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HZB increased the efficiency of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells to 25.5 %

3 Dec 2018

Based on complex simulations and empirical data the researchers believe an efficiency of 32.5 % can realistically be achieved

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Lyteus, Holst Centre and Fraunhofer FEP create a single 15 metre OLED - the world's longest OLED to date

3 Dec 2018

The partners successfully demonstrated the possibility for continuous production of OLEDs of any length, and opening the potential of "cut-to-fit" lighting

Lyteus, Holst Centre and Fraunhofer FEP announced the creation of the world's longest single-device OLED. At a huge 15 metres in length it opens the door to endless OLEDs that manufacturers and designers can ...

Idemitsu Kosan to begin construction of an OLED materials plant in China

3 Dec 2018

Construction is planned to start in December 2018 and to be completed by November 2019

Idemitsu Kosan has announced that to meet the growing demand for OLED materials in China, the Company has decided to build a manufacturing facility for OLED materials in Chengdu, China and to enrich technical support ...

Heliatek appoints Guido van Tartwijk as CEO

3 Dec 2018

Guido van Tartwijk succeeds Thibaud Le Séguillon who left Heliatek in July 2018

Heliatek has announced with effect from 1 November 2018, Guido van Tartwijk has become the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Heliatek GmbH. He succeeds Thibaud Le Séguillon, who left Heliatek in July 2018. Together ...

Thin Film Electronics appoint Kevin Barber as CEO

3 Dec 2018

Dr. Davor P. Sutija will step down from the position of CEO, having served in this position since July 2010

Thin Film Electronics' (Thinfilm) Board of Directors has appointed Kevin Barber as CEO, effective from 26 November 2018. Prior to joining Thinfilm, Kevin Barber served as Senior Vice President, General Mobile Division of Synaptics, a ...

Heliatek's solar films installed to form world's largest façade using organic photovoltaics

15 Oct 2018

The solar films cover an area of approximately 185 m², and generate about as much energy as a 5-person household would consume annually

Heliatek has announced approximately 185 m² of the company's organic photovoltaic (OPV) films were installed on the façade of a warehouse of the Duisburger Hafen AG in August.

It is a sub-project within the ...

Cynora and LG Display expand their cooperation

15 Oct 2018

Cynora TADF technology presents a new solution for a high-efficiency deep-blue emitter

Cynora has announced it has extended its Joint Development Agreement with LG Display. After two years of joint development since 2016, Cynora and LG Display have decided to continue their cooperation towards the commercialisation of ...

Paragraf opens R&D facility to drive large-scale production of graphene-based technologies

15 Oct 2018

The facility will allow Paragraf to convert its laboratory research into novel products, including next generation sensors, solid state electronics and energy storage cells

Paragraf has announced they have opened new facility north of Cambridge, UK. The site represents a major step forward for graphene-based technologies, enabling Paragraf to drive large-scale development of mass-market, graphene-based electronic devices.

The opening ...

Researchers show perovskite can be an efficient and effective low-cost photodetector

15 Oct 2018

The new perovskite contains only inorganic elements (caesium, lead, iodine and bromine), has been tested in a system for optical communication with not perceivable deterioration after 2,000 hours

Researchers at the universities in Linköping and Shenzhen have shown how an inorganic perovskite can be made into a cheap and efficient photodetector that transfers both text and music. The research findings have been published ...

CPI to collaborate with Pireta on smart clothing project

15 Oct 2018

Working with Pireta Ltd, CPI is using its industry expertise in the printed electronics sector to aid scale-up of wearable technology in textiles

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has announced it is collaborating on a project to support the development of next-generation smart clothing.

Working with Pireta Ltd, CPI is using its industry expertise in the printed ...

Researchers find more stable perovskite solar cells

15 Oct 2018

By exchanging the organic methylammonium (MA) with inorganic elements, the researchers have shown it is possible to avoid these unstable compounds while maintaining similar high efficiency

Researchers from the Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) at the University of Fribourg have developed a new type of more stable, highly efficient next-generation perovskite solar cell, opening perspectives for future commercialisation. The results of their ...

UK researchers develop A4 size perovskite solar cells

1 Oct 2018

The entire fabrication process was carried out in air, at ambient conditions, without requiring the costly high-vacuum processes which are needed for silicon manufacture

Researcher teams working for SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre led by Swansea University have developed a perovskite solar module the size of an A4 sheet of paper, which is nearly six times bigger than 10 ...

Researchers develop novel method to fabricate low-cost perovskite solar cells

1 Oct 2018

In developing the method, the scientists realised that making the perovskite layer 1 micron thick increased the working life of the solar cell significantly

Researchers from the Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have reported that they believe they have found a winning formula in a new method ...

Analysis reveals difference between commercial and academics perovskite patent filing strategies

1 Oct 2018

The Perovskite Patent Landscape analyses more than 490 assignees identifying those focused on local protection compared to those assignees focused on international protection

A question the latest Perovskite Patent Landscape report from cintelliq ltd aims to answer is - "are there any observable differences in the patent filing strategies of commercials assignees compared to academic assignees?"

If you analyse ...

Audi adopts Samsung's 7-inch OLED display for the Audi e-tron

1 Oct 2018

Audi's first all-electric vehicle "e-tron" can be equipped with high-contrast OLED displays and side view cameras, instead of conventional side view mirrors

Samsung Display announced that the company will be supplying a 7-inch OLED display for Audi's all-new electric Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV), the Audi e-tron.

Audi revealed its first all-electric model at a world premiere ...

OLED revenues forecast to grow to US$50 billion in 2022

1 Oct 2018

DSCC forecast a 33% growth peak in 2020 as flexible OLED capacity booms and prices drop from increased competition

​OLED revenues are expected to grow from US$26 billion in 2018 to US$50 billion in 2022, according to Display Supply Chain Consultants' (DSCC).

DSCC say OLED displays are experiencing rapid growth as consumer ...

Solliance partners TNO and TU/e develop thermal stable perovskite solar cell

25 Sep 2018

The researchers developed perovskite solar cells which demonstrate only 7% of performance loss after 3.000 hours at 85C - instead of over 50% after 100 hours at 85C

Solliance Solar Research announced a significant accomplishment in thermal stability of perovskite technology. The thermal stability was tested over a period of 3000 hours. After this thermal stress test, the cell performance showed still 93 ...

Isorg raises Euro 24 million to finance the ramp up of large-scale commercialisation

24 Sep 2018

The funding will be used to support the different qualification steps of its production site and development of subsystems ready for integration in to applications

Isorg has announcing it has raised Euro 24 million in a Series B financing round. New Science Ventures (NSV), a US-based investment firm and Bpifrance, through its fund Large Venture, are leading the round alongside ...

Imec announces perovskite/CIGS tandem cell with record efficiency of 24.6 percent

24 Sep 2018

Paving the way for flexible solar cells and high-efficiency building-integrated PV

imec and partners announce a thin-film tandem solar cell consisting of a top perovskite cell developed by Imec within the partnerships of EnergyVille and Solliance, and a bottom CIGS cell from the Centre for Solar ...

Oxford PV and Oxford University partner to develop an all-perovskite solar cell

24 Sep 2018

The five-year UK funded project aims to develop a thin-film multi-junction perovskite solar cell, with a target 37% efficiency and long term stability

Oxford PV has announced a five year research project with the University of Oxford to develop a thin-film multi-junction perovskite solar cell, with a target 37% efficiency and long term stability.

The GBP 5 million ...

Raynergy Tek sets new world record for OPV power conversion efficiency - 13.28%

17 Sep 2018

Novel organic photovoltaic ink set used to make a single junction OPV, the results have been confirmed by Newport PV Laboratory

Raynergy Tek has announced they have set a new world record in power conversion efficiency for solution processed single junction organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells.

The 13.28% efficiency was independently confirmed by Newport PV laboratory ...

Flexolighting project announces it has achieved >90% reduction in OLED lighting production costs

17 Sep 2018

If all of the processes, materials and components developed during the Flexolighting project were to be adopted, a cost saving of over 90% would be possible

The three-year Flexolighting project – led by Brunel University London and a consortium of partners including Marks & Spencer, Tata Steel and AIXTRON SE – revealed that by introducing novel manufacturing techniques and rethinking the complete supply ...

OLEDWorks to bring OLED lighting to Wegmans' customers and employees

17 Sep 2018

Wegmans has remodelled select areas at their Rochester headquarters and will install OLED in employee meeting and dining areas

OLEDWorks has announced they are pleased their OLED lighting panels are being installed in select Wegmans stores and worksites.

For the Wegmans project, the Olessence OLED lighting fixtures in the vestibules of Pittsford and Henrietta ...

LG Display to ship 4 million OLED TV panels in 2018

17 Sep 2018

Set to double production capacity to 130,000 substrates per month by 2020

According to news reports from Kore1 News and Digitimes LG Display is likely to ship nearly four million display panels this year.

LG Display is reported they have shipped 1.3 million OLED TV panels ...

Perovskite patenting activities continues unabated with more than 2800 published and granted patents

10 Sep 2018

The gap between the top commercial and top academic assignees is increasing rapidly

In our latest Perovskite Photovoltaic: A review fo the patent landscape finds more than 2800 patents were published and granted patents between 2010 and the end of August 2018. An interesting finding highlights that of ...

Fraunhofer FEP announces OLED integration in textiles

10 Sep 2018

The integration of luminous OLED elements in clothing means the wearer can be more easily noticed and considerably increase their visibility and thus their safety

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP) has announced they have developed OLED elements that can be integrated into textiles.These will be showcased at the forthcoming Electronics System Integration ...

E Ink and Fujitsu Semiconductor announce reference design for battery-less ePaper tags

10 Sep 2018

Two major trends in the electronics industry - battery-less and energy harvesting - is opening up the opportunity for logistics ePaper tags in the logistics management industry

E Ink and Fujitsu Semiconductor have announced the joint development of a reference design board for battery-less ePaper tags. The solution adopts E Ink's low voltage ePaper module and Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited's UHF ...

OLED microdisplays and sensors as the foundation for intelligent data glasses

10 Sep 2018

Safety helmets with built-in microdisplays and multifunction data glasses will soon monitor production lines, advise workers of dangers, and display storage locations

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP is developing OLED microdisplays and sensors as the foundation for intelligent data glasses in the sectors of medicine, vehicle production, entertainment, and for ...

UCLA researchers develop perovskite-CIGS tandem solar cell with 22.4 percent power conversion efficiency

27 Aug 2018

The two layers are joined by a nanoscale interface that the UCLA researchers designed, the interface helps give the device higher voltage, which increases the amount of power it can export

Materials scientists from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have developed a highly efficient thin-film perovskite-CIGS solar cells that generates more energy from sunlight than typical solar panels, thanks to its tandem design.

These devices ...

Kyulux and Samsung Display sign joint development agreement

27 Aug 2018

The joint development agreement will focus on accelerating the development of blue TADF and Hyperfluorescence

Kyulux has announced they have signed a joint development agreement with Samsung Display focused on deep blue materials.

In January 2018 Kyulux signed a joint development agreement with LG Display focused on blue TADF and ...

The University of Newcastle (Australia) and CHEP install nearly 200m2 of organic solar-cells for six month trial

27 Aug 2018

This is the first commercial uptake of printed organic solar in Australia, an important step in the evolution of this technology

The University of Newcastle in partnership with CHEP (Australia) have installed nearly 200m2 to explore the potential of organic photovoltaics technology.

According to Professor Paul Dastoor, University of Newcastle, this commercial-scale installation on CHEP ...

LG introduces the world's first 8K OLED TV at IFA

27 Aug 2018

LG said the 8K TV market is in its infancy, and expected to grow to more than 5 million units by 2022, LG aims to lead the market in advanced premium TV technologies

LG Electronics (LG) has introduced the world's first 8K (7680 x 4320) OLED TV at IFA 2018. The 88-inch 8K LG OLED TV features over 33 million self-emitting pixels to produce the unmatched contrast ...

Greatcell Solar agrees to sell 50 percent of material production assets to management

27 Aug 2018

The deal anticipates a future 100 per cent transfer of the production assets upon the completion of a set of cash payments totalling AU$1 million by 30 September 2019 and additional payments for FY2020 and FY2021 based on future earnings

Greatcell Solar (GSL) has announced an update on matters relating to its current financial position. Today, GSL has agreed to sell 50 per cent of its materials production assets to Dr Yanek Hebting, the current ...

Greatcell Solar actively dealing with new investment enquiries from China, India and Thailand

27 Aug 2018

The company has withdrawn from negotiations with CER Group due to economic climate in Turkey, and is now actively exploring new investment enquiries from China, India and Thailand

Greatcell Solar has announced an update on the status of its Company refinancing as recently announced in its 4Q-FY18 Appendix 4C.

The Company has activated its contingency plans and withdrawn from negotiations with the CER ...

Solution-processed organic tandem solar cells achieves 17.3% efficiency

20 Aug 2018

Recent research suggests organic solar cells could be as efficient as those based on inorganic materials such as silicon and perovskites

Researchers from Nankai University in China have announced they have determined which photoactive material combinations are best for making "tandem" organic photovoltaic devices. Test cells made in the laboratory the researchers' were able to reach ...

