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New method benchmarks organic mixed conductors

Organic conductors are soft materials that conduct electricity. They show promise in inexpensive, lightweight, flexible technologies, including solar cells, printable electronic circuits, and organic light-emitting diodes. More recently, their ability to interact intimately with ions and biomolecules has led to significant interest in bio-integrated electronics, such as implantable medical devices that can monitor or regulate signals inside the human body.

NovaCentrix releases new PulseForge Invent, starting at $59k

NovaCentrix is pleased to announce the release of the newest member of the PulseForge® photonic curing tool family: the PulseForge® Invent™.

Artificial muscles give soft robots superpowers

Soft robotics has made leaps and bounds over the last decade as researchers around the world have experimented with different materials and designs to allow once rigid, jerky machines to bend and flex in ways that mimic and can interact more naturally with living organisms. However, increased flexibility and dexterity has a trade-off of reduced strength, as softer materials are generally not as strong or resilient as inflexible ones, which limits their use.

Low power electronics and electrics without batteries

The new IDTechEx Research report, Battery Elimination in Electronics and Electrical Engineering 2018-2028 notes that billions of wireless electronic and electrical products consuming microwatts to milliwatts or more operate without batteries or even capacitors to store energy.

Vibrating sensors could identify blood biomarkers

Researchers have found a method of identifying biological markers in small amounts of blood that they believe could be used to detect a myriad of diseases, infections and different medical conditions at early stages.

Report on the Winton Symposium

IDTechEx analysts Aman Atak and Luke Gear report on their findings at this event.

The Big Family of Batteries

Li-ion Batteries are the talk of town in the tech industry, but clarity on the subject is scarce, and very often the word "Battery" is used interchangeably to indicate those relying on the reversible shuttling of lithium ion (Li-ion batteries, or LIB), and many other different energy storage technologies that have little in common with each other.

Solution-processed OLEDs pave the way to future lighting applications

Before it can take over our streets and homes, OLED lighting needs to be made more accessible. The SOLEDLIGHT project has developed novel multilayer OLEDs thanks to a new process that promises to increase production efficiency by 20 %, thereby reducing its cost.

Continuous ceramic fibres let CMCs and MMCs take off and land

Ceramic Metal Composites (CMC) and Metal Matrix Composites (MMC) are not new concepts, but they have never reached their potential. To date, a wide range of particles and whiskers have been used in these matrices, but the advantages have been questionable, applications limited, and manufacturing challenges difficult.

StretchSense negotiates with StartToday, creates disappearable suit

StretchSense Limited, New Zealand manufacturer of wearable sensing systems, announced that it has completed negotiation for a call option agreement that allows its investor StartToday Co Ltd to selectively conduct full acquisition of StretchSense in the future.

Fast charging station network starts to take shape

IONITY, which was founded only a few weeks ago, is taking off quickly. The joint venture of BMW, Daimler, Ford and Volkswagen with Audi and Porsche has formed initial strategic partnerships for the realization of its "High-Power-Charging" network for electric vehicles in Europe.

Kateeva introduces the YIELDjet™ explore product family

Kateeva, a market leader in inkjet deposition equipment solutions for OLED display manufacturing, has formally introduced a suite of YIELDjet™ inkjet equipment for red, green and blue pixel deposition to enable the development and pilot production of large-size OLED displays, including televisions. T

Experimenting with robots for grocery picking and packing

Over the past couple of years, Ocado Technology has announced involvement in several high-profile research projects, including the SoMa soft manipulation system and the SecondHands technician cobot.

World-first facility will expedite development of 3d bioprinting

The University of Wollongong will establish a world first facility to enable the development of bioinks and customised bioprinting systems for targeted clinical applications. T

Spin current from heat: new material increases efficiency

Electronic devices such as computers generate heat that mostly goes to waste. Physicists have found a way to use this energy: They apply the heat to generate magnetic signals known as 'spin currents'.

High-performance OLED microdisplays for next-generation smart glasses

A consistent trend across the tech sector is the one-upmanship of increasingly high screen resolution and larger display size. Yet, the fact that the former increases faster than the latter means that manufacturers must achieve ever-higher pixel density. Large OLED microdisplays developed under the LOMID project could help solve that problem, thereby providing Europe with a competitive edge.

Engineers use deep learning to reconstruct holograms

A form of machine learning called deep learning is one of the key technologies behind recent advances in applications like real-time speech recognition and automated image and video labeling.

Ionic 'solar cell' could provide on-demand water desalination

Modern solar cells, which use energy from light to generate electrons and holes that are then transported out of semiconducting materials, have existed for over 60 years. Little attention has been paid, however, to the promise of using light to drive the transport of oppositely charged protons and hydroxides obtained by dissociating water molecules.

American Semiconductor 2017 Best New Flexible Wearable Component

American Semiconductor Presented 2017 Best New Flexible Wearable Component Award by IDTechEx. American Semiconductor and Cypress Semiconductor Collaborate to Launch World's First Ultra-thin Programmable Semiconductor-on-Polymer at IDTechEx Show.

Exovite win at the IDTechEx Show Awards!

At the IDTechEx Show! in Santa Clara, IDTechEx was delighted to present the 'Best Development in 3D Printing Award USA 2017' to Exovite for their work on 'Technological innovation in tools and medical procedures.'