24 Jul 2008
Inorganic FETs on paper
In Portugal, a new field effect transistor with paper interstrate layer has now been developed.
External press release
24 Jul 2008
Renewable Energy fund to invest $30 million
G24i will use investment to facilitate its rapid expansion of production and sales capability.
22 Jul 2008
Real Time Locating Systems Using Passive Tags - High Volume RTLS?
Passive radar is a term applied to radar that covertly employs other people's emissions as they reveal targets, no signal being emitted by those doing the covert detection. This has military uses. It is not to be confused with Real Time Locating System RTLS using passive tags, a new form of RFID-based RTLS that has burst onto the scene in 2008. This employs passive tags instead of the traditional active tags. The idea is actually about ten years old and it was mooted as a UHF system by Trolleyscan who called it RFID Radar and demonstrated by RFSAW, which uses Surface Acoustic Wave chips that are more sensitive and simpler to make than the silicon chips used by everyone else - active and passive.
21 Jul 2008
Replacing printed silver with copper
The spot price of silver is up over 50% in the past 12 months and it continues to trend upward because silver supplies are falling fast while demand from China, India, Russia and Eastern Europe is climbing. As a reult, a lot of work is underway for alternatives.
16 Jul 2008
RFID and the Printing Industry
Printed RFID is only part of an emerging $300 billion business in printing many forms of electronics and electrics.
15 Jul 2008
New strategy for printed electronics
It is now generally accepted that the printed electronics is headed to be a business of the order of $300 billion yearly in about twenty years time.
External press release
14 Jul 2008
Sunset develops platform inkjet chemistry for conductive silver inks
SunJet, the inkjet ink division of Sun Chemical, announced the development of ink chemistry designed to support and deliver conductive films using nano-particles of silver.
External press release
14 Jul 2008
Dow acquires Rohm and Haas
$18.8 billion transaction marks pivotal point in Dow's transformation
11 Jul 2008
UK Chemical Sector Initiative - part one
On 1st July, The UK Trade & Investment Chemical Sector Initiative on Printed Electronics hosted a Masterclass at Haydock Park Racecourse in North West England.
External press release
11 Jul 2008
Impinj acquires Intel's UHF RFID reader chip operation
Acquisition expands Impinj product portfolio and increases customer base
7 Jul 2008
New technology powers big RFID orderbook
New antenna advances will be covered at RFID Europe later this year - presentations include Leonhard Kurz of Germany developers of printed RFID and other futuristic capabilities. You can also visit Conductive Inkjet Technology which has new antenna technology and Marshall Aerospace.
2 Jul 2008
Breakthrough in metal ink cure: room temperature on cheap substrates
IDTechEx recently visited Novacentrix in Austin, Texas, to learn of their room temperature cure process.
1 Jul 2008
Inorganic chemistry used more widely
Printed electronics today is mainly a matter of inorganic rather than organic chemistry and the next ten years are unlikely to see the inorganic part drop below 50% of the high value materials required.
30 Jun 2008
Vibrant RFID markets to be analysed in RFID Europe
Printed electronics is used in RFID to a steadily increasing extent as volumes start to exceed those met in any other form of electronics.
External press release
27 Jun 2008
New technology powers big RFID order book
One million transistors is not enough for the RFID chip in the new e-passports because, increasingly, they have to double as driver's licenses, multipurpose cards and other media.
24 Jun 2008
European projects accelerate OLED technology for mainstream lighting
The race is on to bring OLED technology into mainstream lighting.
18 Jun 2008
IDTechEx Photovoltaics Beyond Conventional Silicon 2008 event
This week IDTechEx is holding its first event dedicated to Photovoltaic (PV) technologies beyond conventional silicon. It covers the increasing work on CIGS, CdTe, Organic PV and many other chemistry devices, offering benefits over conventional silicon PV such as cost, weight and ease of installation.