JOLED raises US$ 423 million in capital through share sale

20 Aug 2018

JOLED will use the funds raised through this capital increase to develop the world’s first printed OLED display mass-production line

JOLED has announced they have raised a total of US$ 423 million (JPY47 billion) in capital through third-party allocation of new shares to mass produce OLED displays using its printing method.

JOLED will use the ...

GIST develops a new patterning process for perovskite photovoltaic modules

20 Aug 2018

The monolithic module architecture for large-area perovskite photovoltaic modules has a geometrical fill factor of 94.1%, a module efficiency of 14.0% and an area of 9.06 cm2

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) has announced they have developed a new module architecture using ionic-conducting features of perovskites to create metal-filamentary nanoelectrodes in the series connection region.

Currently, the fabrication of large-area ...

JOLED, Panasonic, and Screen sign business cooperation agreement related to sales and servicing of production equipment for large sized printed OLED displays for TV use

20 Aug 2018

JOLED plans to move forward on licensing of manufacturing technologies using its printing method to manufacturers and other companies aiming to manufacture OLED displays for use in large-sized TVs

JOLED, Panasonic Production Engineering Co., Ltd., and SCREEN Finetech Solutions Co., Ltd., have concluded a business cooperation agreement related to development, manufacture, sales, and service of printing equipment for manufacture of large sized printed OLED ...

Oxford PV leads consortium to prepare perovskite solar cells for high volume manufacturing

20 Aug 2018

Perovskite solar technology consortium funded by German Government as part of investment into renewable energy development

Oxford PV has announced a new consortium to further demonstrate the manufacturability of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells.

The project has received Euro 2.8 Million from the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy as ...

Shipments of flexible AMOLED panels expected to exceed rigid panels by 2020

20 Aug 2018

IHS Markit forecasts demand for smartphones with flexible AMOLED panels to reach 335 million units by 2020 and 52 % of total AMOLED shipments

According to IHS Markit shipments of flexible AMOLED panels are expected to reach 335.7 million units by 2020, topping those of rigid AMOLED panels at 315.9 million units. Flexible AMOLED panels are predicted ...

Universal Display announces second quarter 2018 financial results

20 Aug 2018

UDC believe 2019 is poised to be a pivotal year for the OLED industry, with the multi-year OLED capex growth cycle of new production lines, and the long-awaited introduction of the world's first foldable OLED

Universal Display has announced 2nd quarter 2018 financials results ended June 30, 2018.

Total revenue decreased 37% to US$99.7 million in the first half of 2018, compared with US$158.1 million in ...

Imec achieves 27.1 percent efficiency for perovskite-silicon tandem photovoltaic cell

30 Jul 2018

This perovskite-silicon tandem photovoltaic cell surpasses the record efficiency for single silicon solar cells - future engineered perovskite material bring efficiencies > 30% in reach

Imec within the partnership of EnergyVille has announced a record result for its 4-terminal Perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaic cell. With a power conversion efficiency of 27.1 percent, the new Imec tandem cell beats the ...

CPI announces participation in UltraWELD consortium to improve airtight bonding in OLED lighting

30 Jul 2018

The UltraWELD project, part-funded by Innovate UK, will develop photonic-based processes for highly dissimilar material joining

CPI has announced they are participating the UltraWeld project, along with lead partner Oxford Lasers Limited, alongside Glass Technology Services Ltd, Coherent Scotland Limited, Heriot Watt University, Gooch & Housego Limited, and Leonardo MW Limited ...

JOLED sets sight on producing large area printed OLED panels for TV and signage

30 Jul 2018

At the recently held AMFPD2018 conference JOLED's Chief Technologist outline the companies roadmap

According to a press announcement Toshiaki Arai, Chief Technologist of JOLED, recently gave an invited presentation on Innovative Technologies for OLED Display Manufacturing at AMFPD2018 – The 25th International Workshop on Active-Matrix Flat Panel Displays and ...

Sharp reported to begin volume production of OLED panelsSharp begins volume production of OLED panels

30 Jul 2018

News websites are reporting that Sharp is planning to enter volume production of OLED panels for their own smartphones

According to news website Digitimes, and various news sites in Japan, Sharp is expected manufacture OLED panels for their own-brand Aquos high-end smartphone models. Smartphones are expected to reach the market during the fourth quarter ...

JOLED receives US$400 million from four Japanese companies to invest in OLED development

9 Jul 2018

Denso, Toyota Tsusho, Sumitomo Chemical and Screen Holdings are reported to have made the investment at the end of June 2018

According to a recent video news report on the NHK website four Japanese firms have reportedly invested about US$ 400 million dollars in JOLED - a Japanese developer of printed OLED display panels.

The NHK news ...

China approves LG Display's Guangzhou OLED factory

9 Jul 2018

The Guangzhou OLED plant will mainly produce large-size OLED panels for TVs, producing 60,000 sheets per month and ramping up to a maximum of 90,000 sheets per month

LG Display has announced that the company's OLED production joint venture in Guangzhou, China has been approved by the Chinese government.

The joint venture for LG Display's new OLED panel production plant will ...

Researchers demonstrate efficient near-infrared (NIR) electroluminescence from a "metal-free" fluorophore

9 Jul 2018

There is growing interest to adopt NIR OLEDs in a range of applications, such as sensing, bio-imaging, photodynamic therapy, and optogenetics through to Li-Fi communications

Researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCL, alongside with collaborators from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia) and Flinders University (Australia), have demonstrated ...

OLED surpasses 100 percent exciton production efficiency

9 Jul 2018

Splitting energy using singlet fission opens a new route toward OLEDs with high-intensity emission in the near-infrared

Researchers at Kyushu University's Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) in Japan have demonstrated a way to split energy in OLEDs and surpass the 100% limit for exciton production, opening a promising ...

Thin Film Electronics announces shipment of more than 5 million EAS tags in 2018-Q2

9 Jul 2018

The company said the start of roll-to-roll NFC production remains on target for end of 2018-Q3

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced the company has shipped more than 5 million EAS (electronic article surveillance) anti-theft tags to its partners during 2018-Q2.

The 2018-Q2 shipments included the first volume orders earmarked for ...

Oxford PV sets world record for perovskite solar cell 27.3% power conversion efficiency

25 Jun 2018

Perovskite solar technology passes highest ever single-junction silicon solar cell of 26.7% power conversion efficiency

Oxford PV has announced a new, certified, world record for its perovskite based solar cell. According to the announcement the company developed a 1 cm2 perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell that achieved a 27.3 ...

JOLED establishes Nomi Site in Ishikawa for the mass production of production of printed OLED by 2020

25 Jun 2018

This facility his will be the world's first mass production plant for printed OLED, and JOLED aims to commence production in 2020

JOLED has announced they will be establishing JOLED Nomi Site in Nomi City, Ishikawa Prefecture on July 1, 2018 for the mass production of printed OLED displays.

According to the announcement this will be the ...

Osaka University researchers design organic photovoltaic polymers using machine learning

25 Jun 2018

Machine learning could hugely accelerate solar cell development, since it instantaneously predicts results that would take months in the lab

A research team from Osaka University have used machine learning to automate the search for polymer materials for organic photovoltaics devices. The work is expected to lead to vastly more efficient photovoltaic devices. The research ...

NEDO and Toshiba announce 703 cm2 flexible perovskite solar cell - deemed world's largest

18 Jun 2018

This is deemed to be the world's largest film type perovskite solar cell module made to date - with power conversion efficiency of 11.7% with a module area of ​​703 cm2

NEDO and Toshiba Corp. have announced they have developed a 24.15 cm x 29.10 cm - area 703 cm2 flexible perovskite solar cell module with with a power conversion efficiency of 11.7%. Toshiba ...

Merck opens OLED Technology Centre China in Shanghai

18 Jun 2018

The centre will provide customers with tailor-made solutions to enable further innovation and drive applications for OLED in China

Merck has announced the opening of its new OLED Technology Centre China in the Pilot Free Trade Zone, Shanghai, China. The new centre will provide local customers with customised solutions to enable innovative OLED application ...

Sunew partners with Transportadora Americana to provide OPV power on road freight trailers

18 Jun 2018

The partners hope to expand the number of trailers using OPV technology in the pilot project - at least 25+ vehicles

Sunew has partnered with Transportadora Americana to provide organic photovoltaic technology to provide independent power to the attached trailer. The pilot project aims to evaluate organic solar energy as a suitable renewable power source to ...

Researchers make progress in solving a major challenge in mass production of perovskite solar cells

18 Jun 2018

Spray coating could make perovskite an inexpensive alternative to silicon for solar panels

An international team of university researchers have reported solving a fabrication challenge for perovskite solar cells.

In the published paper the research team reveals a new scalable means of applying a critical component to perovskite ...

EPFL researchers achieve record 25.2% power efficiency for silicon combined with perovskite solar-cells

11 Jun 2018

By combining the two materials EPFL researchers believe 30% efficiency is within reach and not too far away

Researchers from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)'s Photovoltaics Laboratory and the CSEM PV-center - have developed an economically competitive solution. They have integrated a perovskite cell directly on top of a standard silicon-based cell ...

OET researchers achieve 7.4% efficiency for single structure fully printed organic photovoltaic - a new world record

11 Jun 2018

The researchers are confident they are on target to hit their technology roadmap of around 9% for large scale OPV modules by 2021

Nanotechnology Lab LTFN of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki independently certified the measurement at simulated AM 1.5 illumination under 1000W/m2

Organic Electronic Technologies (OET) R&D team reached a record in power conversion efficiency ...

Flexible organic electronics mimic biological mechanosensory nerves

11 Jun 2018

The artificial mechanosensory nerves are composed of three essential components: mechanoreceptors (resistive pressure sensors), neurons (organic ring oscillators), and synapses (organic electrochemical transistors)

Researchers at Seoul National University and Stanford University have developed artificial mechanosensory nerves using flexible organic devices to emulate biological sensory afferent nerves. The researchers used the artificial mechanosensory nerves to control a disabled insect ...

Visionox Technology and Universal Display enter into long-term OLED agreements

11 Jun 2018

Visionox recent capital investment in a new G6 OLED fab in Hebei Province is expected to accelerate the commercialization path for mainstream proliferation of OLED displays

Universal Display Corp. and Visionox Technology have announced the signing of a new OLED Technology License Agreement and Supplemental Material Purchase Agreement. Under the agreements, UDC will supply phosphorescent OLED materials to Visionox Technology for ...

Greatcell Solar nears completion of US$8 million strategic investment from CER to support continued operations and intends to form joint venture in Turkey

11 Jun 2018

The financing component, involving the placement to a strategic partner and funding by the Australian government, is expected to provide a minimum of A$25 million - enabling the company to execute its business plan to the end of CY2019 and beyond

Greatcell Solar has announced that it is nearing completion of the financing of its continuing operations, including the establishment of a world-class prototype facility, and expects to complete a US$8 million capital raising and ...

Researchers develop perovskite solar cell technology with exceptional light harvesting under indoor illumination

28 May 2018

Researchers at CHOSE and UCL develop have developed perovskite solar cells with maximum power density under white LED illumination of 20.2 µW/cm2 at 200 lx and 41.6 µW/cm2 at 400 lx

Researchers at the Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy (CHOSE), Department of Electronic Engineering University of Rome – Tor Vergata, in collaboration with researchers at the Department of Physics and Astronomy and London Centre for ...

New perovskite research training network receives €4 million in EU funding

28 May 2018

MAESTRO researchers will combine expertise and state-of the-art infrastructure to find means of increasing cell stability as well as attempting to maintain record efficiencies when moving to large-scale manufacturing processes

MAESTRO (Making perovskites truly exploitable) - has received a €4 million EU funding to establish a new research training network focused on perovskite materials and led by the University ...

Sony releases 0.5-type OLED microdisplay featuring the World's smallest pixel pitch of 6.3µm

28 May 2018

By employing a new drive circuit design that operates on half the voltage of the previous model, the new product achieves the same level of low-power operation as its predecessor but with much higher resolution

Sony Corp. has announced the pending release of the ECX339A OLED Microdisplay featuring UXGA (1600 x 1200 resolution), which Sony claim is the highest in class for a 0.5-type.

Sony said this product achieves ...

Thin Film Electronics begins complete processing of EAS tags on its roll-to-roll manufacturing line

28 May 2018

Thin Film Electronics has also submitted the protocol associated with its PDPS (printed dopant polysilicon) wireless tags for standardisation

Thin Film Electronics ASA (Thinfilm) has announced that the company has started fully processing EAS (electronic article surveillance) anti-theft tags on its roll-to-roll manufacturing line at the Company's Junction Avenue facility in San Jose ...

eMagin announces first quarter 2018 financial results

28 May 2018

Posts 13% revenue growth in Q1 and a 20% Increase in backlog from year end

eMagin Corp. has announced financial results and corporate highlights for the first quarter ended March 31, 2018.

Revenues for the first quarter of 2018 grew 13% to US$6.9 million, an increase of US ...

Flexible fingerprint sensors finds early use in embedded secure access control

21 May 2018

The fingerprint sensors combine an organic photodiode frontplane, an oxide thin-film transistor backplane, and a thin-film barrier for protection against the environment

Researchers from Holst Centre have demonstrated a new class of flexible, large-area sensor technology for detecting fingerprints and palmprints.

At less than 0.2 mm thick and with no bulky prisms or moving parts, the ...

