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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.

IDTechEx visits OTB Engineering 18.4.08

IDTechEx visited OTB Engineering who have links to Philips and other local companies active in printed and thin film electronics.

Over 600 attendees registered for Printed Electronics Europe

Over 600 attendees registered for the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe Conference and Exhibition.

Bed sheets monitor heart patients in their own home

Bed sheets with built in sensors are being developed so that heart patients can take a more proactive role at home in the treatment and management of their condition thereby reducing the overall healthcare costs in the EU.

IDTechEx Review: Flexible Displays Conference Phoenix Jan 21-24 Part 1

IDTechEx attended the recent Flexible Displays Conference in Phoenix. Read our review here - part 1.

New direction for printed electronics in 2008

The money spent on printed and potentially printed electronics doubled in 2007, as did the number of organisations participating.

Doubling of interest in printed electronics

The interest in printed electronics has doubled in the last year. This is the conclusion whether you measure it by organisations active in the subject, event attendance, patent filings or in some other way.

Korea develops high resolution color flexible A4-size E-paper display

A leading innovator of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display technology announced today that it will debut the world's highest resolution 14.3-inch flexible color E-paper display next week.

Polymer Vision pioneers world's first production of rollable displays

Polymer Vision, a spin out of Royal Philips Electronics, announced first production level rollable electrophoretic displays from its recently acquired manufacturing facility, Polymer Vision (UK) Ltd in Southampton, England - previously owned by Southampton University and called Innos.

2nd report on Printed Electronics USA

$300 billion by 2027 predicted by IDTechEx at Printed Electronics USA for new post-silicon electronics.

Dutch bookstore to sell digital books

Bookstore chain Selexyz will be the first bookstore in the Netherlands with the sales of the digital book reader, the iLiad.

Printed Electronics USA conference and exhibition - world's largest

The IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA conference and exhibition in San Francisco on November 14-15 is the World's largest event on the topic by many parameters. Even with almost a month to go, there are 45 confirmed exhibitors with just a few places left and more than 400 registered delegates.

The good and bad news about printed electronics in Europe

Europe has far more organisations active in the subject of printed and potentially printed electronics than any other continent.

Global Comparison of Lighting Efficiency Made Possible

The OLLA project delivered in May this year, OLEDs with an efficacy of 25 lm per Watt, which is twice as efficient as a standard incandescent lamp.

Electrowetting Could be a Disruptive Technology for End Users

Philips Research in Eindhoven, the Netherlands have demonstrated that electrowetting is an attractive technology for the rapid manipulation of liquids on a micrometer scale and have shown that electrowetting can also be used to form the basis of a reflective display that is significantly faster than electrophoretic displays

Smart Garments Provide Point of Care Diagnostics

The development of intelligent miniaturised biosensors capable of wireless communication will fundamentally change the way we monitor and treat patients with chronic disease and after surgery.