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Trade & Invest Receives Printed Electronics Champion Award

For its success in helping investors set up offices and manufacturing facilities in Germany, Germany Trade & Invest has been recognized for its contribution to the printed electronics industry with the "Printed Electronics Champion" award.

Smart loudspeaker substrate for printed electronics

A lightweight, flexible loudspeaker that looks like a thick sheet of foil could signal the beginning of the end for conventional speakers in some applications.

Flexible solar energy harvesting

Cymbet Corporation and Konarka Technologies are combining their unique solar energy capture, energy conversion and energy storage technologies to demonstrate advanced solar energy harvesting techniques.

Precursor of printed electronic wallpaper

Revolutionary digital walls will provide consumers with the ability to constantly change the appearance of their personal housing environment to suit their visual tastes

OMET forms partnership with Clemson's Sonoco packaging institute

"In a collaborative effort, Clemson University will conduct a holistic approach to packaging sciences, combining many academic disciplines, to learn how to best create packaging, hot to print, fill, seal, ship and recycle, responsibly".

Vitex Systems appoints Chyi-Shan Suen President and COO

Vitex Systems, Inc., a leading technology developer, licensor and engineering service provider for thin-film encapsulation and moisture barrier films, today announced that it has appointed Chyi-Shan Suen President and Chief Operating Officer.

Printed Electronics Europe opens with Keynotes

The IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2009 event opened this morning in Dresden, Germany. Over 760 attendees had pre-registered with many more registering on the morning of the event.

Energy harvesting moves from theory to adoption

There are several conferences on the theoretical aspects of energy harvesting and they have an important function to perform. However, in 2009, the subject is finally coming of age with widespread early adoption and market pull after so many years of little more than supplier push.

Companies partner to drive new battery assisted passive RFID research

UPM Raflatac and Blue Spark Technologies partner to drive new battery assisted passive RFID research and product development

Electricity produced from waste heat

Thermoelectric materials can generate electricity from waste heat which escapes through vehicle exhaust pipes, industrial equipment, and computer chips, but so far the materials have not been efficient and have been too expensive to be widely used.

CIGS: Almost, but not quite there yet

IDTechEx believes that the amount of venture capital investment along with the intensified work for the transition from lab scale to high-volume production is going to make CIGS a technology that will be taking up a large chunk of orders and will be dominant in the photovoltaic market.

Device simulation enables optimisation of solar cells

With photovoltaic technologies playing an increasing role in the sustainable energy supply, the establishment of Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) as a centre for PV research in the Asia-Pacific region is an important step to foster innovation for this rapidly growing segment locally.

A solar power plant has been developed on the roof of Riedel Recycling

In the city of Moers near Duisburg, 120 project partners, customers and suppliers have inaugurated Germany 's largest photovoltaic plant using thin-film technology on a pitched roof.

Organic and Printed Electronics - Excellent Packaging

Researchers at the Center for Printed Intelligence (CPI) of the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have developed an electronic spoilage sensor concept for poultry.

Integrated inkjet roll-to-roll solar cell manufacturing solution

iTi Solar has been selected by Solarcoating Machinery GmbH (ScM) of Germany, a supplier of turnkey production line solutions for flexible solar cell fabrication, to provide the first digital inkjet system for its integrated roll-to-roll solar cell manufacturing production line.

4-bit CMOS transponder achieved by PolyIC

PolyIC presented the prototype of an air stable passive organic CMOS 4-bit RFID transponder for a carrier frequency of 13.56MHz.

Thermal energy harvesting and perpetual power supplies

Thermoelectric power generation is based on a heat flux through a thermoelectric element or a thermogenerator.

Aistrup Consulting launches new strategic marketing service

Aistrup Consulting launches new strategic marketing service at Printed Electronics Europe '09 to help printed electronics companies exceed revenue goals and drive better business decisions

Printed Electronics Europe 2009: Germany an innovation hotbed

Printed electronics is an emerging USD 300 billion market that offers a wide range of potential beyond the traditional organic electronics industry. Printed electronics includes thin film transistor circuits (TFTCs), displays, connectors, power sensors, and actuators.

Highly efficient RFID Smart Label strap production

The Muehlbauer Technology Group provides with the FCM 20000 the most efficient and highly flexible system for high volume RFID Smart Label strap production.