Vendor News

IDTechEx summarises the latest work on thin film transistors. (08 Feb 2012)

Kodak and Heraeus demonstrate first use of PEDOT in projected capacitive touch screens (08 Feb 2012)

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.  (07 Feb 2012)

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. (07 Feb 2012)

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. (06 Feb 2012)

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). (03 Feb 2012)

The environmentally-friendly paint uses nanotechnology to detect movement in large structures, and could shape the future of safety monitoring. (02 Feb 2012)

A new method of creating stretchable electronics made of carbon nanotubes could contribute to the large scale production of the material for use in the next generation of elastic electronic devices.  (01 Feb 2012)

Blue Spark Technologies, the leading supplier of thin, flexible, eco-friendly printed batteries, announced it has opened a new high-volume printing and production facility located in West Bend, Wisconsin. (01 Feb 2012)

Stretchable and conformal electronics is a relatively new but rapidly emerging and fascinating field in microelectronics. (01 Feb 2012)