Linkoping University

Event report: Innovations in Large Area Electronics

IDTechEx attended the second innoLAE conference, which took place on the 1st and 2nd of February 2016 in Cambridge (UK). It was organised by the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large-Area Electronics.

Storing electricity in paper

Researchers have developed power paper - a new material with an outstanding ability to store energy.

Researchers create electronic plants

Using semi-conductive polymers, both analog and digital electronic circuits can be created inside living flowers, bushes and trees.

E-skin and pocket-sized diagnostic machines give patients the power

Wearable E-skin that can measure heart rate and blood pressure, and paper diagnostic machines the size of a credit card that can give instant readings on blood and saliva samples.

Printed temperature sensor for drug monitoring in field

Heat or cold can lower the efficiency of a drug. A new all-printed, hybrid temperature sensor can be the solution for monitoring drugs in field in a near future.

EU-funded project investigates energy harvesting

Energy harvesting systems that are developed within the Smart-MEMPHIS project will have many applications ranging from implantable pacemakers to aircrafts.

LunaLEC

LunaLEC was founded in 2012 in order to develop lighting panels from the LEC research performed by professors Nathaniel Robinson at Linköping University and Ludvig Edman at Umeå University. They target markets are applications like Christmas cards, point-of-sale posters, etc

New printed low-cost device for uv-light monitoring

A new type of printed UV-light detector is now ready for market.

The first chemical circuit developed

Klas Tybrandt, doctoral student in Organic Electronics at Linköping University, Sweden, has developed an integrated chemical chip.

Brown liquor and solar cells to provide sustainable electricity

According to research at Linköping University, batteries of biological waste products from pulp mills could provide the solution for energy storage.

Organic electrochemical cell could be an alternative to OLED lighting

An organic light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEC) could be a cheaper alternative to OLED technology.

The huge impact of printed transistors

A new range of transistors using thin films of organic or inorganic compounds as the semiconductors and gate dielectrics are being pursued by organizations in over 30 countries. The new IDTechEx report