Breakfast talk

Wireless power has been any tinkerer or technologist's dream since the days of Nikolas Tesla's experiments on wireless power distribution in the 1890s. Over a 100 years later, NASA flew its first laser-powered aircraft.

Today, hundreds of millions of dollars have been poured into wireless charging solutions using RF, optics, induction and ultrasound. Yet most solutions remain either ineffective, range-limited, dangerous, or all of those simultaneously.

Recently, there have been both research and commercial breakthroughs in optical wireless charging. One emerging application is the charging of E-paper displays, which has been demonstrated at trade shows. MEMS Micromirrors developed at SINTEF have several advantages over state-of-the-art solutions, including the ability to relay light past obstacles and to set up wireless charging and communication channels in privacy-preserving manners. And Dory, a small startup company from Forskningsparken, is considering this technology as a means to enhance the user experience around their e-Ink Doorsigns.

The presentation is held by Thomas Ramberg, Dory and Tobias Dahl, SINTEF.

Hosted by CC-NorChip / SINTEF and Forskningsparken.

About CC-NorChip:

The competence center CC-NorChip will, over the next four years, offer free support to small and medium-sized enterprises to lower the threshold for adopting advanced technology. The goal is to raise competence and competitiveness in Norway and Europe by strengthening Norwegian companies’ ability to utilize advanced technologies and capacities both nationally and internationally.

CC-NorChip is a collaboration between SINTEF, NTNU, the University of Oslo (UiO), the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), the University of Tromsø (UiT), and Electronic Coast, with support from, among others, the EU and the Research Council of Norway.

Previous speakers:

• Linn Fagerberg, managing director at Electronic Coast in Horten

• Vegard Standeren Olsen og Ralph Bernstein, CC-NorChip

• Ingelin Clausen, CEO InVivo Binonics

• Lasse Irvam og Preben Storås, grunnleggere Optronics Technology

• Elizaveta Vereshchagina, seniorforsker ved SINTEF, BreathSense

• Henrik Hovde Sønsteby, førsteamanuensis ved UiO, CONCEPT

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CC-NorChip | Sikrer Norges posisjon innen avansert teknologi