News - OPE Journal - Organic & Printed Electronics

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New efficiency record with 40% transparent organic solar cells

Monday 24 March 2014
Products

Heliatek GmbH, a German producer of organic solar film, just announced that it has reached a new record in efficiency of transparent solar cells. The company’s latest development allows transparency levels up to 40% while at the same time maintaining an efficiency of 7.2%.

Transparent, printed photovoltaics can be integrated into to the facade of a building to generate energy (Photo: Heliatek GmbH)

OE-A starts new working group focused on energy harvesting

Tuesday 11 March 2014
Appointments

OE-A (Organic and Printed Electronics Association), a Working Group within the German VDMA, has gathered leading companies and institutes in the area of organic electronics that are focused on energy generation to found a new working group on Organic Electronics Energy (OEE).

Batteries were among the shows big topics

World Smart Energy Week 2014 closes as big success

Tuesday 11 March 2014
Exhibitions / Events

From 26 to 28 February the World Smart Energy Week 2014 was hosted by Reed Exhibitions Japan Ltd in the Tokyo Big Sight, Japan. The show focused on the topics energy generation, -storage and -saving, smart grid systems and processing technologies.

Xymox Technologies manufactures Enfucell SoftBattery in the USA

Tuesday 04 March 2014
Companies / Markets

Enfucell Oy, a producer of customised batteries for the printed electronics industry, recently announced that Xymox Technologies Inc. based in Milwaukee, USA, has started to manufacture Enfucell SoftBatteries for the North American market.

The NanoMend wavelength scanning interferometer

Pilot scale ultra-barrier defect detection tool developed

Friday 28 February 2014
Products

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), IBS Precision Engineering and the University of Huddersfield just presented a wavelength scanning interferometer system that enables the fast surface measurement of low contrast defects at pre‐industrial scale, which they developed and manufactured as part of the FP7 NanoMend project. The tool will be installed at CPI’s National Printable Electronics Centre in June 2014.