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Highlights from the VTT Printed Electronics Event

Last week IDTechEx gave the opening keynote presentation at Prinse, a printed electronics conference hosted by VTT. This article describes the highlights of the event.

Toyota launches fuel cell car in the US

The supercapacitor industry closed last year (2013) with a continued double-digit growth. According to Maxwell Technologies' executives, China has been the main source of growth. New announcements confirm what IDTechEx has stated in recent years: the supercapacitor and the battery industry are the same.

PARC, a Xerox company

Parc is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xerox. In the printed electronics space, Parc is focused on devices and is a technology leader in the field of printed logic.

French Atomic Energy Commission CEA Liten

CEA (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives) is a French government-funded technological research organisation. CEA has several research labs across France, but Grenoble is the location where most of the activities in printed electronics take place. In 2011, CEA launched a prototyping fabrication facility under the name PictiC. The printing equipment is housed in a 650 m2 clean room and is dedicated to the design and fabrication of devices on plastic foils.

AEPI

AEPI, the Grenoble-Isère Economic Development Agency, is in charge of promoting Grenoble-Isère (France). The organization's prime added value is its experience and know-how for identifying, attracting, locating and keeping productive activities in Grenoble-Isère.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Founded in 1942, VTT's mission was to "to engage in technical research for the benefit of science and society".

Encouraging enterprise in the organic electronics sector

Cambridge entrepreneurship programme to train technologists and researchers to accelerate commercialisation and encourage venture creation in organic electronics across the EU.

Printed Electronics Asia 2013, Tokyo, Japan impressions and Awards

Some of the highlights at this year's Printed Electronics event, organized by IDTechEx in Tokyo, Japan, are discussed in this article, focusing on the keynotes on the first day of the conference, which was attended by approximately 250 people.

IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2013 Award Winners

The annual printed electronics award winners were announced at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics event this week in Berlin, Germany.

How to manufacture printed electronics - live demonstration

On April 17-18, the Printed Electronics Europe conference and exhibition in Berlin, Germany, will feature "Manufacturing Street" - a live, multi-technology, printed electronics demonstration.

All eyes on Supercapacitors

Supercapacitors (ultracapacitors) are now center stage for designers of electronics and particularly power circuits. This is because they are improving faster than the batteries and electrolytic capacitors they increasingly replace. More subtly, they reduce the need for and danger from lithium-ion batteries. For example, when placed across a rechargeable battery, they protect it from fast charging and discharging and allow more of the energy in the battery to be utilised. Learn more ...

IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2012 award winners

The annual printed electronics award winners were announced at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics event this week in Santa Clara, California - the World's largest event on the topic.

IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2012 Award Winners

The annual printed electronics award winners were announced at the IDTechEx Awards Dinner in Berlin, Germany on April 3rd. The awards recognize outstanding progress in the development and commercialization of printed electronics, an industry that produces a huge amount of technical innovation which will be used in many products.

Printed Electronics Europe: Learn from those with E700Billion/yr sales

The gross sales of presenting companies at Printed Electronics Europe next week - including end users, integrators and providers, is more than €700 Billion annually. Attend the event in Berlin, on April 3-4 to learn how these organisations are progressing printed electronics.

New: The printed electronics manufacturing forum

Printed electronics manufacturing is becoming increasingly integrated as companies work on putting together different printing, lamination, substrate handling, curing and finishing processes.

World's 1st pilot factory for printed intelligence industrialisation

World's first pilot factory for printed intelligence industrialisation opens at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in Oulu, Finland.

European collaboration fast-track organic & large-area electronics

European collaboration to fast-track success of organic and large-area electronics