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Summary from the Printed Electronics Event in Paris, 26 March 2014

IDTechEx attended the printed electronics conference organised by the French Printed Electronics Association in Paris. Here is a round-up of the latest developments in the field.

Supercapacitors Europe 2014 is next week!

IDTechEx's Supercapacitors Europe 2014 conference External Link is bringing the best of supercapacitor developments in the region and internationally - 1-2 April, Berlin.

Half of li-ion battery business will be for hybrid and electric cars

Hybrid and pure electric cars will be much more than half of the value of this market by the end of the decade. About 70% of the relatively small number of manufacturers of these have committed to only three suppliers over the next three years. However, everything about Li-ion is changing.

Third generation photovoltaics forging ahead

As developments on organic photovoltaics continue worldwide, the amount of attention paid to this 3rd generation photovoltaic technology remains unwaning, with many important announcements from all over the world keeping the levels of interest high.

SoftBattery Plus Technology at Printed Electronics Europe

Enfucell Oy will be releasing the new SoftBattery® Plus Technology at the Printed Electronics Europe trade show in Berlin on April 1-2, 2014.

What do you need to know about printed, organic, flexible electronics?

What do you need to know about printed, organic and flexible electronics to drive your business in this field?

The multi-billion dollar future of e-textiles

The brand new IDTechEx Research report E-Textiles: Electronic Textiles 2014-2024 External Link has a particular focus on the narrow definition of those entirely reliant on e-fibers for electronic, electro-optic and electrical functionality.

FP7 MATFLEXEND project for flexible energy harvesting devices

Fraunhofer IZM leads the newly started FP7 MATFLEXEND project, which will provide wearable, flexible energy harvesters that can be manufactured in a low-cost printing process, and durable materials for such purpose.

Winnick & Company invests in T+ink

T+ink has announced that Winnick & Company has become its largest shareholder, and Gary Winnick has been named chairman and CEO.

RFID market grows 15% in one year - to $8.9 billion in 2014

New research conducted by IDTechEx finds that the RFID market - including tags, readers, software and services, for passive and active RFID - will grow from $7.77 billion in 2013 to $8.9 billion in 2014.

Conductive ink market- photovoltaic, touch screen and other sectors

IDTechEx is analysing the markets and technologies for conductive inks and pastes in this article series. In the previous article, IDTechEx provided overall ten-year market forecasts for conductive inks and pastes segmented by sector, and also outlined the competitive landscape for silver flake, silver nanoparticle and copper/silver alloy pastes and inks. In this article, IDTechEx takes a closer look at the photovoltaic and touch screen (edge electrode) markets. IDTechEx will also briefly examine other markets segments too.

Toppan Printing

Toppan Printing has been working on printed electronics for a number of years with a particular focus on developing printing processes for making fully-printed organic thin film transistors and backplanes.

World's first flexible multi-functional timer available at PE Europe

World's first flexible multi-functional timer to be distributed at Printed Electronics Europe.

Tesla's Battery Coup - Winners and Losers

Ground breaking news were announced by Tesla at the end of February 2014. This is their intention to build a lithium battery manufacturing plant with a capacity of 35 GWh/year by 2020, this is the so called "Gigafactory". Read this article in order to understand what is the impact of these plans to the whole industry.

T+ink partners with Sun Chemical and forms T+sun

T+ink, a developer and designer of patented "thinking ink" solutions that make objects smart and winner of a gold Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award, has announced a partnership with Sun Chemical to form T+sun which will provide conductive ink solutions to make packages and objects communicate, engage customers and manage inventory systems.