IDTechEx

SunRay Scientific launches ZTACH adhesives for flexible electronics

SunRay Scientific, a leader in solutions for flex circuit and printed electronics manufacturing, has announced that it is launching UV cured ZTACH™ anisotropic conductive adhesives for assembly of flexible electronics. The UV cured ZTACH™ anisotropic conductive adhesives, which are designed for fine pitch interconnects on flexible substrates, will be complementary to SunRay's existing heat cured ZTACH™ adhesives which are designed for lead free assembly on rigid substrates.

All set for high-volume production of printed memories

Last year Thin Film Electronics ASA ("Thinfilm") announced successful high-volume pilot production of roll-to-roll printed memories. Now, Thinfilm is moving from pilot to regular production. "We have made great progress together with our partners. Deployment of products in the field will start soon," says Rolf Åberg CEO Thinfilm.

Harvesting energy from the pavement

Pavegen systems is a UK based company that has developed energy harvesting systems which take power from footsteps.

Less than one week to Printed Electronics Europe 2010

Next week the sixth annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe event takes place in Dresden, Germany on April 13-14. Read about some of the event highlights here.

Breakthroughs with sensing in the human body

Holst Centre and others are working on body area networking to monitor vital signs, control drug delivery according to need and otherwise progress towards bionic man and woman and care of the disabled and elderly. Unfortunately cutting into your body to change batteries brings with it a significant percentage of mortalities, not just pain and infection. Energy harvesting within the body is potentially helpful but biobatteries and thermoelectric generators provide only weak amounts of electricity in such applications.

Driving electronics for OLEDs

E2M Technology is working with a leading blue-chip Japanese semiconductor company to develop a new range of OLED driver chips for OLED lighting applications. How OLEDs are electronically controlled is as important as the OLED chemistry itself.

Wind energy harvester from Humdinger

IDTechEx met with Humdinger last week in Hong Kong, a start-up company of six people that has developed a completely new approach to wind energy harvesters.

Ultraviolet curing for printed electronics

E2M Technology's ultraviolet curing device represents the very latest in high-tech ultraviolet curing for the electronics industry.

Breakthroughs with sensing in the human body

Holst Centre and others are working on body area networking to monitor vital signs, control drug delivery according to need and otherwise progress towards bionic man and woman and care of the disabled and elderly. Unfortunately cutting into your body to change batteries brings with it a significant percentage of mortalities, not just pain and infection. Energy harvesting within the body is potentially helpful but biobatteries and thermoelectric generators provide only weak amounts of electricity in such applications.

PriMeBits memory project goes inorganic

In the European PriMeBits project, a printable electric low-voltage non-volatile memory is being developed for printed sensor, media and wireless ID applications. The main strategy is to utilize printed technology where it has a competitive advantage compared to silicon technology. The project builds on basic research of new materials and components and takes the results into prototyping of new applications. To reduce the research risk, two different technologies for the memory functionality are considered with partially overlapping application areas.

SunRay Scientific launches NANOGLOW™ conductive silver inks

SunRay Scientific, a leader in solutions for flex circuit and printed electronics manufacturing, announced today that it is launching NANOGLOW™ water-based, nano-silver inks for roll-to-roll printing of conductive traces on low temperature substrates such as polyester and paper. The NANGLOW™ products are designed for flexographic/gravure printing and will be complementary to SunRay's existing MAXIGLOW™ portfolio of silver/carbon inks, dielectrics, and epoxies which are designed for screen printing of membrane switches, and other printed electronics applications.

Printed Electronics Europe on track to exceed 1000 attendees

With a month still to go, more than 650 unique attendees from 24 countries have registered for Europe's largest show covering printed electronics and its many variants (flexible, organic and inorganic electronics). As of this week, there are 74 exhibiting companies - the World's largest exhibition on the topic.

Raghu Das from IDTechEx to present at the LSCM Annual Conference

Raghu Das from IDTechEx will present at the Hong Kong R&D Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Enabling Technologies (LSCM) Annual Conference in Hong Kong on the 26 March 2010.

Reducing the weight of military manpacks with energy harvesting

The US Army has presented at IDTechEx conferences, pointing out that a US warfighter often has to carry more than the ancient Roman soldier. This is despite the fact that the ancient Roman soldier carried prefabricated fort parts and food, with no support staff. A major problem today is the batteries.

Printing large batteries

170 years ago, Faraday appreciated the different electrical properties of nano gold over bulk metal in electrical devices, so applying nanotechnology to these things is scarcely new. However, the huge sums now being applied to improvement of lithium traction batteries in particular are now leading to work on a much larger scale and thin film technology, nanotechnology and printing are in increasingly important part of this.

Flexible PV with storage - basic hardware platform

There is a new energy harvesting project that IDTechEx believes could lead to a basic hardware platform for the new printed flexible electronics, incorporated in many products in most applicational sectors from military to consumer packaged goods.

CNTs & graphene and the situation in Germany

The demands placed on new, high-tech materials are continually increasing, and existing material systems are reaching their limits. Due to their exceptional electrical and mechanical properties, carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene and their composite materials offer high potential for use in diverse applications such as photovoltaics, sensors, semiconductor devices, displays, conductors, smart textiles and energy conversion devices (e.g., fuel cells, harvesters and batteries).