Ghent University

Turning clothing into information displays

Researchers have demonstrated the world's first stretchable and conformable thin-film transistor (TFT) driven LED display laminated into textiles. This paves the way to wearable displays in clothing providing users with feedback.

A Stretchable Highway for Light

For futuristic applications like wearable body sensors and robotic skin, researchers need to ferry information along flexible routes.

Applications of stretchable electronics

Stretchable electronics has been one of the least exploited but most researched sectors of the new electronics over the past decade. To find out more read the IDTechEx research report "Stretchable Electronics Comes to Market".

Imec demonstrates electronics that flex and stretch like skin

Imec has announced that it has integrated an ultra-thin, flexible chip with bendable and stretchable interconnects into a package that adapts dynamically to curving and bending surfaces.

European collaboration fast-track organic & large-area electronics

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

Successful advancement of OLED technology

The energy efficiency and lifetime of organic LEDs for large-area lighting applications has been increased

Smart fabrics closer to consumers

By integrating electronics with textiles it is posible to provide new concepts for lighting, heating, cooling, energy harvesting, communicating, sensing, measuring and monitoring.

Oled100.eu wins - best ICT for energy efficiency project

The European Commission's ICT for Energy Efficiency (ICT4EE) has granted its Best ICT4EE Award to the OLED100.eu project. OLED100.eu has received the First Place Award for its ICT contribution by showing that adoption of OLED lighting can lead to substantial improvements in energy efficiency and for its efforts to educate the public and disseminate the OLED (organic LED) lighting vision.

Major step towards low-power all-optical switching

The January issue of the premier scientific magazine Nature Photonics publishes an ultra-small and fast, electrically pumped all-optical memory on a silicon chip with record low power consumption.

OLED100.eu research consortium to spearhead the advancement of OLEDs

OLED100.eu, an integrated research project, has brought together a consortium of experts from leading industry and academic organisations to accelerate the development of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technologies in Europe.

The OLLA project delivers its final milestone

At the end of the project period, the OLLA project consortium presents its final milestone: the basic technology for a white OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) light source, with an efficacy of 50.7 lumens per watt at an initial brightness of 1.000 cd/m² based on the Novaled PIN OLED technology. The OLLA project is a joint basic research consortium, headed by Philips Lighting.

Biocompatible Flexible and Stretchable Electronics on the Horizon

Researchers are developing biocompatible, stretchable, waterproof electronic circuit technology that can be integrated in stretchable applications like bandages or medical implants.