IFI Announces Top Global Companies Ranked By 2011 U.S. Patents
Mar 6, 2012
IFI CLAIMS® Patent Services, the leading producer of global patent databases, analytic solutions and innovative web services, announced its top-50 ranking of global companies awarded the most U.S. utility patents in 2011. ...

NanoMarkets Report Projects Strong Growth for Lithium Battery Electrode Materials
Feb 29, 2012
In a newly released report, "New Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries -2012", industry analyst firm NanoMarkets projects that the need for higher performance batteries for consumer electronics, hybrid/electric vehicles and other applications will quickly create a large market for novel lithium battery electrode materials....

Solar Powered Blinds and Shades Systems Shown
Feb 29, 2012
G24 Innovations (G24i showcased a very simple, long term, cost effective renewable source of electricity to recharge batteries and is available to blinds and shades manufacturers and installers across the globe, exclusively from G24i. ...

MIT: The Faster-than-Fast Fourier Transform
Feb 21, 2012
At the Association for Computing Machinery's Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), a group of MIT researchers will present a new algorithm that, in a large range of practically important cases, improves on the fast Fourier transform....

Application-focused Gallium Nitride (GaN) Transistors Textbook
Feb 14, 2012
Efficient Power Conversion Corporation announces the publication of a textbook designed to provide power system design engineers basic technical and application-focused information on how to design more efficient power conversion systems using gallium nitride-based transistors. ...

Linear Technology Acquires Dust Networks
Feb 8, 2012
Linear Technology Corporation announced the acquisition of Dust Networks, Inc., a leading provider of low power wireless sensor network (WSN) technology....

Saft Awarded Contract To Provide Li-Ion Battery For High-Energy Laser Program
Feb 1, 2012
Saft announced that it won a contract with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) to provide a megawatt-class Li-ion battery system to power a high-energy laser application. ...

Global Market for Portable Battery-Powered Products To Reach $611 Billion In 2016
Jan 25, 2012
In a recent release, Portable Battery Powered Products: Global Markets (FCB023E) from BCC Research the global market for portable battery-powered products was valued at nearly $480 billion in 2011 and is expected to reach more than $611 billion by 2016, yielding an overall compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5%. ...

European Energy Roadmap 2050
Jan 18, 2012
The European Commission's Energy Roadmap 2050 shows that a high renewables energy mix - with 97% of the EU's electricity consumption met by renewable energy, including 49% wind power in 2050 - would have the same "overall energy system costs" as any other decarbonisation or business-as-usual scenario. ...

Saft Begins Deliveries of First Lithium-Ion Batteries Produced in New Jacksonville Plant
Jan 11, 2012
Less than four months after opening, Saft is putting DoE funding to good use as it begins ramping up manufacturing volumes to $300M annual sales....