Electrophoretic

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.

E-labels will be a huge business and the opportunity overlaps with e-packaging - IDTechEx are offering a multiclient study of the technology and market roadmap of e-labels including specification of a range of imaginative e-labels acceptable to a broad range of industries.

What makes investors invest? What leads to profit sooner rather than later? What are the hot applications and technologies? What are the market forecasts? What comes next? Attend Printed Electronics Europe 2009 to find out,

Samsung Electronics demonstrated the world's first carbon nanotube-based color active matrix electrophoretic display (EPD) e-paper last month.

The new electronic reader Hanvon N510 was used by the crew of the recent Shenzhou-7 orbital flight to take notes, read books and listen to recordings state recent reports.

Seiko Epson is famous for piezo electric inkjet printing and it is this printing platform that the company is applying to printing electronic materials. Paul Patterson of Seiko Epson gives IDTechEx a brief insight into the company's history and expertise with printed electronics.

Raghu Das of IDTechEx visits E ink to learn of the company's recent announcements and forthcoming technologies.

Plastic Logic recently previewed its large, thin and lightweight e-reader. Now two more e-reader products have been launched with similar size screens.

To the knowledge of IDTechEx, no other company in the World has invested as much money on the development and commercialization of organic semiconductors, and even the number two is a long way behind in terms of investment level.

The 21st Century Begins Now will flash from the cover of the world's first electronic magazine due to appear on newspaper stands in the US late September to celebrate Esquire magazine's 75th year.

East Asian giants progress flexible e-paper displays, but Europe first to commercialise

IDTechEx attended the recent Flexible Displays Conference in Phoenix. Read our review here - part 1.

A leading innovator of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display technology announced today that it will debut the world's highest resolution 14.3-inch flexible color E-paper display next week.

Sony has now come up with their next generation 'electronic paper' display - PRS-505 which delivers an even faster response and contrast ratio, making it easier for getting stuck into a good read on bright sunny days due to its electrophoretic display.

Microencapsulated electrophoretic ink displays are now in volume production. For example, E ink FPL is being coated in Roll to roll (R2R) production kilometers at a time, segmented displays on plastic substrates are in volume production and glass TFT displays are in volume production.

The Sony LIBRIe

Mr Robert Sprague, VP and CTO Gyricon, United States at Printed Electronics USA 2005