Technologies
According to IDTechEx research in the new report "Brand Enhancement by Electronics in Packaging 2012-2022" the global demand for electronic smart packaging devices is currently at a tipping point and will grow rapidly from $0.03 billion in 2012 to $1.7 billion in 2022. The electronic packaging (e-packaging) market will remain primarily in consumer packaged goods CPG reaching 35 billion units that have electronic functionality in 2022.
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Applications & Markets (2084 articles)
LasX Industries, Inc., a leader in laser digital converting equipment and services, is proud to announce the addition of the Precision Converting Services group to better serve the electronic and industrial markets.
Kodak and Heraeus demonstrate first use of PEDOT in projected capacitive touch screens
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.
Logic & Memory (131 articles)
IDTechEx summarises the latest work on thin film transistors.
Moves are a foot for PragmatIC Printing to launch its technology to
pilot-scale production under an agreement with the Printable Electronics
Technology Centre at The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI).
Thin Film Electronics ASA have announced technology relationships for its integrated addressable memory systems designed to help enable the "Internet of Things." Thinfilm has signed a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Acreo, which develops printed displays for a variety of applications.
Power (590 articles)
The environmentally-friendly paint uses nanotechnology to detect movement in large structures, and could shape the future of safety monitoring.
A global hotel chain will install shading systems over 8000 of their windows using G24 Innovation's dye sensitized solar cell technology to power the automated shades.
Two Lehigh physicists have developed an imaging technique that makes it possible to directly observe light-emitting excitons as they diffuse in a new material that is being explored for its extraordinary electronic properties. Called rubrene, it is one of a new generation of single-crystal organic semiconductors.
Sensors, Sound & Other Components (161 articles)
In the past, too much use of RFID has involved sensing items and conveyances only when they pass very near to the occasional interrogator. Heroic assumptions are then made about what happened in between. Was it destroyed, perhaps by overheating? Is it still there? Is it intact?
ETH-Zurich researchers have developed a new kind of sensor that can immediately gauge whether a person is suffering from type 1 diabetes upon coming into contact with their breath.
Joseph Wang and colleagues at the University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA have integrated chemical sensors into two brands of briefs, which will allow the constant monitoring of blood pressure and heart rate.
Displays & Lighting (562 articles)
Amazon Kindle owners can now harness the power of the sun to illuminate and charge their e-readers, using the new SolarKindle Lighted Cover, which was unveiled at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Coop Denmark, a leading consumer goods retailer, plan to implement graphic electronic shelf labels using ZBD ePaper displays with Delfi Technologies Breece System within their stores in Denmark and Greenland.
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.
Materials (477 articles)
The environmentally-friendly paint uses nanotechnology to detect movement in large structures, and could shape the future of safety monitoring.
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.
A number of leading Asian companies in the chemical and electronics sectors will test SmartKem's innovative organic semiconductor inks for use in printable electronics applications in product such as state-of-the-art eReaders, Tablet PC's, Smartphones and TV's.
Manufacturing (206 articles)
LasX Industries, Inc., a leader in laser digital converting equipment and services, is proud to announce the addition of the Precision Converting Services group to better serve the electronic and industrial markets.
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.
Optomec,the world leader in high performance additive manufacturing systems, recently announced the opening of its new and expanded Advanced Applications Lab and Product Development Facility in St. Paul, MN.
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