7 Sep 2009

Energy harvesting industry in conflict
The ZigBee Alliance announced in July 2009 that it will draft a standard for energy harvesting devices.
27 Aug 2009

Energy Harvesting & Storage Conference Covers End User Requirements
IDTechEx is hosting the world's largest event on Energy Harvesting & Storage on November 3-4 in Denver, CO, USA. Uniquely, the focus of the event is to address requirements from end users from a range of different vertical industries.
16 Jul 2009

Body area networking standard attracts industry attention
The recent IEEE 802.15.6 Working Group meeting in Montreal, Canada drew significant interest from major industry players including Philips, General Electric, Texas Instruments, Toumaz and Samsung.
2 Jul 2009

Inorganic printed electronics employs new compounds
There are huge opportunities for companies providing inorganic chemicals to printed and potentially printed electronics. Here, Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx, summarises some of the findings from the new IDTechEx report "Inorganic and Composite Printed Electronics 2009-2019."
25 Jun 2009

Launch of IDTechEx Energy Harvesting & Storage US Event
Speakers already confirmed include The US Navy SPAWAR, GE, Savi Technology, University of Michigan, Fisk University, Structural Graphics, MicroStrain, Axcess Technologies, The Facility, NREL and many others.
3 Jun 2009

New focus for printed electronics
In the last year, the burgeoning printed and thin film electronics industry has greatly enhanced its repertoire and changed its priorities, encompassing such things as rapid commercialisation of disposable and invisible electronics.
19 Mar 2009

Business applications for printed electronics
Recently, the commercialization of printed electronics has progressed from conductive patterns to batteries, displays, sensors, resistors, solar cells, lighting and transistor circuits, increasingly in combination.
18 Mar 2009

CdTe Solar Cells - Can First Solar do anything wrong?
Although the world is in the midst of a severe economic crisis, the photovoltaics industry is still growing.
24 Feb 2009

Video images with OLED wallpaper
Researchers are developing an OLED wallpaper that can turn a wall into a television screen or simply provide light.
24 Dec 2008

GE scientists display first-ever OLED Christmas tree
Scientists and engineers on GE's OLED research team are celebrating the holiday season with a first-ever OLED Christmas tree lighting at GE's Global Research Center headquarters in Niskayuna, NY
15 Sep 2008

Quantum Dots to Improve DSSC
Ismat Shah at the University of Delaware in the USA has been using quantum dots to improve Dye Sensitised Solar cells.
11 Jul 2008

UK Chemical Sector Initiative - part one
On 1st July, The UK Trade & Investment Chemical Sector Initiative on Printed Electronics hosted a Masterclass at Haydock Park Racecourse in North West England.
27 Jun 2008

OLEDs - The future of architectural lighting
Organized by the UKDL Knowledge Transfer Network, and attended by approximately 50 people, this conference was held in the BDP Building in Clerkenwell, London on the 24th of June 2008.
24 Jun 2008

European projects accelerate OLED technology for mainstream lighting
The race is on to bring OLED technology into mainstream lighting.
19 Jun 2008

A major milestone - white OLED technology exceeds 100 lm/W
Steven V Abramson, CEO of Universal Display says that through this record milestone, white OLEDs are moving a significant step closer to becoming a key participant in the $100 billion per year lighting industry.
13 Jun 2008

OLLA final event symposium, Eindhoven 12.8.08
The final symposium of the OLLA OLED lighting project took place on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven Netherlands 12.6.08 with about 80 attending the exhibition and about 60 attending the half day conference.
9 Apr 2008

Printed electronics suppliers' database
The IDTechEx printed electronics suppliers' database offers details on over 600 companies currently active in printed and potentially printed electronics and electrics.
13 Mar 2008

GE demonstrates world's first ''roll-to-roll'' manufactured OLED's
Newspaper printing-like processing, the key to making next generation lighting technology low cost and commercially viable.
6 Mar 2008

Investing in the metals that will be needed
Jim Mellon has invested in Emerging Metals Ltd in the UK. He says photovoltaics will be
5 Mar 2008

The new photovoltaics
The photovoltaic business is fragmenting as it grows to tens of billions of dollars yearly. Conventional silicon will be around for at least ten years but the many large new market segments that are opening up will be served by the new photovoltaics.