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Ultrahaptics

Ultrahaptics are a UK startup developing projected ultrasonic haptic actuators. Their solution enables touchless haptic feedback, using arrays of ultrasonic speakers to generate sound wave fields that can be felt by the user.

Power electronics for electric vehicles: $45 billion market

Power electronics is at the heart of the disruptive change of all electric vehicle parts.

A goosebump sensor reads your emotions

The thin flexible capacitive goosebump patch is able to measure the degree of human emotion quantitatively.

Unlocking the energy stored in plant cell walls

By virtue of their chloroplasts, plants are superb harvesters of solar energy. They use it to build leaves, flowers, fruits, stems, and roots. We harvest a small percentage of that energy in the form of food and a smaller amount in the form of wood for heating.

Nanoparticles that could offer alternative to rare earth magnets

A team of scientists has synthesized a powerful new magnetic material that could reduce the dependence of the United States and other nations on rare earth elements produced by China.

Supercapacitors with batteries or fuel cells: result happiness

IDTechEx interviews in Japan have established that supercapacitors across lithium-ion batteries in cars can increase range by 10% by permitting deep discharge, provided suitable batteries are used that can tolerate such a regime.

Energy efficiency and the future of long-distance flight

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard have suffered set-backs in their quest to circumnavigate the earth in an experimental solar-powered aircraft.

Crystalline silicon n-PERT solar cell with a record efficiency

imec has announced a new efficiency record for its large area n-type PERT (passivated emitter, rear totally diffused) crystalline silicon (Cz-Si) solar cell, now reaching 22.5 percent (calibrated at ISE CalLab).

Perovskite photovoltaic module with 8 percent conversion efficiency

Nano-electronics research center imec has announced a thin-film perovskite photovoltaic (PV) module of a power conversion efficiency of eight percent measured over an aperture area of 16cm2.

Enabling manufacturing processes for smart flexible displays

Orbotech Ltd has announced that it has entered into a co-operation agreement with ITRI research and development organization, to jointly develop solutions for the production of flexible displays to be applied in future smart devices.

Calcium batteries might be more powerful than lithium batteries

Jean-Yves Sánchez researches the development of calcium batteries that can compete with lithium batteries.

Nanofibers unleashed: new technique for production of versatile fibers

A new efficient and productive way to manufacture nanofibers througth electrospinning, mimicing dot-matrix printing with potential for many applications such as solar cell production.

ITO alternative leaders will emerge despite the pending consolidation

At IDTechEx we have been closely following and analysing the transparent conductive film market for the past five years.

Quad Industries is new licensee for manufacturing Enfucell SoftBattery

Enfucell is pleased to announce a new license partnership with Quad Industries

Wearable sensors for bees

Thousands of honey bees in Australia are being fitted with tiny sensors as part of a world-first research program to monitor the insects and their environment using a technique known as 'swarm sensing'.

Green lights for self-driving vehicle prototypes

When Google started designing the world's first fully self-driving vehicle, their goal was a vehicle that could shoulder the entire burden of driving.

Growth in High-powered Energy Harvesting

The new reality is that energy harvesting - creation of off-grid electricity where it is needed, using ambient energy - is now one subject from microwatts for wireless sensors to tens of kilowatts for vehicles and buildings. This is because it increasingly involves the same technologies, locations and companies. One structure, such as a remote building, will tend to use a range of energy harvesting from very low power EH for wireless sensors to very high power EH for charging those newly announced Tesla house batteries.

Carbon nanotube transparent conductive film with long-term stability

AIST, and others have developed a technology that dramatically improves the long-term stability of the conductivity of transparent conductive films that use carbon nanotubes.

Materials that mimic nature's machinery to harvest solar energy

We may be able to design materials that mimic nature's machinery to harvest solar energy, or manipulate light for telecommunications applications, or design novel catalysts for speeding up a variety of chemical reactions.

Welsh Government invests 13 million euros of EU funds in marine energy

The EU funds will support a marine energy project in Holyhead Wales aiming to support an expansion of marine energy in Wales and UK.