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Engineers fabricate fastest flexible silicon transistor

Engineers have pioneered a unique method that could allow manufacturers to easily and cheaply fabricate high-performance transistors with wireless capabilities on huge rolls of flexible plastic.

New solar power advances for electric vehicles

This article summarises some of the future oriented presentations on solar power advances at the recent IDTechEx Show! in Berlin.

Lessons from Electric Vehicles: Everything is Changing: Part Two

This IDTechEx conference just finished in Berlin had a wide variety of future oriented presentations.

Solar cars come to market

Winnified Noorlander of Nuon Solar Team gave a riveting presentation on their remarkable winning of seven out of nine of the recent Bridgestone Solar Challenge races across Australia on sunshine alone.

Rapid progress in electric aircraft

Aurora Flight Sciences will be presenting alongside NASA and many other advanced aerospace developers at the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) event.

Scientists improve perovskite solar-cell absorbers by squeezing them

Solar cells made of artificial crystalline structures called perovskites have shown great promise in recent years. Now scientists have found that applying pressure can change the properties of these inexpensive materials and how they respond to light.

Plan B Energy Storage

IDTechEx interviewed Grant Brown, VP Marketing at Plan B Energy Storage (PBES) about their engagement in the battery industry for use in industrial, commercial and large scale marine vessels applications. Plan B Energy Storage, founded in 2015, provides hardware, engineering and strategic design services to the industrial energy storage industry specifically for marine and grid energy storage applications.

Dispelix

Dr Harry Zervos spoke to Antti Sunnari, CEO and co-founder of Dispelix, a company that's looking to commercialize a new type of lightguide optic structure that could disrupt the market for AR smartglasses due to low material and manufacturing costs as well as light weight.

Small four wheel EVs go modular and mini factory

IDTechEx has long ago identified a gap in the market for a standard platform for car like four wheel small vehicles for leisure, military, mining, postal, industrial and many other purposes. At the recent IDTechEx conference "Electric Vehicles Everything is Changing" in Berlin the nonsense of every light four wheel electric vehicle being designed from scratch was addressed differently by both Altreonic and IFEVS.

Lessons from Electric Vehicles: Everything is Changing Part One

The conference "Electric Vehicles: Everything is Changing" in Berlin 27-28 April was a great success. Here we give only a glimpse at the rich insight and information presented. IDTechEx deliberately pitched the event as different from other electric vehicle conferences in looking firmly at the future including the speculative and ill-defined.

Wearable allows people with vision loss to actually see

eSight's wearable, hands-free headset houses a small, high-speed camera that captures everything the eSight user is looking at.

Cooling graphene-based film close to pilot-scale production

Heat dissipation in electronics and optoelectronics is a severe bottleneck in the further development of systems in these fields. To come to grips with this serious issue, researchers have developed an efficient way of cooling electronics by using functionalized graphene nanoflakes.

New spin Seebeck thermoelectric device

A thermoelectric device using cutting edge thermoelectric conversion technology has been created by a team comprising NEC Corporation, NEC TOKIN Corporation and Tohoku University.

Strong growth in metal 3D printing

Year-on-year revenue growth among 3D metal printing companies has been incredibly strong. SLM Solutions' revenue up 97.1%; Arcam's revenue up 70%; Concept Laser's revenue up 35%. Several companies in this space are remarkably similar, all using the same technology, so what does distinguish them?

Rice husks into lithium-ion anodes for plug-in electric vehicles

Rice is one of the top three staple foods in the world. But in the future, it may be a key part of the battery in your plug-in electric vehicle.

Unexpected discovery leads to a better battery

An unexpected discovery has led to a rechargeable battery that's as inexpensive as conventional car batteries, but has a much higher energy density.

Non-toxic and cheap thin-film solar cells

'Zero-energy' buildings -- which generate as much power as they consume -- are now much closer after a team achieved the world's highest efficiency using flexible solar cells that are non-toxic and cheap to make.

3D-printed foam outperforms standard materials

Scientists have found that 3D-printed foam works better than standard cellular materials in terms of durability and long-term mechanical performance.

IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2016 Award Winners

At the 12th IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe conference and exhibition, four companies were awarded for their great achievement in developing and commercializing printed electronics technologies. The awards were presented to the four winning companies by Mr Stéphane Egret, R&D Packaging Innovator at The Coca-Cola Company, who was also one of the judges of the awards. The two other judges were Dr Cristina Bertoni, Project Leader, Electrolux Italia and Ashutosh Tomar, Principal Engineer, Technology Strategy, at Jaguar Land Rover.

IDTechEx Wearable Europe 2016 Award Winners

The IDTechEx awards recognise company development and success across the topics of IDTechEx's conference. With a record number of entries in the two wearable technology categories this year, the competition was heated with an extremely high standard across all applicants. The awards were announced on the evening of Wednesday April 27th at the IDTechEx show.