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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."

Andy Hannah CEO of Plextronics, a global leader in OLED materials, gave a powerful message on OLEDs as a breakthrough technology at the LOPE-C conference last week.

The Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University and Universal Display Corporation (NASDAQ: PANL), has introduced the first a-Si:H active matrix flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display to be manufactured directly on DuPont Teijin's polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) substrate.

In the last year, the burgeoning printed and thin film electronics industry has greatly enhanced its repertoire and changed its priorities, encompassing such things as rapid commercialisation of disposable and invisible electronics.

Following on from the shakeout in OLED developers, IDTechEx sees the same thing happening now in Organic FETs.

Eastman Kodak has been awarded a $1.7 million two-year contract by the United States Department of Energy (DOE), to develop key technologies and processes for OLED lighting panels.

Seiko Epson Corporation has developed inkjet technology that represents a major breakthrough in realising 37-inch and larger full-HD OLED TVs by resolving the uneven layering that had previously been an issue with the inkjet method.

White organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have the potential of much higher efficiencies than classical lighting sources.

Using the same rubbery CNT-based conductor they developed a few months ago, researchers at the University of Tokyo made a stretchable display.

This one day meeting organised by the Institute of Engineering and Technology and the Institute of Nanotechnology started with Professor Sir Richard Friend explaining the theory behind printed polymeric transistors, OLEDs and photovoltaics.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers report a new approach to harnessing the sun's energy that could allow windows to not only provide a clear view and illuminate rooms, but also to use sunlight to efficiently help power the building they are part of.

Vitex Systems, Inc., a leading technology developer, licensor and engineering service provider for thin-film encapsulation and moisture barrier films, today announced that it has appointed Chyi-Shan Suen President and Chief Operating Officer.

"The weakest link in OLED research is the absence of an efficient, long-lasting blue light to accompany the red and green," said Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientist Asanga Padmaperuma.

Novaled AG announces that it will work together with Holst Centre on Organic Thin Film Transistors (OTFT) using the Novaled PIN OLED® technology and materials.

Researchers are developing an OLED wallpaper that can turn a wall into a television screen or simply provide light.

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,

Kodak plans to restructure OLED business with new partners and business model changes.

LEDs have taken three percent of the global lighting market while we have been waiting for OLEDs in anything more than very specialist applications.

Novaled AG, closed its 3rd round of financing with a volume of € 8,5 million, which were exclusively provided by existing shareholders of the company.

The cost of OLED manufactuing may be reduced by 300% with new Amorphous Oxide TFT technology

Scientists and engineers on GE's OLED research team are celebrating the holiday season with a first-ever OLED Christmas tree lighting at GE's Global Research Center headquarters in Niskayuna, NY

A big step towards energy-saving OLED lighting with efficiency of more than 60 lm/W.

At the recent IDTechEx printed Electronics USA event there was an update on use of OLEDs in skin cancer treatment.

OLEDs may find their way into all manner of everyday items - the biggest of several markets for cheap, flexible OLED displays may be in product packaging.

Semprius, Inc., announced that it has entered a joint development agreement with Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) to develop new technology for the manufacture of OLED (organic light emitting diode) backplanes for flat panel displays.

Novaled AG , leader in power efficient and long living Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) for the new generation of lighting and display products, has received the EFQM award 'Committed to Excellence' for it's global quality achievements.

MICROOLED and CEA-LETI design the most efficient silicon-based OLED microdisplay in the world

Hodogaya Chemical Co., LTD, long experienced specialist and market leader in charge transport materials, and Novaled AG, leader in power efficient and long living Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) have agreed to offer hole transport materials for Novaled PIN OLED™ structures.

IDTechEx's technology analyst Dr Harry Zervos attended GRAPH EXPO 2008 and reports on the innovative technologies that could benefit from the merging of electronics and printing.

Rapid growth expected from the OLED lighting industry creating demand of up to 90% for OLED materials by volume.

OLED100.eu, an integrated research project, has brought together a consortium of experts from leading industry and academic organisations to accelerate the development of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technologies in Europe.

On the second day of the successful IDTechEx conference Printed Electronics Asia the subjects were OLED Display technology, E-Paper Display, Printing Technology, Material Advances and Future Possibilities.

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.

In collaboration with Silvaco Data Systems, CDT has developed a model to design and simulate circuits using OTFT (organic thin film transistor) technology.

The success of today's digital electronics is based on the CMOS technology.

University of Utah, physicists have moved a step forward in building an organic "spin transistor": a plastic semiconductor switch for future ultrafast computers and electronics but OLED efficiencies look bleak.

Although OLED technology is still developing there is currently a notable market presence of OLEDs in electronic devices and displays.

The largest potential market for OLEDs is for mass produced, flexible, low cost versions, particularly wide area types with long life because they enable many exciting new product concepts to be realised rather than replace existing displays in familiar devices.

Innovative design is used to achieve superior solar conversion without optical tracking.

Printed electronics today is mainly a matter of inorganic rather than organic chemistry and the next ten years are unlikely to see the inorganic part drop below 50% of the high value materials required.

Organized by the UKDL Knowledge Transfer Network, and attended by approximately 50 people, this conference was held in the BDP Building in Clerkenwell, London on the 24th of June 2008.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co plan to mass-produce 37-inch organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs in three years reported the Japanese newspaper the Sankei Shimbun daily on Tuesday.

The race is on to bring OLED technology into mainstream lighting.

Steven V Abramson, CEO of Universal Display says that through this record milestone, white OLEDs are moving a significant step closer to becoming a key participant in the $100 billion per year lighting industry.

At the end of the project period, the OLLA project consortium presents its final milestone: the basic technology for a white OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) light source, with an efficacy of 50.7 lumens per watt at an initial brightness of 1.000 cd/m² based on the Novaled PIN OLED technology. The OLLA project is a joint basic research consortium, headed by Philips Lighting.

Lumiotec claim to be the world's first company to specialize only on OLED lighting; New OLED line in China

The IDTechEx conference Printed Electronics Asia in Tokyo on October 8-9 will reveal many new advances and initiatives by the giant corporations.

CDT, Sumitomo Chemical and Novaled will collaborate to evaluate Novaled PIN OLED structures in Polymer OLED devices.