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NanoGram Corp

This profile describes Nanogram Teijin's silicon nanoparticle technology

Philips Corporate Technologies

The smart window/glass technology from Philips is based on e-paper principles - particles are moved from the edge of a cell across a cell when voltage is applied. Light transmission through the glass can be controlled between 1 to 70%

Mazda

Mazda Motor Corporation is a Japanese car manufacturer based in Fuchū, Hiroshima Prefecture. It was the fifteenth biggest automaker worldwide with sales of $20 billion that year. Over the past thirty years FORD had a strong interest in the company, owning up to a third of the company at one point, but it has now completely scaled back and owns just 3% of the company. The company is launching a new concept of hybrid electric car, the first supercapacitor based car in 2014.

Pipistrel

World's leading electric aircraft manufacturer and the only one with ten years of sales.

Ruckmarine

Distributes Torqeedo Electric Outboards, Team Scarab Electric Sportboats, and solar PowerSkiffs

Tesla Motors

Tesla is the world's sixth largest EV manufacturers coming from nothing in a few years with its Apple-like "must have" product propositions in up-market electric cars and soon pure electric mainstream cars and light commercial vehicles.

Yutong Group

Yutong Group of China is the world's largest bus and electric bus manufacturer and the 11th largest manufacturer of electric vehicles in the world.

Hyster-Yale

Hyster-Yale was created in 2012 by Nacco Industries spinning off 80% of its business to create this pure-play intralogistics vehicle manufacturer. It is fourth largest in this business and 8th largest EV manufacturer in the world.

Jungheinrich AG

Jungheinrich is the world's third largest manufacturer of intralogistics vehicles and number five in EVs as a whole.

OXIS Energy

Oxis Energy is a lithium sulphur battery technology developer company based in the UK. It is one of the few companies developing this technology. Targeting the automotive, defense and energy storage market the company has developed partnerships and received invesments from companies across the whole value chain of the electric vehicle industry.

Daimler AG

Daimler AG is a major automotive company with electric vehicle activities under Orion bus, Smart car, Mercedes car and commercial vehicle brands and other activities including an e-scooter. Its fuel cell development for EVs and roll out program is up with the global leaders.

Toda Kogyo Corp

Toda Kogyo offers nano particle production based on wet synthesis methods where they can control particle size (from 3nm to 1,000nm), shape, surface and particle size distribution.

Plextronics (Solvay OLED)

Plextronics is a private company founded in 2002 as a spinout from Carnegie Mellon University, based upon conductive polymer technology developed by Dr. Richard McCullough. The company is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2014 the company, having failed to find a buyer and running out of funds, scaled back and got acquired by Solvay.

Liquid versus Solid State DSSCs: A game changing breakthrough?

Perovskite based DSSCs have the potential to compete with first and second generation solar technologies in terms of performance, and are expected to reach even higher efficiency levels very quickly.

Merck KGaA

Merck offer the Lisicon range of products for organic transistor based devices. They offer the organic materials for the full transistor stack (excluding the inorganic electrodes). Merck has active programs to improve the performance of both organic semiconductors, targeted a mobility of 10 cm2/Vs for the small molecule versions by 3Q 2014 and a mobility of 5 cm2/Vs for the polymer version by Q1 2015.

Sharp

Sharp launched its first IGZO TFT LCD mobile in 2012. Since then, it has launched a range of other products on the market using a metal oxide TFT backplane. It has repurposed some of its a-Si TFT plants to manufacture the IGZO TFT backplanes.

Feedback from Printed Electronics USA 2013

The IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA event in Santa Clara in November was attended by approximately 2,200 people and featured 160 exhibitors. The following is some of the feedback from the event, which will be held again in Santa Clara in 2014 on November 19 and 20. Exhibition space is being pre-booked now.

AUO

U Optronics Corp. (AUO) is a global leader of thin film transistor liquid crystal display panels (TFT-LCD) and also offers OLED displays. The company is working on a range of technologies including printed and vacuum processed OLEDs.

Ford Motor Co

Ford Motor Company is one of the world's largest automotive manufacturers. It has made a late but effective entry into pure electric and hybrid cars, gaining market share rapidly.

International Display Workshop IDW Japan 2013: Conference Findings

IDTechEx has spent ten days in Japan this month in order to meet with companies to learn of the latest progress with printed electronics and related technologies. We also attended the IDW 2013 conference in Sapporo, Japan. This article summarises some of the relevant presentations given.