15 May 2015

Last men standing in OLED lighting
The OLED lighting market has consolidated in the past year.
6 May 2015

Highlights from Europe's Largest Event on Printed Electronics
By Raghu Das, CEO, IDTechEx - The 11th annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe event in Berlin was a huge success thanks to our customers and partners, with attendees coming from 47 countries! This is the largest show on the topic in Europe and, more importantly, more adopters, OEMs and technology providers announced products and showed off their impressive solutions.
29 Apr 2015

IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2015 award winners
Rapid progress is being made in both the technical development of, and commercialisation of, printed, flexible and organic electronics. To recognize and award outstanding achievement to those involved in this rapidly growing business the annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics Awards are held each year.
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2 Oct 2014

Sekisui Chemical Co Ltd
23 Sep 2014

OLED lighting market- latest updates and market forecasts
Interest in OLED lighting is picking up again. This year LG Chem announced that it was cutting costs from 600 $/klm to $200/klm in an attempt to carve out a market for its OLED lighting panels in the face of stern competition from inorganic LED lighting.
3 Sep 2014

Niche applications to help OLED lighting market reach $1.9 billion
In the new report OLED Lighting Opportunities 2014-2025: Forecasts, Technologies, Players External Link IDTechEx has assessed the technology and markets for OLEDs in the lighting sector. We find that the market will be slow to take off until 2019-20 but will reach $1.9 billion in 2025.
1 Sep 2014

Barrier technology reaching maturity - commercialization status
OLED displays are the biggest opportunity for flexible encapsulation and for that reason, IDTechEx has highlighted the most significant advances in the technology but also discusses the maturity of each of the different encapsulation approaches proposed by different developers. In a series of two articles, IDTechEx analysts discuss the significant advances witnessed in the past year towards commercialization of flexible displays and compares different technologies being developed.
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3 Jun 2014

SCHMID Group
Schmid was founded in 1864. Schmid provides manufacturing equipment for the photovoltaic (PV), PCB and flat panel industries. Its entry into the printed electronics market by selling inkjet printers was mainly from the need in the PV sector to use inkjet printing to print selective emitters. The printers are also used commercially to inkjet print etch resist in the PCB industry.
20 Mar 2014

World first mass production of plastic substrate flexible OLED panels
Konica Minolta, Inc. has announced the construction of a plant at Konica Minolta Kofu Site (Chuo-shi, Yamanashi Prefecture) for mass production of plastic substrate flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) lighting panels toward a stronger development of its OLED lighting business in fiscal 2014 and forward.
6 Mar 2014

World's thinnest and first color tuneable function for flexible type
Flexible OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) lighting panel prototypes with two unique features: the world's first color tunable function* and the world's thinnest* form factor.
28 Aug 2013

Graphene LIVE! USA set to become largest graphene tradeshow
Graphene LIVE! will take place on 20-21 November 2013 at Santa Clara, California.
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9 Aug 2013

Beneq
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1 Aug 2013

Panasonic
10 Jul 2013

Printed Electronics Asia 2013, Tokyo, Japan impressions and Awards
Some of the highlights at this year's Printed Electronics event, organized by IDTechEx in Tokyo, Japan, are discussed in this article, focusing on the keynotes on the first day of the conference, which was attended by approximately 250 people.
5 Jun 2013

OLED Lighting developments in Japan
According to analyst company IDTechEx, OLED and LED lighting are expected to compete directly in many instances in order to gain market share in the next decade.
9 May 2013

Printed electronics in East Asia: change of direction
Variously called Printed, Flexible or Organic Electronics, it is one of the fastest growing technologies in the world. It is of vital interest to industries as diverse as consumer goods, healthcare, mobility, electronics, media and architecture.
24 Apr 2013

IDTechEx's Printed Electronics Europe 2013 Grows by Over 20%
Attendance at last week's Printed Electronics Europe 2013 event grew by over 20%. The highly successful conference and tradeshow, hosted by IDTechEx, covered the broad range of emerging materials and devices, including OLEDs, touch surfaces, TFTs, stretchable and textile electronics, energy generation and much more. Presentations, exhibitors and attendees covered the full supply chain from materials to their final application in verticals such as the media, consumer electronics, the internet of things and even vehicles.