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CAP-XX to Speak on Bridging Power Gap at Energy Harvesting & Storage

On November 4, Pierre Mars, vice president of applications engineering for CAP-XX Ltd will present a technical paper on design strategies using a supercapacitor to overcome power limitations from energy-harvesting sources.

DecaWave partners with Dublin Institute of Technology

DecaWave (www.decawave.com) the pioneering fabless semiconductor company has partnered with the Dublin Institute of Technology's Antenna & High Frequency Research Group (AHFR) for antenna design research expertise for its ground breaking ScenSor chip.

DecaWave ships its first 5 ScenSor evaluation kits

DecaWave has shipped the first 5 evaluation kits of its groundbreaking product ScenSor chip to technology firms in the US, Germany, France, Israel and Korea.

Printing silicon in South Africa - Part one

The engine of the new printed electronics will be printed transistors on flexible substrates that can be one tenth to one hundredth of the cost of those in simple silicon chips.

Body area networking standard attracts industry attention

The recent IEEE 802.15.6 Working Group meeting in Montreal, Canada drew significant interest from major industry players including Philips, General Electric, Texas Instruments, Toumaz and Samsung.

ZigBee Green Power Feature Set Revealed

The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, has announced development of the ZigBee Green Power feature set to establish a global, standard technology for self-powered devices operating through energy harvesting techniques.

Military thermoelectrics

Thermoelectric energy harvesting is used in many military applications. In addition, it is used in the related area of generating energy on space vehicles in deep space where thermoelectric are ineffective, this being done by converting the heat of a radioactive material - the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator RTG.

Prime View International agree to buy E Ink for $215 million

Prime View International ("PVI"), a small and medium display provider and the world's highest volume supplier of ePaper display modules, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire E Ink Corporation, the leader in electronic paper display materials and intellectual property for approximately $215 million.

How green is RFID?

In these days of environmental consciousness, what are RFID's green credentials? Is RFID a net positive or negative contributor to the campaign to help the planet?

Thermal energy harvesting and perpetual power supplies

Thermoelectric power generation is based on a heat flux through a thermoelectric element or a thermogenerator.

MicroStrain Inc implements DecaWave's ScenSor

The combination of DecaWave ScenSor's ultra wide band radio technology with MicroStrain's energy harvesting wireless sensor networks will lead to significant breakthroughs towards the realization of widespread sensing networks.

Synopsis Unveils Breakthrough Modelling Technology

Synopsys, Inc, a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, has announced the introduction of breakthrough Composite Current Source (CCS) base curve modelling technology that reduces digital cell library file size by up to 75 percent while improving application tool runtime and capacity.

Printing piezo energy harvesters

Vibration energy harvesting is receiving a considerable amount of interest as a means for powering wireless sensor nodes. It is the simple notion that mechanical vibration can be transformed into useful electrical power.

Wireless sensor networks 2009-2019 Part two

IDTechEx has just issued a report called Wireless Sensor Networks and we summarise the subject also known as Ubiquitous Sensor Networks in part two.

Highlights from RFID Europe 2008

IDTechEx's leading RFID Europe 2008 event, staged in Cambridge, UK once again led the field delivering an excellent show for all attendees.

Third Generation Active RFID Bursts onto the Scene

Third Generation Active RFID is the Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN) sometimes known as the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) and characterized by the tag doubling as a reader and a so-called mesh network being used with a choice of sensors on each tag.

SID Organic Electronics UK 2008

IDTechEx technology analyst Dr Harry Zervos attended the meeting of the Society for Information Displays in London, where the latest research and development efforts were discussed and presented.

Rapid Improvements in Real Time Locating Systems

One reason why the market for Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) is growing rapidly to pass the billion dollar mark well within ten years is technology. It is improving rapidly, with new variants for the many new sub sectors of the market that are emerging.

Opinion leaders Join RFID Europe

The largest European RFID conference is being held on 30th September and 1st October in Cambridge. With a plethora of new announcements and industry-leaders presenting, Dr. Peter Harrop outlines some of the highlights the speaker programme has to offer.

Inorganic FETs on paper

In Portugal, a new field effect transistor with paper interstrate layer has now been developed.