Konarka Technologies Inc and SKYShades entered into a partnership last year to jointly develop the Powerbrella, an umbrella that converts sunlight into electricity to charge laptops, mobile phones, iPods and other portable devices. The initial focus for the al fresco umbrella is coffee shops, hotels and resorts.

An ECG necklace that monitors long-term cardiac performance allows patients to remain mobile to continue their daily activities while under observation using an embedded beat detection algorithm monitoring system.

Ascent Solar signs multi-year supply agreement with TurtleEnergy for up to 67 MW

For applications ranging from military personnel to adventure seekers, backpackers and campers to those who are conscious of the environment Powerenz designs and assembles portable solar power systems.

XsunX Inc, a developer of advanced, thin-film photovoltaic solar cell technologies and manufacturing processes, and Intevac, Inc, a provider of magnetic media deposition equipment to the hard disk drive industry, are working under a Joint Business Agreement to develop new techniques and equipment to produce commercially marketable CIGS (copper indium gallium selenide) thin-film solar cells.

Structural irregularities in correlated electron materials - a phenomenon known as "phase inhomogeneity" - could be engineered at the sub-micron scale to achieve such desired properties as colossal magnetoresistance

NSF Spintronics grant will help NC State researchers develop smaller, faster electronic devices

XsunX and Intevac team up to develop breakthrough thin-film photovoltaic manufacturing technology.

Ascent Solar hires Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Microdisplays based on OLEDs for multimedia applications like video and data display could be available within a couple of years according to Fraunhofer IPMS.

Tata group invests in start-up Flisom who specialize in flexible and lightweight thin-film photovoltaic solar modules.

POLYIC and THINFILM announce high-volume pilot production of roll-to-roll printed memories enabling next-generation interactive toys and games

The Australian research community will soon have access to one of the most powerful nanotechnology instruments in the world, able to write and etch data on particles ten thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair.

IDTechEx find that the total market size for e-paper displays in 2010 is $131 million rising to $1.17 Billion in 2014 - this is the value of the display component, not the product.

ANT130-L Direct-Drive Linear stage offers long travel, smooth cog-free motion, and nanometer accuracy

NTERA, Inc., and plastic electronic GmbH have announced they have entered into a license agreement to develop advanced printed electronics products using NTERA's NanoChromics technology.

An insulator can now be transformed to conduct electricity by an ordinary camera flash.

A new thin-film paper battery that holds great promise for applications in areas where conventional Li-ion batteries are not the perfect choice has been developed at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Energy harvesting revolving doors capture otherwise wasted human energy and convert it to electricity to power the installation site, for example lighting and signage.