Rehau joins Lyteus EU funded OLED lighting pilot line

21 May 2018

Lyteus, which is establishing a pilot line enabling companies of any size to develop concepts related to flexible OLED lighting technology quickly and cost-effectively and to bring products to market maturity

Polymer specialist REHAU and 13 partners are investigating OLED lighting technology enabling lighting to be uniform, bendable, ultra-thin and transparent.

Rehau's involvement is part of the European programme called Lyteus, which is establishing a ...

CPI announces that the SmartEEs acceleration programme is organising an open call for applications

21 May 2018

The types of activities that qualify to receive support from SmartEEs must be related to industrial and societal adoption of new digital products, services and business models enabled by flexible electronics technologies

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) announces that the SmartEEs acceleration programme is organising an open call for applications to help companies grow by integrating flexible electronics technologies into advanced products.

The types of activities ...

Lyteus develops flexible OLED head-up display demonstrator

21 May 2018

The demonstrator features a transparent, multi-colour segmented display based on OLEDs

When designing a vehicle, manufacturers need to ensure drivers can receive essential information without unnecessarily distracting them from the road ahead. At this year’s SID Display Week,

Lyteus has demonstrated how flexible OLED technology ...

CPI develops electronic materials for low-cost Internet of Things applications

21 May 2018

Working alongside twelve other partners in the EU H2020-funded consortium, these materials will then be used to make the RFID and NFC tags’ antennae that transmit the signals needed for IoT connectivity

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has announced that, as part of its Necomada project, it has created a series of new ink and adhesive formulations aimed at reducing the cost of future Internet of ...

Pragmatic announces first Flexlogic installation and commissioned facility

21 May 2018

FlexLogIC is a self-contained, fully automated system delivering high throughput manufacturing of ultra-low cost, thin and flexible integrated circuits (FlexICs)

PragmatIC has announced the first FlexLogIC "fab-in-a-box" has now been installed and commissioned in its facility at Sedgefield, UK.

FlexLogIC is a self-contained, fully automated system delivering high throughput manufacturing of ultra-low cost, thin and ...

Hella develops OLED technology for automotive applications

14 May 2018

Hella has been active in researching OLED technology since 2005 and has adapted it for automotive manufacturers so that its meets the requirements regarding e.g. temperature resistance and a long service life

Hella has announced they are developing OLED rear combination lamps with Audi and they have been integrated in to the new Audi A8.

The appearance of headlamps and rear combination lamps is no longer only ...

LG Display plans to ramp up OLED panel production to meet growing demand for TV panels

14 May 2018

Global shipments of OLED TVs reached 510,000 units in the first quarter of 2018, increasing 127% from a year earlier

According to the Digitimes news website LG Display (LGD) plans to ramp up the production capacity of OLED TV panels at its Gen 8.5 line in order to meet demand from new clients including ...

Japan Display Inc reported an annual net loss of about US$2.25 billion

14 May 2018

The company biggest recorded loss highlights the Apple Inc supplier's struggle to regain competitiveness against Asian rivals

Reuters news reported that Japan Display announced that it on Tuesday it lost a net 247.2 billion yen (US$2.25 billion) in the year through March. That was nearly eight times the 31 ...

UK researchers develop organic semiconductor lasers compatible with human eyes

7 May 2018

The new laser approaches the fundamental limit in specific weight and thickness, with exceptional mechanical flexibility allows the device to be put on contact lens or a bank notes

Researchers from The University of St Andrews have developed an ultra-thin membrane organic semiconductor based laser, opening up the possibility of ocular lasers - lasers on the the eye. The researchers sais these could be harnessed ...

National Printable Electronics Centre exploits the opportunities of IoT

7 May 2018

CPI's centre expansion was part-funded with £2.6m from the European Regional Development Fund, further funding was also contributed by CPI via the Catapult programme and the SCOPE project

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has expanded the capabilities of its National Printable Electronics Centre to assist companies in exploiting the commercial opportunities offered by the Internet of Things (IoT).

Expected to be worth ...

E Ink and SES-imagotag announce a strategic collaboration to strengthen their positions in the retail IoT

7 May 2018

As part of this strategic collaboration, E Ink has agreed to complete a 26 million Euro investment in SES-imagotag in the form of a capital increase of SES-imagotag

E Ink and SES-imagotag have announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate and expand their common growth objectives in the retail Internet of Things (IoT) market. As part of this strategic collaboration, E Ink has agreed ...

Universal Display announces financial results for first quarter 2018

7 May 2018

Universal Display believe that the OLED industry is poised to grow faster than expected this year - therefore 2017 revenue to be at least US$260 million to US$280 million

Universal Display Corp announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2018.

Total revenue decreased 22% to US$43.6 million in the first quarter of 2018, compared with US$55.6 million ...

Flexenable to take upto €5 million investment from Novares Venture Capital

30 Apr 2018

The investment is the first step in an exciting partnership to develop innovative glass-free flexible electronic displays and sensors or “smart surfaces” for automotive applications

Novares Venture Capital has announced it will invest €2.5 million now and another €2.5 million scheduled for 2019, providing that market feedback on the innovation remains positive. This will - according to the announcement ...

Henry Snaith comments of the status of perovskite pv in Nature Materials

30 Apr 2018

Cintelliq's Perovskite Patent Landscape research cited showing the commercial progress being made by companies and academia

The comment article by Henry Snaith provides an overview of the rapid development of Perovskite Photovoltaics that has taken place. Since 2012 when metal halide perovskite were first used their power conversion efficiency is already ...

Oxford PV secures a further £8.02 million in funding

30 Apr 2018

The funding will enable Oxford PV to continue to transfer its advanced perovskite-on-silicon tandem solar cell technology from the company's lab in Oxford, UK to industrial scale processes and equipment at the company's demonstration line in Brandenburg a

Oxford PV has announced it has secured a further £8.02 million in funding from its existing investors including Statoil and Legal & General Capital.

The company said the funding will enable Oxford PV to ...

Paragraf closes £2.9 million seed round to drive production of graphene based technologies

30 Apr 2018

The company has already produced layers with electrical characteristics optimised for producing very sensitive detectors and improved efficiency contact layers for common technologies such as LEDs

Paragraf a recent spin out from the University of Cambridge, has closed a £2.9 million seed round to support the development of its first major products. The round is led by Cambridge Enterprise, the ...

Heliatek cooperates with Engie on its Harmony advertising campaign

30 Apr 2018

The approach brings organic solar technology together with the work of a street artist to create functional urban artwork

Heliatek has announced that Engie recently launched the international advertising campaign 'Engie Harmony'. The campaign's first project is called 'Solar Graffiti' and features an installation on a sports field near Mexico City that combines ...

Organic printing inks may restore sight to blind people

30 Apr 2018

Fabricated using cheap and widely-available organic pigments used in printing inks and cosmetics, it consists of tiny pixels like a digital camera sensor on a nanometric scale

Researchers from the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University led by Eric Glowacki, principal investigator of the organic nanocrystals subgroup have developed a tiny, simple photoactive film that converts light impulses into electrical signals.

Fabricated ...

ITRI exhibits novel flexible OLED lighting panels

30 Apr 2018

ITRI's FOLED technology has lightweight and bendable features and can produce soft light

ITRI recentli showcased their progress with flexible OLED (FOLED) technology. ITRI's "OLED Lighting" pavilion focuses on the theme "Smart Living-Home Lighting" and demonstrates various applications of FOLED technologies.

Previously OLED was developed primarily on ...

EU funded - ESPResSo perovskite project starts

16 Apr 2018

ESPResSo is an ambitious EU funded collaboration to make perovskite olar cells a market reality

Imec has been named project coordinator of a 3-year European Union (EU) funded project, "ESPResSo" (Efficient Structures and Processes for Reliable Perovskite Solar Modules), that brings together organisation from across the perovskite PV technology value-chain ...

Perovskite photovoltaic patents published in 2018 expected to exceed those of 2017 - commercial patent filings show signs of rapid growth

16 Apr 2018

The latest release of the report greatly extends the number of pages of analysis, charts, tables and information

The latest perovskite patent landscape report from cintelliq sees no let up in the number of perovskite photovoltaic patents being filed and published - which now exceeds 2,260. In 2016 and 2017 more than 1 ...

Nano-C completes US$11.5 million funding round

16 Apr 2018

Nano-C will use this capital to expand customer support to existing and future customers, and will also enable Nano-C to implement an initial increase in production and staffing

Nano-C has announced it has completed a US$11.5 million round of funding, with a final tranche of US$3 million in the form of an equity investment from Ray Stata, co-founder and current ...

Pixelligent Technologies closes US$7.6 million funding round

16 Apr 2018

Including Investment from Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co Ltd and and Kateeva Inc - funds aim to accelerate product commercialisation and global customer adoption

Pixelligent has announced US$7.6 million in new funding to help further drive product commercialisation and accelerate global customer adoption.

This round of funding includes strategic investments from two new strategic partners, Tokyo Ohka ...

Ultra-thin organic photovoltaic cells - just 3um thick and 10% efficiency

16 Apr 2018

The cell can be directly attached to clothes by using a "hot melt" method

Researchers from the University of Tokyo, Riken , Waseda University, University of California - Santa Barbara, Toray Industries, and Japan Science and Technology Agency have published research on the development of an "ultra-thin organic solar cell" featuring ...

Demand for higher resolution oxide panels expected to grow 30 % in 2018 to 5.3 bn sqm

16 Apr 2018

Rise in LCD and OLED display applications has contributed to momentum in demand growth for panels using this technology

IHS Markit has published research showing that demand for panels – both thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT LCD) and active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) – using oxide backplane technology doubled in 2017, in terms of area ...

Solliance sets new record on large perovskite based PV module record with a cell performance of 14.5%

9 Apr 2018

Twenty-four cells were series-connected using laser scribes, up to 95.3% of the modules area covered with active material, resulting in a stabilised module efficiency of 13.8%

Solliance has announced they have set a new record for a stabilised average cell performance of 14.5% for its large are thin-film perovskite photovoltaic modules on glass. The efficiency was measured on an aperture ...

Perovskite photovoltaic patents published in 2018 expected to exceed those of 2017 - commercial patent filings show signs of rapid growth

9 Apr 2018

The latest release of the report greatly extends the number of pages of analysis, charts, tables and information

The latest perovskite patent landscape report from cintelliq sees no let up in the number of perovskite photovoltaic patents being filed and published - which now exceeds 2,260. In 2016 and 2017 more than 1 ...

Fraunhofer FEP, Hoslt Centre and VTT develop flexible organic electronics for wearable applications

9 Apr 2018

The partners have produced a novel OLED bracelet representing one of the first wearable products with flexible organic electronics from the European PI-Scale pilot line

Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology, together with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Holst Centre from Netherlands, have announced a wearable OLED bracelet demonstrator.

Since 2016 ...

Idemitsu Kosan announce the establishment of OLED materials business in China

9 Apr 2018

Based on anticipated growth of OLED display manufacturing in China, Idemitsu has decided to enhance its evaluation system for OLED materials and devices, strengthen its technological support capabilities and improve its supply structure in China

Idemitsu Kosan has announced that the company has reached a basic agreement with the government of the Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone in the city of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, on the establishment, in the ...

Greatcell Solar has receives EU Horizon 2020 project award of €500,000

9 Apr 2018

The work involved will investigate advanced technology for higher efficiencies, longer life and improved encapsulation of perovskite solar cells enabled glass substrates

Greatcell Solar Limited (GSL) has announced they have been awarded €500,000 (approximately A$ 800K) in a European Union Horizon 2020 project known as H2020-SGA-FET-GRAPHENE. The successful grant to Greatcell's application has occurred through ...

Solliance and ECN announces a major step in improving silicon tandem solar cells

19 Mar 2018

Solliance developed a perovskite solar cell with 93% average near infrared transparency, and ECN shows 26.3% tandem cell efficiency when combining the perovskite solar cell with its 6 inch industrially processed c-Si cell

Solliance has announced, at the Silicon PV/nPV conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, that they have achieved a major milestone in perovskite technology for application in future industrial high efficiency tandem photovoltaic cells and modules by ...

Denso to invest Yen 30 billion in JOLED

19 Mar 2018

JOLED is hoping to secure investors of the remaining ¥50 billion at an early date, aiming to start mass-producing OLED panels by the end of 2019

It has been report by various news websites that Denso Corp. will invest ¥30 billion (US$ 282million) in JOLED Inc. Denso and JOLED are expected to work together to develop in-vehicle OLED panel products, such ...

OLEDWorks announces a flexible and conformable lighting platform

19 Mar 2018

The addition of Bendoled extends the functionality of OLED lighting and affording greater options for architects and lighting designers - samples will be available in October 2018

OLEDWorks has announced Bendoled - a flexible and conformable OLED lighting platform, uses Corning Willow Glass-based substrates.

According to OLEDWorks "Bendoled" combines feather-weight elegance with bold lighting functionality. The addition of Bendoled brings a new element ...

OLEDWorks announces extensions Brite 3 products

19 Mar 2018

The Lumiblade products will continue to be manufactured in Aachen, Germany, with engineering samples will be available in the second quarter

OLEDWorks has announced expansion to the company's OLED lighting product portfolio with the high performing Lumiblade Brite 3 OLED panels.

