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Funding for electric car and energy storage battery systems

California-based electric car and battery company CODA Automotive, together with joint venture partner, Lishen Power Battery, has secured $394 million of committed capital.

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.

Printed electronics technology - back to basics

Find out the most exciting advances and applications in the new world of stretchable, invisible, morphable, tightly rollable, edible and other previously impossible electronics.

OLEDs and the competition

One of the biggest obstacles for large OLED panels is the rapid improvement in the performance of competing LCD panels. So what now for OLED displays?

Highlights from the 2010 Flexible Electronics and Displays Conference

Chris Giacoponello introduced NTERA's concept of "printegration", the possibility to integrate a display, a sensor and a battery by using successive printing steps. NTERA's technology is based on viologen inks that change colour upon accepting electrical charge. Without a need for a transparent conductor, they can be directly deposited on any opaque substrate (e.g. paper, PCB) with better reflectivity and lower cost (avoiding costly ITO).Company demonstrators include RF-powered displays (co-operation with poly-IC), solar powered ones (co-operation with Plextronics) and a device comprising a printed display & battery stack, demonstrated in June 2009.

Solar cells, e-books...what next?

2008 was the year of the solar cell, 2009 is marked by the success and growth of the e-book reader market and 2010 will be the year we start to witness further OLED penetration.

Printed buttons with feeling - haptic touch

The technical term is haptic touch. It refers to printed buttons that regain the interactive feeling of the old fashioned keyboard.

Using a-Si TFTs for AMOLED displays: Progress from Ignis

For LCDs, TFTs are only charging and discharging a capacitor (that is effectively what an LCD is electrically). Once the capacitor is charged the TFT can be switched off and the display continues to function.

Kodak to sell OLED business to LG

Eastman Kodak Company is to sell their OLED business to a group of LG companies in a move to tighten Kodak's business portfolio.

Universal Display and the Flexible Display Center at ASU

Universal Display and the Flexible Display Center at ASU enhance strategic relationship to supply flexible active-matrix pholed display prototypes to U.S. Army. Universal Display also awarded $650,000 U.S. Army SBIR Phase II Enhancement Program to support demonstration of enhanced-performance AMOLEDs on plastic substrates.

A new technology could massively reduce costs of display panels

Here is a new technology for flat screen displays that is likely to employ printing for some layers, and like a fibre optic cable can be bendable.

Asian companies stride ahead to mass-produce larger OLED displays

Whilst OLED displays are steadily being found in mobile phones and other small electronic devices, the high costs of mass-producing them has kept the technology from being a serious contender for TVs and PCs in a market dominated by cheaper LCD panels.

Size unlimited for Mitsubishi's 155 inch OLED screen

Mitsubishi created a flurry of interest at Japan's consumer electronics exhibition, CEATEC earlier this month with their 155 inch OLED Screen.

HYPOLED consortium announces new partner and important milestones

The consortium for the HYPOLED project, co-ordinated by Fraunhofer IPMS, has announced collaboration with MicroOLED following the bankruptcy of MicroEmissive Displays late last year.

Epson and E Ink announce a new addition to the EPD controller family

Seiko Epson Corporation and E Ink Corporation announced a new jointly developed display controller IC, the S1D13522, which provides a high performance, space saving solution for E Ink's Vizplex-enabled electronic paper displays.

Amazon's Kindle goes international

The international version of Amazon's Kindle is now available to order in 100 countries although it will be another two weeks before the devices are shipped from the US.

Prime View Int and E Ink Corp revise merger agreement

Prime View International and E Ink Corporation revise merger agreement

Areas of highest interest in the field of the new electronics

Flexible Displays and Lighting - Areas of highest interest in the field of the new electronics