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Emerging haptics find their niches

The industry around haptic actuators has encountered some significant challenges and changes in the last five years. However, the silver lining begins to shine through as emerging haptics find their niches. James Hayward summarises the findings from the latest IDTechEx Research report.

Plastic OLED display capacity ramps up & glass-based OLEDs downgraded

IDTechEx Research recently revised its forecast for OLED displays. Dr Guillaume Chansin, lead author of the IDTechEx report OLED Display Forecasts 2015-2025: The Rise of Plastic and Flexible Displays explains why.

LG Display to invest in 6th generation OLED panel line

LG Display has announced that it will invest KRW1.05 trillion in a 6th Generation flexible OLED display production line as part of its efforts to lead the flexible OLED display market.

Aito

Aito are a 5 year old company based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and with research department in Helsinki, Finland. They provide technologies around piezoceramic sensing and haptic actuator solutions.

LG Display invests over $900 million in flexible OLEDs. Why?

This week LG Display announced that it will invest One Trillion Won for a flexible OLED display plant in Korea. Why?

Jenax

Jenax has been listed on KOSDAQ, South Korea's Stock Exchange, since 2002. Its main business is in the iron and steel industry. It started to diversify into flexible batteries around 2010 and showed its first flexible battery prototype in 2015 at CES in Las Vegas, USA and in the Wearable Expo in Tokyo, Japan.

Winners in electric vehicle batteries

IDTechEx is the only market analyst tracking the development of 45 electric vehicle categories and not just electric cars.

Flexible barrier technologies: a brief review of technology options

Back in 2014, we witnessed the launch of the first displays deposited on flexible substrates, and the first efforts to encapsulate them. There are significant differences in the encapsulation techniques utilized by each of the companies commercializing flexible electronics. These differences signify the variety of technologies available, in terms of deposition as well as material options for the barrier films, some of which are discussed in this article

Quantum dots now showing their true colours

Quantum dots are making some serious inroads in the display industry. This was very apparent at SID Display Week this month, where several quantum dot LCD panels were showcased. Is this the technology that will beat OLED in the TV market? Maybe, but some questions still need to be answered.

Immersion Corporation

Immersion are aleading company in the haptics space, holding over 1900 patents and spanning over 22 years of experience. This profile release represents a broad update including latest news and financials from FY2015 and early 2016.

LG Display unveils wallpaper OLED panel

Flat panel maker LG Display showcased last week a detachable organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel that sticks to the wall.

Daejoo Electronic Materials Co., Ltd

This company is a high drive R&D based enterprise investing money from a float on the Korean equivalent of NASDAQ to develop a host of formulations

Last men standing in OLED lighting

The OLED lighting market has consolidated in the past year. Panasonic has given up its OLED lighting manufacturing ambitions, despite being the record champion holder only a few years ago. Philips Lighting also recently gave up and sold its IP and assets to OLEDWorks, an American start-up with high ambitions for fully automated manufacturing of OED panels. None of these events came as a surprise to us and here we summarize why.

Last men standing in OLED lighting

The OLED lighting market has consolidated in the past year.

LG Chem to supply EV batteries to Daimler Group

LG Chem has been selected by Daimler AG (Daimler) as the supplier of lithium-ion batteries for Smart EV that will be newly launched in 2016.

The Printed Electronics Industry Gets Going

Investment up; more products launched and larger companies driving growth.

Flexible barrier technologies: material and deposition options

Back in 2013, we witnessed the launch by Samsung and LG of the first AMOLED displays deposited on plastic substrates, and the first efforts to encapsulate plastic and flexible displays that IDTechEx is forecasting will become more than a $16bn dollar market in the next 5 years.

Apple, Samsung, LG Chem move into the flexible batteries business

After years of slow progress from small companies, flexible batteries now have the attention of big brands such as Apple, Samsung, LG Chemical, Nokia and STMicroelectronics, who are set to drive the flexible battery market from US$ 6.9 million in 2015 to over US$ 400 million in 2025 according to IDTechEx Research.

Magna International

A major automotive part suppliers discusses various technologies such as OLED lighting, autonomous vehicles and molded/thermoformed electronics.

LG to lead premium TV market with dual premium strategy

LG Electronics (LG) has unveiled its 2015 global TV lineup in Seoul, announcing at the same time its DUAL PREMIUM strategy to focus on the premium TV market with its new TV lineup.