According to the announcement Brite 3 OLED lighting panels are now available in two ...

Merck co-founds German OLED Lighting alliance and showcases OLED and OPV facade

19 Mar 2018

This non-profit alliance aims to leverage their expertise to further develop OLED as a sustainable light source for a variety of applications

Merck has announced their founding membership to the "OLED Licht Forum" alongside industry experts. The aims of the network is to seek to develop and utilize OLED for future lighting solutions through dialogue and expert ...

OLEDWorks partners with BASF to introduce new OLED lighting technology

19 Mar 2018

BASF has developed barrier materials which are key to realising flexible thin-film encapsulation for OLED lighting and display applications

OLEDWorks and BASF's Coatings division have joined forces to develop bendable OLED panels. The new product range named "Brite 3" enables an improved efficacy while retaining both colour rendering and high brightness option.

For ...

Thin Film Electronics announces IP licensing agreement and equipment sale related to printed displays and sensors

12 Mar 2018

Thin Film Electronics completes its exit from its original business of printed memory, printed displays and printed sensors to focus on its NFC and analytics business

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced the licensing of its intellectual property (IP) portfolio related to printed displays and sensors to Consensum Production AB.

Thinfilm disclosed they will receive an up-front license fee. However, no ...

Opvius improves low-light performance of OPV devices

12 Mar 2018

OPV devices suitable for IoT applications in low-light levels

Opvius has announced the findings of an internal research and development project on OPV performance in low-light. Opvius states that previously performance of OPV devices in low-light was subjected to strong fluctuations, even within the ...

Since 2008 more than 160,000 organic and printed electronics patents have been published

12 Mar 2018

cintelliq has complied the world's first comprehensive analysis of organic electronic devices, materials and process patents, a must have resource for all companies with an active development program in organic and printed electronics

cintelliq is pleased to announce their latest patent report Organic Electronics: A ten-year review of the patent landscape - this review and analysis of organic electronic patents covers the period 2008 - 2017. The review and analysis ...

Fraunhofer IAP announces they are developing drop-on-demand electrostatic printing

12 Mar 2018

The electrostatic printing technology allows there use of a wider range of inks, essential for printing very fine structures

Fraunhofer IAP announce their scientists are working on implementing a novel drop-on demand system: esjet-printing (electro static printing). This technology allows the use of a wider range of inks, especially essential for printing very fine ...

Growth of AMOLED display manufacturing capacity slowing in South Korea while accelerating in China

12 Mar 2018

Adoption of high-end flexible AMOLED panels in a wider range of models is being restricted by high prices that are still about two times those of equivalently specified LCDs

According to IHS Markit after two years of unprecedented capacity expansion, South Korean flat panel display (FPD) manufacturers will essentially halt new AMOLED panel factory construction for mobile applications in 2018. At the same time ...

Oxford PV relocates headquarters and perovskite solar research and development

5 Mar 2018

Oxford PV's UK team will continue to support the transfer of its advanced lab based perovskite on silicon tandem solar cell technology to industrial scale processes and equipment

Oxford PV has announced it has moved its UK based headquarters and research and development facilities to a new 25,000 sqft site in Oxford, UK, further supporting the accelerated commercialisation of its perovskite on ...

Since 2008 more than 160,000 organic and printed electronics patents have been published

5 Mar 2018

cintelliq has complied the world's first comprehensive analysis of organic electronic devices, materials and process patents, a must have resource for all companies with an active development program in organic and printed electronics

cintelliq is pleased to announce their latest patent report Organic Electronics: A ten-year review of the patent landscape - this review and analysis of organic electronic patents covers the period 2008 - 2017. The review and analysis ...

Gauss Centre for Supercomputing and TU Dresden use simulation and experiment to study next-generation organic semiconductors

5 Mar 2018

Theoretical physicists and experimentalists collaborate to identify dopants capable of enabling new designs of organic semiconducting materials

A team of scientists at TU Dresden used the SuperMUC supercomputer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre to refine its method for studying organic semiconductors.

Specifically, the team uses an approach called organic semiconductor doping, a ...

NYU Tandon researchers build non-fullerene organic solar cells with improved efficiency

5 Mar 2018

Using a squaraine molecule in a novel way - as a crystallizing agent - facilitates the orientation of the donor-acceptor polymer (PBDB-T) with the non-fullerene acceptor (ITIC) in a favourable arrangement

A team of researchers from NYU Tandon - led by Tandon Associate Professor André D. Taylor of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department - have found an innovative and promising way to improve organic solar cells and ...

Sumitomo Chemical announces flexible OLED lighting fixtures

5 Mar 2018

Sumitomo Chemical will exhibit its newly-designed OLED fixtures, co-developed with lighting fixture manufacturers, at the forthcoming Light&Building in Frankfurt

Sumitomo Chemical has announced they will be exhibitin gthe latest OLED light fixtures at the forthcoming "Light+Building 2018" held in Frankfurt, Germany, from March 18 to March 23, 2018.

Sumitomo Chemical is honoured to ...

Organic and printed electronics published patents have grown more than 73% over the past ten years

26 Feb 2018

From 12,000+ published patents in 2008 to more than 21,000+ published patents in 2017

cintelliq is pleased to announce their latest patent report Organic Electronics: A ten-year review of the patent landscape - this review and analysis of organic electronic patents covers the period 2008 - 2017. The review and analysis ...

Opvius signs cooperation agreement to develop "active sun protection" using organic photovoltaics

26 Feb 2018

Solar curtain is very easy to install and easily integrated into existing buildings - in this way the energy efficiency of a building can be boosted by a retrofit measure

Opvius, Oskar Widmer and SunCurtain have announced they are cooperation on developing organic photovoltaic active sun protection systems, and has been introduced to the market at R+T Expo in Stuttgart – started Tuesday, 27th ...

Lumiotec acquired by V-technology

26 Feb 2018

Plans to establish a new subsidiary to develop next-generation OLED mask and deposition technology

According to a news report on the OLEDNet website V-technology has announced they are to acquire Lumiotec from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The transaction is expected to be complete by 1 April 2018. No financial details ...

Sekisui and Secual develop security sensor powered by flexible dye-sensitised solar cell

26 Feb 2018

The security sensor can generate power from as little as 500lx

It has been reported by Tech-on news website that Secual Inc and Sekisui Chemical Co Ltd have co-developed the "Secual Next-generation Security Sensor" by using Sekisui Chemical's flexible dye-sensitised solar cell (DSSC).

According to ...

Universal Display announces fourth quarter and full year 2017 financial results

26 Feb 2018

Universal Display expects industry capacity growth to take a bit of a breather this year as panel makers build the framework for the next wave of high volume OLED production, which is expected to ramp next year

Universal Display Corp. has announced its results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31 2017

For the full year 2017, Total revenue increased 69% to US$335.6 million in the full year ...

Flexible AMOLED market more than tripled to US$12 billion in 2017

26 Feb 2018

IHS Markit the demand for flexible AMOLED panels is not expected to grow as fast as supply capacity in 2018

According to IHS Markit shipment revenue of flexible AMOLED displays more than tripled in 2017, accounting for 54.6 percent of total AMOLED panel shipment revenue.

The flexible AMOLED panel market expanded by about 250 ...

Universal Display increases quarterly cash dividend to US$0.06 per share

26 Feb 2018

Shareholders will receive a 100% increase over the previous dividend of US$0.03 per share

Universal Display Corp. has announced that its Board of Directors approved a first quarter cash dividend of US$0.06 per share on the Company's common stock, a 100% increase over the previous dividend ...

Nagase Sangyo makes a strategic investment in Kyulux

19 Feb 2018

Nagase investment of Yen 500 million (US$4.6 million) aims to help by offering scale-up expertise and access to an international customer base

Nagase Sangyo Co announces that it has taken a 500 million yen (US$4.6 million) investment in Kyulux - who is developing Hyperfluorescence Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF) materials for next genration OLED displays. Hyperfluorescence ...

Kyulux appoints Junji Adachi as CEO changes and announces new CTO

19 Feb 2018

Kyulux management changes is expected to continue with the commercialisation of the company's TADF OLED materials

Kyulux has announced recent management changes with former CTO Junji Adachi appointed as CEO. Mr. Adachi, a co-founder of Kyulux, is an experienced engineer and manager with 30+ years of industry experience developing organic solar ...

OLED materials revenues jumped 43% in 2017 to US$869 million - and grow to US$2.5 billion in 2022

19 Feb 2018

Revenues for TV applications will grow slightly slower than the overall market at 23% CAGR from $344 million to US$963 million - this forecast anticipates the arrival of inkjet printing technologies that will enable RGB OLED structures

Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) has announced their latest issue of their Quarterly OLED Materials Report. The 2017-Q4 report completes the picture for OLED stack materials in 2017, and revenues grew 43% to US$869 ...

Fraunhofer FEP announces OLED Lighting easy sample kit availability

19 Feb 2018

In addition to the aesthetic possibilities for designs using OLED technology, the OLED Design Sample Kit is also intended to illustrate the functional possibilities that OLED technology offers in medical engineering and analytics

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEPhas announce the availability of an *OLED Lighting Design Sample Kit.

Flexible OLEDs present designers a practically unlimited tool for creating new OLED-based luminous ...

UK company leads the world in patent filings for perovskite solar cell technologies

19 Feb 2018

Given the number of organisations involved, the pace of development and the rapid improvement in power conversion efficiency means perovskite technology has great potential to challenge silicon as the dominant solar cell technology

The latest perovskite patent landscape report from cintelliq finds explosive growth in perovskite photovoltaic patent publications over the past two year. In 2016 and 2017 more than 1500 patents have been published representing 75% of ...

Samsung Display and Universal Display enter into long-term OLED agreements

12 Feb 2018

The agreement lasts until Dec 2022 and may be extended until 2024 - no financial details were disclosed

Universal Display Corp. has announced the signing of long-term OLED material supply and license agreements with Samsung Display (SDC).

These agreements affirm that Universal Display will continue to supply its proprietary UniversalPHOLED phosphorescent OLED materials ...

Researchers show tissue paper sensors hold promise for health care, entertainment, robotics

12 Feb 2018

Each piece of tissue paper has both horizontal and vertical fibers, so when the paper is torn, the direction of the tear informs the sensor of what's happened

According to a recent research paper University of Washington engineers have turned tissue paper - similar to toilet tissue - into a new kind of wearable sensor that can detect a pulse, a blink of an eye ...

UK company leads the world in patent filings for perovskite solar cell technologies

12 Feb 2018

Given the number of organisations involved, the pace of development and the rapid improvement in power conversion efficiency means perovskite technology has great potential to challenge silicon as the dominant solar cell technology

The latest perovskite patent landscape report from cintelliq finds explosive growth in perovskite photovoltaic patent publications over the past two year. In 2016 and 2017 more than 1500 patents have been published representing 75% of ...

Researchers discover new lead-free perovskite material for solar cells

12 Feb 2018

Researchers have shown that titanium is an attractive choice to replace the toxic lead in the prevailing perovskite thin film solar cells

Researchers at Brown University and University of Nebraska - Lincoln (UNL) has come up with a new titanium-based material for making lead-free, inorganic perovskite solar cells. In a recently published paper the researchers showed that the ...

OLED revenues establish new record in Q4-2017

12 Feb 2018

OLED revenues rose 62% Q/Q and 120% Y/Y in Q4-2017 to Record US$ 8.8 billion

Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) has recently published their latest 'Quarterly OLED Shipment and Fab Utilization Report' 2017-Q4 OLED shipment, revenue and market share results. Their analysis finds that OLEDs had a record quarter in ...

Merck launches joint project to conduct basic research on quantum materials as light sources

12 Feb 2018

ELQ-LEDs to deliver ultrapure colors and higher energy efficiency at lower production costs

Merck has announced it will hold the leadership role in a recently funded the joint project entitled "Exploration of quantum materials – New paths to realizing innovative optoelectronic components (ELQ-LED)".

The aim of the project, which ...

eMagin Corp announces pricing of its US$11.5 million upsized underwritten public offering

12 Feb 2018

eMagin expects to receive net proceeds of US$10.6 million from the public offering and the concurrent private placement, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated expenses

eMagin Corp recently announced that it has priced an underwritten offering of an aggregate of 8,527,918 shares of common stock of the Company and warrants to purchase up to 3,411,168 shares ...

Govisionox Optoelectronics and Universal Display announce an OLED evaluation agreement

5 Feb 2018

Govisionox Optoelectronics has been at the forefront of OLED research and development, actively advancing the commercialisation of AMOLEDs for a number of years

Universal Display Corp. has announced an OLED evaluation agreement with Kunshan Govisionox Optoelectronics.

Under this agreement, Universal Display (UDC) will supply Govisionox (GVO) with its proprietary UniversalPHOLED phosphorescent OLED materials for display applications. Details and ...

UK company leads the world in patent filings for perovskite solar cell technologies

5 Feb 2018

Given the number of organisations involved, the pace of development and the rapid improvement in power conversion efficiency means perovskite technology has great potential to challenge silicon as the dominant solar cell technology

The latest perovskite patent landscape report from cintelliq finds explosive growth in perovskite photovoltaic patent publications over the past two year. In 2016 and 2017 more than 1500 patents have been published representing 75% of ...

