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Key areas where flexible electronics are having a commercial impact are examined by Liam Critchley, who finds smaller companies are carving their own industry niches. The growth of advanced fabrication methods, small-scale nanomaterials and the ability to embed flexible circuitry and components into polymeric hosts have given rise to flexible electronics with advanced functionalities. This has become a popular way ...

E-Peas, the Belgian energy harvesting specialist, and Epishine, the Swedish indoor solar cell developer, are collaborating to advance the development of energy-efficient and sustainable consumer electronics. The partnership emphasizes the critical importance of aligning all system components, energy harvesting, power management and storage, to ensure optimal system performance. Recognizing that the efficiency of a system cannot be judged by its ...

Team αCentauri, part-sponsored by Power Integrations, has just completed the 3,022km Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in Australia. It was the 12th and final finisher, ahead of the many teams that failed to finish, and quite a few that failed to start. It wasn’t only cash sponsorship, as a Power Integrations InnoSwitch3 fly-back converter powers low-voltage loads including the steering wheel ...

Due to their extraordinary optical and electronic properties, metal halide perovskites have emerged as highly promising materials for next-generation photovoltaic (PV) cells, say Imec researchers. This is best illustrated by the rapid improvement in PCE (Piwer Cobversion Efficiency) – a performance measure – of perovskite solar cells from <4 percent to >20 percent in a matter of years. However, commercialization ...

Myenergi has created a domestic energy storage battery along the lines of Tesla’s Powerwall. Called Libbi, its top half (see photo) contains a 3.68kW inverter while on the bottom is a 5.1kWh battery, to which three further batteries can be added for up to a total of 20.4kWh. With more than 5.1kWh, the inverter is up-graded to 5kW. The controlled ...

Redwire, the space infrastructure specialist, has successfully delivered the second pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (iROSA) to Boeing.

Imec, EnergyVille and PVcase are developing a software product that predicts the energy yield of PV power plants.

SolarStratos is aiming to build the first solar-powered plane to reach above the Earth's troposphere and into the stratosphere.

Omron Electronic Components is addressing the potential need to shut-down solar panels quickly in the event of an emergency incident. This DC relay is designed to be capable of rapidly interrupting 25A at 1,000Vdc in the event of an emergency. “Rapid photovoltaic (PV) shut-down is moving from being highly desirable to mandatory in some markets in order to protect fire ...

Heliatek has installed the second phased of organic photovoltaic solar cells on its Singapore pilot project. The opaque organic solar film was installed on the west façade of a building called Cleantech I on steel panels with 56 2m-long films and 45 films of 3.25m-long laminated into 15 glass sheets. Prior to this, 87 soar films were mounted on glass ...