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Short supply of touch screen materials

In time for the holiday season, we see more and more launches of new touch screen consumer devices. What is clouding the situtation is a supply shortage that the touch screen industry is facing.

OLED vs LED lighting

The latest devolopments in the OLED Lighting space will be one of the major topics at the forthcoming Printed Electronics USA 2012.

Biomimetic aircraft snatch power aloft

Solar powered aircraft are old news. However, if we benchmark what is happening with other electric vehicles such as Autonomous Underwater Vehicles AUV, then multiple energy harvesting should be the order of the day, even with aircraft.

Printed electronics wheels into new territory

The term printed electronics is shorthand for printed and potentially printed electronics and electrics. It is an enabling technology like paper or the wheel and, like them, its applications are now taking unexpected turns.

TCM 2012: 4th symposium on transparent conductive materials

Over the past few years, there has been an increase in interest in research and applications for transparent conductive materials (TCMs).

Energy harvesting for buses

At eCarTec in Munich, Prof Dr-Ing E. Jobson of Volvo Bus Corporation illustrated the contribution of energy harvesting in electrodynamic braking as part of the many other improvements over the years.

Volvo bus backs hybrids without supercaps

At eCarTec in Munich, Prof Dr-Ing E. Jobson of Volvo Bus Corporation illustrated the contribution of energy harvesting in electrodynamic braking as part of the many other improvements over the years.

Hard to Reach the First Million - Lessons from eCarTec Munich, 2012

Leading analysts IDTechEx provide this view of the recent eCarTec event in Munich Germany.

Hard to reach the first million - lessons from eCarTec Munich, 2012

Leading analysts IDTechEx provide this view of the recent eCarTec event in Munich Germany.

Industrial & commercial electric vehicles: huge success

The large urban bus has gone from having a very large, noisy, polluting piston engine to parallel hybrid, series hybrid with slightly modified internal combustion engine, series hybrid with specially designed small internal combustion engine and then pure electric all in the space of ten years.

Energy harvesting at eCarTec Munich

ECarTec in Munich is Europe's largest electric vehicle event but it is in decline.

IDTechEx presented at PE12

IDTechEx was one of the speakers of the recent Plastic Electronics 2012 OLED session in Dresden, Germany, alongside the SEMICON Europe exhibition. Cathleen Thiele, Technology Analyst at IDTechEx GmbH, presented IDTechEx forecasts for OLED Lighting compared to LED lighting.

Seashell Technology expansion of silver nanowire product line

Seashell Technology, supplier of silver nanowires (AgNWs), now offers two additional silver nanowire products to its existing silver nanowire product line.

Caterpillar unveils first hybrid excavator

Caterpillar unveiled the first model in its new line of hybrid excavators, the Cat® 336E H, at its Mossville Industrial Design Center last week.

Why ultracapacitors maintain 30% market growth

Ultracapacitors, also known as supercapacitors, have seen some setbacks lately. Market leader Maxwell Technologies has seen reduced ultracapacitor sales growth in early 2012 due to softness in Europe and Nanotecture, in Europe, developing the variant called a supercabattery went out of business.

Ultracapacitors go mainstream

Ultracapacitors, otherwise known as supercapacitors, have recently become an essential part of the toolkit of designers of aircraft, trains, road vehicles, renewable energy, office equipment and the host of small electronic devices where it all began.

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.

A123 Systems agrees to sell automotive business to Johnson Controls

A123 Systems has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Johnson Controls valued at $125 million.

Supercapacitors can take market share from lithium batteries

This article shares some of the research carried out for the new IDTechEx report, "Batteries and Supercapacitors for Smart Portable Devices 2013-2023: Markets, Technologies, Companies"