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Tera-Barrier Films

Tera Barrier is a spin-off from the A*Star Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore. They are developing a thin film flexible barriers for use in organic electronics and thin film PV industries. The technology utilities metal nanoparticles and can be deposited using high-speed techniques such sputtering. Their display grade layer has been evaluated by the Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science and has been found to have a 10E-6 WVTR using the Tritium test. Tera-Barriers will be ramping up production via partnership with a Japanese manufacturer.

Plastic Logic

Plastic Logic have developed a process to manufacture organic thin film transistors (OTFT) active matrix backplanes on plastic substrates. The backplanes can be used in displays or sensor applications.

E Ink Holdings

Electrophoretic display maker expands into new applications.

Toray Industries Inc

Toray industries is a multinational corporation headquartered in Japan that specializes in industrial polymer materials. Its founding business areas were fibres and textiles, as well as plastics and chemicals, but the company has diversified into several other areas since.

Piezoelectric energy harvesting: Developments, challenges, future

The days when piezoelectric energy harvesting was considered unreliable and had low power output are long gone. Hand in hand with the development of ultra low power electronics, energy harvesters have been drastically improving also.

Will iron batteries return?

Electric vehicles whether hybrid or pure electric or for land, water or air, employ batteries on board, where supercapacitors have not replaced them.

Large area electronics: addressing the applications challenge

The city of Cambridge,UK, is well known for its historical contribution to the field of organic electronics, and is keen to stay at the forefront of new applications.

Air Resources Board approves first of new generation of clean cars

The Air Resources Board has approved the first car for sale in California, USA that meets ARB's most stringent smog-emission standard to date.