13 Mar 2013

Prospects of graphene transistors for high-frequency electronics
In the end graphene transistors currently look extremely promising for revolutionize both, high-frequency electronics and plastic electronics, especially as the expected performance has been proven recently at least in single devices.
13 Mar 2013

New technique promises more efficient solar cells
A new technique developed could lead to significantly more efficient solar cells.
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12 Mar 2013

Efficiency breakthroughs in OLED and high brightness GaN LEDs
Verbatim has unveil groundbreaking technological advances in OLED and gallium nitride (GaN) LEDs that deliver unrivalled efficiency and brightness.
12 Mar 2013

GM compact car for India 2013
The GM development of a compact pure electric car is expected to bear fruit in 2013. The car could be based on the Electric Networked Vehicle (EN-V) concept electric car which GM showcased in China earlier this year.
12 Mar 2013

Energy innovations win £9m government funding
A multi-million pound package of support for innovative UK businesses has been launched by Universities and Science Minister David Willetts.
12 Mar 2013

Spray-on image sensors - increasing light sensitivity of cameras
A new generation of image sensors that are more sensitive to light than the conventional silicon versions has been developed by researchers from Technische Universität München (TUM). These sensors also have the added bonus of being simple and cheap to produce.
12 Mar 2013

Spray coating and spin coating of rGO thin film sheets
GRAnPH® Nanotech, in collaboration with CENER (Spanish National Renewable Energy Center), have developed continuous graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) thin films over a variety of substrates by means of two different industrial deposition techniques: spin - coating and spray coating.
11 Mar 2013

Cost is the main differentiator between graphene and other nanocarbons
Graphene, an atom-thin layer of carbon, is transparent enough to see through yet can stretch up to 20 percent of its length.
11 Mar 2013

Display Trends: OLEDs, LCDs and E-Readers
LCD panel makers in Taiwan, Japan and Korea have been suffering. Despite the growing demand for LCDs the high number of panel makers and new competition from China has resulted in severe price competition, to the point that many panel makers are no longer profitable.
11 Mar 2013

Electric Futures for Transport Conference, London: Lessons learned
Peter Stonham, Editorial Director of New Transit introduced the excellent 25 person London event then Dr Peter Harrop of IDTechEx scoped the total subject of electric vehicles, land, water and air - one industry now with best practice first occurring all over the place and rapid improvement with almost all components changing radically.
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11 Mar 2013

Partnership to make toys more interactive through printed electronics
The FLEXeTOY project, totals € 981,687 and will end in 2015.
8 Mar 2013

Integration challenges for graphene and carbon nanotubes
The world has experienced miraculous developments during the last decade harvested from fullerenes, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and today graphene.
8 Mar 2013

Second agreement to advance solar window towards commercialization
Under the terms of the agreement, researchers will additionally work towards optimizing the deposition of various coatings on flexible surfaces; these layers allow for electricity to be generated on surfaces such as see-through and tinted plastics.
8 Mar 2013

Nissan Leaf in Europe gets 15% more range
The New Nissan LEAF has benefited from a raft of changes including an improved range of 199km and cut-in-half charging time that will only boost its popularity.
8 Mar 2013

Argonne and CalBattery strike deal for silicon-graphene anode material
The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and California Lithium Battery, Inc. (CalBattery) have announced that they have signed a licensing agreement for an Argonne-developed, silicon-graphene composite anode material for high-energy lithium batteries.
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8 Mar 2013

The EnOcean Alliance advances wireless standard for green buildings
The new version of the energy harvesting wireless specification now includes over 100 product profiles for building and industrial automation and smart home systems .
7 Mar 2013

5 things you always wanted to know, thermoelectric energy harvesting
For more information on the topic of thermoelectrics and how they can be used in energy harvesting applications, attend Energy Harvesting and Storage in Berlin, Germany, on the 17th and 18th of April 2013.
7 Mar 2013

Patent protected, diesel electric hybrid drive train
Axion Power International's Chairman and CEO Thomas Granville said that the first truck to be outfitted with a PbC battery string has been completed and is now on the road going through its final test procedures.
7 Mar 2013

Creating a healthy graphene industry
Graphene Technologies (GT) is a Silicon Valley-based early commercial stage company that has patented and developed a synthesis technology for production of high quality bulk graphene.
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7 Mar 2013

SolarPrint Ltd
SolarPrint has developed its DSSC technology in an incremental fashion going from the lab into pilot production, from small cells to modules, developing scalable processes and reproducible production steps.The key technical challenges that SolarPrint is addressing for the commercialisation of DSSC are: (a) Power output (especially in low light conditions), (b) Product lifetime, (c) Manufacturability & scalability. In addressing these challenges, a multidisciplinary approach is followed across cell chemistry, electrical and process engineering. The focus remains on maximising power output and improving lifetime of the indoor DSSC product in a scalable way.