Novaled invests in material development capacities

5 Feb 2018

This increases the capacity for OLED production by 40% and at the same time enables an even more precise repeatability in processing

Novaled has announced that 2018 will be a milestone in the company's history, because the move to the new premises in Dresden will be kicked off in the second half of the year.|

On ...

NREL scientists demonstrate remarkable stability in perovskite solar cells

5 Feb 2018

NREL's unencapsulated solar cell retained 94 percent of its starting efficiency after 1,000 hours of continuous use under ambient conditions

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have recently created an environmentally stable, high-efficiency perovskite solar cell, bringing the emerging technology a step closer to commercial deployment. The ...

Linköping University develops new method to manufacture organic solar cells

5 Feb 2018

The solar cell modules that have been developed at Linköping University are being developed and manufactured by the spin-off company Epishine

Researchers at Linköping University, lead by Olle Inganäs, professor and head of a research group has developed a simple method to manufacture printed organic solar cell modules. The results have been published in the scientific ...

Skanska together with Saule Technologies launches first perovskite solar cell application in office buildings

22 Jan 2018

Skanska's long term goal is to become the "first" developer worldwide to cover office buildings with semi-transparent perovskite solar cells on a commercial scale

Saule Technologies have announced they will be providing Skanska's commercial development business unit in Central Eastern Europe (CEE) with perovskite technology in the form of test cells. Skanska's long term goal is to ...

New perovskite patent landscape report highlights major technical and commercial developments

22 Jan 2018

New report option provides full patent dataset plus extended analysis - available now

Our latest patent landscape report provides an solid review of perovskite technology and commercial developments - an invaluable guide to this latest emerging solar cell technology.

With this report you will learn:

  • What companies and research ...

Sharp and Universal Display announce an extended OLED evaluation agreement

22 Jan 2018

Under the agreement, Universal Display will supply its phosphorescent OLED materials and technology to Sharp Corp

Universal Display Corp. has announced today that the Company and Sharp Corp have entered into an extended and updated evaluation agreement. Under the agreement, Universal Display will supply its proprietary phosphorescent OLED materials and technology ...

PI-SCALE announces the winner of the flexible OLED design competition

22 Jan 2018

The winner receives a cash prize of 2,000 Euros, and have their winning design turned into a prototype model with the help of technical experts

PI-SCALE, a pilot line for the manufacture and system-level integration of flexible OLEDs into products, has announced Eduardo Camarena as the winner of its design competition, for his proposal of a wearable fitness device - Goal ...

Researchers develop the world's first complementary electrochemical logic circuits

22 Jan 2018

Applications of the organic components include logic circuits that can be printed on textile or paper, various types of cheap sensor, non-rigid and flexible displays, and – not least – the huge field of bioelectronics

Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics have developed the world's first complementary electrochemical logic circuits that can function stably for long periods in water. The researchers believe this to be highly significant breakthrough ...

Thin Film Electronics announces organisational changes

22 Jan 2018

To strengthen its position as an NFC mobile marketing solutions provider, and launches a Global Digital Strategy practice to formalise processes and establish best practices

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced several organisational changes that aims to further accelerate the Company's growth in the NFC mobile marketing solutions space.

  • Tauseef Bashir has been promoted to Chief Sales Officer for ...

Otego raises seed investment to fund market entry of organic TEGs

8 Jan 2018

Otego aims to mass produce printed organic semiconductor thermoelectric generators (TEGs) for energy harvesting - targeting sensor technology for IoT applications

Karlsruhe-based start-up otego GmbH for the production of thermoelectric generators (TEG) has made its mark on investors.

Otego, a spin-off of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), has announced they have raised a seven-figure sum ...

Perovskite photovoltaic : A review of the patent landscape - 2018 Q1 (now includes patents to Dec 2017)

8 Jan 2018

Since 2010 more than 2,000 perovskite patents covering over 1,200 patent families have been filed by over 490 academic and commercial assignees - filings set to accelerate

cintelliq is pleased to announce their latest release of their "Perovskite photovoltaic : A review of the patent landscape:2018-Q1 (now includes patents to Dec 2017)."

This report will enable you to identify the leading organisations ...

Xerox purchases IP portfolio for Thin Film Electronics printed rewriteable memory labels

8 Jan 2018

Thin Film Electronics has not provided any financial details or explanation on why the company is not pursuiing other opportuntities to licence their printed memory technology

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced that Xerox Corp. will acquire certain Thinfilm Memory intellectual property (IP). In return, Thinfilm will receive an up-front payment plus an earn-out based on the existing agreed-to royalty schedule ...

Oxford PV collaborates with HZB to move perovskite solar cells closer to commercialisation

8 Jan 2018

The companies are collaborating to support the accelerated transfer of its technology into silicon cell manufacturing lines

Oxford PV has announced its collaboration with Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) who will support Oxford PV to further optimise its perovskite on silicon tandem solar cell technology, and demonstrate production scale up, to ensure ease of ...

JOLED announce they have started providing printed OLED display panel samples to ASUS

8 Jan 2018

JOLED are aiming for printing OLED panels to penetrate the market for medium-sized professional monitors

JOLED has announced they have started offering 21.6-inch 4K high-resolution OLED panel samples produced using the "printing" method to ASUSTeK Computers - a Taiwan-based international computer hardware and consumer electronics company.

JOLED said their OLED ...

infinityPV announces that Frederik C. Krebs to take full-time position of CEO

8 Jan 2018

Scaling the technology has many challenges that are best met in the private sector, where scientific academic ambition does not interfere with finding pragmatic solutions to focused problems

infinityPV has announced that Frederik C. Krebs has taken the role of CEO at infinityPV full-time and see him leave the Technical University of Denmark where he has been for the past 18 years.

According ...

Oxford PV granted €15m investment from European Investment Bank

1 Jan 2018

The investment will be used to support the commercialisation of perovskite on silicon tandem solar cell technology

Oxford Photovoltaics Germany GmbH, a subsidiary of Oxford PV, has announced they have received an EU bank financing of €15 million, to support the transfer of its perovskite on silicon tandem solar cell technology from ...

Denso reported to be considering making a US$440 million investment in JOLED

1 Jan 2018

JOLED said the company was in talks with various materials and equipment manufacturers about investment, but that nothing specific had been decided

Denso Corp is considering a 50 billion yen (US$440 million) investment in OLED panel manufacturer - JOLED, according to various news reports from Kyodo news, Reuters and Digitimes .

JOLED, majority owned by a state-backed technology ...

Universal Display in discussions with Samsung to renew patent licence and materials purchase agreement

1 Jan 2018

Universal Display intends to provide an update once a resolution to these discussions is completed, although no time frame has been established for the completion of these discussions

Universal Display has filed with the SEC that the OLED Patent License Agreement between Universal Display Corporation (the Registrant) and Samsung Display Co., Ltd (SDC) (as the assignee of Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd. (SMD ...

Mechanochemistry paves the way to higher quality perovskite photovoltaics

1 Jan 2018

Perovskites obtained by mechanochemistry formed a very homogeneous layer, which reduced the number of defects in the structure impairing the work of the cell and reduced the amount of charge deposited on the surface

A Swiss-Polish team from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPC PAS) in Warsaw and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne (Switzerland) co-operating within the GOTSolar project ...

LG Display starts Gen-5 production of OLED lighting

11 Dec 2017

The Gen 5 line (1,100mm x 1,250mm) will initially produce 15,000 sheets per month, which is about a 30-fold increase as compared to the previous Gen 2 line

LG Display has announced that the company started mass production at its new Gen 5 OLED light panel production line in Gumi, Korea and launched its new OLED light brand, Luflex.

The Gen 5 line ...

infinityPV and Grafisk Maskinfabrik form strategic partnerships on printed organic solar cells

11 Dec 2017

This strategic partnership offers complete end-to-end solution for printed organic solar cell pilot manufacturing

Organic solar cells have long been hailed as a potential alternative to the standard silicon cells that currently dominate the markets. Organic solar cells display unique advantages being amazingly thin, flexible, and uniquely environmentally friendly ...

Royole Corp and Universal Display Corp announce an OLED evaluation agreement

11 Dec 2017

Royole aims to develop a flexible electronics technology platform that can potentially serve applications in different market sectors

Universal Display Corp. has announced an OLED evaluation agreement with Royole Corp.. Under this agreement, Universal Display (UDC) will collaborate with Royole Corp (Royole). and supply its proprietary UniversalPHOLED phosphorescent OLED materials and technology for ...

BOE Technology Group and Universal Display enter into long-term OLED agreements

11 Dec 2017

This agreements aims to support the scale-up of BOE's production facility in terms of materials

Universal Display Corp.has announced the signing of long-term OLED agreements with BOE Technology Group.

Under the agreements, UDC will supply phosphorescent OLED materials to BOE Technology for use in its products through its wholly-owned ...

Opvius develops new production process for freeform OPV modules

11 Dec 2017

New production process allows a simple transfer of a common OPV preliminary product to customised OPV products

Opvius has announced they have developed a novel production process that can create customised OPV modules in a wide range of colours and shapes.

Opvius believes this offering will be the key to the successful ...

Greatcell Solar announces signing of AU$6 Million ARENA Grant – funding agreement

11 Dec 2017

The grant aims to help Greatcell to accelerate its scale-up and prototyping activities that are absolutely critical to its commercialisation path objectives

Greatcell Solar has announced that it has now finalised and signed a Funding Agreement with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) for a AU$6 million grant under the Advancing Renewables Program (ARP).

The grant ...

Adesis grows business and expands its fundamental chemistry capabilities in Delaware

11 Dec 2017

This additional footprint is expected to help drive growth opportunities in areas including next-generation OLED emitter and host materials

Adesis has announced that it will open a new suite of state-of-the-art laboratories in Delaware and expand its organic chemistry team and R&D programs. This additional footprint is expected to help drive growth opportunities in ...

Microoled and Fraunhofer FEP receive Franco-German Business Award for industrial cooperation

11 Dec 2017

The goal of the Franco-German award in business awarded by the Franco-German chamber of industry and commerce is to highlight collaborative efforts between French and German enterprises

Microoled and Fraunhofer FEP have announced they have been been awarded a Franco-German business award for their industrial cooperation. The jury, which consisted of the President of the Franco-German chamber of industry and commerce journalists ...

JOLED has begun commercial shipment of the world's first printed RGB OLED Panels

4 Dec 2017

The 21.6 inch 4K OLED panel has been selected for use in medical monitors, and JOLED will gradually ship the product for other applications

JOLED has announced the company has commercialised the world's first RGB printed OLED panel and began product shipment on December 5, 2017.

The product is a 21.6-inch 4K high-resolution OLED panel produced using ...

Canatu raises Eur 12 million in global funding

4 Dec 2017

Funding to help drive Canatu's carbon nanobud based formable touch technologies into the automotive industry, in Asia and Europe

Canatu has announced they have raise capital of €12 million. The round includes two new investors, Denso Corporation and Ascend Capital Partners as well as an existing investor - Faurecia.

Denso Corp - global automotive supplier - will ...

JOLED sets sights on raising US$800 million new investment for OLED mass production

4 Dec 2017

Sony, Panasonic, Sumitomo Chemical and Screen Holdings to join fundraising

According to news reports JOLED, created in 2015 by merging the OLED divisions of Sony and Panasonic Corp, is seeking to raise 100 billion yen (US$ 888 million) by the end of this financial year ...

Picosun and Ushio start collaboration to boost sales in Japan

4 Dec 2017

Picosun Japan was established as Picosun's local subsidiary, and will now extend this to sales and service network, and to collaborate with Ushio as its sales channel

Picosun and Ushio have announced they have started collaboration to boost the sales of Picosun's ALD technology in the Japanese market.

According to the announcement Japan has long been one of Picosun's most ...

Kateeva acquires portfolio of inkjet OLED and FPD intellectual property

27 Nov 2017

The patent portfolios related to inkjet equipment and processes for OLED and FPD manufacturing - includes patents issued in China, Japn, Taiwan, Korea and USA

Kateeva has announced that it has acquired a portfolio of 648 issued patents and one pending application covering inkjet equipment and related processes used to manufacture OLEDs and flat panel displays (FPDs).

In addition to ...

Kateeva introduces the YIELDjet EXPLORE product family for OLED RGB pixel deposition

27 Nov 2017

These products aims to address panel manufacturers' interest in using inkjet printing to overcome the scalability limitations of VTE with FMM

Kateeva has formally introduced a suite of YIELDjet inkjet equipment for red, green and blue (RGB) pixel deposition to enable the development and pilot production of large-size OLED displays, including televisions (TVs).

The new YIELDjet ...

Australian Energy Fund makes AU$ 4 million strategic investment in Greatcell Solar

27 Nov 2017

The investment will allow Greatcell Solar to expedite the scale-up and commercialisation plans allowing them to move forward with greater financial foundations

Greatcell Solar has announced it has executed a subscription agreement for a strategic investment of AU$4 million at 22 cents per share from an Australian food, water and energy fund.

The fund has strongly ...

JR Kyushu to install Japan's largest OLED public billboard at Fukuoka's Hakata Station

27 Nov 2017

The billboard to be set up on the first floor of the JR Kyushu station building was jointly developed by Dai Nippon Printing Co. and LG Electronics Japan

JR Kyushu Agency has announced it will install Japan's biggest digital billboard to use organic electroluminescent (EL) display panels at Hakata Station in Fukuoka next April.

