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 (2086 articles)
Electronics and electrics on or in paper is being used for security, safety, crime prevention, brand enhancement and merchandising.
IDTechEx will host the Printed Electronics Asia conference and tradeshow on 2-3 October in Tokyo, Japan.
Eastman Chemical is buying Solutia Inc, chemicals provider for products from iPads to tires, for about $3.4 billion.
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 (480 articles)
Funding accelerates commercialization of proprietary carbon-based transparent conductor as alternative to indium tin oxide for consumer electronics.
Konica Minolta turns proprietary MEMS technologies to next-generation inkjet printhead for industrial use.
Researchers at the Nano-Science Center at the University of Copenhagen have developed a new nano-technology platform for the development of molecule-based electronic components using the wonder material graphene. At the same time, they have solved a problem that has challenged researchers from around world for ten years.
Manufacturing (208 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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