1 Aug 2012

Going big
UD researchers report progress in development of carbon nanotube-based continuous fibers.
15 May 2012

The Clean4Yield project
The Clean4Yield project will work to develop new technologies capable of inspecting moving foils for micro- and nanoscale dust particles and defects, and for cleaning / repairing layers as necessary.
External press release
10 Apr 2012

DuPont's Solamet PV416 Photovoltaic Metallization
DuPont Microcircuit materials introduces Solamet® PV416 photovoltaic metallization for thin film photovoltaics. New lower temperature processing capability expands solar substrate options.
External press release
8 Mar 2012

Flexible Organic lighting reaches high energy efficiency
Solvay, Holst Centre and several other partners demonstrate flexible 69cm2 Organic LED (OLED) lighting tiles with an efficiency of 30lm/Watt.
3 Feb 2012

Printed Electronics for Electric Vehicles
More and more giant corporations are buying into printed electrics by acquiring companies partly or wholly in the field. The world's second largest chemical company Dow bought Rohm & Haas (materials), 3M bought into Printechnologics (printed patterns read by mobile phones) and DuPont bought Innovalight (nanosilicon layers to increase photovoltaic efficiency).
30 Jan 2012

Giants buy into Printed Electronics
More and more giant corporations are buying into printed electrics by acquiring companies partly or wholly in the field.
Full profile interview: SWOT
10 Jan 2012

Novacentrix
13 Dec 2011

Growth in printed electronics
Last week IDTechEx held the largest (worldwide) printed electronics and photovoltaics conference and tradeshow in Silicon Valley (Santa Clara Convention Center, California). This show brought together more than 1300 attendees from 28 countries. Players active across the entire value chain were present; covering the full range from research organisations to end-users, and from small start-ups to multi-billion internationals.
12 Dec 2011

IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2011 award winners
The annual printed electronics award winners were announced at the IDTechEx Awards Dinner in Santa Clara, California. The awards recognize outstanding progress in the development and commercialization of printed electronics, an industry that produces a huge amount of technical innovation which will be used in many products.
External press release
25 Nov 2011

DuPont Microcircuit materials introduces new silver conductor
Highest conductivity paste available today enables more cost-effective manufacturing
31 Oct 2011

Printed electronics invigorates old electronics
Most of the well-known objectives of printed electronics remain elusive because they are glamorous, Olympian dreams based on some very exciting demonstrations in laboratories.
6 Sep 2011

New approach to e-bike batteries
IDTechEx Technology Analyst Harry Zervos interviewed Leyden Energy's Aakar Patel, discussing the company's battery technology, the attributes that make it a technology that's attracting the interest of electric vehicle, consumer electronic, smart grid and EV developers as well as the company's prospects and aims for the future.
19 Aug 2011

Faster roll-to-roll with photonic curing of specialized conductive ink
DuPont Microcircuit Materials advances printed electronics development efforts by employing NovaCentrix PulseForge® Tools faster roll-to-roll processing possible with photonic curing of specialized conductive inks.
5 Aug 2011

DuPont expands in solar energy with acquisition of Innovalight
DuPont thas announced that it has acquired Innovalight, Inc., a company specializing in advanced silicon inks and process technologies that increase the efficiency of crystalline silicon solar cells.
3 Aug 2011

DuPont expands in solar energy with acquisition of Innovalight
DuPont today announced last week that it has acquired Innovalight, Inc., a company specializing in advanced silicon inks and process technologies that increase the efficiency of crystalline silicon solar cells.
21 Jul 2011

Interview with Leyden Energy
IDTechEx Technology Analyst Harry Zervos interviewed Leyden Energy's Aakar Patel, discussing the company's battery technology, the attributes that make it a technology that's attracting the interest of consumer electronic, smart grid and EV developers as well as the company's prospects and aims for the future.
8 Jun 2011

New world record for solar cell conversion efficiency
New superstrate material poised to enable flexible, lightweight and efficient thin film solar modules.
1 Jun 2011

The FDC and UDC produce flexible, full-color AMOLED prototype displays
The Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University and Universal Display Corporation have successfully fabricated the first full-color, flexible active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) display prototypes using the Center's bond/de-bond manufacturing process, in combination with Universal Display's full-color, top-emission phosphorescent OLED technology and materials.
External press release
22 Feb 2011

Moser Baer & Universal Display's technology & licensing agreement
Moser Baer Technologies and Universal Display Corporation announce technology & licensing agreement for energy-efficient white OLED lighting
21 Feb 2011

Printed electronics - many new directions
Samsung Electronics of South Korea had approximately $132 billion in sales in 2010 and it is prioritising printed electronics for the future, its commitment extending to making its required materials, production machines and components and manufacturing complete products based on this new and versatile technology.