Research Articles

The state of the industry in terms of market size by component type is summarized.

Something is stirring in the field of fuel cell vehicles.

The conductive inks and paste business will generate a demand of 1800 tonnes. IDTechEx Research forecasts that this will grow to 2200 by 2026. This business has come alive again and is now a business where literally everything is changing.

At the upcoming IDTechEx Show in Berlin visitors will see the latest innovation in the field of IoT sensors. Exhibitors will demonstrate new manufacturing technologies, novel sensing devices and energy management solutions.

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 5 April 2016. Webinar Title: Smartglasses Teardown: Enabling Technologies for Eye-Worn Computing.

The large IDTechEx Show! in Berlin April 27-28 with over 2500 paying delegates once again invests in startups.

Energy independent electric vehicles (EIVs) vary from the new Inergy boat entirely driven by a 70kW vertical wind turbine to the autonomous solar aircraft flying at 60,000 feet for five years on sunshine alone.

Find out more at Energy Harvesting & Storage, Berlin, 27-28 April! According to IDTechEx research, the market for thermoelectric energy harvesting is expected to reach over $1 billion by 2026, with the expected growth mostly sustained by significant proliferation in the space for wireless sensors and actuators in a variety of market verticals.

IDTechEx Research projects that the graphene market will grow to $220m in 2026. This forecast is at the material level and does not count the value of graphene-enabled products. In many instances graphene is only an additive with low wt% values.

The IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe conference and exhibition will take place on 27 & 28 April at the Estrel convention center in Berlin. This is the only event focused on the commercialisation of printed, organic and flexible electronics.

We have had a feast of lithium-ion batteries as the number of manufacturers has doubled to 200 and pure electric cars have been late in arriving. Now that will change even with the gigafactories.

LG Display is currently the only manufacturer of large OLED panels. But it is not just the rivalry with LG that will drive Samsung to invest in OLED production capacity.