29 Oct 2014

Economical process for micro energy harvesting
Researchers have developed a process for the economical production of piezoelectric materials.
29 Oct 2014

Wearable Technology Live! USA 2014
The wearable ecosystem assembles at IDTechEx's co-located Santa Clara events
Santa Clara, CA, USA and Cambridge, UK - Oct. 27, 2014.
29 Oct 2014

Detroit Electric reveals striking fastback design
The final exterior design of Detroit Electric's all-new, pure electric two-seater sport scar, the SP:01, has been revealed as the company gears up for production.
29 Oct 2014

The graphene industry finds new market opportunities in California
The 5th IDTechEx conference and tradeshow on graphene and 2D materials- Graphene and 2D Materials LIVE! - has become the annual meeting place for the global graphene industry in California.
External press release
29 Oct 2014

Heliatek announces largest BIOPV facade installation
Heliatek has announced the largest BIOPV - Building Integrated OPV - installation of its kind.
28 Oct 2014

Highlights from the RFID in Retail Event
IDTechEx presented at the invitation-only RFID in Retail conference in Paris in October, hosted by IC provider NXP. This article provides some of the highlights from the event.
28 Oct 2014

What is the Ultimate Limit of Supercapacitors?
Rapidly improving supercapacitors have been replacing lithium-ion batteries in many applications. The construction of supercapacitors is far simpler than batteries and there is every reason why the expensively-prepared, inherently low-cost supercapacitor materials and assembly technology should not continue to drop sharply in cost.
28 Oct 2014

New sensors for wearables and IoT at Printed Electronics USA 2014
At the 2014 edition of Printed Electronics USA, attendees will learn about disruptive sensor technologies that will enable new applications for wearable devices and the Internet of Things.
28 Oct 2014

Robots to ResQu rainforests from purple plague
Two Project ResQu helicopters developed by CSIRO completed trial flights near Cairns, locating weeds like the dreaded 'purple plague', or Miconia calvescens, faster and more reliably than ever.
28 Oct 2014

World's fastest manufacture of battery electrodes
New world record: Scientists increased the manufacturing speed of electrode foils coated batch-wise by a factor of three - to 100 meters per minute.
Background
28 Oct 2014

KELK
Thermoelectrics have made large 1.5 kW ones for Komatsu and other construction machines and the like, to harvest heat from the diesel engines. The main bar to launching them for sale is cost
27 Oct 2014

Visit to ITRI Taiwan 15 October 2014
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is a nonprofit R&D organization engaging in applied research and technical services. Founded in 1973, ITRI has played a vital role in transforming Taiwan's economy from a labor-intensive industry to a high-tech industry. Numerous well-known, high-tech companies in Taiwan, such as leaders in the semiconductor industry TSMC and UMC, can trace their origins to ITRI. IDTechEx visited ITRI and this is our report.
27 Oct 2014

Smart sensors for better and safer living
Researchers claim a new system of mobile, floatable sensing, called Lagrangian sensing, is very promising for large scale sensing, or on-demand sensing, as it requires minimal infrastructure.
27 Oct 2014

Super stable garnet ceramics ideal for high-energy lithium batteries
Scientists have discovered exceptional properties in a garnet material that could enable development of higher-energy battery designs.
27 Oct 2014

Structural electronics forecast expanded to $97bn by 2025
Structural electronics (SE) is one of the most important emerging technologies this century.
Full profile interview
27 Oct 2014

Aleees
Aleees is a well-equipped company in Taiwan that started by making LFP-NCO (lithium iron phosphate nano co-crystalline compound not nickel cobalt oxide) cathode material for lithium-ion batteries. Now the company is integrated vertically and develops electric buses as well.
24 Oct 2014

World's thinnest electric generator
Researchers report that they have made the first experimental observation of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic effect in an atomically thin material, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), resulting in a unique electric generator and mechanosensation devices that are optically transparent, extremely light, and very bendable and stretchable.
24 Oct 2014

World's largest battery electric vehicle
BYD Motors has unveiled The Lancaster eBus, a break-through, 60-foot, articulated battery-electric bus that can drive 170+ miles with a passenger load of up to 120 passengers, and was in development for almost two years.
24 Oct 2014

Arkema, CEA and Arjowiggins Creative Papers collaborative innovation
The Open Innovation for Sensors and Actuators initiative pools all three players together in substrate, materials, and integration and design technologies, with a view to offering a comprehensive ecosystem to end-users eager to demonstrate new applications and develop new products in printed electronics.
External press release
24 Oct 2014

Novel aerosol deposition technology for solar applications
Beneq and Royal DSM are working together developing and commercializing a completely new and superior aerosol deposition technology for AR coatings for solar glass applications.