Printed, Flexible and Organic Electronics
Printed, Flexible and Organic Electronics
Printed Electronics, being thin film silicon or inorganic or organic semiconductors, can be used to form Thin Film Transistor Circuits (TFTCs), such as replacing the functionality of simple silicon chips. TFTCs also employ thin film conductors and dielectrics and the ultimate objective is to make many different components at the same time - such as displays, batteries, sensors, microphones etc using the same materials or at least the same deposition techniques thus saving cost and improving reliability. Some TFTCs will be capable of covering large areas to affordably form electronic billboards, smart shelves and so on. They will be lightweight, rugged and mechanically flexible. Often they will be made by rapid, high-volume reel-to-reel processing even forming a part of regular printing processes for graphics. These circuits will be cheap enough to permit electronics where envisaged silicon chips are always or almost always too expensive, where multiple components and needed, and where silicon is impracticle (e.g. not flexible, brittle, thick etc).
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13 Aug 2018
Ultra sensitive skin for robots
A smart skin that will give robots more sensitive tactile feeling than humans. The smart skin technology allows the robots to sense temperature changes and surface variations, which would allow a person alongside the robot to be safer or react accordingly.
10 Aug 2018
Electron Beam Patterning for high-resolution full-color OLED displays
OLED microdisplays are increasingly establishing themselves in consumer-ready wearables and data glasses. In order to meet the requirements for higher efficiency, higher contrast, and higher resolutions in these applications, scientists have developed a new micropatterning approach for OLEDs on silicon substrates.
10 Aug 2018
TactoTek expands Americas market presence
Today, TactoTek announced the opening of sales and business development operations in Mexico with representatives in Monterrey and San Luis Potosí, Mexico—hotbeds of electronics design and manufacturing for global market leaders in automotive, home appliances, medical equipment and other markets.
9 Aug 2018
Nanotube rebar makes graphene twice as tough
Rebar graphene is the nanoscale analog of rebar (reinforcement bars) in concrete, in which embedded steel bars enhance the material's strength and durability. Rebar graphene, developed by the Rice lab of chemist James Tour in 2014, uses carbon nanotubes for reinforcement.
9 Aug 2018
Robotic lawnmowers and child safety
Robotic lawn mowers are great for cutting the grass, but they do pose a risk of injury to children playing nearby. Highly advanced sensors developed by researchers ensure that the lawn mower shuts down when children are in close proximity.
8 Aug 2018
Forciot Ltd.
Forciot provides a hardware and software solutions based on stretchable sensors that sense both touch and force. Each sensor system layout is designed specifically for the target application.
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8 Aug 2018
Graphene skinned plane unveiled
The University of Central Lancashire has unveiled the world's first graphene skinned plane at an internationally renowned air show.
7 Aug 2018
Technique to easily fabricate ceramic films used as OPV inter-layers
Organic photovoltaic cells using organic compounds have several advantages: they are lightweight, flexible, and sophisticated, and their production cost is low. For these reasons, they are anticipated as next-generation PV cells.
7 Aug 2018
CPI supports project to improve airtight bonding in OLED lighting
The Centre for Process Innovation is working as part of a consortium to improve airtight bonding in OLED lighting for aerospace and defence applications.
6 Aug 2018
Nissha Si-Cal Inc
Si-Cal is a leading printed electronics company based in Boston with another facility in Chicago. They manufacture the highest quality heat transfer decals and functional printed electronic components using roll to roll screen printing processes and sheet fed screen printing
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6 Aug 2018
Are you a start-up or research company? Explore the IDTechEx Launchpad
The IDTechEx Launchpad initiative is open to early-stage start-ups, universities, newly spun-out companies, research labs and government labs who can demonstrate a working prototype or product that highlights new advances in any of the related event topics of: 3d printing, electric vehicles, energy storage, graphene, internet of things, printed electronics, sensors, or wearable technology.
6 Aug 2018
Organic photovoltaic: analysis of technology and commercial progress
Organic photovoltaics were once considered the next generation of photovoltaic technology. They had huge hype because they had a seductive value proposition: R2R printing of high-performance, robust and flexible solar cells over large areas using low-cost materials and low CapEx high-throughput equipment. progress
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6 Aug 2018
Novel approach for obtaining films for solar cells
Materials scientists explained the laws of dissolution and crystallization of hybrid perovskites and proposed a novel approach for obtaining films for solar cells.
6 Aug 2018
Biosensor chip wirelessly detects disease
Researchers have developed a chip that can detect a type of genetic mutation known as a single nucleotide polymorphism and wirelessly send the results in real time to a smartphone, computer, or other electronic device. The chip is at least 1,000 times more sensitive at detecting an SNP than current technology.
6 Aug 2018
QuirkLogic Drives Innovation Through Remote Collaboration
New Quilla Connect Android app seamlessly connects to world's largest portable digital writing solution enabling contributions from remote meeting participants.
5 Aug 2018
First-ever coloured thin films of nanotubes created
Researchers present a technique to produce large quantities of pristine single-walled carbon nanotubes in select shades of the rainbow. The secret is a fine-tuned fabrication process—and a small dose of CO2.
3 Aug 2018
Solar cells need to slim down
Thin-film solar cells could be 1/100th the thickness of a piece of paper and flexible enough to festoon surfaces ranging from an aerodynamically sleek car to clothing. To make thin-film solar cells, scientists are moving beyond the "classic" semiconductor compounds, such as gallium arsenide or silicon, and working instead with other light-harvesting compounds that have the potential to be cheaper and easier to mass produce. The compounds could be widely adopted if they could perform as well as today's technology.
3 Aug 2018
Laser-scribed disordered graphene improves sodium-ion batteries
Sodium-ion batteries have potential to replace the currently used lithium-ion batteries by using the cheaper (less than a thirtieth of the cost of lithium) and more abundant sodium resource. This has particular potential in Saudi Arabia, where sodium is readily available and easily extracted as a byproduct of water desalination, a significant source of potable water in the country.
2 Aug 2018
Electronic skin patches in diabetes management
This premium article covers the use of electronic devices worn on the skin in the management of diabetes. Recent years have seen the industry move from traditional methods around glucose test strips and finger pricks towards wearable continuous glucose monitoring options. This article explores the trends in the space and the moves from the commercial players providing these products.
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1 Aug 2018
Samsung Display's 'unbreakable flexible panel'
Samsung Display announced that its recently-developed, unbreakable smartphone panel has just been officially verified by Underwriters Laboratories. In addition to being used on smartphones, the newly developed display is expected to find viable markets with other electronic products such as display consoles for automobiles, mobile military devices, portable game consoles and tablet PCs for e-learning.
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