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What to expect at Printed Electronics USA 2010

Next week the annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics event opens on Nov 30 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, USA. The event will be the largest yet on the topic. Excluding press partners that are taking a booth, as of November 19 there are 85 exhibitors. The total exhibition floor space is 49,000 square feet and the booths themselves cover a total area of just over 30,000 square feet.

NovaCentrix features new copper-based screen ink at PE USA 2010

NovaCentrix, a leader in printed electronics manufacturing technologies, is pleased to announce that Metalon® ICI-020, a new copper-based screen ink, will be prominently featured at Printed Electronics USA 2010 in Santa Clara, California from November 30-December 2, 2010. Pre-printed samples of Metalon ICI-020 screen ink on card stock will be distributed with the registration packs by IDTechEx staff, and attendees may bring their samples to the NovaCentrix exhibit area to cure the ink with NovaCentrix's PulseForge® process tool.

Paper Electronics

The largest event in the world on the subject Printed Electronics USA 2010 (www.IDTechEx.com/peUSA) will once again have a growing minority of presentations on paper electronics.

NovaCentrix® awarded U.S. patent critical for sintering metal inks

NovaCentrix® awarded U.S. patent critical for sintering metal inks on low temperature substrates

Early printed electronics revisited

There was an element of back to the future at the hugely successful recent Printed Electronics Europe event in Dresden. Although a high proportion of printed electronics has progressed from screen printing to other printing technologies, notably inkjet, for better control, less waste of these expensive inks and other benefits, at least one company has reverted to advanced rotary screen printing to gain throughput. Indeed, Professor Edgar Dörsam reported that his team has achieved feature size of better than one micron with its advanced screen printing methods. Daetwyler even announced a capability of gravure printing below five microns in feature size with its machines.

IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe award winners

IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe award winners

Thin films and nanotechnology for power

Printed electronics and electrics will be a $335 billion business in twenty years, just for devices primarily made by printing with electronic inks. IDTechEx gives a summary of the projections.

Summaries from the AIMCAL and IPC events

Last week IDTechEx presented at two events in the US on printed electronics. Here we bring you the highlights of some of the discussions and presentations that took place.

The Game-changer from NovaCentrix: Copper oxide ink

Novacentrix has tackled the problem of making copper nanoparticle ink at low cost.

Novacentrix wins R&D 100 Award for Pulseforge™ 3100

NovaCentrix announced that the PulseForge 3100 with Pulse Thermal Processing has been selected by R&D Magazine as a recipient of the 2009 R&D 100 Award in the Process Sciences category.

Printed Electronics uses more inorganics and composites

Printed electronics is using more inorganics and composites in the quest for higher performance, lower costs, finer feature size, stretchability and creation of radically new components such as memristors, supercabatteries and metamaterials.

SEMICON West, July 14-16 in San Francisco

Companies will share their latest results with the broader semiconductor and display manufacturing supply chain at SEMICON West, July 14-16 in San Francisco.

New focus for printed electronics

In the last year, the burgeoning printed and thin film electronics industry has greatly enhanced its repertoire and changed its priorities, encompassing such things as rapid commercialisation of disposable and invisible electronics.

Record Attendance at IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe

In the current recession, there are few sectors which are growing rapidly, but one of those is printed electronics. Pre-registered attendance at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe conference, which will be held in Dresden, Germany, on April 7-8, is 20% higher than at the same time before the event last year.

Inexpensive Copper Ink: NovaCentrix to unveil new ink at IDTechEx show

NovaCentrix announced today it will use Printed Electronics Europe 2009, in Dresden April 7-8, as the stage for the public launch of a significant new offering in the MetalonTM family of high-performance conductive inks: the ICI copper-based ink platform.

IDTechEx Printed Electronics Awards - winners announced

The IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2008 event hosted the Printed Electronics Awards to recognize outstanding achievement.