17 Oct 2008

The new electronics paradigm
The new IDTechEx masterclass, called "Creating new products with printed electronics," will explore the needs by industry sector and appraise the technologies and timelines.
17 Oct 2008

Highlights from IDTechEx on Printed Electronics Asia 2008, Tokyo
Companies such as Toppan Forms, Panasonic, Dai Nippon Printing, Sony, Samsung, Toyota, Mitsubishi Plastics, Brother Industries, Teijin, Konica Minolta, Mitsui, Toshiba and Honda attended Printed Electronics Asia 2008
10 Oct 2008

Highlights from Printed Electronics Asia 2008 - part one
238 people attended the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Asia 2008 conference and exhibition on October 8-9 this week. Companies attended included Toppan Forms, Panasonic, Dai Nippon Printing, Sony, Samsung, Toyota, Mitsubishi Plastics, Brother Industries, Teijin, Konica Minolta, Mitsui, Toshiba and Honda to name a few.
7 Oct 2008

PowerFilm Inc to develop self powered flexible display for the US Army
PowerFilm Inc to receive funding to develop a Self Powered Flexible Display for the U.S. Army.
12 Sep 2008

Printed Photovoltaics in Japan
The approach to the new photovoltaics is different in Japan. Unlike Western car companies, Honda is making photovoltaics partly because it could help to create the car of the future. The Western car companies take a shorter term view and even struggle to catch up with Japanese hybrid vehicle technology and the batteries required.
External press release
6 Aug 2008

Plastic Logic, receives new $50 million round of venture capital
Reinvestment supports next growth phase: Opening Dresden plant, establishing US headquarters, management team expansion.
1 Aug 2008

Huge growth of Printed Electronics Asia conference
Printed Electronics Asia will display some of the latest manufacturing technologies from across the world.
30 Jul 2008

Progress towards p-type metal oxide semiconductors
In the last few years there has been increasing work on printed Zinc Oxide (ZnO) inorganic semiconductors. However, the materials developed have been used to demonstrated n-type transistors, but p-type transistors have not been commercially available. There are now two organizations that IDTechEx is aware of, and many more working on the topic, claiming p-type ZnO transistors are possible with reproducible results.
17 Jul 2008

Graphene could be used one day in large-area thin film electronics
Researchers have found a simple way to uniformly deposit between one and five layers of graphene to create transistors and proof-of concept electrodes for organic photovoltaics.
16 Jul 2008

RFID and the Printing Industry
Printed RFID is only part of an emerging $300 billion business in printing many forms of electronics and electrics.
11 Jul 2008

UK Chemical Sector Initiative - part one
On 1st July, The UK Trade & Investment Chemical Sector Initiative on Printed Electronics hosted a Masterclass at Haydock Park Racecourse in North West England.
9 Jul 2008

Memristors could play a role in computer memories that do not forget
Memristor discovery could lead to far more energy-efficient computing systems with memories that don't forget and never need to be booted up.
1 Jul 2008

Inorganic chemistry used more widely
Printed electronics today is mainly a matter of inorganic rather than organic chemistry and the next ten years are unlikely to see the inorganic part drop below 50% of the high value materials required.
External press release
30 Jun 2008

HP licenses technology to Xtreme Energetics for solar energy system
HP and Xtreme Energetics have announced that they have entered into an agreement for the development of a solar energy system designed to generate electricity at twice the efficiency and half the cost of traditional solar panels.
23 Apr 2008

Printed oxide electronics at Oregon State University
Oregon State University has had a comprehensive program developing printed oxide electronics and electro-optics for some years.
22 Apr 2008

Hewlett Packard prints aSi backplanes reel to reel
Hewlett Packard described one of the most accomplished feats of engineering in reel to reel production of transistor circuits at Printed Electronics Europe.
21 Apr 2008

IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2008 awards announced
The IDTechEx Printed Electronics Awards were given in recognition for outstanding achievement at the gala dinner.
1 Apr 2008

Over 600 attendees registered for Printed Electronics Europe
Over 600 attendees registered for the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe Conference and Exhibition.
27 Mar 2008

China repositions in RFID and prints more Part 2
One day there may be laws to tag all 150 million dogs in China and 2.4 billion pigs yearly but IDTechEx finds that there is no hurry to do this and when it is done it will almost certainly be on a province by province basis.