The curved digital sign, which measures 4 meters ...

Solliance achieves 13.5% for R2R perovskite solar cells and modules

20 Nov 2017

Solliance sees this latest breakthrough as another step towards the rapid introduction of this attractive, new type of efficient solar cell technology

Solliance has announced they have achieved world record cell-level conversion efficiency of 13.5% and module-level aperture area conversion efficiency of 12.2% for perovskite-based photovoltaics using industrially-applicable, roll-to-roll (R2R) production processes.

This announcement follows ...

Researchers develop organic-perovskite laser diode

20 Nov 2017

An organic laser can be made to produce any wavelength, this tunability would be very useful in applications ranging from medical diagnostics to environmental sensing

A team of researchers from Penn State and Princeton University have taken a big step toward creating a diode laser from a hybrid organic-inorganic material that can be deposited from solution on a laboratory benchtop ...

Greatcell Solar awarded €700,000 Horizon 2020 grant to participate in EU Project Apolo

20 Nov 2017

The work involved will investigate advanced technology for higher efficiencies, longer life and improved encapsulation of perovskite solar cells on flexible substrates

Greatcell Solar has announced they have been awarded €700,000 (approx. AU$ 1.1 million) in a European Union Horizon 2020 project known as Apolo. The successful grant to Greatcell's application has occurred through ...

BASF announces inkset 2000SL and new OTFT sensor demonstrator, stengthens partnership with InnovationLab

20 Nov 2017

The latest joint project is a high-performance sensor that can simultaneously detect the shape, size and pressure of objects that are on it

BASF announces its ready-to-use inks and ink sets for printing organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) for various applications, as well as real-life and mass-producible demonstrators built in collaboration with InnovationLab, a platform for research and ...

Heliatek completes world's largest BiOPV installation completed in France

13 Nov 2017

In a joint project with partner and investor ENGIE, the largest OPV project on a roof to date has been completed by Heliatek

ENGIE, Heliatek and the Department of Charentes-Maritimes announce the official inaugurated the world's largest BiOPV installation on a roof.

In the southwestern port of La Rochelle, France, 500 m2 of Heliatek's solar films ...

Perovskite photovoltaic : A review of the patent landscape - 2017 Q4

13 Nov 2017

In just over six years more than 1,400 patents covering over 1,000 patent families have been filed by over 200 academic assignees and more than 200 commercial assignees

cintelliq is pleased to announce their latest release of their "Perovskite photovoltaic : A review of the patent landscape." This report will enable you to identify the leading organisations filing perovskite device, process, and materials patents ...

Saule Technologies to showcase A4 inkjet printed perovskite photovoltaic modules

13 Nov 2017

The company plans to have an initial pilot line for early production line operational during the second half of 2018

Saule Technologies has announced they will showcase their A4 flexible, printed, perovskite photovoltaic module at a forthcoming conference and exhibition in Santa Clara, California.

Participants will be shown an operating module printed on an ultra-thin ...

Holst Centrer develops novel barrier stack for foldable OLED displays

13 Nov 2017

By optimising the design of this stack, Holst Centre's scientists have been able to control its mechanical properties and create a much more flexible barrier

Researchers from Holst Centre have solved a major challenge in creating large-area displays for portable devices, demonstrating a new protective barrier for organic electronics that is foldable and allows high-temperature processing of display backplanes on ...

Pragmatic and Talkin' Things announce their strategic partnership

13 Nov 2017

Talking' Things will embed Pragmatic’s flexible integrated circuits into its smart packaging solution to bring consumer engagement and brand protection to trillions of products

Pragmatic and Talkin' Things are pleased to announce a strategic relationship that aims to drive the mass market adoption of smart packaging.

Talkin' Things will embed Pragmatic's flexible integrated circuits (FlexICs) into packaging solutions ...

Perovskite photovoltaic : A review of the patent landscape - 2017 Q4

6 Nov 2017

In just over six years more than 1,400 patents covering over 1,000 patent families have been filed by over 200 academic assignees and more than 200 commercial assignees

cintelliq is pleased to announce their latest release of their "Perovskite photovoltaic : A review of the patent landscape." This report will enable you to identify the leading organisations filing perovskite device, process, and materials patents ...

Opvius and Cambrios deploy silver-nanowire-coated flexible substrates to make organic photovoltaics devices

6 Nov 2017

The ClearOhm AgNW conductive electrode layer was produced via slot-die coating at the production line of TPK Touch Solutions

Opvius and Cambrios Advanced Materials have announced the successful joint development of semi-transparent organic photovoltaic (OPV) modules featuring a silver nanowire (AgNW) bottom electrode.

Although the effectiveness of OPV modules on Cambrios' nanowire-coated substrate has ...

Kaist develops highly flexible organic flash memory

6 Nov 2017

The researchers succeeded in making memory devices printing paper, opening a way for disposable smart electronic products

KAIST research team have reported ultra-flexible organic flash memory that is bendable down to a radius of 300um. The memory exhibits a significantly-long projected retention rate with a programming voltage on par with the present ...

PARC to build ultra-thin, flexible audio speaker

6 Nov 2017

This new project is technically challenging because it combines a number of novel technologies needed to achieve stringent requirements for paper thin speakers

FlexTech has announced a new development project with PARC to develop a hybrid, highly bendable, paper-like smart tag, incorporating a thin audio speaker. The product is aimed at applications in packaging, wearables prosthetics, soft robotics ...

Universal Display announces third quarter 2017 financial results

6 Nov 2017

During the quarter, momentum in the OLED industry continued to grow, from the launch of new flagship OLED smartphones, to increasing demand for OLED TVs, to announced launch plans for the world’s first foldable OLED display product

Universal Display Corp. has reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2017.

"We are pleased to report another outstanding quarter of solid results,” said Sidney D. Rosenblatt, Executive Vice President and Chief ...

UNIST researchers develop highly stable perovskite solar cells using improved encapsulation

30 Oct 2017

Using fluorine to create a 2D material with high hydrophobicity resulted in 82% stability relative to initial performance over 30 days of air exposure without encapsulation

Researchers at UNIST have recently published research findings on a highly stable perovskite solar cells (PSCs), using edged-selectively fluorine (F) functionalised graphene nano-platelets (EFGnPs). The key step seems to be down to using fluorine, a ...

NREL research sees significant advances in carbon nanotube thermoelectric performance

30 Oct 2017

The addition of thin films to fabrics could power portable electronics and sensors

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have reported significant advances in the thermoelectric performance of organic semiconductors based on carbon nanotube thin films that could be integrated ...

Researchers at Riken and University of Tokyo develop solars you can put in the wash

30 Oct 2017

The work could open the way to wearable solar cells, which will provide power to devices such as health monitors incorporated into clothing

Scientists from RIKEN and the University of Tokyo have developed a new type of ultra-thin photovoltaic device, coated on both sides with stretchable and waterproof films, which can continue to provide electricity from sunlight even ...

PPG and Universal Display complete US$15 million capacity expansion facility for OLED materials production

30 Oct 2017

The investment doubles commercial production capacity for Universal Display's proprietary UniversalPHOLED phosphorescent emitters

PPG and Universal Display have announced the completion of Universal Display's US$15 million investment in PPG's Barberton, Ohio, manufacturing facility.

The investment doubles commercial production capacity for Universal Display's proprietary UniversalPHOLED ...

CPI begins 1st phase of its 'Medicines Smart Packaging' project

30 Oct 2017

Printable electronics, product formulation and digital application which, if brought together, could make a step change in medicines delivery

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has announced that it has begun the first phase of its 'Medicines Smart Packaging' project. This phase of the North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) funded project, known as ...

Bainisha announces the availability of their printed displacement sensor development kit

30 Oct 2017

The displacement sensor produces a sensitive, precise, robust & repeatable signal relevant to the a volume disturbance somewhere along the length of the sensor element

Bainisha has announced the availability of the printed displacement sensor development kit. The displacement sensor supplied as part of the development kit is a "generic" version intended for feasibility testing and evaluating the basic functionalities ...

eMagin signs agreement with tier-one consumer electronics company

30 Oct 2017

The tier-one consumer electronics company completed a "rigorous" due diligence and signing of an agreement is a endorsement of the company's microdisplay technology

eMagin Corp. has announced the signing of a development and licensing agreement with a tier-one consumer electronics company permitting it to use eMagin technology. The program is expected to generate licensing revenue if the company ...

Thin Film Electronics announces SFS Group as new customer in industrial space

30 Oct 2017

The collaboration with SFS continues sees Thinfilm's offering expand into the industrial market segment

Thin Film Electronics ASA (Thinfilm) has announced the SFS Group USA, Inc. - Division Construction (SFS) as a new customer. SFS, a subsidiary of Switzerland-based SFS Group AG, will integrate Thinfilm's NFC tags into product ...

Holst Centre, imec and Philips demo world’s first curved, plastic photodetector

23 Oct 2017

By enabling smaller, lighter 3D X-ray imaging systems, curved plastic X-ray detectors make the technology more readily applicable in a wider range of settings

Researchers from the Holst Centre, imec and Royal Philips have announced they have produced the first ever prototype of a curved photodetector on a plastic substrate. T

The researchers said the breakthrough paves the way ...

Thin Film Electronics announces private placement successfully completed

23 Oct 2017

Following registration of the new share capital will see total number of shares increase to 900,871,617 (Tranche 1) and increase to 1,171,871,617 shares (Tranche 2)

Thin Film Electronics (ThinFilm) has announced that they have raised approx. NOK 881 million (approx. USD 110 million) in gross proceeds through a private placement consisting of 352,500,000 new shares (Private Placement).

The ...

IHS Markit forecasts global AMOLED panel production capacity to more than quadruple by 2022

23 Oct 2017

It takes more than US$11.5 billion to build a Gen 6 flexible OLED factory with a capacity of 90,000 substrate sheets per month, and this is a much larger investment required than building a Gen 10.5 TFT LCD fab with the same capacity

The global production capacity of AMOLED panels -- including both red-green-blue (RGB) OLED and white OLED (WOLED) -- is forecast to surge 320 percent from 11.9 million m2 in 2017 to 50.1 million m ...

Thin Film Electronics announces first customer in the film and publishing industry

23 Oct 2017

NFCSwag is using Thinfilm's NFC solution to facilitate direct mobile connections between movie/book firms and their consumers

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced NFCSwag as a new customer, its first in the film and publishing industry. Clients of NFCSwag will be able to leverage Thinfilm's NFC solutions to connect directly with ...

Heliatek announce the company has raised an additional Eur 15 million

9 Oct 2017

New and existing investors increase financial resources to accelerate development and speed up worldwide market entry

Heliatek has announced that they has raised Eur 15 million from new and existing investors. A strong interest among potential investors lead to an extension of the last round of financing.

The funds will enable ...

Fraunhofer FEP announces biodegradable electronics project

9 Oct 2017

An interesting application is in the field of active medical implants that after expiration of their operating life are reabsorbed back into the body

The Fraunhofer Gesellschaft e. V. is now funding the "bioElektron – Biodegradable Electronics for Active Implants" project through its in-house program (funding No. MAVO B31 301).

The goal of the project is the development of essential ...

Georgia Tech develops novel circuit design that boosts thermoelectric generators for wearables

9 Oct 2017

These thermoelectric generators can produce enough electricity to power small sensors, in the range of microwatts to milliwatts - enough for simple heart rate sensors

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed thermoelectric generator using flexible conducting polymers and novel circuitry patterns printed on paper. These proof-of-concept wearable thermoelectric generators demonstrate it is possible to harvest energy from body ...

Thin Film Electronics and GlaxoSmithKline bring NFC technology to over-the-counter brand

9 Oct 2017

Interactive 'smart' shelves featuring NFC speedtap tags to educate consumers and drive purchasing decisions - initial rollout has begun in retail stores across Canada

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has commercially deployed Thinfilm's SpeedTap tags to create interactive smart shelves for enhanced communication with consumers at time of purchase decision-making.

GSK introduced interactive smart ...

Frauhofer FEP develops multifunction data glasses with OLED microdisplays

9 Oct 2017

To achieve high user adoption the researchers developed data glasses with both excellent imaging quality high-resolution displays both essential for improved viewing experience

The Fraunhofer FEP has announced they have successfully integrated their bidirectional OLED microdisplays for the first time into a demonstrator of data glasses for representing augmented and virtual realties (AR and VR) as well as ...

Heliatek and Lechwerke Augsburg expand energy façade with organic solar cells

2 Oct 2017

The incorporation of Heliafilm will enable the comparison between solar technologies - silicon and organics

Heliatek has announced that Lechwerke (LEW), located in the city of Augsburg, has extended their "Energy Façade" - Heliatek's HeliaFilm will be integrated into the façade. The resulting test platform will, over the next few ...

Kyushu University develops world's first demo of persistent luminescence from organic materials

2 Oct 2017

This is expected to create a new wave of glow-in-the-dark materials based on organics look poised to invigorate the area and expand their applications

Researchers at Kyushu University's Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) have improved the flexibility and transparency of *glow-in-the-dark paints while also making them easier to manufacture and lowering their costs.

So in ...

