Organics

Passion, excellent know-how and close networking win the Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2011.

The three scientists succeeded in adapting organic semiconductors for use in a wide range of products, thereby creating the basis for innovative applications in displays, lighting, and photovoltaics.

The FLEXIBILITY consortium, consisting of Enfucell, Siemens, VTT, Varta Microbattery and seven other leading European technology companies and universities, has been granted a 4,9 million euro project funding by the EU commission of which Enfucell's share is 258.000 euros. The project is coordinated by the Dresden University of Technology and has a life span of four years.

UK companies are being invited to take part in a competition for funding for collaborative research and development projects that aim to develop and stimulate technology within the European Organic and Large Area Electronics (OLAE) community.

Combination of Thinfilm printed rewritable memory and PARC transistors enables low-cost, printed integrated systems for the "Internet of things".

With the aim of continuing to promote industrial innovation based on state-of-the-art technologies, CSEM has opened a new innovation center in Muttenz, with the support of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft.

Scientists from Singapore's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), an institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have created a new polymer with both high charge mobility and high power conversion efficiency for application in both plastic electronics and organic solar cells.

Faster organic semiconductors for flexible displays can be developed quickly with new method, say Stanford researchers.

Scientists show that non-volatile memory made from a sandwich of silver nanoparticle-laced plastic retains its on/off state over a wider voltage range when operating at toasty temperatures.

UMass Amherst Research Team discovers new conducting properties of bacteria-produced nanowires

Solvay and Avantium announced today that they have entered into a partnership to jointly develop a next generation of green high-performance polyamides for engineering plastics. The partnership combines Solvay's leading position in specialty polymers and Avantium's YXY technology for producing building blocks for green materials.

Smartkem's novel organic semiconductor materials achieve 'better than amorphous-silicon' performance.

Siemens exclusively licenses imaging technology to Nikkoia SAS

Organic and Printed Electronics Association

New research paves way for next generation of ultra-small electronic devices.

Researchers at the University of Warwick have developed a gold plated window as the transparent electrode for organic solar cells.

Organic photodetectors and image sensors, highly innovative products for new applications and markets

Vermont company shows 5-fold improvement in printable electronic devices made with modified semiconductor inks, awarded patent

A promising approach for making solar cells that are inexpensive, lightweight and flexible is to use organic (that is, carbon-containing) compounds instead of expensive, highly purified silicon. But one stubborn problem has slowed the development of such cells.

Plastic Logic and the Leibniz Institute for polymer research Dresden extend their cooperation for the development of polymer based organic electronics.

Solvay is investing 4 million USD in a minority stake in Polyera Corporation, a materials developer for the printed electronics market.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has shown that sandwiching a simple layer of silver nanoparticles can significantly improve the performance of organic transistors which are commonly used in consumer electronics.

An organic solar ink developed by Plextronics can be used for energy harvesting applications such as animated point-of-purchase displays that are self-powered by organic photovoltaics (OPV).

Scientists have discovered the world's smallest superconductor, a sheet of four pairs of molecules less than one nanometer wide.

Introduction and production of Merck's new organic semiconductors in Plastic Logic's displays are being planned for 2011 by Merck KGaA and Plastic Logic GmbH. Merck recently invested in the expansion of the Chilworth Technical Centre, its chemicals research site in Southampton, UK, by adding new laboratories to intensify and accelerate display material developments based on plastic electronics. As part of the project announced today, Plastic Logic has also invested in additional manufacturing equipment to accelerate the introduction of Merck's new lisicon® materials into mass production. Merck's functional materials are already used in the manufacturing process of the flexible ePaper displays contained in Plastic Logic's first consumer product, QUETM proReader, which was presented at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in January.

Last week, the Photonics and Plastic Electronics KTN put together a one day seminar that gave an overview of the activity in the UK on the topic of flexible organic and inorganic transistors. Speakers were representing both Universities around the country as well as companies that are developing transistor/backplane technologies. Inorganic, organic and hybrid versions are being developed in order to evaluate the performance of each type of device.

A new EU-funded project POLARIC was launched in January 2010 to develop roll-to-roll printing of high-performance organic electronic circuits. The project will revolutionise the way printed electronic circuits are made by combining large-area fabrication methods with high-performance organic electronic circuits on a scale not previously attempted.

Printed Electronics Europe 2010 is one of the World's largest events on printed and organic electronics. Coatema Coating Machinery, one of the pioneers in these fields with installations at VTT, Holst Centre, IPMS Dresden, IAP Potsdam and several other leading R&D institutions worldwide is going to present a new development for small-scale, cost-efficient and multifunctional R&D roll to roll equipment.

Find out the most exciting advances and applications in the new world of stretchable, invisible, morphable, tightly rollable, edible and other previously impossible electronics.

An organic light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEC) could be a cheaper alternative to OLED technology.

A new generation of flat panel displays is being developed which may ultimately supersede Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs).

What started out as 'blue-sky' thinking by a group of European researchers could ultimately lead to the commercial mass production of a new generation of optoelectronic components for devices ranging from mobile laboratories to mobile phones.

In the annual report of $15 billion Japanese giant DNP, formerly Dai Nippon Printing announces the success of the development of ultra-impermeable plastic film substrates.

Electronic devices can't work well unless all of the transistors, or switches, within them allow electrical current to flow easily when they are turned on. A team of engineers has determined why some transistors made of organic crystals don't perform well, yielding ideas about how to make them work better.

Taiyo America, Inc. (Carson City, NV), a subsidiary of Taiyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.® (Tokyo, Japan) the leader in solder mask technology for printed circuit boards, now offers an expanded line of conductive ink products for printed electronics and photovoltaic applications. Taiyo Ink, who has long offered conductive inks for printed wiring board and flat panel display applications, is introducing the ECM®-100 line of conductive inks.

Heliatek GmbH develop organic solar cells consisting of so called "small molecules" - organic dyes which are synthesized from hydrocarbons.

About 30 years ago, it was discovered that some plastics, or polymers, could conduct electricity. Since then researchers have been working to make them more efficient.

Graphene Innovator Vorbeck Materials receives $5.1 million in Series 2 financing

While some involved in OLEDs and OTFTs are moving out of the business of printed and potentially printed electronics, work on inorganic materials and compounds is increasing. The IDTechEx Printed Electronics Asia event in Tokyo will give a balanced view with many presentations being World firsts.

Novel research approach: Development of an overall "Organic Electronics" process to permit the industrial use of smart labels

Electronic tattoos applied to animals and meat employ FDA approved dyes that can be read with microwaves at a distance.

Aerosol Jet System will be used for the development of Organic Thin Film Transistors

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

NPL, offers Printed Electronics World readers to participate in a short on-line survey, where you will be able to give your opinions on the priority areas for organic and plastic electronics.

Dr Harry Zervos, IDTechEx reports on the highlights of the second International Summit on OPV Stability held on April 21-22, 2009 in Amsterdam.

Holst Centre - founded by the Belgian nanoelectronics research center IMEC and the Dutch research center TNO presented a 128 bit organic RFID transponder chip with Manchester encoding and anti-collision protocol.

Physicists at Umeå University in Sweden have now developed a new and simple method for producing cheap electronic components.

Optomec's Aerosol Jet system has been used to fully print Carbon NanoTube (CNT) based Thin Film Transistors (TFT) with operating frequencies over 5 Gigahertz (GHz). The work was conducted in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts and Brewer Science, Inc.

A new organic high-performance dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) has been developed that does not use Ruthenium.

Polyera and BASF Future Business GmbH have invented a novel n-type organic polymer semiconductor with high mobilities (greater than 0.5) and robust processability.