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Graphene nanoflake-based films developed as TIMs
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a new approach to cooling electronics using graphene nanoflake-based film. By Rachel Gordon, Technology Analyst, IDTechEx.
IDTechEx Show! Berlin Grows 27%
IDTechEx announces today that Europe’s largest event on emerging technologies, the IDTechEx Show! held in Berlin on 27-28 April, grew 27% vs. last year’s event. This year’s exhibition and conference featured attendees from 57 countries with 171 exhibitors and 2,300 attendees. The event covered a number of interrelated emerging technologies, including printed electronics, wearable technology, IoT, advanced materials, energy stora...
Power electronics for electric vehicles
At first it seems ridiculous that IDTechEx forecasts a huge growth in the power electronics business for electric vehicles. Yes, there is tending to be two motors per car or larger vehicle not one now and that means many more motor controllers. Yes, the market is growing for the vehicles and each car or larger vehicle has a charger and a battery management system on board, both being power electronics but that alone is insufficient to create the ...
Thermal interface materials enabling new applications
While there are obviously similarities, different applications have different key requirements of the TIMs. In all cases, the TIM needs to minimise stress, prevent electromigration of its fillers and maximise adhesion. Thermal Interface Materials 2016-2026 explores in detail the relationship between the form factors and characteristics of different commercial product offerings and their applications, focused on new opportunities and gaps in the m...
Seeing the future of electric motors for electric vehicles
This article shares some of the research for the new IDTechEx Research report, “Electric Vehicle Traction Motors, Belt Driven & Integrated Starter Generators 2016-2026”. It is no longer contentious to say that the future of land, water and air vehicles is to be more and more electric. The detail of how this is being achieved is rich and varied and it revolves around the electric motor and its variants far more than the more-discus...
Sensors driving next-gen wearable devices
Last week IDTechEx gave the opening presentation at the 2016 Korea Summit for Smart Wearable Devices, hosted by KDIA and KSA in Seoul, Korea. Wearable sensors once again dominated discussion throughout the day, with latest examples of options in MEMS, textiles and more presented at length in the conference. Additional discussions throughout the day extended to topics like glucose sensing (including enzyme-free examples), sensor fusion and beyond....
Invest in the right battery markets: New opportunities
Many interests have been raised within the battery business in 2015 through a number of activities: the launch of Tesla’s Powerwall with low prices supported by the capability of Gigafactory; Apple’s patent relating to charging and managing power in a device with solid-state batteries; LG Chem's opening of a mega battery plant in Nanjing; Bosch’s purchase of polymer solid-state battery company Seeo, etc.
OLED lighting: will it eventually disrupt or fade away?
OLED lighting technology has faced a difficult challenge since the very beginning in the shape of inorganic LEDs. The challenge was that LED lighting got there first and leveraged its accumulated production experience to improve its performance and to reduce its costs. This in turn created a large gap between the two technologies that shows no signs of narrowing.By Dr. Khasha Ghaffarzadeh, Head of Consulting, IDTechEx.
Where did I put that speaker?
Steve Rogerson looks at some of the recent news that may have missed the front page.
Top trends in 3D printing for 2016
3D Printing Europe on 27th & 28th April in Berlin has a speaker programme which has been carefully curated by IDTechEx analysts to cover all the latest innovations in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing. Extensive analysis has highlighted a few key trends, and IDTechEx has brought together a wide range of industry experts to talk about 3D Printing and new materials.