External press release
1 Feb 2011

Sony to unveil two professional OLED monitors
Sony plans to unveil two professional OLED monitors aimed at the CRT replacement market, at the Hollywood Post Alliance Tech Retreat, 14-18 February in Palm Springs, California. Carolyn Giardina reports.
20 Dec 2010

E ink Pearl wins 2010 PE award for best commercialization
Paper-like E Ink Pearl Display drives multi-billion dollar e-reader market.
17 Dec 2010

Sony names Nobel chemist Negishi as research advisor
Electronics giant Sony said Monday it had named Eiichi Negishi, the Japanese co-recipient of this year's Nobel Prize for chemistry, as a senior advisor for research and development.
3 Dec 2010

IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2010 award winners
The fourth annual printed electronics winners were announced on Dec 1st at the IDTechEx Awards Dinner in Santa Clara, USA.
1 Sep 2010

Traction battery price war
News is coming in that the predicted car traction battery shakeout has begun.
28 Jul 2010

Printed Electronics in Asia - the hot sectors
There are about 3,000 organizations worldwide actively involved in the development of printed electronics. By number of organizations, Europe has the edge over the U.S., then comes Asia. However, this disguises the fact that those involved in Asia tend to be large conglomerates that can invest much more than those in the West.
14 Jun 2010

IRex files for bankruptcy
E-reader maker IRex Technologies has filed for bankruptcy. According to some press reports, the device was too technology focussed, repeatedly delayed (missing out on key sales seasons) and not enough effort was given to services, the critical factor as Sony had learnt to their cost initially and as Amazon had achieved so well.
4 Jun 2010

Where art thou OLED?
David Fyfe, the ex CEO of CDT who now works as a consultant for its parent company Sumitomo, gave a presentation on the OLED market at LOPE-C this week. Speaking to the history of OLEDs, he says that LCDs have drastically closed the performance gap, perhaps fuelled by the threat of OLEDs.
1 Jun 2010

Sony's flexible OLED display can wrap around a pencil
A small thin super-flexible OLED display which can be wrapped around a pencil has been developed by Japanese giant Sony.
6 May 2010

IDTechEx exhibiting at SID later this month
Visit IDTechEx at our booth at SID (1309), where you will have a chance to speak with the IDTechEx team as well as the opportunity to discuss specific developments with our analysts.
24 Feb 2010

OLEDs and the competition
One of the biggest obstacles for large OLED panels is the rapid improvement in the performance of competing LCD panels. So what now for OLED displays?
29 Jan 2010

The new generation of liquid crystal displays
A new generation of flat panel displays is being developed which may ultimately supersede Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs).
14 Jan 2010

Solar cells, e-books...what next?
2008 was the year of the solar cell, 2009 is marked by the success and growth of the e-book reader market and 2010 will be the year we start to witness further OLED penetration.
14 Dec 2009

Using a-Si TFTs for AMOLED displays: Progress from Ignis
For LCDs, TFTs are only charging and discharging a capacitor (that is effectively what an LCD is electrically). Once the capacitor is charged the TFT can be switched off and the display continues to function.
External press release
30 Nov 2009

Universal Display and the Flexible Display Center at ASU
Universal Display and the Flexible Display Center at ASU enhance strategic relationship to supply flexible active-matrix pholed display prototypes to U.S. Army. Universal Display also awarded $650,000 U.S.
Army SBIR Phase II Enhancement Program to support demonstration of enhanced-performance AMOLEDs on plastic substrates.
13 Nov 2009

A new technology could massively reduce costs of display panels
Here is a new technology for flat screen displays that is likely to employ printing for some layers, and like a fibre optic cable can be bendable.
12 Nov 2009

Asian companies stride ahead to mass-produce larger OLED displays
Whilst OLED displays are steadily being found in mobile phones and other small electronic devices, the high costs of mass-producing them has kept the technology from being a serious contender for TVs and PCs in a market dominated by cheaper LCD panels.
3 Nov 2009

Wireless power transfer technology
Sony Corporation has announced the development of a highly efficient wireless power transfer system that eliminates the use of power cables from electronic products such as television sets.
2 Nov 2009

How to improve lithium traction batteries
Dependence on increasingly troublesome oil supplies and rapid degradation of the environment provide every reason why electric cars, whether hybrid or pure electric, should now be adopted rapidly.
External press release
28 Oct 2009

Partners to develop integrated processors for the eReader market
Collaboration between market leaders designed to speed eBook evolution and enable new product categories.