University of Oxford

Multi-million pound driverless car challenge

UK Business Secretary Vince Cable and Transport Minister Claire Perry officially launched a regulatory review of driverless cars and the Government's 'Introducing Driverless Cars' competition.

IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2014 Award Winners

Printed, flexible and organic electronics will eventually impact most aspects of human endeavor, with the enabling materials, equipment, components and manufacturing being developed and launched today.

Lead out, tin in for cheap solar cell

Lead is not an essential component of a new kind of low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell, new experiments show.

UK professor recognised for pioneering work on solar cells

Professor Henry Snaith has received the Materials Research Society's (MRS) prestigious Outstanding Young Investigator Award for his work on the development of perovskite-based solar cells.

Dr. Christopher Case joins Oxford PV as Chief Technology Officer

Oxford Photovoltaics (Oxford PV) has appointed Dr. Chris Case as Chief Technology Officer to lead the technological development of the business, which is making rapid progress towards the commercialisation of its ground-breaking thin-film solar cells.

Revolutionary solar cells double as lasers

Latest research finds that the trailblazing 'perovskite' material used in solar cells can double up as a laser, strongly suggesting the astonishing efficiency levels already achieved in these cells is only part of the journey.

Oxford PV appoints David Smyth as Chief Financial Officer

Oxford Photovoltaics (Oxford PV) has announced the appointment of David Smyth as its Chief Financial Officer.

Oxford research team pioneers semi-transparent perovskite solar cells

Advances in solar technology are set to revolutionise the Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) market with the development of a new type of cell which combines semi-transparency with good efficiency, opening up the possibility of entire facades formed of electricity generating glass.

Scientists cook up new electronic material

Scientists grew sheets of an exotic material in a single atomic layer and measured its electronic structure for the first time.

Yasa Motors

YASA Motors Limited is a thriving young company based in Oxford, England which specialises in very high power and torque density axial flux motors. A spin off from Oxford University, it was founded in 2009 and investment was initially from business angels and the founders. YASA Motors manufactures a highly differentiated advanced axial flux motor and generator based on its proprietary Yokeless And Segmented Armature (YASA™) technology.

Breakthrough in efficiency of new class of solar cell

A significant step forward in the scale-up and commercialisation of Oxford Photovoltaics (Oxford PV) new photovoltaic technology has been achieved by establishing a new high of 15.4% efficiency for its perovskite solar cells.

Cable-free connections

New technology developed at Oxford provides a means to wirelessly power and exchange data over distance using simple inexpensive engineering.

Sustainable Moto Expo Success

A new event was staged in The exquisite regency town of Cheltenham on September 8-9. It pulled in a remarkable 10,000 visitors to attend debates, lectures and mainly to see the exhibition and rides of no less than 40 electric vehicles, mainly experimental, on-road and racing cars.

Plastic Logic appoints new CEO

Plastic Logic has appointed, Indro Mukerjee as CEO to replace Richard Archuleta, who is stepping down after leading the company for the past four years.

Oxford Yasa Motors in racing, motorcycles and sports cars

Oxford YASA Motors has an axial flux synchronous motor technology with exceptional power to weight ratio that it is putting into racing cars, motorcycles and sports cars with partners in Malaysia and elsewhere.

Printed electronics widens its scope

Printed electronics has its origins in conductive patterns printed as part of conventional electronics, forming flexible keyboards, antennas and so on.

New nanomaterials unlock new energy technologies

A new way of splitting layered materials to give atomically thin "nanosheets" has been discovered by a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded research team.

Cheaper solar technology developed in Oxford

Oxford Photovoltaics, a company recently spun out from the University of Oxford by Isis Innovation Ltd., has developed new solar cell technology that is manufactured from cheap, abundant, non-toxic and non-corrosive materials and can be scaled to any volume.

Intelligent underwear

Joseph Wang and colleagues at the University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA have integrated chemical sensors into two brands of briefs, which will allow the constant monitoring of blood pressure and heart rate.