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Printed Electronics Europe 2009: Germany an innovation hotbed

Printed electronics is an emerging USD 300 billion market that offers a wide range of potential beyond the traditional organic electronics industry. Printed electronics includes thin film transistor circuits (TFTCs), displays, connectors, power sensors, and actuators.

Aerosol Jet Deposition System at IDTechEx's Printed Electronics Europe

Optomec announced today that Dave Ramahi, Optomec's President/CEO will give a Masterclass presentation on Aerosol Jet Deposition technology for C-Si and Thin Film Photovoltaics at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics conference in Dresden, Germany on April 6th.

Energy harvesting without batteries

Usually, dispensing with any form of battery can give even longer life, lower cost, smaller size, greater reliability, convenience, labour saving and reduced environmental problems.

Nanotecture develops asymmetric electrochemical supercapacitors

Nanotecture has developed microbatteries and supercapacitors aimed at markets such as boosting the flash in mobile phone cameras to take pictures farther away, audio buffering in mobile phones etc for higher quality sound and powered smart cards.

Nanotecture develops asymmetric electrochemical supercapacitors

Nanotecture has developed microbatteries and supercapacitors aimed at markets such as boosting the flash in mobile phone cameras to take pictures farther away, audio buffering in mobile phones etc for higher quality sound and powered smart cards.

Record Attendance at IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe

In the current recession, there are few sectors which are growing rapidly, but one of those is printed electronics. Pre-registered attendance at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe conference, which will be held in Dresden, Germany, on April 7-8, is 20% higher than at the same time before the event last year.

DuPont Microcircuit Materials presents research findings for PV film

DuPont Microcircuit Materials (MCM), part of DuPont Electronic Technologies, will be presenting new research findings on "Advanced Screen Printable Thin Film Photovoltaic Front-Side Silver Conductor Compositions," at the IDTechEx Photovoltaics beyond Conventional Silicon Europe Conference and Exhibition

Inexpensive Copper Ink: NovaCentrix to unveil new ink at IDTechEx show

NovaCentrix announced today it will use Printed Electronics Europe 2009, in Dresden April 7-8, as the stage for the public launch of a significant new offering in the MetalonTM family of high-performance conductive inks: the ICI copper-based ink platform.

Printed electronics in supermarkets

Dr Peter Harrop of IDTechEx gave a video interview and animations, concerning the future use of printed electronics in supermarkets.

Breakthrough in producing printed memory

Thin Film Electronics, an Oslo, Norway-based Company with R&D facilities in Linkoping, Sweden, known as Thinfilm, and InkTec Co. Ltd , known as InkTec, have together made a breakthrough in producing printed memory on flexible substrates.

Opening of PETEC 17 March

The Printable Electronics Technology Centre (PETEC) is the UK's major new design, development, and prototyping centre for the commercialisation of printed electronics. With 180 present, the launch included keynote lectures from international experts in the field of printable electronics.

Opening of PETEC 17 March Airs Photovoltaics

The Printable Electronics Technology Centre (PETEC) is the UK's major new design, development, and prototyping centre for the commercialisation of printed electronics.

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.

CdTe Solar Cells - Can First Solar do anything wrong?

Although the world is in the midst of a severe economic crisis, the photovoltaics industry is still growing.

Huge Advances in Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) - part 2

In the second part of this two part article Cathleen Macher, Technical Analyst at IDTechEx, looks at the very latest progress with carbon nanotubes (CNT) in East Asia.

Huge advances in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) - part 1

Cathleen Macher, Technical Analyst at IDTechEx, looks at the global progress of carbon nanotubes (CNT).

End-user needs important for growth in printed electronics industry

IDTechEx spoke at iPak workshop where it was agreed how important it is to understand end users and interact with them, so as to be able to better comprehend their needs and requirements for Printed Electronics.

Ultra low power electronics

Intel retains the record for device count in a single microprocessor.

Printed Electronics Europe passes 500 attendees and over 50 exhibitors

IDTechEx's Printed Electronics Europe event in Dresden, on April 7-8, attendance has achieved record levels, and is on track to bring together over 800 attendees, by far the World's largest and most comprehensive event on the topic

Perpetuum - a vibration harvesting company

Having started by looking at piezoelectrics and faced with what it saw as their present day limitations of reliability and sometimes high internal resistance, Perpetuum follows the more proven route of electrodynamic harvesting.