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Impressions from SID Display Week 2014, San Diego, California

IDTechEx recently attended the SID Display Week 2014 in San Diego, California. Here, IDTechEx summaries the latest developments from the display world, covering (a) activity by Chinese companies such as BOE, which are transforming the OLED and the display business landscape; (b) flexible displays including the latest work by AUO, BOE, Samsung and LG; and (c) wearable electronics.

Silicon alternatives key to future computers, consumer electronics

Researchers are reporting key milestones in developing new semiconductors to potentially replace silicon in future computer chips and for applications in flexible electronics.

Research leads to sensor breakthrough

An efficient method of harvesting mechanical energy to power autonomous sensor networks.

Cambrios announces strategic investment by Samsung Ventures

Cambrios Technologies Corporation has announced a second round of strategic investment by Samsung Venture Investment Corporation of $10M to help fuel the company's growth.

LunaLEC

LunaLEC was founded in 2012 in order to develop lighting panels from the LEC research performed by professors Nathaniel Robinson at Linköping University and Ludvig Edman at Umeå University. They target markets are applications like Christmas cards, point-of-sale posters, etc

Agfa Materials

Agfa has long been involved in printed electronics. The main interest has been around PEDOT:PSS (brand name: Orgacon) but recently they have launched a new conductive ink based on nanosilver. Agfa will continue to actively support PEDOT but has now bet on two horses in the printed electronics race. This profile is focused on Agfa's work on silver nanoparticle inks. Here, Agfa can bring scale to a business landscape otherwise largely dominated by small players.

Electric Boats, Small Ships and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Electric vehicles, meaning free running vehicles with electric drive and carrying their own electricity storage are one business, whether sea, land or airborne. The components and even the complete electric drive trains are increasingly made by companies not restricting themselves to one of these applications. Despite our definition of marine electric vehicles omitting the traditional large diesel-electric and nuclear-electric ships and submarines, the marine EV sector is second only to the land sector in market value, aircraft being some way behind as yet.

Lithium sulfur: a battery revolution on the cheap?

Whip together an industrial waste product and a bit of plastic and you might have the recipe for the next revolution in battery technology.

Improving a new breed of solar cells

Researchers have set a new record for the most efficient quantum-dot cells — a type of solar cell that is seen as especially promising because of its inherently low cost, versatility, and light weight.

Ludgate-WIKA Joint Venture restart for German smart home specialist

Micropelt GmbH, the developer, producer and marketer of advanced energy harvesting devices core to the 'smart home', has received a significant boost in the form of an investment by the Ludgate Environmental Fund and WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co.

IDTechEx research: The race for flexible and wearable phones

Mobile phones and associated wearable electronics are now part of what is called the Internet of People. The Internet of Everything (IoE) is a term that describes the massively connected world ahead of us.

Plastic Logic next step in organic flexible AMOLED demonstrator

Plastic Logic, experts in the development and industrialisation of flexible organic electronics, has shown the second in its series of all-plastic flexible AMOLED display demonstrators.

CSR unveils 100% supercapacitor-powered tram

CSR Zhuzhou, China, has unveiled what it claims is the world's first 100% supercapacitor-powered low-floor tram.

Rare chemical phenomenon could be harnessed to harvest solar energy

A team of international scientists has successfully unraveled the chemical reaction responsible for propelling microscopic crystals to leap distances up to hundreds of times their own size when they are exposed to ultraviolet light.

IDTechEx: Electric Cars Reinvented - $178.9 Billion Market

IDTechEx finds that the global sale of hybrid and pure electric cars will triple to $178.9 billion in 2024 as they are transformed in most respects.

DELIVER - the next generation of electric delivery vehicles

Liberty Electric Cars, has successfully completed the build of the first fully functioning example of "DELIVER" - an electric delivery vehicle funded by the European Commissions' 7th Framework Programme which brings together ten partner companies from across Europe.

New nanotech may provide power storage in cables, clothes

Imagine being able to carry all the juice you needed to power your MP3 player, smartphone and electric car in the fabric of your jacket? Sounds like science fiction, but it may become a reality thanks to breakthrough technology.

Printed sensor for the rapid test of bovine tuberculosis

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) are working with CompanDX Ltd, Public Health England and Sapient Sensors Limited to develop a portable testing device which would be capable of detecting bovine tuberculosis in cattle in just a matter of minutes.

Highlights from a printed electronics conference

IDTechEx recently attended a Printed Electronics conference in Germany. IDTechEx analysts attended talks from a wide variety of companies. Here we include very brief highlights/summaries of the important points.

New nano technology could store and conduct energy on the same wire

So far electrical cables are used only to transmit electricity. However, nanotechnology scientist and Professor Jayan Thomas and his Ph.D. student Zenan Yu have developed a way to both transmit and store electricity in a single lightweight copper wire.