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OE-A Unveils New Roadmap and Demonstrators

The updated and expanded third edition of the OE-A Roadmap for organic and printed electronics offers an overview of future product generations as well as requirements for materials and technologies.

Volume production of nanometer scale devices and systems

Imprint Lithography at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems in Dresden: Engineering and Volume Production of Nanometer Scale Devices and Systems

Energy harvesting - which technology wins

Energy harvesting is popularly defined as converting ambient power to electricity to make small devices self-sufficient, often for decades. Even hundreds of years of life is in prospect.

Fraunhofer demonstrate innovative printed battery

The Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems (Chemnitz, Germany) demonstrated their innovative printed battery in Tokyo last month.

Very low input voltage, high performance

It may seem impossible that a sensor, RFID module, small display or microcontroller could operate on 20 millivolts. Yet engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS have achieved precisely this by developing a novel voltage converter which has been miniaturized into an ASIC.

Research on energy harvesting thick films - Energy Harvesting Workshop

The 4th Annual Energy Harvesting Workshop organised on 28-29 January by Virginia Tech in Blacksberg Virginia was largely academic and biased toward piezoelectrics which are moving up to rival photovoltaics in potential energy harvesting applications.

Cheap, printed RFID tags performing simple functions may be here soon

Printed RFID tags that could be cheap enough to use on consumable packaging to monitor temperature, store and transmit data may only be a year way claim scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute of Integrated Systems and Device Technology IISB in Erlangen.

Competence Matrix of plastic electronics in Germany

An analysis of Germany's competence in printed and plastic electronics was completed at the end of October 2008. The project is funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council and is one of a series of projects considering options for public policy to increase levels of innovation in the UK.

Aerosol printing boosts solar cell efficiency

The non Contact aerosol jet process is scalable for industrial volume production and ideally suited for printing on thinner wafers

OLED100.eu research consortium to spearhead the advancement of OLEDs

OLED100.eu, an integrated research project, has brought together a consortium of experts from leading industry and academic organisations to accelerate the development of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technologies in Europe.

23rd European PV Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition part 2

Harry Zervos IDTechEx's technology analyst finalises his report on the 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, in the Feria Valencia, in Spain.

German researchers develop lightweight fuel cells

People trapped in earthquakes could be easier to find with the help of a mini helicopter powered by very light fuel cells.

European projects accelerate OLED technology for mainstream lighting

The race is on to bring OLED technology into mainstream lighting.

ESL's flexible polymer finds niche in touch panel display manufacture

ESL acknowledges the plastic electronics revolution on flexible substrates is here to stay and will meet their customers' challenges with off-the-shelf products, and with the development of proprietary or custom formulations.

The OLLA project delivers its final milestone

At the end of the project period, the OLLA project consortium presents its final milestone: the basic technology for a white OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) light source, with an efficacy of 50.7 lumens per watt at an initial brightness of 1.000 cd/m² based on the Novaled PIN OLED technology. The OLLA project is a joint basic research consortium, headed by Philips Lighting.

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.

Chemnitz developing a new centre for Smart Systems

The new Smart Systems Campus, offers 2500 sqm of office space, lab and production floors for young start-ups and spin-offs from mid next year.

Illuminated thin-film keypads with OLEDs

In a joint project scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP have developed a keypad based on organic light-emitting diodes.