13 Jul 2009

Energy harvesting at Holst Research Centre part one
Holst Research Centre in the Netherlands, now owned by IMEC, has achieved an enviable record in energy harvesting development in only three years.
8 Jul 2009

Joint research on roll-to-roll organic photovoltaics
ECN, the largest research centre in The Netherlands in the field of energy, and Holst Centre, an open-innovation initiative by TNO (The Netherlands) and IMEC (Belgium), signed an agreement to offer a joint research program on Roll-to-Roll organic photovoltaics (OPV) to the industry.
4 Jun 2009

Energy Harvesting & Storage Europe, Cambridge, UK
Now in its second day, the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and Storage conference in Cambridge, UK, has 150 attendees discovering the latest in harvesting and storage technologies and the applications that drive such innovation.
23 Apr 2009

IMEC demonstrate 128 bit organic RFID transponder
Holst Centre - founded by the Belgian nanoelectronics research center IMEC and the Dutch research center TNO presented a 128 bit organic RFID transponder chip with Manchester encoding and anti-collision protocol.
21 Apr 2009

The latest on conductive materials
"Conductive materials for printed electronics were one of the interesting topics on the morning of the second day of the IDTechEx conference Printed Electronics Europe 2009" reports Cathleen Macher.
External press release
6 Apr 2009

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.
External press release
2 Apr 2009

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.
External press release
25 Mar 2009

Novaled and Holst Centre to cooperate on organic electronics
Novaled AG announces that it will work together with Holst Centre on Organic Thin Film Transistors (OTFT) using the Novaled PIN OLED® technology and materials.
31 Dec 2008

World's first UHF plastic diode
The world's first plastic diode operating in the Ultra-high frequency (UHF) band has been developed by IMEC (Belgium) and TNO (The Netherlands).
9 Oct 2008

Gas and moisture permeation measurement for high barrier films
IDTechEx reports on the Printing and Graphics Science Group of the IOP one-day seminar on measuring techniques for high barrier films, held at Institute of Physics, London on Thursday 25th September 2008.
External press release
20 Jun 2008

Holst Centre opens Roll-to-Roll research line for printed electronics
Holst Centre will initially focus its activities on large-area printing and printed structures on flexible substrates around the Roll-to-Roll line. Main application driver is the development of device layouts and processes for flexible OLED lighting and signage.
30 Apr 2008

How to print OLEDs
OLEDs have huge market potential including 10% of the replacement market for light meaning 70 square kilometers per year.
13 Feb 2008

IDTechEx Review: Flexible Displays Conference Part 2
Part 2 of the IDTechEx review of the Flexible Displays Conference in Phoenix.
24 Jan 2008

New direction for printed electronics in 2008
The money spent on printed and potentially printed electronics doubled in 2007, as did the number of organisations participating.
6 Dec 2007

RFID is Poised for Change
The prosperous RFID business is on track to grow from about $5 billion in 2007 today to over $25 billion in 2017. Without collusion, most analysts agree to figures in that region and several of them see huge volumes of extremely low cost tags forming a part of the growth - even hundreds of billions in ten years from now. This seems to sit awkwardly with some press reporting that RFID retail initiatives have stalled. As one of those analysts, let IDTechEx explain.
8 Oct 2007

Ubiquitous Sensor Networks Event in Korea
The millions to billions of tags involved in the Ubiquitous Sensor Networks often have RFID and power sources and be made by printing to achieve the necessary very low cost.