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Exploring the Growth and Market Breakdown of Passive RFID

The RFID industry is expected to maintain its growth trajectory, with IDTechEx forecasting a market value of US$14 billion in 2023, up from US$12.8 billion in 2022. This market value encompasses various RFID form factors, including labels, cards, fobs, and tags, as well as scanners, software, and services for both active and passive RFID technologies. Among these, the "Passive RFID Tags" segment stands out as the largest, comprising more than half of the total RFID market.

Epishine Brings Further Advancements to the Solar Energy Industry

Epishine's Unique Production Process Brings Further Advancements to the Solar Energy Industry - Swedish Epishine has made advancements for printed outdoor organic photovoltaics within the Solar Era funded project NFA4R2ROPV thanks to their breakthrough manufacturing process of roll-to-roll printed solar cells.

HTC's Vive XR Elite: New Design Approaches in Virtual Reality

HTC's new Vive XR Elite brings interesting benefits with its convertible design but poses a tough product targeting challenge.

Advanced Materials and High-Performance Thermal Pastes

Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs) come in different forms, including thermal pads, thermal grease, gap fillers, thermal paste, and thermal gels. Thermal gel and thermal paste, two of the most commonly used forms, have gained significant momentum over the past several years, especially in the EV, data center, and 5G industries.

SungEel Hi-Tech

SungEel HiTech is a South Korean Li-ion battery recycler, founded in 2000. This profile provides on update on the company's involvement in the Li-ion battery recycling market.

Gotion

Gotion (Guoxuan High-Tech) are a Chinese Li-ion cell and battery manufacturer.

Unravelling Competing In-Mold Electronics Manufacturing Methodologies

Smooth, functional surfaces that provide touch sensing, often with backlighting, are becoming increasingly common. Applications range from vehicle interiors and domestic appliances to medical devices and aircraft seating. Rather than relying on a mechanical or membrane switch, these surfaces utilize capacitive touch sensing - the same principle used in smartphone displays.

Wintor

Amsterdam-based startup Wintor is lowering the barriers to entry for smartphone AR tours with its no code, app-based tour development and deployment system for iPhones and Android.

Back to the Futuristic: 3 Innovative Wearable Technologies Coming Soon

Consumer technology available today is impressive but still not as cool as promised by many classic sci-fi movies. Our dreams of hoverboards and holograms have been replaced by stagnating smartphone designs and doom-scrolling. Yet things look set to change.

Primobius

Primobius is a battery recycling company, based in Germany.

Gus Technology

Gus Technology are a cell and battery manufacturer headquartered in Taiwan.

AI Driven Quality Assurance for "Fully Additive" 3D Printed Electronic

Neotech AMT and the TAMS-group at the University of Hamburg announce successful implementation of a camera-based monitoring system for Additively Manufactured objects with integrated electronics (Project: KAM EI). The project, funded by Central Innovation Program for SMEs (ZIM) from the German Federal Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), started in September 2020.

Fuel Flexibility of SOFC Paves Path to Hydrogen Economy

Fuel cells could play an important role in the future of power generation, enabling the transition from traditional hydrocarbon fuels to low or zero-emission fuels. The fuel flexibility of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) offers a competitive advantage over the currently dominant proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), which is limited to operating on hydrogen.

HYBRIT

Hybrit Development AB (HYBRIT) is a joint venture between Swedish companies SSAB, LKAB, and Vattenfall. The company was founded to develop the HYBRIT project to demonstrate the use of hydrogen in sustainable steel production.

Tritium: DC Fast Charging (2023)

Founded in 2001, Tritium designs and manufactures proprietary hardware and software to create modular and scalable DC fast chargers for electric vehicles.

Ultimate Transmissions: How Tesla Could Avoid Rare-Earth Magnets

Tesla recently announced the elimination of rare-earths in its next generation permanent magnet motors. This would normally require a large performance defecit or much larger motor. Ultimate Transmissions has designed a ferrite magnet motor that could solve these issues.

ATT (Advanced Thermal Technologies)

ATT is collaborating with Henkel to develop heating for automotive interiors based on positive temperature coefficient (PTC) ink and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) sensor cover heaters utilizing in-mold electronics (IME). IDTechEx caught up with Head of Printed Electronics Martin Hartinger at LOPEC 2023.

Advanced Recycling: The Answer to Sustainable Packaging?

The need for a circular economy has never been so urgent. Plastic consumption is expected to double globally by 2050, creating environmental and human health risks. Not only is plastic waste overflowing in landfills, but a significant portion is mismanaged and leaks into the environment: the OECD estimates that nearly 80 million tonnes of plastic waste was mismanaged globally in 2019.

Move.ai

Early-stage London-based company using AI to perform marker-less motion capture with as little as two iPhones or other cameras. Its tracking can compare favorably to optical tracking using multimillion dollar setups. IDTechEx met representatives from the company at Laval Virtual 2023.

AEye, Inc.

AEye is a technology company that provides advanced imaging and sensing solutions for various industries, including smart infrastructure and automotive. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.