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On moving printed electronics from enabling technology to application

IDTechEx has already shared the sheer scope, profiles of key players, enabling devices, and commercial product possibilities presented by printed electronics. Just a couple years ago, we tracked 500 organizations (50% universities & research institutes, 50% corporations) developing printed or organic transistors, and found that the combined commercial revenue of products using these transistors was zero - in other words, the industry still needed time, money, and partnerships to scale.

Piezo-phototronic effect improves efficiency of LEDs

The devices are believed to be the first LEDs whose performance has been enhanced by the creation of an electrical charge in a piezoelectric material using the piezo-phototronic effect.

'Roadable aircraft' available for order

A notion firmly held as the epitome of 'the future' may soon be arriving in our skies and on our roads thanks to MIT-trained engineers at Terrafugia. The Transition® 'roadable light sport aircraft' is a two-seater personal aircraft equipped with road-worthy wheels, rear-wheel drive and electromechanical folding wings.

Harvesting power from beetle's wings

According to the DARPA Microsystems Technology Office, The Hybrid Insect Micro Electromechanical Systems (HI-MEMS) program is aimed at developing technology to provide control over insect locomotion, just as reins are needed for effective control over horse locomotion.

Next generation of flexible OLEDs in the pipeline

ALD NanoSolutions will use a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop flexible hybrid inorganic/polymer multilayer gas diffusion barriers using atomic layer deposition (ALD) and molecular layer deposition (MLD). These multilayer barriers will use a roll-to-roll process for the next generation of flexible organic light emitting diodes (FOLEDs) and thin film photovoltaics.

First nano self-powered device with wireless data transmission

Scientists are reporting development of the first self-powered nano-device that can transmit data wirelessly over long distances.

New battery design could give electric vehicles a jolt

Significant advance in battery architecture could be breakthrough for electric vehicles and grid storage

New battery design could provide breakthrough storage

A radically new approach to the design of batteries, developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), could provide a lightweight and inexpensive alternative to existing batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid.

Profiles of military electric vehicle suppliers

Suppliers and developers of electric vehicles for the US Military.

Diesel-electric submarines to be tracked by unmanned marine vessels

Diesel-electric submarines are difficult to track as they are virtually silent and can stay submerged for extended periods of time. As the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) attempts to counter this imposing threat through the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) project, multiple companies have received design contracts for the proposed vessel as the initial phases of the project get underway.

Solar plane contract for Newcastle University

The Newcastle team has secured a major contract with the UK's QinetiQ to help create the US-based Boeing 'SolarEagle'.

New material provides greater thermoelectric conversion efficiency

The Ames Laboratory researchers found that adding just one percent of the rare-earth elements cerium or ytterbium to a TAGS material was sufficient to boost its performance.

Making a point

Northwestern researchers have developed an innovative method for printing nanostructures using hard, sharp "pen" tips that float on soft polymer springs. The technique quickly and inexpensively produces patterns of high quality and with high resolution and density.

Versatilis improvement in semiconducting inks for printing electronics

Vermont company shows 5-fold improvement in printable electronic devices made with modified semiconductor inks, awarded patent

Printed electronics enters fast growth phase

Printed electronics is associated with some orders, investments and acquisitions that are one hundred times as big as the largest two years ago.

Epitaxial graphene shows promise for replacing silicon in electronics

Move over silicon. There's a new electronic material in town, and it goes fast.

Printed Electronics for EVs - The money floods in

Printed electronics is now seeing a surge in transactions in the form of orders, government and industry-funded development programs, acquisitions and company fund raising.

Engineers make artificial skin out of nanowires

UC Berkeley have developed a pressure-sensitive electronic material from semiconductor nanowires that could one day give new meaning to the term "thin-skinned."

Printed electronics for energy harvesting - the money floods in

Printed electronics is now seeing a surge in transactions in the form of orders, government and industry-funded development programs, acquisitions and company fund raising.

Printed Electronics - The money floods in

Printed electronics is now seeing a surge in transactions in the form of orders, government and industry-funded development programs, acquisitions and company fund raising.