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Motoring without the gas station

Hybrid cars are a great success. In addition, pure electric cars are at last moving beyond the golf car and neighbourhood vehicle stage with serious volumes beginning to be sold.

Breakthrough technology could reduce cost of photovoltaic solar cells

A team of scientists at US based company, BioSolar have developed a low cost bio-based material that could dramatically reduce the cost of photovoltaic cells.

Flextech Alliance Awards contract to Etched in Time

Flextech Alliance Awards contract to Etched in Time for linear plasma etch module. System specifically designed for plasma etching dielectric films required in flexible electronics fabrication.

SDK develops organic EL devices with light output of 40%

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has developed a new structure for its organic electroluminescent (organic EL) devices, achieving approximately 40% in light output, representing the highest level in the world claim the company.

Plastics that convert light to electricity

Researchers are striving to develop organic solar cells that can be produced as easily and inexpensively as thin films that could be widely used to generate electricity.

Researchers develop organic photodiodes

Siemens has partnered with the Universities of Linz and Karlsruhe (TH) to produce organic photodiodes that are very sensitive to infrared radiation with wavelengths of more than one micrometer (µm).

Lithium Air - batteries on steroids

Better traction batteries will lead to better batteries for energy harvesting. After all, both need to affordably pack more energy in a given space while improving battery life, fast charging and affordability.

New 256Jet-S printhead from Trident

New 256Jet-S printhead from Trident reduces costs and enhances efficiency of solar photovoltaic production processes. This product is first to be launched by Trident Solar, a new division dedicated exclusively to solar inkjet technologies.

Aircraft propelled by solar energy to complete day-night-day cycle

Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg have unveiled, at Dübendorf airfield close to Zurich, the Solar Impulse HB-SIA, the first aircraft designed to fly both day and night without fossil fuel or pollution.

New print head enhances solar photovoltaic production processes

Trident, the global leader in industrial inkjet printhead and ink production, announces the launch of a new division, Trident Solar™, dedicated exclusively to the design and production of durable, efficient inkjet technologies for photovoltaic applications.

Remarkable progress at Electroluminate

Electroluminate create an impressive stream of imaginative uses for printed ac and dc electroluminescent displays on polyester with sequentially emitting patterns up to a width of 3 meters and, with total coverage, up to 1.5 meters.

Energy harvesting roads in Israel

Innowattech Energy Harvesting Systems based in Israel specialises in the development of custom piezoelectric generators for specific purposes such as harvesting mechanical energy imparted to roadways from passing vehicles.

Huge benefit of full integration of printed electronics

IDTechEx Chairman, Dr Peter Harrop examines the progress to full integration of printed electronics.

Rising from the ashes

The closure of several printed electronics operations has now resulted in phoenix operations rising from the ashes.

Graphene Innovator Vorbeck Materials raises $5.1 million

Graphene Innovator Vorbeck Materials receives $5.1 million in Series 2 financing

Bionic contact lenses - two types of harvesting

Bionic contact lenses could detect diseases such as multiple sclerosis, track diabetes though glucose monitoring and give internet access.

'Conductive ink' solar panels capture sun power for soldiers

Scientists developed a ready-to-use, cost-reducing technology that can capture sunlight and store it as energy to power Global Positioning System components, portable communications, and other devices for U.S. soldiers.

Microfluidic fuel cells

Microfluidic fuel cells could provide the necessary energy to continuously power remote sensors, mobile phones and laptops according to an Electronics and Computer Science student who recently graduated from the University of Southampton.

New technology will save manufacturing steps in flexible displays

The University of Texas at Austin and Research and Development company Verstilis has developed a time-saving technology for electronics manufacturing.

Sea buoys adopt energy harvesting

A minority of buoys at sea have energy harvesting and that usually means the largest, most mission critical buoys having solar power and occasionally small wind turbines.