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Flexible PV: growing more than three-fold in the next 5 years

Although it is often the case that flexible solar panels are assumed to be related to organic photovoltaic technologies, that is not always the case.

First impressions from Printed Electronics USA 2012 California

Printed electronics has reached its tipping point as evidenced by the world's largest event on the topic, Printed Electronics USA, now taking place in Santa Clara California, staged by the leading analysts on the subject, IDTechEx.

20 years dedicated to promoting innovation

Founded 20 years ago in Mataró (Barcelona) to promote growth and innovation in the industrial fabric, CETEMMSA has evolved to become today the Spanish benchmark in printed electronics and textile electronics.

Are IGZO backplanes the answer for the display industry?

New drivers are opening up new frontiers in the display industry, resulting in technological innovation and the expansion and diversification of the market. This article summaries some of these recent developments and research from IDTechEx's brand new report "Metal Oxide TFT Backplanes for Displays 2013-2018: Analysis, Trends, Markets."

Conductive single-walled CNT system for screen-printing applications

Brewer Science introduces conductive single-walled carbon nanotube pastes that are stable, concentrated, and designed especially for screen-printing for conductive trace applications in flexible electronics, circuit boards, and back-end electronics packaging.

An $18 billion market for electric vehicle inverters in 2023

The market for electric vehicle inverters, including converters, for both hybrid and pure electric vehicles land, water and air, will grow to $18 billion in 2023 as forecasted in the new IDTechEx report Inverters for Electric Vehicles 2013-2023.

Electric field alignment of nanoparticles from CondAlign

Norwegian based company CondAlign has developed an electric field control technology which allows the rapid alignment of conductive nanoparticles.

AMO GmbH

Amo GmbH is a research foundry. They focus on providing R&D services in the area of nanofabrication. They are currently working on graphene transistors too (not the fabrication part) and have reported promising results.

Haydale Ltd

Haydale is a UK-based company producing single and multi-walled carbon nanotubes as well as multi-layered graphene nanoplatellets. They have a plasma-based production process and can functionalise graphene nanoplatellets and CNTs in-situ. They have also recently launched an ink formulation in collaboration with Gwent Electronic Materials

Poly-Ink

Poly-ink is a start-up in France supplying two transparent inks based on PDOT:PSS with added carbon nanotubes to improve conductivity. Dr Khasha Ghaffarzadeh caught up with Poly-Ink in Feburary 2017.