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China RFID leverages the Internet of Things

Wireless networking is rapidly pervading society, not least in China, where allied topic RFID is lifting off very rapidly.

National electric vehicle strategies strongly diverge

The industrial and commercial electric vehicle business will be 42% of the EV market in 2025 on IDTechEx analysis with well over 50% of the profits because so much of it is specialist and niche and the vehicles are not bought on up-front price.

Webinar Tues 14 July: TCF Enters The Consolidation Phase

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 14 July 2015.

Qualcomm: wireless charging success

IDTechEx was guest of Qualcomm at the Hilton Hotel Park Lane London 26 June and at the Formula E pure electric car racing in Battersea Park London the day after.

Quad Industries

Quad Industries are a small electronics contract manufacturer based in Europe. They have completed a variety of projects around the printed electronics space, including manufacturing NXP/Enfucell's temperature sensor logger, integrating Aito's haptic touch technology and printing onto textiles for an insole pressure sensor application.

Grafentek

GrafenTek is a very early stage company based in Istanbul, Turkey. GrafenTek is working on silicon-graphene composites for Li ion batteries.

Flexible barrier technologies: a brief review of technology options

Back in 2014, we witnessed the launch of the first displays deposited on flexible substrates, and the first efforts to encapsulate them. There are significant differences in the encapsulation techniques utilized by each of the companies commercializing flexible electronics. These differences signify the variety of technologies available, in terms of deposition as well as material options for the barrier films, some of which are discussed in this article

Report on Electric and Hybrid Marine Amsterdam

Here is our report on the first day of the Electric and Hybrid Marine World Expo in Amsterdam 23 June.

Graphene market on the cusp of growth

Each year IDTechEx Research releases its up-to-date market report on graphene and related materials: Graphene and 2D Materials: Markets, Technologies and Opportunities 2015-2025.

New design strategies make batteries flexible and wearable

A new design strategy has emerged for making batteries flexible.

Jet engine range extenders for electric vehicles

In May 2015, Californian Company, Wrightspeed announced the Fulcrum, a gas turbine on-board range extender for charging the batteries of electric vehicles.

CSEM - Instrumentation and Medical Device Technology Division

CSEM are a not-for-profit research organisation based in Switzerland. They are a public-private partnership company, receiving Swiss government funding, and also having all of the major Swiss watchmakers (Swatch, Rolex, etc.) as shareholders. They have been working in wearable sensor technology for 20 years.

EnerG2

EnerG2 is a company founded in 2003 that develops carbon materials at large scale to enable large-scale production of carbon materials that surpass the limitations of the naturally occurring carbons traditionally used in energy storage applications. They have carbon products for Lead Acid batteries and Supercapacitors and recently they have developed a Silicon Carbon Composite for battery anodes.

Electric vehicle power electronics: divergent approaches

The power electronics business as applied to electric vehicles is becoming so huge that very divergent approaches become viable.

Airborne Wind Energy Conference Netherlands 15-16 June Part Two

There is healthy disagreement among everyone concerning the optimal products, with some going to grid applications first then planning off-grid or, like Makani, looking only at on-grid.

Airborne Wind Energy Conference Netherlands 15-16 June Part One

This is the leading event on this subject: it moves around the world. AWE is the generation of electricity by flying devices in the wind, whether tethered or untethered. Almost all such projects involve tethered devices, over 30 being kites. Some are tethered aircraft that can take off and land themselves

Quantum dots now showing their true colours

Quantum dots are making some serious inroads in the display industry. This was very apparent at SID Display Week this month, where several quantum dot LCD panels were showcased. Is this the technology that will beat OLED in the TV market? Maybe, but some questions still need to be answered.

Immersion Corporation

Immersion are aleading company in the haptics space, holding over 1900 patents and spanning over 22 years of experience. This profile release represents a broad update including latest news and financials from FY2015 and early 2016.

Pulse Electronics

Pulse Electronics provides electronic component design and manufacturing. It offers a catalog of products as well as custom capabilities, supplying electronic components to OEMs, contract manufacturers and consumer electronic manufacturers. The company is now private but was formerly listed on the NYSE. It has annual sales of approximately $400 million. The company makes about 5% of all the antennas made for smart phones, routers and other consumer electronics wireless equipment. This activity was gained through acquisition including parts of Nokia's antenna business. It has now developed equipment, known as "fluidANT" that can print antennas on 3D substrate

Ultrahaptics

Ultrahaptics are a UK startup developing projected ultrasonic haptic actuators. Their solution enables touchless haptic feedback, using arrays of ultrasonic speakers to generate sound wave fields that can be felt by the user.