Successful Demonstration of New Principle of Organic Solar Cells Operation

Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) announced on November 24, 2010 that AIST successfully demonstrated operations of a new type of organic photovoltaic devices (solar cells organic) using optical absorption due to charge transfer between the different organic molecules. Organic solar cells are expected as new technology for manufacturing solar cell sheets that can be bent, lightweight, and now, have been actively studied and developed worldwide. This time, successful photoelectric conversion from near infrared light over the wavelength of one μm was confirmed using the photovoltaic devices fabricated using organic molecules consisting of two molecules. This technology based on the new principle will enable more effective energy conversion from the light to electricity.

Source: AIST's News Release (Japanese)

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Spiral Magnus - a wind power generator

About one year ago, February 2008, I introduced at this blog site Spiral Magnus wind generator designed and manufactured by MECARO . It seems that the new generator is now in commercial production. The first commercial unit reportedly installed in Ogata Village, Akita Prefecture, Japan last November. This video is a brief presentation on the product. According to the supplier, MECARO , the strong advantage of Spiral Magnus are in low speed rotation, exceptionally quiet operation, long lasting durability as well as high efficiency and stability in power generation that have been enabled by Spiral Effect together with MECARO's patent technology. Typical specifications data extracted from the supplier's web site are as follows. Wind Turbine Diameter: 11.5m Rated Output: 12kW Rated Wind Speed: 11m/s Rated Rotor Speed: 30rpm Cut-in Wind Speed: 3m/s Cut-out Wind Speed: 30m/s Wind Load Survival Rate: 60m/s Source: MECARO's promotion video via Y

Radiation-Watch - Excellent Project Where Good Ideas Have Got Together

Radiation-Watch.org , an open and non-profit project formed up in Japan, took an excellent approach to develop and launched very inexpensive and smart radiation detectors to the international market. The organization is supported by a variety of people, such as scientists, engineers and designers on a global basis. The organization surprisingly enough to have designed, developed manufactured, and launched the first model, Pocket Geiger Type 1 within just three month soon after the team made its decision to get the thing done. All of the team members shared their own expertise on purely good will basis using their off-times, weekends and nights in weekdays. Needless to say, scientific, technological and engineering expertise the team members hold are the first class while there were three key factors for the successful fast launch of the high quality radiation detector. Firstly, they used Kickstarter to get financial support for the project. Using the system, Radiation-watch

i3(Cube)Space

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology of Japan (AIST) announced iCubeSpace, a system which enabled an operator to feel and touch to control a virtual obstacle on 3D display panel. According to the spokes person on the TV news, possible application areas will be ranging from TV gaming, training for surgical operations to virtually touching an art object displayed in an famous museum. The press release is only in Japanese so far. In the meantime, a DigInfoTV picked up the news at CEDEC 2010 held in Yokohama last week. The TV news available on YouTube is here although it's only in Japanese, too. Source: AIST's New Release, DigInfoTV news via YouTube 9/7/10

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