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Highlights from the Electronic Display Conference, Nuremberg - Part 2

IDTechEx Research recently attended and presented at this event. The following are highlights from three companies - PolyIC, Atmel and Canatu - who presented on transparent conductive film (TCF) technology.

Highlights From second day at Printed Electronics USA 2012

The second and final day of Printed Electronics USA in Santa Clara really illustrated how far the technologies had progressed and the huge variety of players in the field. The event, organized by IDTechEx, was the best and biggest edition of the series so far. Amongst the attendees were company founders, directors, engineers, academics, but also students and patent attorneys. In particular, there were a large number of end users attending the show.

Bidirectional communication for thin-film RFIDs

Thin-film RFID chips are made on plastic foil, with organic or oxide thin-film semiconductors

Integrated touch sensors with graphic design

The trend is already clear: capacitive buttons and controls with attractive graphic designs integrated into surfaces. Transparent, conductive PolyTC® films from PolyIC make this possible in combination with IMD (in mold decoration) decorative films from Leonhard KURZ. Attractive graphic surfaces are becoming increasingly important for equipment and controls particularly in the electronics, mobile communication and automotive sectors.

OE-A elects new Board of Directors

The members of the OE-A (Organic and Printed Electronics Association) elected a new Board of Directors at their annual General Assembly meeting.

Major investment in mass production of organic & printed electronics

Currently, massive investments are being made into production facilities for new products based on organic and printed electronics. Driving forces are organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) for lighting, flexible displays and organic photovoltaics.

Light up your world with organic and printed electronics

Organic and Printed Electronics Association

PolyIC becomes wholly owned by Leonhard Kurz

PolyIC becomes wholly owned by Leonhard Kurz

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.

OE-A's 5th anniversary

With its 135 members all over the world, the OE-A has become a highly dynamic and constantly growing network of leading international companies and institutes in the past five years", said Wolfgang Mildner, Chairman of the OE-A and Managing Director, PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, on the occasion of the 5th anniversary celebration of the OE-A - the industry association for organic and printed electronics - in late February at the Holst Centre in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In December 2004, 35 members founded this working group within VDMA. "One of the founding principles of the OE-A five years ago was the goal to build an international industry association to jointly develop this future multi-billion Euro market", emphasized the Chairman of the OE-A. "Cooperation all along the value chain is essential in this phase; no company can achieve it alone."

Printed RFID in 2010

IDTechEx projects that the market for passive RFID tags will grow to over $10 billion in sales by 2019. Much of it will continue to use silicon chips. Dr Peter Harrop forecasts the Printed RFID market for 2010.

What you can expect from Printed Electronics in 2010

As we enter the New Year IDTechEx look back and summarises some of the main global trends in 2009 and gives some predictions, and indeed areas of opportunity, for the New Year.