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NSF Spintronics grant helps NC State researchers

NSF Spintronics grant will help NC State researchers develop smaller, faster electronic devices

Putting a strain on nanowires could yield colossal results

Structural irregularities in correlated electron materials - a phenomenon known as "phase inhomogeneity" - could be engineered at the sub-micron scale to achieve such desired properties as colossal magnetoresistance

Interactive OLED eyeglasses with microdisplays available in 2 years

Microdisplays based on OLEDs for multimedia applications like video and data display could be available within a couple of years according to Fraunhofer IPMS.

Ascent Solar hires Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Ascent Solar hires Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Low cost materials for solar cells

Wadia's goal is to make solar energy affordable and accessible to everyone on the planet, especially to the 1.2 billion people now living without electricity. To reach this goal, he and colleagues are developing photovoltaic solar cells from naturally occurring, earth-abundant materials such as iron sulfide and copper sulfide.

XsunX and Intevac team up to develop breakthrough TFPV Manufacturing

XsunX and Intevac team up to develop breakthrough thin-film photovoltaic manufacturing technology.

Umbrella converts sunlight to electricity

Konarka Technologies Inc and SKYShades entered into a partnership last year to jointly develop the Powerbrella, an umbrella that converts sunlight into electricity to charge laptops, mobile phones, iPods and other portable devices.

Polymer memory products manufactured in roll-to-roll printing process

POLYIC and THINFILM announce high-volume pilot production of roll-to-roll printed memories enabling next-generation interactive toys and games

Tata group invests in a start-up producing photovoltaic solar modules

Tata group invests in start-up Flisom who specialize in flexible and lightweight thin-film photovoltaic solar modules.

A giant step for nanotechnology

The Australian research community will soon have access to one of the most powerful nanotechnology instruments in the world, able to write and etch data on particles ten thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair.

Cars with thermoelectric and other harvesting

There is now consensus that hybrid and pure electric cars will be the fastest growing sector of the car business for the next twenty years. Analysts and manufacturers project 15-20% of cars made in 2020 being electric.

E-paper display market reaches $1.17 billion in 2014

IDTechEx find that the total market size for e-paper displays in 2010 is $131 million rising to $1.17 Billion in 2014 - this is the value of the display component, not the product.

DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions offer advanced materials

DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions (DPVS) in India offers a variety of advanced materials from several DuPont businesses to enable the country's photovoltaic (PV) industry to increase lifetime and efficiency of solar modules and improve the productivity of PV module makers.

NTERA and plastic electronic GmbH enter into a license agreement

NTERA, Inc., and plastic electronic GmbH have announced they have entered into a license agreement to develop advanced printed electronics products using NTERA's NanoChromics technology.

Wireless heart pump

Scientists at The University of Auckland have developed the technology to power a wireless heart pump that could save the lives of thousands of heart patients, and eventually offer an alternative to heart transplants.

Camera flash turns an insulating material into a conductor

An insulator can now be transformed to conduct electricity by an ordinary camera flash.

Algae powered batteries

A group of researchers at the Ångström Laboratory at Uppsala University have discovered that the distinctive cellulose nanostructure of these algae can serve as an effective coating substrate for use in environmentally friendly batteries.

Thin-film salt and paper battery

A new thin-film paper battery that holds great promise for applications in areas where conventional Li-ion batteries are not the perfect choice has been developed at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Global Solar Energy's CIGS production achieves 15.45% efficiency

Global Solar Energy, Inc., the premier manufacturer of Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide (CIGS) thin film solar products, today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the nation's primary laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development, confirmed 15.45 percent total area efficiency for Global Solar's production level CIGS material.

Revolving doors harvest human energy

Energy harvesting revolving doors capture otherwise wasted human energy and convert it to electricity to power the installation site, for example lighting and signage.