28 Jan 2020

How Drones Could Help Save our Most Endangered Species
A joint team flew to Cameroon in December to trial the use of drones, sensor technologies and deployment techniques to monitor populations of the Critically Endangered Kordofan giraffe at Bénoué National Park.
Youtube interview
28 Jan 2020

Silk Screen Printed Circuits is the Equivalent to 6 Layer PCB Board
Molex develops printed electronic solutions that solve complex technical and business challenges for the world's innovators by anticipating and delivering what our customers need most
28 Jan 2020

First Long Term Vagus Nerve Stimulation Implant in Mice
Previous preclinical VNS studies have been limited to short-term stimulation -- a timeframe of minutes to hours -- due to the surgical and technological challenges of implanting a stimulator small enough to fit a mouse nerve. In order to conduct mouse studies lasting weeks or even months, Feinstein Institutes researchers developed new techniques to deliver long-term electrical stimulation in mice.
External press release
28 Jan 2020

Intuitive Touch Controls for STM32-Based Smart Devices
STMicroelectronics and Fieldscale have joined forces to simplify development of touch-enabled user interfaces for smart devices containing ST's STM32 microcontrollers.
External press release
28 Jan 2020

Selectronic's Latest Display Solution Launched
The brand name OnDisplay has been added to the Selectronic family to sit nicely alongside its already well established OnLED custom made LED printed circuit board assemblies and LED strips.
External press release
28 Jan 2020

Power Plant to Support Renewable Capacity in Barbados
Wärtsilä has won the contract to supply a 33 MW flexible power plant on a fast-track basis to the Barbados Light & Power Company Limited, the utility company on the Caribbean island of Barbados.
External press release
28 Jan 2020

BESIX Awarded New BOT Contract in Waste-to-Resource Sector in Dubai
BESIX will build and operate for 16.5 years renewable energy production facilities at Al Qusais, Dubai. The Landfill Gas-to-Energy contract was awarded to BESIX by Dubai Municipality.
External press release
28 Jan 2020

ADS-TEC Battery Storage Solutions and Fast Charging Systems
ADS-TEC develops and produces professional battery storage solutions that include energy management systems under the "StoraXe" label. The modular design offers almost unlimited scaling possibilities. ADS-TEC also develops smart solutions for the increasing challenges created by the rapid growth of the electric mobility industry.
28 Jan 2020

Recycled Plastics Transformed into 3D Printing Materials
A new research project aims to recycle plastic waste into a standardized filament product for the 3D printing industry.
Update interview
27 Jan 2020

SWIR Vision Systems
SWIR Vision Systems is based in North Carolina and has come out of RTI International research group, which is a NC-based entity with around $1Bn of research funds.
Update interview
27 Jan 2020

hap2U
IDTechEx met briefly with Cedrick Chappaz, CEO of hap2u at their booth at CES 2020's Unveiled exhibition. Having conducted an interview in mid-2019, this was an excellent opportunity to try the haptics demo that they were presenting.
Update interview
27 Jan 2020

Zhijing Nanotech
Zhijing Nanotech (from Beijing University) has developed an interesting method to 'in-situ' grow perovskite QDs inside polymers.
Background
27 Jan 2020

TCL
TCL has been active in QDs since 2014.
Background
27 Jan 2020

Shoei Chemical
Shoei Chemical are a Japanese firm ($ 350M income) and are a major player in producing Cu powder for the multi-layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) business.
Update interview
27 Jan 2020

Ulvac Solutions
InGaN/GaN QDs were previously synthesised around 2010.
Update
27 Jan 2020

Sharp
Sharp (at its Oxford laboratories) is working on QD-LED devices.
Background
27 Jan 2020

Taiwan Nanocrystal
Micro LED displays have many advantages but a key disadvantage is that they must be assembled LED by LED.
Update interview
27 Jan 2020

UbiQD
UbiQD is a 13-person company focused on CIS (CuInS2/ZnS) QDs.
27 Jan 2020

Team to Build All-Electric Excavation Robot
One of the largest gas network companies in the UK has partnered with a world-leading robotics company to transform the most costly and disruptive job in the industry - excavation.
27 Jan 2020

Body Heat Through Flexible Fabric Powers Iot Devices
Wearable electronics and other Internet of Things devices are rapidly growing in popularity, but their need for consistent power can place a high burden on users. One recently proposed solution is to generate electricity using heat from the human body, animals or other ambient sources, but typical emerging devices need to be up to an inch thick to harvest maximum results.