitoring of diabetes through breath analysis alone.

Autonomous energy-scavenging micro devices

Researchers are using optics and photonics to develop sophisticated instruments small enough to fit in a shirt pocket that will one day scavenge power from sunlight, body heat, or other sources.

Crash-testing lithium-ion batteries

Laboratory crash tests show both vulnerabilities and ways to improve the safety of lithium-ion batteries used in electric and hybrid vehicles.

ABB announces power flash charging for electric buses

No overhead lines and ultrafast charging times at selected bus stops enables new opportunities for next generation zero-emissions urban mass transportation.

Smart Packaging Comes to Market

This article concerns the market for electronic smart packaging devices, increasingly known as "e packaging". Global demand for these devices will grow rapidly from a mere $76 million in 2013 to $1.45 billion in 2023. Most of this will involve consumer packaged goods CPG. The rapid growth will be driven by trials now being carried out by leading CPG companies and the rapid technical developments emanating from over 3000 organisations, half of them academic, that are currently working on printed and potentially printed electronics. There will also be growth from existing applications such as talking pizza boxes, winking logos on multipacks of biscuits and bottles of rum, compliance monitoring blisterpacks in drug trials, prompting plastic bottles of drugs that prompt the user, testers on batteries and reprogrammable decoration on mobile phones. However, our projected adoption, large as it may seem, only represents a few percent of CPG packages being fitted with these devices in 2023.

Organic polymers show sunny potential

The photovoltaic devices created are based on block copolymers, self-assembling organic materials that arrange themselves into distinct layers.

NOK 7 million for wireless printed electronic sensor labels

Innovation Norway's Industrial Research and Development Program ("IFU") has awarded Thinfilm a grant of NOK 7 million (approximately US$1.2 million) for commercializing Sensor Labels.

New all-solid sulfur-based battery outperforms lithium-ion technology

Scientists have designed and tested an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery with approximately four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion technologies that power today's electronics.

ALABC UltraBattery hybrid surpasses 100,000 miles of fleet duty

Three years ago, the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) was asked to demonstrate the durability of lead-carbon batteries in the high-rate, partial state-of-charge operation of a hybrid electric vehicle.

Inkjet-printed hybrid quantum dot LEDs

For home lighting applications, organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) hold the promise of being both environmentally friendly and versatile.

Solar cell structure stores and supplies energy simultaneously

In a quest for a smaller, more self-sustaining solar power source, an electrical engineer has proposed a design for solar panels that can simultaneously generate power from sunlight and store power reserves for later, all within a single device.

Novel silicon electrodes that improve lithium-ion battery performance

Stanford University scientists have dramatically improved the performance of lithium-ion batteries by creating novel electrodes made of silicon and conducting polymer hydrogel, a spongy substance similar to the material used in soft contact lenses and other household products.

Flexible electronics could transform electronic devices

Nearly everyone knows what the inside of a computer or a mobile phone looks like: A stiff circuit board, usually green, crammed with chips, resistors, capacitors and sockets, interconnected by a suburban sprawl of printed wiring. But what if our printed circuit board was not stiff, but flexible enough to bend or even fold?