LATEST ENERGY HARVESTING ARTICLES

Improved thermoelectric coupling
19 March 2010
Thermoelectric energy harvesting is less popular than the three leading forms of energy harvesting - photovoltaics, electrodynamics and piezoelectrics. Thermoelectrics have tended to be used where a s...
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Development of energy-harvesting mat

Development of energy-harvesting mat
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Morgan Technical Ceramics ElectroCeramics (MTC ElectroCeramics), is undertaking a Shorter Knowledge Transfer Partnership (sKTP) project with Glyndŵr University in Wales. The project, which will last 26 weeks, is to design and build an energy har...
Solar powered implanted glucose monitor for diabetics
Biorasis Inc has developed a state-of-the-art implantable sensor that could replace the use of conventional finger-prick monitors for diabetics. The implantable sensor, which is rice grain-sized, is called Glucowizzard and could be injected into a pa...
Thermocells for generating electricity from waste heat
A recent study reveals that thermocells based on carbon nanotube electrodes might eventually be used for generating electrical energy from heat discarded by chemical plants, automobiles and solar cell farms. For example, the heat passing through a ve...
Printed lithium reshaping battery
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In February 2010, ITSUBO Advanced Materials Innovation Center and Hatanaka Electric in Japan announced a large area printed lithium polymer battery that can be reshaped as shown in the pictures. This is the statement from Mie Prefecture Industrial Su...
Reducing the weight of military manpacks with energy harvesting
The US Army has presented at IDTechEx conferences, pointing out that a US warfighter often has to carry more than the ancient Roman soldier. This is despite the fact that the ancient Roman soldier carried prefabricated fort parts and food, with no su...
Flexible PV with storage - basic hardware platform
There is a new energy harvesting project that IDTechEx believes could lead to a basic hardware platform for the new printed flexible electronics, incorporated in many products in most applicational sectors from military to consumer packaged goods. In...
Imec and Synopsys Collaborate on 3D Stacked IC Development
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Synopsys, Inc. software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing company, and the Belgian nanoelectronics research center, imec, have announced they have entered into a collaboration to use Synopsys TCAD (Technology Computer-Ai...
EnOcean's bi-directional and energy-autonomous Dolphin platform
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EnOcean GmbH, developer of batteryless wireless technology, has announced the market availability of its new Dolphin platform. For the first time, the Dolphin system architecture enables the use of bi-directional, self-powered wireless sensors and ac...
Lithium vehicle traction batteries and harvesting
The conference of about 40 people "Lithium Battery Technology and System Development" in London 9 March 2010 was concerned with "breaking barriers for electric vehicles". This had relevance because energy harvesting increasingly a...
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