21 Sep 2012

Latest progress on solution-processed OLEDs
IDTechEx recently attended the SID Organics meeting held at Imperial College London. Here we will provide a brief update on the activities of several major chemical companies that are actively pursuing OLED.
27 Aug 2012

Manchester to host £64m BP research centre
BP is to establish a £64 million international research centre, known as the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials, or BP-ICAM at The University of Manchester.
26 Jul 2012

Car bodies and tablet computer casings to store and discharge energy
From tablet computer casings to car bodywork, an Imperial College of London engineer has discussed the diverse applications of a "battery-like" material that he has helped to develop.
10 Jul 2012

Glassware absorbs energy to power small devices
Within each glass is a photovoltaic layer of dye Synthesized Solar Cell. This means that the properties of colour are being used to create an electrical current.
25 May 2012

Highlights of Energy Harvesting & Storage Europe 2012 (Part Two)
Highlights of last week's IDTechEx conference, Energy Harvesting & Storage Europe in Berlin, part two.
2 May 2012

Composite collaboration leads to faster plastic electronics
Prof. Aram Amassian's group collaborates with Imperial College scientists to develop faster organic thin-film transistors.
10 Apr 2012

Plastic electronics: a neat solution
A breakthrough in the development of a new generation of plastic electronic circuits by researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory brings flexible and transparent intelligent materials - such as artificial skin and interactive playing cards - a step closer.
4 Apr 2012

IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2012 Award Winners
The annual printed electronics award winners were announced at the IDTechEx Awards Dinner in Berlin, Germany on April 3rd. The awards recognize outstanding progress in the development and commercialization of printed electronics, an industry that produces a huge amount of technical innovation which will be used in many products.
External press release
13 Feb 2012

Energy Harvesting Network annual one-day event
The Energy Harvesting Network will hold its annual one-day dissemination event on 28th March 2012 at Hamilton House, London.
8 Feb 2012

Thin film transistor technology is moving fast
IDTechEx summarises the latest work on thin film transistors.
22 Dec 2011

Holistic approach to energy harvesting
The Holistic project joins up three different research fields, including energy harvesting and MEMS processing methods, low-power embedded computing systems, and electronic design automation.
External press release
31 Oct 2011

European collaboration efficient, low-cost tandem organic solar cells
Imec and its 16 project partners announce that they have launched the European FP7 project X10D, a project aiming at developing tandem organic solar cells with an increased conversion efficiency and lifetime, and a decreased production cost.
6 Oct 2011

Artificial leaf makes fuel from sunlight
Solar cell bonded to recently developed catalyst can harness the sun, splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen.
5 Oct 2011

Artificial leaf makes fuel from sunlight
Researchers led by MIT professor Daniel Nocera have produced an "artificial leaf": Like living leaves, the device can turn the energy of sunlight directly into a chemical fuel that can be stored and used later as an energy source.
23 Jun 2011

Winners of the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and WSN Awards
At the Energy Harvesting & Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) awards dinner on June 21 in Munich, Germany, companies were recognized for making significant technical or commercial progress with these technologies.
10 May 2011

Intelligent compensating electronics for energy harvesters
Most of the effort in the energy harvesting industry so far has been on creating smaller, more efficient energy harvesters and low power electronics for wireless sensing.
11 Apr 2011

IDTechEx printed electronics Europe 2011 award winners
The annual printed electronics award winners were announced on April 5th at the IDTechEx Awards