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Micro-transfer printing technology selected for $3 million award

Semprius is one of 4 to be awarded funding for their novel technology to develop high performance concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) modules using their patented micro-transfer printing technology.

Flexible lithium polymer battery

Researchers at The Advanced Materials Innovation Centre in Japan have developed a lithium polymer battery that can be manufactured by printing technology.

Aneeve to develop hormone sensors from inkjet printed carbon nanotubes

New start-up company Aneeve Nanotechnologies may be able to provide consumer based easy to use sensors that detect oestrogen and progesterone hormone levels in menopausal women.

Harnessing wind pressure from moving trains

Santosh Pradhan, an entrepreneur who runs a private engineering firm in Nagpur, India claims to have created a technique to harness the wind pressure from moving trains to generate power.

GE, Philips, SNCF present at World's Largest Energy Harvesting Event

The event Energy Harvesting & Storage Europe and Wireless Sensor Networks & RTLS 2010 features speakers including SNCF and the huge General Electric and consumer electronics company Philips.

New trends in printed electronics

Europe's largest event on Printed Electronics, the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2010 in Dresden, Germany in April, will reflect new trends in the subject such as carbon nanotubes in conductive paper and transistors, printing silicon for enhancing solar cells, for transistors and other uses and printing copper at a fraction of the cost of silver.

Paper-based electronics that perform better than silicon

A Portuguese university has developed Paper-e®, an emergent technology for applying field effect transistors on and with paper.

Taiwanese scientists promise first sunlight OLED

A new lighting technology that provides lighting very similar to the sun could drastically change how our offices and homes are lit in the future.

Solar cells sprayed on glass generate electricity

Researchers have developed a novel, patent-pending process for 'spraying' solar cells and their related components onto glass which could provide significant commercial production advantages over today's thin-films.

Hot electrons could improve solar output

Boston College researchers have observed the "hot electron" effect in a solar cell for the first time and successfully harvested the elusive charges using ultra-thin solar cells, opening a potential avenue to improved solar power efficiency.

New approach for self-assembling electronics

Several organizations have demonstrated self assembling electronic devices but none have shown that high yield is possible over large areas. Now the University of Minnesota has developed a different self assembly approach to overcome that.

Infinite Power Solutions and Arrow Electronics Sign Global Agreement

Infinite Power Solutions (IPS), an industry leader in solid-state, thin-film energy storage and energy-harvesting power management products, today announced a global distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW), a leading global distributor of electronic components and solutions. Under the agreement, Arrow will distribute IPS' award-winning INFINERGY™ Micro Power Module (MPM) product family.

Battery could last thousands of hours

Professor Yair Ein-Eli at the Technion - Israel Institute of Science has conducted research into a battery that lasts for thousands of hours and is based on silicon that reverts back to sand when it's spent.

Key RTLS Patent granted to Essensium

Essensium N.V., an innovative developer of Real Time Location System products, today announced that the European Patent Office published a key patent granted to Essensium regarding the ranging method which enables Essensium´s unique and industry-leading combination of high accuracy and long range in their wireless RTLS products.

IMEC joins consortium to radically reduce energy consumption

Today, imec announces that it will take part in the Green Touch Initiative, a new consortium initiated by Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent. The Green Touch Initiative is committed to inventing the technologies that will be at the heart of the next generation of sustainable networks.

Solar cells, e-books...what next?

2008 was the year of the solar cell, 2009 is marked by the success and growth of the e-book reader market and 2010 will be the year we start to witness further OLED penetration.

Solar mobile for Burundi

Econet Burundi, part of South African Econet Wireless Group, launched a new solar handset at the end of 2009. The solar handset will be produced by ZTE in China and will retail for US$39.

Liquavista launches Color display for eReaders

Liquavista BV. has launched its latest technology platform LiquavistaColor, which offers bright full color capability and the advantages of full interactivity and hi-fidelity video at ultra-low power to future advanced eReader devices for the first time.

Lockheed Martin announces new Mission Systems & Sensors Business

Lockheed Martin Corporation has announced the name and top level organizational structure for its new Mission Systems & Sensors business, one of three primary operating companies within the Electronic Systems Business Area.

Sharp, EGP and STM to produce innovative thin film photovoltaics

Enel Green Power, Sharp and ST Microelectronics join forces to produce innovative thin-film photovoltaic panels.