Smartkem signs letter of intent with leading Chinese OLED manufacturer

2 Oct 2017

The LOI is intended as the first step in a joint commitment by SmartKem and the Chinese manufacturer of optoelectronic solutions, TFT-LCD and AMOLED displays, to fully commercialise OTFT production

SmartKem has announced they have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with one of China’s leading OLED manufacturers. The partnership will enable the development and industrialisation of OTFT Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD) leading to ...

Oxford PV to get European Investment Bank funds for German perovskite pilot site

2 Oct 2017

The investment will enable the company to demonstrate the innovative perovskite technology at full wafer scale in pilot volumes and deploy 'perovskite on silicon' tandem cells

UK perovskite technology developer Oxford Photovoltaics Ltd (Oxford PV) is reported to be in line to get financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for its pilot site in Germany.

The bank is considering providing ...

J-OLED said to be seeking US$900 million investment

2 Oct 2017

As the company gets ready to enter mass production of printed AMOLED

According to news on the Nikkei Asian Review website government-backed JOLED is set to become the first Japanese company to mass-produce panels that use organic light-emitting diodes, employing new low-cost manufacturing technology to take on ...

Printed medicines - using organic vapour-jet printing - could reinvent pharmacies and drug research

29 Sep 2017

A technology that can print pure, ultra-precise doses of drugs onto a wide variety of surfaces could one day enable on-site printing of custom-dosed medications at pharmacies, hospitals and other locations

A new research study led by Max Shtein, professor of materials science and engineering, and Olga Shalev, a recent graduate who worked on the project while a doctoral student in the same department, showed that ...

Royole raises US$800 million in Series D funding

25 Sep 2017

The funding will help the company to invest more in R&D, production, and sales to accelerate every aspect of the company's growth

Royole Corp. has announces that it has raised a total of US$800 million in its Series D round of funding and holds Cooperation Agreements from top investors including: Royole's Series D funding includes ...

Toshiba achieves 10.5% efficiency for 5 cm x 5 cm film-based perovskite solar cell mini-modules

25 Sep 2017

Toshiba applied a novel printing technology to the fabrication of a 5cm x 5cm film-based planar inverted perovskite solar cell modules

Toshiba has announced they have made a significant advance by fabricating a perovskite solar cell mini module[2] with the highest energy conversion rate announced to date. Toshiba said this brings closer the realisation of ...

Idemitsu and Toray Industries sign agreement to cooperate on development of OLED materials

25 Sep 2017

Both companies aim to contribute to the development and evolution of the OLED display industry through the development and commercialisation of more OLED materials

Idemitsu Kosan (Idemitsu) and Toray Industries (Toray) have announced they have entered into an agreement for technical cooperation relating to OLED materials, which both parties expect to be an area of future growth.

According to ...

Fraunhofer FEP to showcase OLEDs fabricated on paper-thin stainless steel

25 Sep 2017

Thanks to the smoothness and high thermal conductivity of the stainless steel foil the researchers were able to obtain extremely homogeneous OLED light

Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP has announced they will be presenting OLEDs on gauzy stainless steel foil during aimcal 2017 in Tampa/USA, from October 15–18, 2017.

The ...

Aixtron provides novel deposition system to EPFL for 2D materials research

25 Sep 2017

The deposition system will be used to advance research on the investigation of electrical properties, fundamental physics and practical applications of 2D materials

Aixtron has announced that the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne (Switzerland) has purchased a BM NOVO system. This "versatile" tool which can produce virtually all variations of 2-dimensional materials (2D) required for ...

LG and Samsung make €25 million series-b investment in Cynora

18 Sep 2017

Cynora will work closely with LG and Samsung to support their respective activities, the cash injection will also be used to strengthen our worldwide presence as a supplier

Cynora has announced that LG Display and Samsung Venture Investment Corporation (Samsung Ventures) are to invest €25 million in a Series-B round to support the German company in the development of a portfolio of organic ...

E Ink and Plastic Logic renew material supply agreement

18 Sep 2017

The new agreement provides E Ink and Plastic Logic with a commercial framework for the two companies to operate, to cement an even stronger relationship

E Ink has announced it is renewing its Master Supply Agreement (MSA) with Plastic Logic. The agreement centers around flexible EPD production and with this partnership, the continued strength of the companies' relationship to collaborate ...

CPT, imec and the Holst Centre show 1250 ppi multicolour OLED - FMM-free photolightography

18 Sep 2017

The collaboration with CPT aims to improve the manufacturability readiness level of the OLED photolithography patterning method to produce ultra-high resolution OLED displays for next-generation user interfaces

CPT, imec and the Holst Centre show 1250 ppi multicolour OLED - FMM-free photolightography

Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) together with partners imec and Holst Centre have showcase an ultra-high resolution display realised by photolithography patterning of ...

University of Tokyo researchers develop breathable on-skin biosensor

18 Sep 2017

The new nano-mesh electrode has a higher breathability and so less prone to causing inflammation, as it allows the skin to breath

It has been reported by the Tech-on website that Researchers at the University of Tokyo, led by Takao Someya, Professor at the School of Engineering, have developed a nano-mesh electrode that is lightweight, thin and ...

Paper based self-powered sensor patch could help diabetics measure glucose during exercise

18 Sep 2017

One-time use paper-base sensors attaches directly to skin wicks sweat to a reservoir where chemical energy is converted to electrical energy, and monitors glucose without external power and sophisticated readout instruments

A new paper-based sensor patch developed by researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York could allow diabetics to effectively measure glucose levels during exercise.

Professor Seokheun Choi and fellow researchers have developed and ...

Large-area perovskite films go solvent- and vacuum-free

18 Sep 2017

The technique is reported to also works in air and at low temperatures, making it more cost-friendly and environmentally friendly overall

It has been reported by nanotechweb news website that Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have developed a new technique to deposit high-quality large-area perovskite films ...

Stanford research are inspired by insect eyes in designing novel perovskite solar cells devices

11 Sep 2017

Packing tiny solar cells together, like micro-lenses in the compound eye of an insect, could pave the way to a new generation of advanced photovoltaics

In a new study, researchers from Stanford University have put together an insect-inspired design to protect fragile perovksite photovoltaic devices from deteriorating when exposed to heat, moisture or mechanical stress. The results of this research ...

Fraunhofer FEP debuts flexible OLEDs with adjustable colours

11 Sep 2017

The integration of adjustable-colour OLEDs on flexible substrates brings their adoption on curved surfaces in vehicle interiors such as roofs and curved fixtures closer to actual commercialisation

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP has announced they will be showcasing for the first their flexible adjustable-colour OLEDS at the forthecoming ISAL 2017 in Darmstadt, Germany from September ...

Material Science to develop blue dopant for OLED displays

11 Sep 2017

This is reported to be the first time a venture funded company has independently developed dopant on a commercial scale without any support from large corporations

According to a news report on the OLEDNet news website a Korean venture funded company has succeeded in developing blue dopant for that a Japanese "I" company has had its exclusive patent for. The dopant ...

Valmont Cosmetics adopts Thin Film Electronics' NFC solutions

11 Sep 2017

Premium Swiss cosmetics brand uses ThinFilm's SpeedTap tags and cloud-based software platform to connect directly with consumers and provide customer-specific beauty advice

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced a partnership and related market trial with CMSmartconnect and Valmont Cosmetics. Through the collaboration, CMSmartconnect will integrate Thinfilm's SpeedTap NFC technology into Valmont Cosmetics packaging, enabling Valmont to ...

Merck and partners presents a new façade concept using advanced OPV and OLED technology

4 Sep 2017

Merck and its collaboration partners OledWorks, OPVIUS and Kolon revealed an eye-catching, shingle-like façade concept suspended from a series of four-meter long bamboo tubes combining OPV and OLED

Merck and its collaboration partners OledWorks, OPVIUS and Kolon have revealed a new textile façade concept combining OPV (organic photovoltaics) and OLED (organic light-emitting diodes) technologies at the first Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism ...

Visionox signs high-volume order with Orbotech for OLED flexible end-to-end AOI solutions

4 Sep 2017

The solution includes unique technologies to address the requirements of flexible OLED panel inspection

Orbotech Ltd has announced that the company's end-to-end automated optical inspection (AOI) solutions have been selected by YUNGU (Gu'an) Technology its new flexible OLED Gen 6 fab.

The project execution is supported by ...

Fraunhofer FEP launches more economical organic photodiodes on silicon for the NIR region

4 Sep 2017

With its extended region of sensitivity, the imager can be employed over the entire bandwidth of conventional applications in industry, automobiles, and medicine

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP has announced they will be introducing a new generation of organic photodiodes on silicon substrates (OPD-on-silicon) during the SEMI European Imaging & Sensors ...

Lightweight architectural construction uses printed organic photovoltaic modules from Opvius

4 Sep 2017

The Solar Spline project, developed at the University of Kassel and the Art College of Kassel, produces energy through printed organic photovoltaic modules from Opvius

According to Opvius following the successful integration of OPV modules in the glass façade of the exterior elevator shaft of the Sun Pharmacy in Marburg in 2016, OPVIUS and Timo Carl of AiD Architecture decided ...

CPEIA rebrands as intelliFLEX Innovation Alliance

4 Sep 2017

This new brand identity provides a better reflection of the diverse nature of flexible technologies that are at play both from a development and an applications perspective

At the CPEIA 2016 AGM in May, Members granted the CPEIA and the Board of the Directors licence to expand the technology scope and membership of the association to include flexible, hybrid and wearable electronics ...

intelliFLEX takes over Smart Textile and Wearables Innovation Alliance, launches intelliWEAR

4 Sep 2017

intelliWEAR is a wearables and smart textiles accelerator program

The intelliFLEX Innovation Alliance and the Smart Textile and Wearables Innovation Alliance (STWIA) have reached an agreement whereby intelliFLEX has assumed leadership of the STWIA as part of a new initiative to drive Canada’s ...

Greatcell Solar raises AU$5.3 million from shareholders

28 Aug 2017

The funds will provide working capital as the company enters an important phase of its technology development focused on its Major Area Demonstration prototyping project

Greatcell Solar Limited (formerly Dyesol Limited), has announced that they have raised AU$5.3 million from shareholders.

The funds will provide vital working capital as the company enters an important phase of its technology ...

Mercedes-Benz set to adopt OLED taillights in high-end S-Class

28 Aug 2017

At the forthcoming IAA Mercedes is set to showcase OLED taillights on the new S-Class Cabriolet

Mercedes-Benz has released a teaser video on Youtube showing OLED taillights to be showcased at the forthcoming IAA 2017 automotive exhibition in Frankfurt.

The 33 individually controllable OLED lights form a unique and stylist taillight ...

First demonstration of perovskite solar cell technology on paper substrate

28 Aug 2017

Key developments have been a top MoOx/Au/MoOx transparent electrode, a bottom Au/Sno2 electrode, and a low temperature UV-irradiated mesoporous TiO2 scaffold

Researchers at the Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy (CHOSE), Department of Electronic Engineering University of Rome has recently published their results for a perovskite solar cell on a paper substrate. The findings have ...

U.S. Senator Tom Carper visits Adesis New Castle facility to discuss innovation and job growth

28 Aug 2017

Senator aiming to find out how our Delaware companies are doing and what government can do to create a nurturing environment for job creation

Adesis, Inc has announced that U.S. Senator Tom Carper recently visited its New Castle facility. Senator Carper toured Adesis' laboratories to observe first-hand the company's research and development in materials and pharmaceutical sciences ...

KAIST invests in OLED light therapy research and development

21 Aug 2017

The goal will be to develop a wide range of human body-based phototherapy technologies in the next seven years for use in treating a variety of diseases

According to news on the ET NEws and Digitimes websites KAIST has announced they are teaming up with several Korean Government funded research units to develop next-generation OLED light therapy device technology.

The South Korean ...

OIST improve perovksite solar cells and lower the cost to produce perovskite LEDs

21 Aug 2017

These early developments are an important step towards commercially competitive perovskite soalr cells and perovskite LEDs

The Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit at OIST led by Prof. Yabing Qi has recently published two scientific papers focusing on the improvement of perovskite solar cells and a cheaper and smarter way to ...

OLED encapsulation materials market to grow 16 percent CAGR to US$233 million by 2021

21 Aug 2017

The popularity of OLED TVs and smartphones has boosted not only the OLED display market but also the OLED encapsulation materials market

According to IHS Markit the OLED encapsulation materials market is expected to grow 4.7 percent in 2017 compared to a year ago, to US$117 million.

In particular, South Korean Chinese panel makers recently ...

Screen Holdings announces production tool to attach flexible OLED onto curved glass substrates

21 Aug 2017

Initial target market is the automotive industry and screen panel sizes up to 80cm x 80cm

A recent Nikkei Asian Review news article reports that Screen Holdings has developed a novel production equipment capable of attaching flexible OLED displays on to curved glass substrates.

The company's initial product with aims ...

eMagin announces second quarter 2017 financial results

21 Aug 2017

Year-to-date contract R&D up 57% driven by consumer applications

eMagin has announced financial results and corporate highlights for the second quarter ended June 30, 2017.

Revenues for the second quarter of 2017 were US$5.3 million as compared to US$5.5 million ...

LG Electronics unveils world's largest OLED HD video wall

14 Aug 2017

The Dubai exhibit is an example of how LG digital signage products add harmony to a space in addition to being an innovative solution that today's B2B customers demand

LG Electronics Business Solutions has unveiled the world's largest OLED screen and world's largest high definition video wall. Located at the Dubai Aquarium, the mega-sized video wall was created using 820 Open Frame ...

