26 Aug 2011

Reverse electrowetting could lead to energy harvesting shoes
If the vision of Tom Krupenkin and J. Ashley Taylor comes to fruition, one day soon your cellphone - or just about any other portable electronic device - could be powered by simply taking a walk.
8 Sep 2010

Solvay invests in Polyera to expand printed electronics development
Solvay is investing 4 million USD in a minority stake in Polyera Corporation, a materials developer for the printed electronics market.
30 Aug 2010

NeuralWISP: Energy-harvesting wireless neural interface with 1-m Range
Neural interfaces have made considerable technology-driven advances recently, cochlear implants are an early example of clinically relevant implantable devices. Modern electronics is enabling previously impossible brain research experiments and major progress has been made toward
neurally controlled prosthetics.
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5 Feb 2010

Cambrios announces issuance of an inlicensed patent
Cambrios Technologies Corporation announced today that an important patent has issued covering commercially relevant methods of manufacturing metal nanostructures. U.S. Patent number 7,585,349 assigned to the University of Washington and covering an invention made by Younan Xia and Yougang Sun was licensed exclusively to Cambrios in its specific field of use.
19 Aug 2009

Organic electronics a two-way street with new plastic semiconductor
About 30 years ago, it was discovered that some plastics, or polymers, could conduct electricity. Since then researchers have been working to make them more efficient.
10 Aug 2009

Plastics that convert light to electricity
Researchers are striving to develop organic solar cells that can be produced as easily and inexpensively as thin films that could be widely used to generate electricity.
30 Jul 2009

Bionic contact lenses - two types of harvesting
Bionic contact lenses could detect diseases such as multiple sclerosis, track diabetes though glucose monitoring and give internet access.
28 Jul 2009

The USA's photovoltaics hub
The establishment of statewide solar programs and government incentives lead to a budding photovoltaic industry.
21 Jul 2009

Energy harvesting for Air Force unmanned aerial vehicles
Dye-sensitized solar cells are expected to power Air Force unmanned aerial vehicles in the future because they are an optimum energy harvesting source that may lead to longer flight times without refueling.
18 May 2009

MEMS energy harvesting devices report
Yole Développement in France has released a report dedicated to MEMS energy harvesting devices.
26 Nov 2008

New method to measure how strain affects semiconductors developed
Chip firms are always looking to gain an edge over their competitors in a market worth over $100 billion a year and the one silicon strategy for faster chips that has proven to be cost effective in mass production is - strained silicon.
22 Aug 2008

2041 and G24i debut first solar sail
Dye-Sensitised Thin Film solar cells manufactured by G24 Innovations (G24i) have been integrated into the sail of Swan's '2041' boat, which is currently sailing around the world raising awareness on climate change.
27 May 2008

Around the world with dye-sensitized solar cells
Dr Zervos at IDTechEx looks at the global picture for dye-sensitized solar cells.
23 Jan 2008

Contact lenses with circuits could be a platform for superhuman vision
Engineers at the University of Washington, US have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.
4 Dec 2007

A step closer to ultra low-cost disposable printed organic RFID tags
Organic materials are of great interest for electronics applications, as they have many advantages over their inorganic counterparts.