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Aerosol Jet Deposition System at IDTechEx's Printed Electronics Europe

Optomec announced today that Dave Ramahi, Optomec's President/CEO will give a Masterclass presentation on Aerosol Jet Deposition technology for C-Si and Thin Film Photovoltaics at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics conference in Dresden, Germany on April 6th.

SOLARJET: Towards printed PV solar cells for ultra low-cost energy

the SOLARJET project consortium has been created bringing together French partners, ARDEJE, HUTCHINSON and CEA/LITEN, to demonstrate that OPV technology can be scaled up to an industrial step.

Energy harvesting without batteries

Usually, dispensing with any form of battery can give even longer life, lower cost, smaller size, greater reliability, convenience, labour saving and reduced environmental problems.

Nanotecture develops asymmetric electrochemical supercapacitors

Nanotecture has developed microbatteries and supercapacitors aimed at markets such as boosting the flash in mobile phone cameras to take pictures farther away, audio buffering in mobile phones etc for higher quality sound and powered smart cards.

Integrated inkjet roll-to-roll solar cell manufacturing solution

iTi Solar has been selected by Solarcoating Machinery GmbH (ScM) of Germany, a supplier of turnkey production line solutions for flexible solar cell fabrication, to provide the first digital inkjet system for its integrated roll-to-roll solar cell manufacturing production line.

Nanotecture develops asymmetric electrochemical supercapacitors

Nanotecture has developed microbatteries and supercapacitors aimed at markets such as boosting the flash in mobile phone cameras to take pictures farther away, audio buffering in mobile phones etc for higher quality sound and powered smart cards.

Labels targeted at tracking challenging pallets and laptops

PowerID Ltd., the industry leader in battery-assisted, passive (BAP) RFID technology, announced the availability of smaller, improved versions of its EPCglobal Class 1, Generation 2-compliant PowerG and PowerM BAP labels.

Detroit Media Partnership in E-reader deal with Plastic Logic

Plastic Logic has announced a strategic partnership agreement with the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, Michigan's largest and award-winning metro daily newspapers, to offer an innovative digital content delivery and distribution program with its forthcoming Plastic Logic Reader.

Record Attendance at IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe

In the current recession, there are few sectors which are growing rapidly, but one of those is printed electronics. Pre-registered attendance at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe conference, which will be held in Dresden, Germany, on April 7-8, is 20% higher than at the same time before the event last year.

Tunable vibration harvesting

Much research has been carried out recently aimed at utilizing ambient energy to power small scale electronic mobile devices to overcome the need for disposable batteries.

Samsung Electro-Mechanics launching industrial inkjet business

Samsung Electro-Mechanics can now print electronic circuitry with copper and/or silver ink using an environmentally friendly and economically viable process. The company is a leader in displays, including OLED and e-paper, and has significant work on thin film transistors. Now it enters inkjet print head and material manufacture.

DuPont Microcircuit Materials presents research findings for PV film

DuPont Microcircuit Materials (MCM), part of DuPont Electronic Technologies, will be presenting new research findings on "Advanced Screen Printable Thin Film Photovoltaic Front-Side Silver Conductor Compositions," at the IDTechEx Photovoltaics beyond Conventional Silicon Europe Conference and Exhibition

Inexpensive Copper Ink: NovaCentrix to unveil new ink at IDTechEx show

NovaCentrix announced today it will use Printed Electronics Europe 2009, in Dresden April 7-8, as the stage for the public launch of a significant new offering in the MetalonTM family of high-performance conductive inks: the ICI copper-based ink platform.

Thin films enhance thermoelectric energy harvesting

Nextreme has recently developed a thin-film thermoelectric generator (eTEG™) that converts heat directly into electricity delivering power generation densities greater than 3W/cm2.

Cymbet Introduces EnerChip™ EH Module

The EnerChip EH provides energy conversion, energy storage and power management in a single package, using new high-efficiency energy conversion techniques and energy aware functions.

MicroStrain Inc implements DecaWave's ScenSor

The combination of DecaWave ScenSor's ultra wide band radio technology with MicroStrain's energy harvesting wireless sensor networks will lead to significant breakthroughs towards the realization of widespread sensing networks.

Printed electronics in supermarkets

Dr Peter Harrop of IDTechEx gave a video interview and animations, concerning the future use of printed electronics in supermarkets.

Breakthrough in producing printed memory

Thin Film Electronics, an Oslo, Norway-based Company with R&D facilities in Linkoping, Sweden, known as Thinfilm, and InkTec Co. Ltd , known as InkTec, have together made a breakthrough in producing printed memory on flexible substrates.

Wireless monitoring of bridge conditions

Using vibration of bridges caused by passing traffic, wind and microtremors to power bridge monitoring sensors would mean that batteries are not required.

Challenges with blue OLEDs

"The weakest link in OLED research is the absence of an efficient, long-lasting blue light to accompany the red and green," said Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientist Asanga Padmaperuma.