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Researchers developing printed electronics for creating RFID tags

European researchers have taken a major step towards the goal of developing printable electronics that can be used for creating radio frequency identification tags and flexible watch displays.

Solar pioneer G24i triumphs at environmental awards

G24 Innovations (G24i) has won the Premier Product Award at the prestigious Business Commitment to the Environment (BCE) Environmental Leadership Awards.

Tekes grants 1,5 million Euros loan for technology development

TEKES The Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, on 27 June granted Enfucell a 1,5 million euros loan for development of the SoftBattery™ technology.

Breakthrough in metal ink cure: room temperature on cheap substrates

IDTechEx recently visited Novacentrix in Austin, Texas, to learn of their room temperature cure process.

Inorganic chemistry used more widely

Printed electronics today is mainly a matter of inorganic rather than organic chemistry and the next ten years are unlikely to see the inorganic part drop below 50% of the high value materials required.

Vibrant RFID markets to be analysed in RFID Europe

Printed electronics is used in RFID to a steadily increasing extent as volumes start to exceed those met in any other form of electronics.

HP licenses technology to Xtreme Energetics for solar energy system

HP and Xtreme Energetics have announced that they have entered into an agreement for the development of a solar energy system designed to generate electricity at twice the efficiency and half the cost of traditional solar panels.

OLEDs - The future of architectural lighting

Organized by the UKDL Knowledge Transfer Network, and attended by approximately 50 people, this conference was held in the BDP Building in Clerkenwell, London on the 24th of June 2008.

New technology powers big RFID order book

One million transistors is not enough for the RFID chip in the new e-passports because, increasingly, they have to double as driver's licenses, multipurpose cards and other media.

Nano-Proprietary and Universitaet Stuttgart advance carbon nanotubes

Universitaet Stuttgart, and Nano-Proprietary, Inc.'s subsidiary Applied Nanotech, Inc. announce significant advancement in the application of carbon nanotubes for the flexible electronics industry.

Smart paint warns motorists of ice

smart paint that can be seen when driving in freezing conditions is being developed by researchers of French paving company Eurovia.

Matsushita plan to mass produce OLED TVs in 2011

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co plan to mass-produce 37-inch organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs in three years reported the Japanese newspaper the Sankei Shimbun daily on Tuesday.

European projects accelerate OLED technology for mainstream lighting

The race is on to bring OLED technology into mainstream lighting.

Highlights of Photovoltaics beyond Conventional Silicon event

IDTechEx shed light on progress of technologies at Photovoltaics beyond Conventional Silicon conference held in Denver.

ESL's flexible polymer finds niche in touch panel display manufacture

ESL acknowledges the plastic electronics revolution on flexible substrates is here to stay and will meet their customers' challenges with off-the-shelf products, and with the development of proprietary or custom formulations.

THIN - INKTEC and Thin Film Electronics broaden agreement

The extended joint collaboration is focused on developing reliable print manufacturing processes for high volume production of Thinfilm's memory technology. The work will be performed at InkTec's 2nd factory in Pyungtaek-city, Korea.

University teams with Gentag and SAIC to develop glucose sensors

Georgetown University, Gentag, Inc., and Science Applications International Corporation, have combined forces to develop a non-invasive method for glucose measurement.

A major milestone - white OLED technology exceeds 100 lm/W

Steven V Abramson, CEO of Universal Display says that through this record milestone, white OLEDs are moving a significant step closer to becoming a key participant in the $100 billion per year lighting industry.

The OLLA project delivers its final milestone

At the end of the project period, the OLLA project consortium presents its final milestone: the basic technology for a white OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) light source, with an efficacy of 50.7 lumens per watt at an initial brightness of 1.000 cd/m² based on the Novaled PIN OLED technology. The OLLA project is a joint basic research consortium, headed by Philips Lighting.

IDTechEx Photovoltaics Beyond Conventional Silicon 2008 event

This week IDTechEx is holding its first event dedicated to Photovoltaic (PV) technologies beyond conventional silicon. It covers the increasing work on CIGS, CdTe, Organic PV and many other chemistry devices, offering benefits over conventional silicon PV such as cost, weight and ease of installation.