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IDTechEx interviews Zoe Robson, Managing director of Zed-Studio

In line with IDTechEx's interest in innovative electronics designs and form factors, last week Dr Harry Zervos interviewed Zoe Robson, Managing director of Zed-Studio , a spin off from London's South Bank University. Zoe shared her views on the potential of collaborative efforts between electronics developers and designers with inspirational ideas, facilitating the transition of printed electronics from the lab onto everyday life.

IDTechEx exhibiting at SID later this month

Visit IDTechEx at our booth at SID (1309), where you will have a chance to speak with the IDTechEx team as well as the opportunity to discuss specific developments with our analysts.

Progress with flexible photovoltaics

In the last six months, IDTechEx has finally obtained working samples of many types of flexible photovoltaics - amorphous silicon, dye sensitised solar cells, copper indium gallium diselenide and organic.

IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe award winners

IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe award winners

SunRay Scientific launches ZTACH adhesives for flexible electronics

SunRay Scientific, a leader in solutions for flex circuit and printed electronics manufacturing, has announced that it is launching UV cured ZTACH™ anisotropic conductive adhesives for assembly of flexible electronics. The UV cured ZTACH™ anisotropic conductive adhesives, which are designed for fine pitch interconnects on flexible substrates, will be complementary to SunRay's existing heat cured ZTACH™ adhesives which are designed for lead free assembly on rigid substrates.

All set for high-volume production of printed memories

Last year Thin Film Electronics ASA ("Thinfilm") announced successful high-volume pilot production of roll-to-roll printed memories. Now, Thinfilm is moving from pilot to regular production. "We have made great progress together with our partners. Deployment of products in the field will start soon," says Rolf Åberg CEO Thinfilm.

Harvesting energy from the pavement

Pavegen systems is a UK based company that has developed energy harvesting systems which take power from footsteps.

Less than one week to Printed Electronics Europe 2010

Next week the sixth annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe event takes place in Dresden, Germany on April 13-14. Read about some of the event highlights here.

Breakthroughs with sensing in the human body

Holst Centre and others are working on body area networking to monitor vital signs, control drug delivery according to need and otherwise progress towards bionic man and woman and care of the disabled and elderly. Unfortunately cutting into your body to change batteries brings with it a significant percentage of mortalities, not just pain and infection. Energy harvesting within the body is potentially helpful but biobatteries and thermoelectric generators provide only weak amounts of electricity in such applications.

Driving electronics for OLEDs

E2M Technology is working with a leading blue-chip Japanese semiconductor company to develop a new range of OLED driver chips for OLED lighting applications. How OLEDs are electronically controlled is as important as the OLED chemistry itself.

Wind energy harvester from Humdinger

IDTechEx met with Humdinger last week in Hong Kong, a start-up company of six people that has developed a completely new approach to wind energy harvesters.

Ultraviolet curing for printed electronics

E2M Technology's ultraviolet curing device represents the very latest in high-tech ultraviolet curing for the electronics industry.

Breakthroughs with sensing in the human body

Holst Centre and others are working on body area networking to monitor vital signs, control drug delivery according to need and otherwise progress towards bionic man and woman and care of the disabled and elderly. Unfortunately cutting into your body to change batteries brings with it a significant percentage of mortalities, not just pain and infection. Energy harvesting within the body is potentially helpful but biobatteries and thermoelectric generators provide only weak amounts of electricity in such applications.

PriMeBits memory project goes inorganic

In the European PriMeBits project, a printable electric low-voltage non-volatile memory is being developed for printed sensor, media and wireless ID applications. The main strategy is to utilize printed technology where it has a competitive advantage compared to silicon technology. The project builds on basic research of new materials and components and takes the results into prototyping of new applications. To reduce the research risk, two different technologies for the memory functionality are considered with partially overlapping application areas.

SunRay Scientific launches NANOGLOW™ conductive silver inks

SunRay Scientific, a leader in solutions for flex circuit and printed electronics manufacturing, announced today that it is launching NANOGLOW™ water-based, nano-silver inks for roll-to-roll printing of conductive traces on low temperature substrates such as polyester and paper. The NANGLOW™ products are designed for flexographic/gravure printing and will be complementary to SunRay's existing MAXIGLOW™ portfolio of silver/carbon inks, dielectrics, and epoxies which are designed for screen printing of membrane switches, and other printed electronics applications.

Printed Electronics Europe on track to exceed 1000 attendees

With a month still to go, more than 650 unique attendees from 24 countries have registered for Europe's largest show covering printed electronics and its many variants (flexible, organic and inorganic electronics). As of this week, there are 74 exhibiting companies - the World's largest exhibition on the topic.

Raghu Das from IDTechEx to present at the LSCM Annual Conference

Raghu Das from IDTechEx will present at the Hong Kong R&D Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Enabling Technologies (LSCM) Annual Conference in Hong Kong on the 26 March 2010.