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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.

Carbon's new champion

Carbyne will be the strongest of a new class of microscopic materials if and when anyone can make it in bulk.

Curved, stepped and bendable batteries

The types of LG Chem's future batteries can be categorized as stepped, curved and cable batteries.

Realizing the Internet of Things: what comes next

The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) promises to redefine the way humans and machines interface and the way they interact with the world around them. Attributing a virtual signature to everyone and everything allows for new concepts of managing systems, optimizing processes and adding versatility to existing ways of exchanging information.

Major leap towards graphene for solar cells

Surprising result: Graphene retains its properties even when coated with silicon.

World's first flexible OLED panel for smartphones

LG Display will start mass-production of the world's first flexible OLED panel for smartphones. This state-of-the-art panel represents another milestone following the company's commercial rollout of the world's first 55-inch OLED TV display earlier this year.

Printed Electronics USA covers the dynamic ITO replacement market

The transparent conductive film (TCF) and glass (TCG) market is booming and fast becoming transformed. This market is forecast to grow to $6.3 billion market in 2024.

Energy from water flow to save lives

A University of Melbourne research team has been awarded a USAID grant for their work addressing pneumonia in Papua New Guinea.

Second chance for OLED lighting?

Since forecasts for the sales volume of OLED lighting in 2020 range from less than $60m to almost $30b, there is clearly a need for a detailed understanding of the challenges involved in cost reduction and the relative merits of LED and OLED approaches to diffuse light sources.

Supercapacitors I - breakdown of global players by region and product

Supercapacitors are a curiously neglected aspect of electronics and electrical engineering with a multi-billion dollar market rapidly emerging.

Plastic Logic PaperTab a runner-up for T3 Innovation of the Year

Plastic Logic's 'flexible multi-display' earns runner-up position for T3 Innovation of the Year in Gadget Awards.

Paper generators respond to tapping, touching, rubbing or sliding

Electric current sufficient to light a string of LEDs, activate an e-paper display or even trigger action by a computer can be generated by tapping or rubbing simple, flexible generators made of paper, thin sheets of plastic and other everyday materials.

Toyota i-Road joins Ha:mo trials at Toyota City

Toyota's funky i-Road personal mobility concept has been added to Toyota Motor Corporations' 'Ha:mo' urban transport system trials at Toyota City in Japan.

Heliatek and AGC agreement to integrate organic solar films in glass

nnovative BIPV (Building Integrated Photovoltaics*) will further help architects to design energy harvesting, zero emission buildings to meet worldwide green directives to reduce carbon emissions.

Tiny water droplets carry electric charge

In a completely unexpected finding, researchers have discovered that tiny water droplets that form on a superhydrophobic surface, and then "jump" away from that surface, carry an electric charge.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Printed Electonics Special Issue

PRT would like to dedicate a Special Issue to Printed Electronics that will contain selected papers, particularly those presented at the Printed Electronics conferences hosted by the IDTechEx.

Lessons from a burning Tesla and a sinking Titanic

A Tesla Model S was filmed burning in the road recently, allegedly having struck a metal object.

E-Bus technology for E-trains

Work is to begin on a prototype battery-powered train to use on lines which have not yet been electrified, Network Rail, UK has announced.

Supercapacitors increase range of electric vehicles

Supercapacitors are increasing the range of electric vehicles in several ways and by doing so they are hugely increasing the addressable market for those vehicles. Typically, they last for the life of the vehicle regardless of how many cycles are endured.

Which makes a better solar collector, quantum dot or nanowire

Researchers have turned to computer modeling to help decide which of two competing materials should get its day in the sun as the nanoscale energy-harvesting technology of future solar panels - quantum dots or nanowires.