Fraunhofer

IMEC - Wearable Health Monitoring

Imec is a research centre, with headquarters in Leuven, Belgium, and sites in Belgium, the Netherlands, Taiwan, US, China, India and Japan. They work to bridge the gap between research and industry, with more than 75% of their income coming from industry partners.

Solar chip monitors windows

A new kind of radio chip is intended to warn when windows are left open. This way, you can avoid having the heat go out the window on cold days. The sensor also detects break-in attempts early on. The key: This maintenance-free chip powers up with energy supplied by solar power.

Fraunhofer Additive Manufacturing Alliance

Background on contract research into industrial applications of additive manufacturing undertaken by the 13 institutes in the Fraunhofer Additive Manufacturing Alliance.

Electric cars without drivers

E-Mobile will park independently in the future and will also be able to find the next charging station without a driver. Researchers are working on electric cars that can travel short distances autonomously.

Towards future lab-on-chip applications

Latest approaches to fabricate OLED devices for lab-on-a-chip-applications using either near UV electroluminescence or optically modulated green light to stimulate fluorescent dye markers.

Light in new shape

BMBF-funded joint project R2D2 will start in November 2014 aiming at the investigation of production-related processes and technologies for the manufacturing of flexible OLED.

Collaboration in roll to roll production of large area flexible PVs

Flexible organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells over 6m long and 50cm wide have been produced by a recent pan European collaborative research and development project named "FabriGen".

Economical process for micro energy harvesting

Researchers have developed a process for the economical production of piezoelectric materials.

Engineering new vehicle powertrains

Car engines - whether driven by gasoline, diesel, or electricity - waste an abundance of energy. Researchers are working on ways to stem this wastefulness.

Printable electronics material for PV cells

Teijin Limited has announced that it has developed the world's first printable electronics material, named NanoGram® Si paste, and related processing technologies, for the local back surface field photovoltaic cell capable of high conversion efficiency.

Thin-film solar performance with 21.7 percent efficiency

The Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) has set a new world record in thin-film photovoltaics.

Fraunhofer COMEDD extends competences of Fraunhofer FEP

raunhofer-Gesellschaft decided to merge Fraunhofer COMEDD and Fraunhofer FEP with an aim to pool knowledge in one institution.

Huge new influx of partners to the Graphene Flagship project

To coincide with Graphene Week 2014, the European Commission is proud to announce that the Graphene Flagship, one of the largest-ever European research initiatives, is doubling in size.

Nano-supercapacitors for electric cars

Innovative nano-material based supercapacitors are set to bring mass market appeal a good step closer to the lukewarm public interest in Germany.

Roll-to-roll fabrication of OLED devices

Pixelligent Technologies, a global manufacturer of advanced materials and PixClear™ nanocrystal dispersions for the solid state lighting and flat panel industries, has announced it has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Circuits and sensors direct from the printer

These days, no office is complete without a printer. But digital printing technologies also play an important role in microelectronics, microsystems engineering and sensor systems.

PERC silicon solar cells achieve world record efficiency

The Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH) increases the conversion efficiency of industrial p-type silicon solar cells with screen-printed metal contacts from today's typical 17.5% to 19.5% to a record value of 21.2%.

Circuits and sensors direct from the printer

Printers are becoming more and more versatile. Now they can even print sensors and electronic components on 2D and 3D substrates. A new, robot-assisted production line allows the process to be automated.

Orthogonal Photolithography for high-resolution OLED microdisplay

The realization of OLED technology is contingent upon the development of appropriate materials, processing strategies and device structures which are scalable in terms of their cost, capacity, and capability.