Full profile interview
8 Mar 2016

InVisage Technologies
InVisage is a pioneer in hybrid CMOS image sensors. The company is based in Menlo Park, CA and has received over $100m in funding. InVisage has developed a technology called QuantumFilm, which is a light sensitive layer of quantum dots. Remi Lacombe presented their latest progress at the IDTechEx Sensors USA conference.
10 Dec 2015

New applications for the inkjet industry
The 23rd annual IMI Europe inkjet conference focused on emerging technologies and new markets.
Full profile interview
24 Aug 2014

LG Display
LG Display is investing heavily in OLED technology. Having lost the initiative to Samsung in the production of small OLED panels, LGD is eager to stay ahead on large OLEDs, particularly in TV. In 2013, LG commercialized a 55" OLED TVs in several regions, despite the fact that the price was much higher than that of the equivalent LCD model. LG Display is now setting up a new fab for the mass production of OLED TVs.
External press release
29 Apr 2014

Kodak adds to transparent conductive films portfolio
Combined efforts by Eastman Kodak Company and Xymox Technologies, Inc. have yielded a new highly conductive film product - KODAK HCF-385 Film - for use in projected capacitive touch sensors found in home appliances, tooling and machine equipment, product packaging, signage, automotive displays and other interactive electronic devices.
Full profile interview
3 Feb 2014

Samsung Electronics
The first successful ultra high transparency barrier material, which was commercialized by Vitex, was originally developed by GE in a process designed to be used for capacitor fabrication. This process is called the Polymer Multi-Layer (PML) process. It was developed in the late 1970's and early 1980's at GE's capacitor division in Hudson Falls, NY for the fabrication of multilayer, polymer/aluminum capacitors. By2011, most of the company's IP had been acquired by Samsung
Full profile interview
16 Dec 2013

FUJIFILM
Fujifilm has been actively developing a flexible high barrier film and this profile focuses mainly on these activities.
8 Nov 2013

Joint promotion of conductive films for projected capacitive sensors
Kodak and Xymox Technologies, Inc. have entered into a multi-year agreement to jointly promote Kodak's Highly Conductive Films (HCF) - the featured product in multi-touch sensor technology developed by Xymox.
9 Sep 2013

Printed Electronics in Japan (part I)
From July through September 2013 we have visited 35 companies and interviewed many delegates at our Printed Electronics Asia event in Tokyo as well as reviewing the lectures and talking to the lecturers. This article shares some of the trends in Japanese printed electronics and allied subjects that have emerged. It is only a taster from the huge database of information acquired and interpreted by IDTechEx analysts. Over the years, the task has been made difficult by the Japanese predilection for changing company names and this cannot help their business activity.
27 Aug 2013

ITO transparent conducting films-technology, drivers, and players
Sputtered ITO is the dominant technology used as a transparent conductive layer in a variety of applications, including LCD and OLED displays and touch screens. ITO has a well-established value chain as well as a high installed and largely-depreciated production capacity.
20 Aug 2013

Embossing will influence the transparent conductive film business
Metal mesh is an emerging technology option for creating transparent conductive films. Metal mesh transparent conductors can offer low sheet resistance, reasonable optical transmission, value chain simplification, and low cost.
13 Aug 2013

PEDOT:PSS for transparent conductive films- the progress so far
PEDOT:PSS is an organic conductor that can be used as a transparent conductive film material. PEDOT has already found high-volume commercial use as a capacitor electrode material, as well as the material used in electrostatic discharge films employed in the LCD industry. Its commercialisation progress as a transparent conductive material has, however, been slow to date. In this article, IDTechEx offers a detailed and independent assessment of the latest progress in PEDOT's performance improvement, patterning techniques, cost reduction, product and prototype development, and commercialisation success.
26 Jul 2013

Inorganic flexible thin film solar cell fabricated by solution process
Scientists of Natcore Technology Inc. in collaboration with researchers at Rice University have successfully fabricated the first inorganic flexible thin film solar cell by solution processes.
Full profile interview: SWOT
27 Feb 2013

MEGTEC Systems
Full profile interview: SWOT
7 Feb 2013

GSI Technologies LLC
External press release
31 Jan 2013

Kodak demonstrates power of new transparent conductive films
The Commercial Films Group of Eastman Kodak Company, together with Heraeus Conductive Polymers, GSI Technologies and Azoteq have announced breakthrough capacitive touch screen technology that incorporates a new two-sided transparent conductive film and touch screen controller for use in a variety of printed electronics applications.
9 Jan 2013

Kodak sued over ownership of 18 patents
Global OLED Technology LLC (GOT) has hit Eastman Kodak Co. with a lawsuit in New York bankruptcy court seeking a declaratory judgment that 18 patents Kodak has laid claim to actually belong to GOT, which said it bought the patents in a 2009 deal.
Full profile interview: SWOT
28 Nov 2012

Xymox
11 Jul 2012

ITO alternatives to gain speed in the $2 billion TCF market
Today, only one type of film - Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) - is used for almost all transparent conductive films with a market size of over $2 billion this year.
25 Jun 2012

Breakthrough graphene technology wins R&D Magazine award
Vorbeck Materials, in partnership with Pacific Northwest National Labs (PNNL) and Princeton University, was recognized last week by R&D Magazine for developing one of the 100 most significant scientific and technological products or advances of the year.
10 Feb 2012

Eastman Chemical to buy Solutia for $3.4 billion
Eastman Chemical is buying Solutia Inc, chemicals provider for products from iPads to tires, for about $3.4 billion.