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DuPont opens photovoltaic application facility in Geneva

To address the needs for the fast-growing photovoltaic market, DuPont opened the Meyrin Photovoltaic Application Laboratory at its European Technical Center - adding new capabilities to this leading R&D hub by developing next-generation products.

Carbon nanotube ink turns cloth into a battery

Ordinary textiles could be transformed into batteries that hold up to three times more energy than a mobile phone battery, by simply dipping them into nanoparticle-infused ink.

Fabric electronics

Electronics in textiles may be printed or wound using wires and there are other options, with over 100 organisations working in the field. It varies from the invisible to the fanciful.

Emerging display technologies and innovations

On December 10, the UK Knowledge Transfer Network had a meeting in Grove Oxfordshire on Emerging Display Technologies and Innovations. About 35 people attended. Professor Ian Underwood of Edinburgh University in Scotland described work on microemissive OLED displays under the title "Hypoled - Next Generation Display Platform ."

Affordable electronic window shutters

Thirty percent of the energy used by buildings in the United States is spent making up for heat loss or gain through windows. That constitutes about $40 billion in electricity costs each year. Windows that change color in response to changes in the weather help save on electricity costs by absorbing sunlight in the winter and reflecting it in the summer but they have been expensive and not widely used. Electrochromic windows sandwich materials that change color when a small electrical field is applied across them. This change is triggered by changes in light or temperature measured by sensors.

Universal Display and the Flexible Display Center at ASU

Universal Display and the Flexible Display Center at ASU enhance strategic relationship to supply flexible active-matrix pholed display prototypes to U.S. Army. Universal Display also awarded $650,000 U.S. Army SBIR Phase II Enhancement Program to support demonstration of enhanced-performance AMOLEDs on plastic substrates.

U.S. government funds DuPont OLED innovation

DuPont has received a $2.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for a two-year project to develop a solid-state lighting source using low-cost organic light-emitting diode (OLED) solution-processing manufacturing techniques.

DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions offer advanced materials

DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions (DPVS) in India offers a variety of advanced materials from several DuPont businesses to enable the country's photovoltaic (PV) industry to increase lifetime and efficiency of solar modules and improve the productivity of PV module makers.

Graphene Innovator Vorbeck Materials raises $5.1 million

Graphene Innovator Vorbeck Materials receives $5.1 million in Series 2 financing

DuPont boosts effort on CIGS and other photovoltaics

In July, it was announced that DuPont, the global science-based products company that is one of the largest chemical companies in the world, will receive $3m in funding from the US Department of Energy for a solar research program.

OLED progress round-up from S.I.D. 2009

In this final article for Printed Electronics World covering S I D 2009, we give highlights from some of the technical sessions covering progress with OLEDs

Advanced flexible OLEDs closer to mass market

The Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University and Universal Display Corporation (NASDAQ: PANL), has introduced the first a-Si:H active matrix flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display to be manufactured directly on DuPont Teijin's polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) substrate.

OE-A Unveils New Roadmap and Demonstrators

The updated and expanded third edition of the OE-A Roadmap for organic and printed electronics offers an overview of future product generations as well as requirements for materials and technologies.

Electronic skins for mobile devices that change color and design

Mobile phones that change color and design to match your shirt, hat or skirt could soon be the latest fashion accessory with the recent advancements in Electronic Skins.

Shakeout of organic transistor developers

Following on from the shakeout in OLED developers, IDTechEx sees the same thing happening now in Organic FETs.

More on printed electronics in Hong Kong

Dr Peter Harrop of IDTechEx continues his report from Hong Kong on just a few examples of printed electronics and energy harvesting developments in this vibrant city.

Printed harvesting in Hong Kong

Dr Peter Harrop of IDTechEx reports from Hong Kong on just a few examples of printed electronics and energy harvesting developments in this vibrant city.

The latest on conductive materials

"Conductive materials for printed electronics were one of the interesting topics on the morning of the second day of the IDTechEx conference Printed Electronics Europe 2009" reports Cathleen Macher.

DuPont Microcircuit Materials presents research findings for PV film

DuPont Microcircuit Materials (MCM), part of DuPont Electronic Technologies, will be presenting new research findings on "Advanced Screen Printable Thin Film Photovoltaic Front-Side Silver Conductor Compositions," at the IDTechEx Photovoltaics beyond Conventional Silicon Europe Conference and Exhibition