Displays & Lighting

Displays & Lighting
 
Kovio and Nissan Chemical have announced a joint collaboration to scale up production of Kovio's silicon ink. In addition, Nissan Chemical is now working with leading display manufacturers to explore the use of high-performance and low-cost printed silicon electronics to manufacture TFT backplanes for displays.
 
2008 was the year of the solar cell, 2009 is marked by the success and growth of the e-book reader market and 2010 will be the year we start to witness further OLED penetration.
 
Liquavista BV. has launched its latest technology platform LiquavistaColor, which offers bright full color capability and the advantages of full interactivity and hi-fidelity video at ultra-low power to future advanced eReader devices for the first time.
 
Plastic Logic's long awaited "QUE" pro-Reader was unveiled at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday. Unlike other e-readers this device is being marketed to the business professional.
 
Prime View International ( PVI), HYDIS Technologies Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of PVI, and LG Display Co., Ltd., will combine their resources in a bid to take the lead in the global e-paper display market.
 
The potential for flexible OLEDs has received such huge publicity that consumer packaged goods companies and many others are sold on the potential for low cost, flexible, light emitting displays and seek to carry out many trials and rollouts.
 
World's largest e-paper module will debut at FPD International 2009
 
The word is out - the new Barnes and Noble e-reader nook is hot and expected to take market share from Amazon's Kindle - But will it?
 
Seiko Epson Corporation and E Ink Corporation announced a new jointly developed display controller IC, the S1D13522, which provides a high performance, space saving solution for E Ink's Vizplex-enabled electronic paper displays.
 
Enabling magazines and newspapers to easily publish content to the Plastic Logic eReader.
 
Flextech Alliance Awards contract to Etched in Time for linear plasma etch module. System specifically designed for plasma etching dielectric films required in flexible electronics fabrication.
 
In this final article for Printed Electronics World covering S I D 2009, we give highlights from some of the technical sessions covering progress with OLEDs
 
IDTechEx looks at progress at E ink at S.I.D. held in San Antonio
 
The world's leading provider of e‐reading solutions, Netherlands‐based iRex Technologies, announced new progress on development of a next generation of color, writable, ultra‐thin digital readers expected to launch mid 2011.
 
CPFilms® Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA), and the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of precision coated films for industrial, commercial and solar applications, announced the launch of their new Invisible ITO and Low Color b ITO polyester films for touch screen display applications.
 
This week IDTechEx is at the annual S.I.D. (Society for Information Displays) event in San Antonio, Texas, USA. Over the coming days we will provide coverage in Printed Electronics World of the latest developments announced at the event.
 
IDTechEx visited Professor Michael Thwaites at RF sputtering company Plasma Quest in Hampshire in the UK.
 
IDTechEx previews Art Technology's new brand of phosphor watches which incorporate an E-paper display from E-ink.
 
Flextech (formerly the U.S. Display Consortium, USDC) is an organization whose members include companies involved in all aspects of printed, flexible and organic electronics.
 
Cathleen Macher, IDTechEx reports on the progress of conformal and flexible displays as presented at the recent Printed Electronics Europe event in Germany.
 
Revolutionary digital walls will provide consumers with the ability to constantly change the appearance of their personal housing environment to suit their visual tastes
 
Plastic Logic has announced a strategic partnership agreement with the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, Michigan's largest and award-winning metro daily newspapers, to offer an innovative digital content delivery and distribution program with its forthcoming Plastic Logic Reader.
 
IDTechEx looks into electronic devices that have "evolved", starting with the Television.
 
Susann Reuter, Director of IDTechEx, visited Citala US Inc. in the heart of California's Silicon Valley where the company develops, manufactures, supplies and supports flexible, reflective displays.
 
The competition is currently heating up with the development of Gen II (flexible) e-book readers.
 
The Flexible Display Centre (FDC) at Arizona State University has announced that Applied Materials, Inc., through its Display Business Group-AKT, has become an Associate Member, joining the ranks of other world-class providers of technology, materials and process equipment who are collaborating with the FDC to develop advanced flexible electronic displays.
 
NTERA, Inc., the leader in all-printed, flexible, color change display technologies, and GSI Technologies, the leading manufacturer of functional printed electronic components, has announced that they have entered into a multi-year license and material supply agreement to produce devices using NTERA's NanoChromics™ technology.
 
How Printed Electronics is changing consumer goods and services - highlights from the forthcoming Printed Electronics USA event
 
IDTechEx finalises its report on the Intellipak conference held on 5 November in Sweden
 
IDTechEx is famed for organising visits to local centers of excellence. On 30 September, delegates were treated to visits to the University of Tokyo and the skyscrapers of Sony and Toppan Forms in central Tokyo.
 
PowerFilm Inc to receive funding to develop a Self Powered Flexible Display for the U.S. Army.
 
Single-wall carbon nanotube (CNT) thin-film transistors (TFTs) are now possible for flexible displays and electronics.
 
In the last few years there has been increasing work on printed Zinc Oxide (ZnO) inorganic semiconductors. However, the materials developed have been used to demonstrated n-type transistors, but p-type transistors have not been commercially available. There are now two organizations that IDTechEx is aware of, and many more working on the topic, claiming p-type ZnO transistors are possible with reproducible results.
 
