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Kalptree Energy

Kalptree is working on microbatteries that can be bundled together to enable flexible devices. The company was founded in the Silicon Valley in late 2012.

Tesla - Residential Energy Storage

Tesla Motors is well known as an electric vehicle maker. But it also has business in energy storage sector, especially with the launch of Powerwall/Powerpack, which is a significant part of its future business and layout.

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

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

Invest in the right battery markets: New opportunities

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

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.

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.

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.

Printed and flexible electronics in vehicles will reach $5.5bn by 2026

As printed and flexible electronics are beginning to proliferate, with a variety of components and devices coming to market, several end user verticals are expected to benefit from the host of advantages these technologies offer and the automotive sector is no exception. Overall, the market is expected to grow to over $5.5 Billion dollars in the next decade, spearheaded by the projected growth of in-mold electronics and OLED technologies, as discussed in more detail in the newly launched IDTechEx report "Printed and Flexible Electronics in Automotive Applications 2016-2026 - Enabling technology toolkits, suppliers and market forecasts".

Printed and flexible electronics in vehicles: a $5.5bn opportunity

Printed and flexible electronics are beginning to proliferate, with a variety of components and devices coming to market. Several end-user verticals are expected to benefit from the host of advantages these technologies offer and the automotive sector is no exception.

When can we expect printed TVs?

LG made quite an impression during CES this year, announcing new OLED TVs that have delighted most reviewers. With premium features and a smart marketing campaign, LG has managed to position OLED as the best TV money can buy. But when will the technology become more affordable?

Band-aid senses temperature, lights up, and delivers medicine

Engineers have designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like material that can incorporate temperature sensors, LED lights, and other electronics, as well as tiny, drug-delivering reservoirs and channels.

Samsung's stripe and band batteries

Samsung SDI this week unveiled Samsung's Stripe and Band batteries. The batteries are an embodiment of the age of wearable batteries that are applicable to any curve of a human body.

Powerful battery in Audi electric, cell modules from LG and Samsung

South Korean high tech companies LG Chem and Samsung SDI to invest in European battery cell production for Audi Battery electric SUV with a range of more than 500 kilometres.

Jenax

Jenax has been listed on KOSDAQ, South Korea's Stock Exchange, since 2002. Its main business is in the iron and steel industry. It started to diversify into flexible batteries around 2010 and showed its first flexible battery prototype in 2015 at CES in Las Vegas, USA and in the Wearable Expo in Tokyo, Japan.

First mirror and transparent OLED display panels

Samsung Display has decided to bring forward the mass production of its industry's first Mirror and Transparent OLED display panels.

Trends in PV metallization

The photovoltaic industry remains a major end user of printed electronics. In this article, we will provide a detailed cost breakdown of the wafer-based silicon photovoltaic cells, showing that Ag and Al metallization continue to constitute a major cost element of the overall PV cell even though the manufacturers make to zero margin. We will then investigate some of the trends in Ag metallization before commenting on silicon inks, which at one point appeared to be the technology that increased efficiency but were leapfrogged by progress in metallization pastes.

Daejoo Electronic Materials Co., Ltd

This company is a high drive R&D based enterprise investing money from a float on the Korean equivalent of NASDAQ to develop a host of formulations

Samsung SDI to acquire battery pack business of Magna International

Samsung SDI entered into an agreement to acquire the battery pack business of Magna International, a leading global automotive supplier.

Apple, Samsung, LG Chem move into the flexible batteries business

After years of slow progress from small companies, flexible batteries now have the attention of big brands such as Apple, Samsung, LG Chemical, Nokia and STMicroelectronics, who are set to drive the flexible battery market from US$ 6.9 million in 2015 to over US$ 400 million in 2025 according to IDTechEx Research.

Crocus MLU sensors aim to put more 'flex' into flexible displays

New Magnetic Logic Unit™ based solution that can detect the position and shape of flexible two dimensional surfaces.