24 Jun 2011

Extend the run-time of a solid-state battery
The client (or maybe boss) wants me or someone in my team to get that low-power system they have built running from one of those solid-state batteries and it is time to figure out how to put the whole power system together.
23 Jun 2011

Keynote Presentations at IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and WSN Europe
Keynote Presentations at IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and WSN Europe, Munich, 21 June 2011.
23 Jun 2011

Fujitsu and Sapporo Shirakaba-dai Hospital patient guidance system
Fujitsu Limited and Sapporo Shirakaba-dai Hospital recently announced the joint development of a clinical appointment guidance system that employs color electronic paper (e-paper). The system recently began full operations.
23 Jun 2011

Winners of the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and WSN Awards
At the Energy Harvesting & Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) awards dinner on June 21 in Munich, Germany, companies were recognized for making significant technical or commercial progress with these technologies.
22 Jun 2011

Mobile phones charged using sound
Orange has announced their latest invention in the world of mobile charging technology with an innovative gadget that powers mobile phones using sound.
22 Jun 2011

Extraction of light generated inside solar devices proves critical
When the scientists at Alta Devices began seeing their solar devices achieve efficiency results beyond what was previously thought possible, they realized that something scientifically important was going on. Their conclusion: a great solar cell also emits light and collecting that light increases cell performance.
21 Jun 2011

OLED: Record-breaking efficiency
Researchers and developers have achieved a new efficiency record in the laboratory for OLED. The laboratory sample achieves 87 lm/W, significantly exceeding the current peak value. And the most important thing: the laboratory sample is highly proximate to the product, thus paving the way for highly energy-efficient OLED products with considerably higher brightness ...
External press release
20 Jun 2011

Beneq launches roll-to-roll ALD system for wide flexible substrates
Following the pioneering work in spatial atomic layer deposition and the launch of the revolutionizing research and development tool TFS 200R for continuous ALD in 2009, Beneq has closed the deal for a roll-to-roll ALD system, the Web Coating System WCS 500. The first WCS 500 unit will be delivered to the ASTRaL laboratory at Lappeenranta University of Technology (FIN).
20 Jun 2011

Stretchable electronics report how you feel
Electronics that can be bent and stretched might sound like science fiction. But Uppsala researcher Zhigang Wu, working with collaborators, has devised a wireless sensor that can stand to be stretched.
20 Jun 2011

Airliners become electric vehicles
Aircraft are becoming more electric even to the extent of having electric traction just like an electric car. Curiously this is starting at the light and heavy end, with medium sized feeder aircraft adopting electrification later.
20 Jun 2011

First nano self-powered device with wireless data transmission
Scientists are reporting development of the first self-powered nano-device that can transmit data wirelessly over long distances.
20 Jun 2011

Mechanical energy harvesting in vehicles is better?
The use of flywheels has yet to be commercially successful in production vehicles. Decades ago they were tried as an energy source powered up before the vehicle went on its way. That proved expensive, heavy and sometimes dangerous but the technology has reappeared as mechanical storage of braking energy and therefore potentially useful in both pure electric and hybrid electric vehicles.
External press release
17 Jun 2011

Light up your world with organic and printed electronics
Organic and Printed Electronics Association
17 Jun 2011

Horrific cost of cheap Chinese batteries
The rechargeable lead batteries concerned are used in scooters, cars and some mobile phones.
17 Jun 2011

John Rogers honored by Lemelson-MIT Prize
Official Lemelson-MIT Prize announcement honoring mc10 co-founder John Rogers.
17 Jun 2011

BYD will introduce all electric buses in Frankfurt
BYD a leading-edge provider of green energy technologies based in Shenzhen China has signed a Letter of Intent with the city of Frankfurt, Germany to introduce BYD's all-electric, long-range, eBUS.
External press release
17 Jun 2011

Optomec Aerosol Jet Marathon Series for volume manufacturing
Enhanced hardware establishes new industry standard for performance in production applications
16 Jun 2011

Energy harvesting comes alive
Next week the annual IDTechEx Energy Harvesting & Storage event will open in Munich to attendees from 20 countries.
16 Jun 2011

Jusung Engineering to enter the OLED market with world's largest OLED
One of Korea's top enterprises, JUSUNG Engineering has focused it's business on the production of OLED equipment which is now spotlighted as the next generation in display and lighting.
16 Jun 2011

Much Bigger e-mobility picture revealed
Electric vehicle parts are not evolving: they are changing completely. Sometimes, the traction battery will be replaced by a supercapacitor or supercabattery and the dumb skin of the vehicle by smart skin. Energy harvesting and range extenders are new key enabling technologies and AC motors are often replacing DC motors. This is an industry in ferment.