21 Sep 2010

Development of roll out solar cells
Rhodia, an international chemical company, has joined with the UK's Carbon Trust in a £4.5 million investment in solar energy start-up Eight19 to develop organic photovoltaic technology.
External press release
16 Aug 2010

eMagin building next generation OLED deposition machine
eMagin Corporation a leader in OLED microdisplays and virtual imaging technologies has signed an agreement to build its first production OLED deposition machine, one that will leverage the latest advances in the Company's proprietary manufacturing processes.
13 Aug 2010

UK's first printed lighting panel to start in November 2010
An initiative to develop low-cost OLED lighting in the UK has secured government funding and will officially start in early November.
28 Jul 2010

Printed Electronics in Asia - the hot sectors
There are about 3,000 organizations worldwide actively involved in the development of printed electronics. By number of organizations, Europe has the edge over the U.S., then comes Asia. However, this disguises the fact that those involved in Asia tend to be large conglomerates that can invest much more than those in the West.
4 Jun 2010

Where art thou OLED?
David Fyfe, the ex CEO of CDT who now works as a consultant for its parent company Sumitomo, gave a presentation on the OLED market at LOPE-C this week. Speaking to the history of OLEDs, he says that LCDs have drastically closed the performance gap, perhaps fuelled by the threat of OLEDs.
24 Feb 2010

OLEDs and the competition
One of the biggest obstacles for large OLED panels is the rapid improvement in the performance of competing LCD panels. So what now for OLED displays?
10 Dec 2009

Kodak to sell OLED business to LG
Eastman Kodak Company is to sell their OLED business to a group of LG companies in a move to tighten Kodak's business portfolio.
29 May 2009

Shakeout of organic transistor developers
Following on from the shakeout in OLED developers, IDTechEx sees the same thing happening now in Organic FETs.
13 Feb 2009

The evolution of television
IDTechEx looks into electronic devices that have "evolved", starting with the Television.
External press release
9 Dec 2008

CDT and Semprius to develop new OLED backplane technology
Semprius, Inc., announced that it has entered a joint development agreement with Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) to develop new technology for the manufacture of OLED (organic light emitting diode) backplanes for flat panel displays.
External press release
2 Dec 2008

Dr David Fyfe joins Soligie board
Soligie, a market leader in design and manufacture of Printed Electronics, has announced that industry veteran Dr. David Fyfe has joined Soligie's Advisory Board.
16 Sep 2008

CDT develops organic thin film transistor software model
In collaboration with Silvaco Data Systems, CDT has developed a model to design and simulate circuits using OTFT (organic thin film transistor) technology.
15 Jul 2008

New strategy for printed electronics
It is now generally accepted that the printed electronics is headed to be a business of the order of $300 billion yearly in about twenty years time.
14 Jul 2008

UK Chemical Sector Initiative - part two
It was noted in the Council for Science and Technology Review that Plastic Electronics is a high risk / high reward priority technology area. The academic structure is well established in OLED, PLED, OSC materials and deposition methods with £20M / yr funding from Research Councils (EPSRC).
27 Jun 2008

OLEDs - The future of architectural lighting
Organized by the UKDL Knowledge Transfer Network, and attended by approximately 50 people, this conference was held in the BDP Building in Clerkenwell, London on the 24th of June 2008.
24 Jun 2008

European projects accelerate OLED technology for mainstream lighting
The race is on to bring OLED technology into mainstream lighting.
13 Jun 2008

OLLA final event symposium, Eindhoven 12.8.08
The final symposium of the OLLA OLED lighting project took place on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven Netherlands 12.6.08 with about 80 attending the exhibition and about 60 attending the half day conference.
External press release
4 Jun 2008

CDT, Sumitomo and Novaled plan to co-develop hybrid OLED devices
CDT, Sumitomo Chemical and Novaled will collaborate to evaluate Novaled PIN OLED structures in Polymer OLED devices.
External press release
29 May 2008

CDT, Sumitomo and Novaled will collaborate
CDT and Sumitomo Chemicals, leaders in polymer organic light emitting diode (P-OLED) devices, and Novaled, the leader in high efficiency p-i-n OLED structures and dopant materials, have agreed to collaborate under a joint development agreement to investigate the feasibility and benefits of new materials and Novaled PIN OLEDâ„¢ structures in P-OLED devices.