Applied Materials

Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron merge

Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron announced a definitive agreement to create a global innovator in semiconductor and display manufacturing technology via an all-stock combination which values the new combined company at approximately $29 billion (¥2.8 trillion).

Artificial skin that senses touch, humidity and temperature

Using tiny gold particles and a kind of resin, a team of scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has discovered how to make a new kind of flexible sensor that one day could be integrated into electronic skin, or e-skin.

The latest on the $10 Billion 2013 OLED market - all at OLEDs LIVE!

Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) are coming in three waves.

FLEX 2013

The FLEX 2013 conference and exhibition took place in Phoenix, Arizona between the 30th of January and the 1st of February 2013.

DoE awards up to $120 million for battery hub to Argonne-led group

A multi-partner team led by Argonne National Laboratory has been selected for an award of up to $120 million over five years to establish a new Batteries and Energy Storage Hub.

$120 million for battery research

The Hub, to be known as the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), will combine the R&D firepower of five DOE national laboratories, five universities, and four private firms in an effort aimed at achieving revolutionary advances in battery performance.

Organic electronics: state of the art

A one day event to review the state of the art of organic lighting displays (OLEDs), OLED Lighting and organic photovoltaics (OPV).

TCM 2012: 4th symposium on transparent conductive materials

Over the past few years, there has been an increase in interest in research and applications for transparent conductive materials (TCMs).

Emerging solutions for wireless, wearable sensors and integrated power

SEMICON West 2012 Preview

Impressions from Printed Electronics Europe 2012

The presentations with a focus on thin film photovoltaics covered topics relevant to both organic and inorganic technologies but also discussed the importance of incumbent technologies.

Printing technologies for conventional electronics

Screen Printing is one of the more established technologies utilised in the manufacture of what a lot would consider "conventional" electronics. And although they represent a hybrid state between fully printable electronics and electronics processed in silicon fabs, they also represent the intermediate step that leads to more accurate, fully automated atmospheric processing at very high volumes, with equally high yields.

Printed Electronics: What can we do better?

IDTechEx has tracked the printed electronics market since 2002. We have conducted extensive research programs, run our own events internationally and attended most other relevant events. Being impartial, we state the good and the bad. So what have we learnt?

DisplaySearch: Emerging display technologies

Eileen Tanghal of Applied Ventures opened the conference. Applied Ventures is the venture arm of Applied Materials ($9.5B revenue in 2010) with companies such as Liquavista, Plextronics, Terabarrier, SAGE Electrochromics and Semprius being the most relevant companies backed by funding from Applied Ventures.