8 Jul 2010

SolarPrint enters into solar technology deal with Fiat
R&D consortium plans to develop the next generation of solar technology to cover the surface of electric vehicles.
14 Jun 2010

The race for plug and play vibration harvesting
The market for vibration harvesters will increase perhaps one hundred fold when they are broad band so they can be fitted without tuning - or with auto tuning - to the vibration encountered. Ideally they should be made to standard battery sizes and sold as a non polluting, long life battery replacement.
7 Jun 2010

Nantennas and metamaterials for EV photovoltaics
Photovoltaics could be applied to the whole of the outside and inside of the car, even over the lights and the windows
5 May 2010

POLARIC underway producing high volume organic electronic circuits
A new EU-funded project, POLARIC, has been launched to develop roll-to-roll printing of high-performance organic electronic circuits.
20 Apr 2010

IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe award winners
IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe award winners
External press release
31 Mar 2010

Imec and partners start work on EU project PRIMA
Imec announces that it has started work, together with its project partners, on PRIMA, a project under the EU's 7th framework program for ICT (FP7). The project's goal is to improve the efficiency and cost of solar cells though the use of metallic nanostructures.
30 Mar 2010

Transistors on plastic
Last week, the Photonics and Plastic Electronics KTN put together a one day seminar that gave an overview of the activity in the UK on the topic of flexible organic and inorganic transistors. Speakers were representing both Universities around the country as well as companies that are developing transistor/backplane technologies. Inorganic, organic and hybrid versions are being developed in order to evaluate the performance of each type of device.
18 Mar 2010

POLARIC revolutionises production of organic electronic circuits
A new EU-funded project POLARIC was launched in January 2010 to develop roll-to-roll printing of high-performance organic electronic circuits. The project will revolutionise the way printed electronic circuits are made by combining large-area fabrication methods with high-performance organic electronic circuits on a scale not previously attempted.
15 Dec 2009

Breakthrough in li-ion battery technology
Nexeon - a company formed following a breakthrough discovery made at Imperial College London - has revealed its plans to commercialise lithium-ion battery technology, a development which will lead to batteries with significantly higher energy density and longer lifetime between charges.
External press release
11 Nov 2009

Toumaz named Emerging Technology Company of the Year
Toumaz Technology announced that it has been named "Emerging Technology Company of the Year" by the National Microelectronics Institute (NMI), the premier trade association representing the semiconductor industry in the UK and Ireland.
22 Oct 2009

Research into future generation energy harvesting
Professor Bashir Al-Hashimi, Co-Director of the ECS Pervasive Systems Centre, is leading a new £1.6M project, funded by the EPSRC, which will develop ultra energy-efficient electronic systems for emerging applications including mobile digital health and autonomous wireless monitoring in environmental and industrial settings.
1 Oct 2009

Exciting developments reported at Printed Electronics Asia
Dr Harry Zervos reports from Tokyo an overview of the first day of Printed Electronics Asia, which covered exciting developments in printed electronics and photovoltaics for East Asia.
9 Sep 2009

Areas of highest interest in the field of the new electronics
Flexible Displays and Lighting - Areas of highest interest in the field of the new electronics
22 Jul 2009

New topics covered at Printed Electronics Asia
While some involved in OLEDs and OTFTs are moving out of the business of printed and potentially printed electronics, work on inorganic materials and compounds is increasing. The IDTechEx Printed Electronics Asia event in Tokyo will give a balanced view with many presentations being World firsts.
25 Jun 2009

Huge increase in printed electronics toolkit
This year has already seen a huge increase in the choice of electronic components that can be printed or are compatible with printing in that they are thin, flexible and can support further printed circuitry on top.
4 Jun 2009

Energy Harvesting & Storage Europe, Cambridge, UK
Now in its second day, the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and Storage conference in Cambridge, UK, has 150 attendees discovering the latest in harvesting and storage technologies and the applications that drive such innovation.
22 Apr 2009

Snapshot of Polymer Electronics meeting IET London 21 April
This one day meeting organised by the Institute of Engineering and Technology and the Institute of Nanotechnology started with Professor Sir Richard Friend explaining the theory behind printed polymeric transistors, OLEDs and photovoltaics.
14 Apr 2009

New security sensor devices made possible by metallic nanostructures
London researchers published details of new sensor structures, which they claim could be used in novel security devices to detect poisons and explosives or proteins in patients' blood.