Dr Harry Zervos, technology analyst with IDTechEx, interviewed Jacques Angelé, co-founder and VP Technology Programs of Nemoptic SA, an electronic paper display company.
 
The 2.7 inch diagonal E Ink display scrolls through 96 different images in a stylish animation and is activated when a call or message is received.
 
Researchers have found a simple way to uniformly deposit between one and five layers of graphene to create transistors and proof-of concept electrodes for organic photovoltaics.
 
European researchers have taken a major step towards the goal of developing printable electronics that can be used for creating radio frequency identification tags and flexible watch displays.
 
Analysts see printed electronics rising exponentially to around $300 billion in twenty years' time, with demand for conductive inks alone reaching several billion dollars yearly five years from now.
 
IDTechEx summarise the latest on e-paper displays from Japan
 
The biggest challenge to roll out more digital displays is the regulatory environment, not the capital cost.
 
CDT and Sumitomo Chemicals, leaders in polymer organic light emitting diode (P-OLED) devices, and Novaled, the leader in high efficiency p-i-n OLED structures and dopant materials, have agreed to collaborate under a joint development agreement to investigate the feasibility and benefits of new materials and Novaled PIN OLED™ structures in P-OLED devices.
 
At the SID 2008 event last week, Kevin Luczkow of the Kraft Group discussed their use of large area displays in a new sports exhibit hall they are building. The Kraft Group's assets in sports and entertainment include the New England Patriots, the New England Revolution and Gillette Stadium.
 
A claimed breakthrough barrier technology from Singapore protects sensitive devices like organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and solar cells from moisture 1000 times more effectively than any other technology available in the market.
 
Printed electronics is evolving so fast that the full variety of benefits arising has yet to become clear.
 
A common theme in the IDTechEx conference Printed Electronics in Dresden this week was the shortage of creative product design.
 
Chemists and physicists are hard at work developing production processes for graphene - one day it may even be printable.
 
IDTechEx, along with other analysts, forecast the printed electronics market. While some agree others give widely different figures. After analyzing the industry for nine years, IDTechEx has just completed a new report covering the forecasts of the industry in great detail. Here Raghu Das, CEO, summarises the findings giving that crucial detail behind our forecasts.
 
Scientists from Tokyo University have just revealed a reliable method to inkjet print dots of one micron on to flexible film.
 
South Korean engineers say that they had developed a new transparent electrode that could reduce the production costs of display screens used in computers and mobile phones.
 
It sounds like science fiction but smart paint may be available in the near future.
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OLED (158 記事)
 
Mitsubishi aim to begin full-scale mass production with a launch of illumination appliances in 2011.
 
The European Commission's ICT for Energy Efficiency (ICT4EE) has granted its Best ICT4EE Award to the OLED100.eu project. OLED100.eu has received the First Place Award for its ICT contribution by showing that adoption of OLED lighting can lead to substantial improvements in energy efficiency and for its efforts to educate the public and disseminate the OLED (organic LED) lighting vision.
 
SmartKem Ltd, the developer of novel materials and processes that create high resolution microelectronic components directly onto thin flexible materials, today announces the launch of its new website - www.smartkem.com. The easy-to-navigate website offers quick access to information about the innovative SmartKem technique, which is set to revolutionise the rapidly growing printed electronics industry and overcome challenges associated with other printed electronics techniques.
Electroluminescent (21 記事)
 
Find out the most exciting advances and applications in the new world of stretchable, invisible, morphable, tightly rollable, edible and other previously impossible electronics.
 
Dramatic New AC Electroluminescent Displays announced at Printed Electronics Asia 2009.
 
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has developed a new structure for its organic electroluminescent (organic EL) devices, achieving approximately 40% in light output, representing the highest level in the world claim the company.
Electrophoretic (27 記事)
 
Several press reports indicate that Polymer Vision has been bought by an Asian company.
 
There are huge opportunities for companies providing inorganic chemicals to printed and potentially printed electronics. Here, Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx, summarises some of the findings from the new IDTechEx report "Inorganic and Composite Printed Electronics 2009-2019."
 
Prime View International ("PVI"), a small and medium display provider and the world's highest volume supplier of ePaper display modules, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire E Ink Corporation, the leader in electronic paper display materials and intellectual property for approximately $215 million.
Electrochromic (7 記事)
 
Soligie, a market leader in the design and manufacture of Printed Electronics and ACreo, a leading Swedish research institute, have announced that they have entered into an agreement for the development and volume manufacturing of Acreo's printed electrochromic display technology, PaperDisplay™.
 
US based AJJER LLC is developing ultra low power electrochromic displays and indicators operating at less than 2.4 volts and within a range of 1 to 5 mW.
 
Lighting (10 記事)
 
The Durel Division of Rogers Corporation will be showcasing its Printed Electronics and EL Lighting Solutions at the upcoming Printed Electronics show, December 2-3, in San Jose, CA (Rogers booth #43).
 
"Non-blinking" nanocrystals that constantly emit light have the potential to be an incredibly cheap alternative for lighting applications or even an OLED successor.
 
IDTechEx report on the Intellipak conference held in Sweden on 5 November that was mainly in Swedish and partly in English with just over 40 attending and excellent content.
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