Sensors

Brewer Science offers a variety of solutions for electronics manufacturing, including anti-reflective and protective coatings, planarizing materials, carbon electronics, processing equipment, and other related systems. This profile focuses on their activities in the printed electronics domain.

Innovation roadmap overview for hearables technology.

Researchers have utilized 3D printing and nanotechnology to create a durable, flexible sensor for wearable devices to monitor everything from vital signs to athletic performance.

Founded as a textile company in 1882, the TOYOBO Group has been utilizing its four core technologies - polymerization, modification, processing and biotechnologies - for creating a better society. We exhibit our cutting-edge products including dimensionally-stable polyimide film(Xenomax), world's strongest fiber(Zylon), stretchable conductive film(COCOMI).

Mojo Vision presented functional contact lenses at Flex 2020. The aim is for these to contain photo-detectors, a miniature display, a power supply and processing capability to provide augmented reality.

At Flex2020 Boeing presented a multi-modal sensor utilizing flexible hybrid electronics.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) has been spreading in many places, which has brought great concern, inconvenience and harm. It also changes the lifestyle in some areas as people are requested to quarantine themselves or avoid contacting each other. In order to better conduct monitoring, prevention and control, multiple high-tech and emerging technologies have been deployed. Some of them may still play an important role when everybody comes back to normal life. This article will show the readers a selection of them.

IDTechEx identifies top future technologies in healthcare. With demographic changes such as the aging of the population, they forecast there to be strong growth in technologies that help healthcare providers manage the growing burden on the healthcare system while maintaining high quality care.

In general, perishable foods such as milk, salads, fruit, vegetables, bread, and chilled foods including meat and fish, have a shelf-life that is determined by the onset of biochemical processes (enzymatic/oxidation) or microbial decay.

Researchers have produced a wireless sweat sensor that can accurately detect levels of cortisol, a natural compound that is commonly thought of as the body's stress hormone.

TE Connectivity is a large American electronic component supplier, that was formerly known as Tyco electronics. Here, we review their printed electronics research, led by Yiliang Wu.

NeuDrive is a small company that has a patented material formulation for organic field effect transistors (OFETs). It previously aspired for these to be used in TFT display backplanes and printed logic applications, but it has recently changed its focus to biological and chemical sensors that utilize its OFET material.

Anti-theft tags (Electronic Article Surveillance) and Radio Frequency Identification RFID have much in common with the newer concept.

SouthWestSensor is a spin our of a company from the University of Southampton. It creates measurement techniques for the water industry. IDTechEx interviewed Oliver Hofmann, the CEO.

InnovationLab GmbH was established in 2008. At first, it received funding from the government (from Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung). However, since 2013 it claims to be standing on its own feet and to be cash-flow positive.

CHASM Advanced Materials is revolutionizing design and fabrication of printed electronics and energy storage devices through exclusive development and manufacture of CNT hybrid transparent conductive films and CNT hybrid electrode materials. The company's line of AgeNT transparent conductive films is flexible and formable with low pattering costs and low sheet resistance at high transparency. Leading companies across multiple industries have successfully launched next generation innovations using transparent circuits, heaters, antennas, and films as well as advanced CNT inks and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) only available from CHASM. Visit us at booth #I07 to see demonstration of materials and applications.

Masterclasses are the ideal way to train staff on emerging technologies. Bracketing the IDTechEx show in Berlin, the IDTechEx masterclasses on 12th and 15th May 2020 will contain the latest insights and analysis on their chosen topics.

It is well known that face masks do not protect you from bacteria and certainly not from the latest coronavirus. They stop you emitting as much when you sneeze. Beyond infection, there is increasing concern about fine particulates in the air, now proven to pass through your whole body. These are no longer seen as leading to only respiratory diseases and heart failure. Research now links them to depression, birth problems and more. How can we make more effective face masks and air filters generally?

NovaCentrix is focused on technologies and materials to enable manufacturing in Printed Electronics. The PulseForge® photonic curing tools process high-temperature materials on low-temperature substrates. Applications include drying, sintering, annealing, or reacting metallic, non-metallic, and semiconductor inks, without damaging temperature-sensitive substrates such as foils and plastics.

Integrated Graphene are a company that manufacture 3D graphene for sensing and energy storage applications. IDTechEx spoke to Alastair Carrington (commercial director).