For the German pavilion at the EXPO 2015 in Milano, Italy, architects have found new ways to incorporate photovoltaics. The building is the first big international architecture project, which uses new products based on organic photovoltaic technology (OPV). In contrast to conventional solar modules, the flexible, foil-integrated OPV modules by German-based BELECTRIC OPV GmbH can be integrated easily into the innovative architectural design.
Enfucell, a leading customised battery supplier to the printed electronics industry based in Finland, has come up with a SoftBattery powered wireless golf sensor patch in a joint project with a leading technology company. The patch is attached to a golf club head for measuring the acceleration and angular velocity. The acquired data is transferred via low energy Bluetooth (BLE) to an application on a mobile device.
The Finnish VTT research centre has come up with new printed resistive write-once-read-many (WORM) memories for smart system applications that are said to require low cost, allow low bit count and demand low writing voltage. In these applications, the writing of data to the memory is typically powered by a flexible voltage source such as a printed battery. VTT has demonstrated the fabrication of memory banks using high-throughput roll-to-roll methods. The memory can be provided as a standalone memory bank or integrated directly into a customer system.
