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Jabil (Flexible Hybrid Electronics)

Jabil is a global manufacturing solutions provider that has developed flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) solutions for a broad category of products. IDTechEx corresponded with Senior Engineering Services Manager Girish Wable to learn more about the latest developments, particularly those around prototypes targeting the healthcare market. Girish wanted to acknowledge the contributions of Jabil's global team members and its ecosystem partners that provide materials (inks, substrates, adhesives) and equipment suppliers that help enable these capabilities.

Molex (Printed Electronics)

At FLEX 2022 Molex outlined its work to qualify both copper conductive inks and magnetic field aligned anisotropic conductive adhesives (ACAs) for use in production of flexible hybrid electronic (FHE) circuits. This is a key step towards the adoption of these materials in mass production.

SoftPV

SoftPV is an early stage Korean firm that has developed a novel photovoltaic technology based on silicon-spheres on a flexible substrate.

World's First Continuous Laser Assisted Deposition Technology

ioTech Group Ltd is installing its first beta IO300SM Continuous Laser Assisted Deposition (C.L.A.D.) printer at ASM Pacific Technology a leading global supplier of hardware and software solutions for the manufacture of semiconductors and electronics.

Conductive Transfers

Conductive Transfers is an early-stage UK-based company that has developed an innovative approach for manufacturing stretchable electronics based around transfer printing. They are targeting wide range of applications including medical devices and printed heaters for automotive interiors.

Linxens

Linxens is a major manufacturer of smart card connectors, RFID inlays and module packaging. The best-known example of their products is the chip and metal contact area that is integrated into bank cards to enable 'chip-and-PIN'. This profile reviews Linxens' existing market and capabilities, with a closer look at sensor applications.

BotFactory

BotFactory produce desktop size equipment for PCB prototyping and additive manufacturing of circuits. Their equipment includes printing of conductive and dielectric inks and adhesives, thermal and UV curing, and pick-and-place capability.

Flexible Hybrid Electronics: Future of Flexible Printed Circuit Boards

Flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) is a novel approach to electronic circuit manufacturing that aims to combine the best of printed and conventional electronics.

Sunray Scientific

Sunray Scientific has developed a magnetic anisotropic conductive elastomer (ACE), which enables much enhanced vertical conductivity using magnetic fields rather than pressure.

Technology Development Toward Multilayered Flexible Hybrid Electronics

Flexible Hybrid Electronics have been used to fabricate multi-layer circuits that are conformable, low-cost and suitable for a wide variety of applications, from smart packaging, connected healthcare, intelligent industrials to efficient infrastructure.

Jabil (Flexible Electronics Dept)

Jabil are a large electronics manufacturing company with over 170 000 employees worldwide. This profile interview focuses on their printed/flexible/hybrid electronics capabilities.

Quad Industries

Quad Industries is a Belgian company that describes itself as a "solution provider for flexible electronics". It offers prototyping and manufacturing capability, with a particular focus on user interfaces. As such, much of their expertise is in assembly and manufacturing techniques.

Alpha Assembly

Alpha is the market leader in providing surface mount technology (SMT) solutions, which includes solder in various forms along with conductive adhesives. This profile primarily focuses on a new product that is highly relevant for printed/flexible electronics, specifically low temperature solder. This should facilitate attaching components to low-cost, flexible, transparent substrates such as PET.

IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2019 Award Winners

At the 15th IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe conference and exhibition in Berlin on April 10-11, four companies were honoured for their great achievements in developing and commercialising printed electronics technologies.

Manufacturing flexible printed circuit boards without any chemicals

Driven by science, innovation and research, DP Patterning AB develops products that turn the manufacturing of electronic circuits upside down - and let you go from idea to production in hours.