Advanced Materials

IDTechEx technology analyst Dr Harry Zervos attended the meeting of the Society for Information Displays in London, where the latest research and development efforts were discussed and presented.

In collaboration with Silvaco Data Systems, CDT has developed a model to design and simulate circuits using OTFT (organic thin film transistor) technology.

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Seoul National University (SNU) have learned how to tweak a new class of polymer-based semiconductors to better control the location and alignment of the components of the blend.

This week, the German ministry for Education and Research BMBF announced the 5 winners in a strategic program which aims to strengthen cooperation between science, research and industry with 200 million Euros over the next 5 years.

The success of today's digital electronics is based on the CMOS technology.

The largest potential market for OLEDs is for mass produced, flexible, low cost versions, particularly wide area types with long life because they enable many exciting new product concepts to be realised rather than replace existing displays in familiar devices.

In Portugal, a new field effect transistor with paper interstrate layer has now been developed.

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.

Printed electronics holds possibilities for applications including printed organic solar cells, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and flexible displays

Over the last three years significant developments have been made with efficiency of organic based PV cells.

Schreiner Group in Germany has made a great success of ac electroluminescent lighting and displays, screen printed with inorganic compounds.

Gate dielectrics in printed electronics can make the transistors exhibit higher current and lower voltage and are a hot area of research.