20 May 2009

Visit to Plasma Quest
IDTechEx visited Professor Michael Thwaites at RF sputtering company Plasma Quest in Hampshire in the UK.
20 Apr 2009

Progress in conformal and flexible displays
Cathleen Macher, IDTechEx reports on the progress of conformal and flexible displays as presented at the recent Printed Electronics Europe event in Germany.
14 Apr 2009

Printed Electronics Products
In the afternoon of the first day of the hugely succesful IDTechEx event Printed Electronics Europe, there was a session on radical new electronics products
19 Mar 2009

Business applications for printed electronics
Recently, the commercialization of printed electronics has progressed from conductive patterns to batteries, displays, sensors, resistors, solar cells, lighting and transistor circuits, increasingly in combination.
1 Dec 2008

Wider interest in printed electronics
At a time of financial uncertainty, companies know they must accelerate their move into the future. That is why there is a huge interest in printed electronics, a subject that pushes all the right buttons - environmental, affordable and leading to a new market of $300 billion that is just there for the taking. That is why the giant corporations are attending Printed Electronics USA, December 3-4 in San Jose, California.
17 Nov 2008

Large End User Companies Attend Printed Electronics USA 2008
Printed Electronics is now reaching tipping point with the first major new products being launched - from flexible e-readers to fully printed RFID tags. To find out more attend Printed Electronics USA on 2 - 5, 2008 in San Jose.
17 Oct 2008

Highlights from IDTechEx on Printed Electronics Asia 2008, Tokyo
Companies such as Toppan Forms, Panasonic, Dai Nippon Printing, Sony, Samsung, Toyota, Mitsubishi Plastics, Brother Industries, Teijin, Konica Minolta, Mitsui, Toshiba and Honda attended Printed Electronics Asia 2008
15 Oct 2008

Printed Electronics Asia: Visits to local centers of excellence, part2
Further to the company visits covered in yesterday's article, attendees to the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Asia event in Tokyo last week had the opportunity to visit Dai Nippon Printing, Frontier Carbon Corporation and Toppan Printing. Here we cover some of the highlights.
14 Oct 2008

Printed Electronics Asia: Visits to local centers of excellence, part1
IDTechEx is famed for organising visits to local centers of excellence. On 30 September, delegates were treated to visits to the University of Tokyo and the skyscrapers of Sony and Toppan Forms in central Tokyo.
10 Oct 2008

Highlights from Printed Electronics Asia 2008 - part one
238 people attended the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Asia 2008 conference and exhibition on October 8-9 this week. Companies attended included Toppan Forms, Panasonic, Dai Nippon Printing, Sony, Samsung, Toyota, Mitsubishi Plastics, Brother Industries, Teijin, Konica Minolta, Mitsui, Toshiba and Honda to name a few.
30 Sep 2008

Large niche markets for printed electronics
Printed Electronics Asia 2008 is open to 100 attendees from European and American companies only, with an unlimited number of Asian companies attending, which ensures you gain maximum networking benefits from your attendance at this select event.
4 Aug 2008

Silicon chip chemicals become a bridge to printing
Before the 1990s, silicon chip technology employed only six elements according to IBM but today we see a huge variety of compounds, alloys, solvents and dopants brought to bear.
1 Aug 2008

Huge growth of Printed Electronics Asia conference
Printed Electronics Asia will display some of the latest manufacturing technologies from across the world.
30 Jul 2008

Progress towards p-type metal oxide semiconductors
In the last few years there has been increasing work on printed Zinc Oxide (ZnO) inorganic semiconductors. However, the materials developed have been used to demonstrated n-type transistors, but p-type transistors have not been commercially available. There are now two organizations that IDTechEx is aware of, and many more working on the topic, claiming p-type ZnO transistors are possible with reproducible results.
22 Jul 2008

Nanopaper is stronger than cast iron
Scientists at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden have developed a new material called cellulose nanopaper by exposing wood pulp to certain chemicals.
16 Jul 2008

RFID and the Printing Industry
Printed RFID is only part of an emerging $300 billion business in printing many forms of electronics and electrics.
11 Jul 2008

UK Chemical Sector Initiative - part one
On 1st July, The UK Trade & Investment Chemical Sector Initiative on Printed Electronics hosted a Masterclass at Haydock Park Racecourse in North West England.
1 Jul 2008

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.
13 Jun 2008

OLLA final event symposium, Eindhoven 12.8.08
The final symposium of the OLLA OLED lighting project took place on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven Netherlands 12.6.08 with about 80 attending the exhibition and about 60 attending the half day conference.
10 Jun 2008

New OLED lighting company in Japan
Lumiotec claim to be the world's first company to specialize only on OLED lighting; New OLED line in China