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Semiconductors grown on graphene

Semiconductors grown on graphene could become the basis for new types of device systems, and could transform the semiconductor industry by introducing graphene as a preferred substrate for many applications.

Chemical and component opportunities in Asia

As Asia has dominated in displays, photovoltaics, semiconductor manufacture and other technology sectors, so too will it dominate in making and integrating better components and consumer electronics using the new materials that are enabling devices to be lighter, more robust, flexible, more power efficient and higher performance. Some of these most exciting material developments and their uses are covered at Printed Electronics Asia 2012.

Flexible barriers: A $1 billion opportunity by 2022

As more and more flexible devices are becoming available, the need for better performing barriers and encapsulation materials at lower cost points intensifies.

Big disagreement on where lithium-ion batteries are headed

Lithium-ion is the winning type of rechargeable battery for the decade - there is almost a consensus. You can count about 150 manufacturers of these and IDTechEx has profiled nearly all of them.

Printed thin film transistors to be discussed in Tokyo

Today, we have a rapidly increasing range of material options available for fabricating TFTs, including oxides, organics, etc. In spite of this, amorphous and polycrystalline silicon remain the dominant technologies.

LG Display employees charged with OLED theft

LG Display Co. said 11 people including six of its own employees have been charged with stealing advanced TV display technology from rival Samsung.

New material breakthroughs to be presented at Asia's IDTechEx event

New material breakthroughs to be presented at Asia event By Cathleen Thiele, Technology Analyst, IDTechEx

Novaled & Samsung Mobile Display sign strategic cooperation agreement

As part of the agreement, SMD has committed to purchase dopant materials used in the transport layers of its AMOLED display modules from Novaled for several years. In addition, Novaled will provide its proprietary PIN OLED® technology to SMD for use in the production of SMD's AMOLED display modules.

Exploring Opportunities for Printed Electronics in East Asia

There have been three billion-dollar success stories in printed and organic electronics so far - and in each Asia has been a key driving factor.

Data-eye-glasses based on bidirectional OLED microdisplays

Interactive OLED-data-eye-glasses win the "Best in Show" award at the 50th anniversary of the worldwide leading display conference SID 2012 in Boston/USA.

Samsung Electronics presents a new graphene device structure

Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, the core R&D incubator for Samsung Electronics, has developed a new transistor structure utilizing graphene, touted as the "miracle material."

IDTechEx visits South Korea

IDTechEx recently visited South Korea as part of a UK Trade and Investment mission. Here we summarise some highlights of the trip.

Touch screen market to reach $14 billion in 2012

Shipment of tablets with touch screen technology is expected to reach 100 million units in 2012.

Novaled files registration statement for IPO

* Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank lead underwriters * To end silent participation of equity investor after closing offering

Printed and potentially printed electronics reach $9.4 billion in 2012

This includes devices not yet printed today but which are moving towards being printed. Of this market, 30% of the devices studied are made predominately by printing, and 6% are on a non-rigid substrate.

The Asian Research Network: a collaboration to boost science

The spirit of cooperation is aiding research productivity across Asia.

Organic Photovoltaics Progress at Heliatek

Heliatek GmbH is the only company in the photovoltaics sector producing modules based on vacuum-deposited small molecules.

Printed Electronics Asia - the biggest market for many

IDTechEx will host the Printed Electronics Asia conference and tradeshow on 2-3 October in Tokyo, Japan.

Predicting success in electric vehicles

This article shares some of the research carried out for the latest in the series of 18 IDTechEx reports on electric vehicles and their components.