TECHNOLOGY NEWS

LasX Industries, Inc., a leader in laser digital converting equipment and services, is proud to announce the addition of the Precision Converting Services group to better serve the electronic and industrial markets.

Within a few years, people in remote villages in the developing world may be able to make their own solar panels, at low cost, using otherwise worthless agricultural waste as their raw material.

Kodak and Heraeus demonstrate first use of PEDOT in projected capacitive touch screens

IDTechEx summarises the latest work on thin film transistors.

Polyera has achieved a certified world-record 9.1% efficient polymer/fullerene organic solar cell in an inverted bulk heterojunction architecture using its newest proprietary ActivInk® PV2000 semiconductor material.

INSIDE Secure announced that its family of NFC solutions can now be used to interact with the Kovio RF Barcode™ wireless tag, an affordable NFC tag solution based on Kovio's printed silicon technology platform.

MicroOLED, a maker of highly power-efficient superior image quality microdisplays for near-to-eye applications, have introduced a new 5.4 million pixel density 0.61 inch diagonal, low power consumption OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Display) microdisplay on silicon for applications demanding high picture quality, such as professional camera and camcorder equipment, night vision systems and head-mounted displays used in surgery.

More and more giant corporations are buying into printed electrics by acquiring companies partly or wholly in the field. The world's second largest chemical company Dow bought Rohm & Haas (materials), 3M bought into Printechnologics (printed patterns read by mobile phones) and DuPont bought Innovalight (nanosilicon layers to increase photovoltaic efficiency).

The environmentally-friendly paint uses nanotechnology to detect movement in large structures, and could shape the future of safety monitoring.

Stretchable and conformal electronics is a relatively new but rapidly emerging and fascinating field in microelectronics.