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Plastic and flexible OLED displays market to reach $18bn by 2020

IDTechEx Research has just released new forecasts for the OLED display market.

2015 - A great year for large-sized lithium-ion batteries

Electric bus is a game changer in the battery market.

$88 million in series E financing for OLED leader Kateeva

The new Kateeva investors are: BOE, Cybernaut Venture, GP Capital Shanghai, Redview Capital, and TCL Capital, all located in China. They join existing investors that include: Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, Sigma Partners, Spark Capital, Madrone Capital Partners, DBL Partners, New Science Ventures, and VEECO Instruments, Inc.

Invest in the right battery markets: New opportunities

This article will discuss the emerging technologies, new opportunities and potential markets in the battery industry.

KoruLab

IDTechEx interviewed Koru Lab, a Finnish company who have developed a custom operating system for wearable technology products. They have built the product to run on lower power processors based on ARMs Cortex M4, meaning that, unlike incumbents like Android Wear, they can run in lower power systems. This profile summarises our conversation, outlining their capabilities.

Samsung Australia introduces brainBAND

Samsung Electronics Australia has announced the creation of brainBAND, an innovative piece of wearable technology designed to facilitate research into concussion in sports.

What's hot and what's not in Printed Electronics

IDTechEx has been following the printed electronics market for fifteen years. In this article we provide ten brief updates across different parts of the industry.

Amotech - Offerings for Wearable Devices

IDTechEx met with Brian Lee and Won-Bok Cho from Amotech in Seoul, Korea, in April 2016. During this meeting we discussed Amotech's offerings for the wearable technology industry, including their wireless power transfer solutions, connectivity, protection products and new developments around sensors and flexible batteries.

Skeleton Technologies

Skeleton Technologies won the Ecosummit London Award for the best startup in 2015, as Europe's biggest developer and manufacturer of ultracapacitor cells. Customers include the European Space Agency, which uses the product to solve power delivery and energy storage issues by recapturing energy and providing peak and backup power.

What's Trending in Printed Electronics

From many different angles, the printed electronics sector is gaining commercial momentum. In this article, IDTechEx explores some of the top trends in the industry.

The Printed Electronics Industry at a Glance

The state of the industry in terms of market size by component type is summarized.

Smartwatches can now track your finger in mid-air using sonar

As mobile and wearable devices such as smartwatches grow smaller, it gets tougher for people to interact with screens the size of a matchbook. That could change with a new sonar technology.

Samsung-backed IOFIT's smart shoes do more than track fitness

IOFIT is a solution that utilizes a combination of pressure sensors and a coaching app to improve a user's balance and body posture to enhance one's fitness routine or golf swing.

Why Samsung will re-enter the OLED TV market

LG Display is currently the only manufacturer of large OLED panels. But it is not just the rivalry with LG that will drive Samsung to invest in OLED production capacity.

Flexible, printed and thin film batteries:A new era for energy storage

The battery market has suddenly become alive again in recent years. On the one hand, batteries are assuming new form factors, becoming ultra-thin, flexible, rollable, stretchable, etc. On the other hand, manufacturing are scrambling to offer large batteries aimed at addressing the large-sized electric vehicle and grid applications.

Event report: Electronic Display Conference 2016

IDTechEx gave a talk at the Electronic Display Conference in Nuremberg, Germany. The conference had more people than the previous edition and celebrated its 30th year, which reflects how important displays have become in our everyday life. The presentation from IDTechEx was on two disruptive technological trends in flat panel displays: quantum dots and flexible OLED.

Electric bus sector is game changer for battery market

The electric bus market is growing at a CAGR of 20% in terms of unit sales. The rapid growth is a game changer for the battery market as electric buses require large-sized batteries ranging from 74 kWh (fast charging e-bus) to over 300 kWh (slow charging e-bus). This is why IDTechEx Research forecasts that the e-bus battery market will overtake the consumer electronics sector by 2020.