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World's first in-vacuum film cleaning system

Teknek has introduced the world's first contact cleaning system for thin films that can be used in high vacuum.

3D Printing: Retailers get a piece of the action

3D printers for home use are emerging from the relative obscurity of web-based sales - often, one suspects, attached to addresses corresponding to garages in residential districts - into the mainstream of the high street.

Winners in traction power appear first in buses?

Large electric vehicles are not sold on up-front price but on performance and cost over life. They are mainly bought by government including local government, the military and with government funding of others. Innovation is therefore usually first seen in large electric vehicles.

World's most powerful cadmium telluride solar modules

RSI has announced a new world record for cadmium telluride photovoltaic module size, achieving a 1.5 square meter module.

Graphene's high-speed seesaw

A new transistor capable of revolutionising technologies for medical imaging and security screening has been developed by graphene researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham.

Acquisition of PulseForge Photonic Curing Tool

The Center of Microelectronics of Provence, part of Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France, is pleased to announce it has acquired a PulseForge 3200 photonic curing tool from NovaCentrix as part of an ongoing collaboration with NovaCentrix (Austin, Texas), and CERADROP (Limoge, France).

New organic electronic products to market

Swedish R&D company Arubedo AB and the Thin Film Coatings Group at the University of South Australia enter strategic alliance to bring new organic electronic products to market.

Boeing Dreamliner: Implications for electric vehicles

IDTechEx analysts have ten years of experience of the lithium-ion traction battery business and in this article they comment on the implications for electric vehicles land, water and air of these Dreamliner batteries that are not for traction, apparently misbehaving.

Kodak sued over ownership of 18 patents

Global OLED Technology LLC (GOT) has hit Eastman Kodak Co. with a lawsuit in New York bankruptcy court seeking a declaratory judgment that 18 patents Kodak has laid claim to actually belong to GOT, which said it bought the patents in a 2009 deal.

OnStar debuts future EV solutions

At the GM Electrification Experience, OnStar is showing two new apps to address the possible range anxiety of electric vehicles and the cost of public charging.

Tubular films show promise for touchscreens

A Rice University team has hit upon a method to produce nearly transparent films of electrically conductive carbon nanotubes, a goal sought by researchers around the world.

Supercapacitors USA presents the record breakers

The supercapacitor market continues to power up at 30% yearly with some little-known names taking some of the biggest orders at well over $10 million dollars each.

Supercapacitors USA presents the record breakers

The supercapacitor market continues to power up at 30% yearly with some little-known names taking some of the biggest orders at well over $10 million dollars each. These represent volume breakthroughs in applications such as train energy capture and the new application of protection and enhancement of electric car traction batteries.

New processes for cost-efficient solar cell production

The competition in the photovoltaics market is fierce. When it comes to price, Asian manufacturers are frequently ahead of the competition by a nose. Now, Fraunhofer researchers are designing new coating processes and thin layer systems that, if used, could help to reduce the price of solar cells significantly - and give the competitive edge back to German manufacturers, too.

Indian government pushes plans to support EV market

Recent announcement of National Electric Mobility Plan 2020 envisions six million to seven million EVs on the road in India over eight years

Utah physicists invent 'Spintronic' LED

New technology promises brighter TV and computer displays

Heliatek sets new world record efficiency for its organic tandem cell

Heliatek sets new world record efficiency of 10.7 % for its organic tandem cell.

Solar energy harvesting innovation

Once again the question arises: What can new technologies bring to the table and how can they compete?

'Tunable' metal nanostructures for fuel cells, batteries, solar energy

Chemists have now developed a way to make porous metal films with up to 1,000 times the electrical conductivity offered by previous methods.

Toyota finds way to avoid using rare earth materials

Toyota Motor Corp has developed a way to make hybrid and electric vehicles without the use of expensive rare earth metals, in which China has a near-monopoly.