Greatcell Solar receives a letter of negotiation for a AU$6 Million ARENA grant

14 Aug 2017

The grant will enable the company to accelerate their scale-up and prototyping activities that are absolutely critical to their commercialisation path objectives

Greatcell Solar (formerly Dyesol Limited) has announced that they have received a letter of negotiation for a AU$6 million Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) grant.

The grant aims to supports perovskite solar cell technology ...

Nexgen Biotechnologies selects Thinfilm's NFC solutions to enhance supply-chain

14 Aug 2017

Nexgen will integrate Thinfilm's NFC OpenSense technology into containers and other packaging in order to monitor shipments throughout the supply chain and address product authentication needs

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced a partnership with Nexgen Biotechnologies, Inc. (Nexgen). Through the partnership, Nexgen will integrate Thinfilm's NFC OpenSense technology into containers and other packaging in order to monitor shipments throughout ...

Charming Trim and Thinfilm launch industry's first complete solution for 'smart' NFC hang tags

14 Aug 2017

Brands are looking for effective new ways to engage directly with consumers, and Thin Film Electronics is excited to partner with an innovative leader like Charming Trim to serve this important market

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced a partnership with Charming Trim & Packaging, Inc. (Charming). Through the collaboration, Thinfilm's NFC SpeedTap and OpenSense technologies will be incorporated in Charming's apparel hang tags, empowering ...

Imec reports record conversion efficiency of 23.9% on a 4cm x 4cm perovskite/silicon solar module

7 Aug 2017

By stacking the perovskite solar cells or modules on top of Si solar cells, efficiencies above 30% can potentially be achieved, beating the best single junction Si solar cells

Imec and partner in Solliance and EnergyVille have announced an improvement of its 4cm2 perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaic module achieving a power conversion efficiency of 23.9%. imec said they are the first to ...

EverDisplay Optronics and Universal Display announce an OLED evaluation agreement

7 Aug 2017

This agreement aims to support EverDisplay Optronics as they move towards the commercialisation of OLED displays

Universal Display Corp. has announced an OLED evaluation agreement with EverDisplay Optronics (Shanghai) Limited.

Under this agreement, Universal Display (UDC) will supply EverDisplay Optronics (EDO) with its proprietary UniversalPHOLED phosphorescent OLED materials for display applications ...

HKU and TCL to establish a Joint Research Laboratory for printable OLED materials and technology

7 Aug 2017

The partners describe their relationship as synergistic, complementary and mutually enhancing, a win-win formula for HKU and TCL and the industry in the Greater China

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and TCL Corporation Ltd (TCL) have established a strategic partnership and held an opening ceremony of the “HKU-TCL Joint Laboratory for New Printable OLED Materials and Technology” today.

President ...

Universal Display announces second quarter 2017 financial results

7 Aug 2017

Universal Display continues to benefit from the rapidly growing market for OLED displays, and sees their investment in technology as the key driver for their success

Universal Display has announced 2nd quarter 2017 financials results ended June 30, 2017.

Total revenue increased 59% to US$102.5 million in the second quarter, compared with US$64.4 million in the second ...

Aixtron announces second quarter financials for 2017

7 Aug 2017

Aixtron continues to transform the Company to align R&D expenses with revenues in order to return to profitability in 2018

Aixtron has announced its financial results for the first half and the second quarter 2017.

Total order intake including spares and service in H1/2017 came to Eur 128.5m, 34% higher than in the ...

Demand for flexible AMOLED smartphone panels growing rapidly

7 Aug 2017

However, in the near term the bulk of the capacity will be limited to LG, Samsung and Apple for the flagship smartphone

According to a report on the Digitimes website the demand for flexible AMOLED panels from the smartphone sector is forecast to continue to expand rapidly in 2017 and beyond. The rapid growth is largely due ...

Flexenable and Truly sign license agreement to produce low-cost and flexible displays in China

31 Jul 2017

Truly to implement Flexenable's process into existing production lines, product samples available to commercial partners in early 2018 - volume production expected in late 2018

FlexEnable has announced they have signed a technology transfer and license agreement with Truly Semiconductors. The deal aims to bring FlexEnabl's flexible organic liquid crystal display (OLCD) technology into mass production on Truly's ...

Opvius and S+L Selbstklebeprodukte sign co-operation agreement to develop OPV-stickers

31 Jul 2017

This partnership aims to significantly expand the range of applications of printed organic photovoltaics, together they plan to launch self-adhesive OPVs for retrofitting and easy integration

Opvius and S+L Selbstklebeprodukte have announced they will co-operate to develop self-adhesive organic photovoltaic (OPV) films. This is expected to broadening the market for OPV products and OPV integration.

According to Opvius embedding OPV ...

Greatcell solar announces AU$5 million share offer purchase plan to existing shareholders

31 Jul 2017

The proceeds of the SPP will be used by Greatcell Solar to continue its work on technology scale-up, testing and accreditation, equipment procurement and facilities fit-out

Greatcell Solar Limited (Greatcell) has announced a share purchase plan (SPP) providing eligible shareholders with an opportunity to increase their shareholding in the Company as it enters an exciting period of scale-up and commercialisation of ...

LG announces intention to build China's first large-panel OLED plant

31 Jul 2017

The facility, to be operated by a venture 70%-owned by LG, is expected to have a monthly output capacity equivalent to about 60,000 Gen-8 glass substrate

According to news on the Nikkei Asian Review website LG Display has announced it will build what is to be China's first production plant for large OLED panels, which are coming into greater use ...

Flexible AMOLED display manufacturing capacity to grow 91% CAGR between 2016 and 2020

31 Jul 2017

To absorb all new capacity flexible AMOLED panels needs to expand the market beyond smartphones to tablet PCs, notebooks and new form factors enabled by foldable displays

According to the latest analysis by IHS Markit, between 2016 and 2020, China, Japan and South Korea will build the equivalent of 46 new flexible AMOLED fabs, whose monthly capacity reaches 30,000 substrates, each ...

Nanoco appoints David Yao as senior vice president of global sales

31 Jul 2017

This appointment aligns with Nanoco's commercialisation strategy to directly accelerate the market development of cadmium free quantum dots CFQD products in Asia

This appointment aims to strengthens Nanoco's commercial leadership in Asia. Based in Taiwan, David brings extensive global sales experience and customer relationships in our key display market. He has already begun his role and ...

Eight19 secures £1.3m funding

24 Jul 2017

The new investment follows two years of continued improvement in OPV (organic photovoltaic) performance, advances in manufacturing readiness and an increased engagement with customers in the retail, FMCG and IoT sectors

Eight19 has announced they have received a further £1.3 million of investment. Lucros Investment (Netherlands) joined existing investors IP Group, Clarium and Providence in the round.

The new investment follows two years of continued ...

UNIST Researchers hit new world efficiency record with perovskite solar cells

24 Jul 2017

According to the announcement a key feature of this technology is its ability to fix the dominating defect in perovskite-halides, which is known to decrease the photoelectric efficiency

A newly published research study, affiliated with UNIST finds key to produce a new cost-efficient way to produce inorganic-organic hybrid perovskite solar cells (PSCs) - setting a new "world-record" efficiency performance of 22.1 % in small ...

Greatcell Solar and Jinko Solar sign memorandum of understanding

24 Jul 2017

The longterm aim is for Jinko Solar to enter into a formal agreement with Greatcell to commercialise the technology and establish large scale manufacturing

Greatcell Solar Limited (formerly Dyesol Limited) has announced that it has signed a non-exclusive Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with JinkoSolar. The relationship has formed over several months of discussion and with the close support of ...

Stanford researchers develop new semiconductor that is as flexible as skin and easily degradable

24 Jul 2017

In addition to the biodegradable polymer, the team developed a new type of electrical component and a substrate material that attaches to the entire electronic component

Researchers at Stanford University - from the Zhenan Bao research group - have developed a new semiconductor that is as flexible as skin and easily degradable. It could have diverse medical and environmental applications, without adding to ...

Thin Film Electronics and Bardadillo launch largest NFC deployment in the wine and spirits industry

24 Jul 2017

This national campaign includes 126,000 NFC-enabled 'smart' bottles of Castillo de San Diego and is believed to be the largest global deployment of NFC to date within the wine and spirits industry

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced that Spanish winemaker, Barbadillo, has launched a consumer-focused marketing campaign using Thinfilm's SpeedTap tags and CNECT Brand Analytics SaaS Platform.

This national campaign includes 126,000 NFC-enabled 'smart ...

Isorg and Flexenable win industry award for "first" high-resolution flexible image sensor on plastic

24 Jul 2017

Designed on a large area - 7.62cm x 8.13cm - plastic substrate, the flexible image sensor is ultra-thin (300 microns), remarkably lightweight, compact and highly resistant to shock

Isorg has announced that its first large-sized high-resolution (500 dpi) flexible plastic fingerprint sensor, co-developed with FlexEnable, won the 2017 Best of Sensors Expo – Silver Applications Award

The high-resolution, ultra-thin, 500 dpi flexible image sensor ...

Meniscus-assisted technique produces high efficiency perovskite PV films

10 Jul 2017

The meniscus-assisted solution printing technique would have advantages for flexible solar cells and other applications requiring a low-temperature continuous fabrication process - and could be scaled up to produce high throughput, large-scale perovskite

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new low-temperature solution printing technique that allows fabrication of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells with large crystals intended to minimise current-robbing grain boundaries. The meniscus-assisted solution printing ...

High-precision control of printed organic electrochemical transistors and displays

10 Jul 2017

Linköping University have published results on printed organic electrochemical transistor circuits and displays in which the colour of individual pixels can be changed

Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University have recently published results on progress with printed organic electrochemical transistor circuits and displays in which the colour of individual pixels can be changed.

The organic ...

IHS Markit forecasts that AMOLED panel market to surge 63 percent in 2017, IHS Markit

10 Jul 2017

Growing use of AMOLED panels in smartphones and rising sales of AMOLED TVs will mainly drive the growth of the AMOLED panel market

According to IHS Markit the global active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) panel market is forecast to surge 63 percent in 2017 from a year ago to US$25.2 billion on growing demand for AMOLED ...

Smartkem selects CPI as support partner

10 Jul 2017

Smartkem and CPI have a history of collaborative work through dedicated team already based within the facility meant they were a natural fit to work on the FLEXTRANS project

Smartkem has announced they have selected the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) as a support partner to SmartKem for the accelerated pre-production of a new generation of low power, flexible display-based products through a new ...

Fraunhofer FEP and Sefar develop high conductive foils for large area OLED lighting

3 Jul 2017

The OLED were processed in vacuum in a roll-to-roll process on SEFAR TCS Planar substrates with a specific developed drying process and barrier film lamination - in total the OLEDs were 30 m in length and 30 cm in width and OLED size up to 250 cm²

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP and Sefar AGhave announced they have successfully developed a roll-to-roll processed large area flexible OLED during a joint project.

Large area OLED lighting ...

Heliatek install organic photovoltaic solar cells facade on Engie Laborelec's research building

3 Jul 2017

The aim of this project is to investigate the ways in which solar energy can be generated from a building facade, it will also allow the building integration of this technology to be tested in real operational conditions

Heliatek has announced they have installed organic photovoltaic solar cells on Engie Laborelec's building in Linkebeek, Belgium. The HeliaFilm organic films have been incorporated into the façade and windows and will enable the testing ...

PI-Scale launches flexible OLED design competition 2017

3 Jul 2017

The overall shape of the OLED can be anything within size limits as laid out in the competition OLED design handbook

The EU funded project PI-Scale has announced the launch of an OLED lighting and signage competition.

The OLED Design Competition invites designer proposals for organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting and signage applications that highlight the ...

LG Electronics installed OLED lighting set to become a reference OLED lighting installation

3 Jul 2017

LG display aims to showcase the beauty and elegance of OLED lighting

LG Display OLED light panels recently announced that they have installed OLED lighting as their main lights for the lobby, hallways and conference rooms as their Pyung-Taek LG Electronics Digital Park facility.

The panels were ...

Thin Film Electronics's new high-volume manufacturing facility in Silicon Valley now operational

3 Jul 2017

Completion of initial product shipment from New Junction Avenue Facility coincides with grand opening event

Thin Film Electronics ASA (Thinfilm) has announced that the fab at its new Junction Avenue facility is now operational and that the first product lots have shipped. The milestone coincides with Thinfilm's grand opening ...

Fraunhofer FEP presents high-performance roll-to-roll processing for flexible electronics

12 Jun 2017

The Fraunhofer FEP and partners process a full 100-meter roll of flexible glass patterned with highly conductive ITO at a process temperature of 350°C

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP have announced they will showcase a roll of flexible thin glass, which is coated with highly conductive ITO continuously on 100 meters with ...

Greatcell Solar Ltd - the new name for Dyesol

12 Jun 2017

Dyesol said the new name signifies a new era of commercial opportunity and is more appropriate for the company's focus on 3rd generation solar PV technology

At a general meeting of Dyesol shareholders held at headquarters in Queanbeyan on Friday, June 9 a special resolution to change the name of the Company from Dyesol Limited to Greatcell Solar Limited was approved ...

Universal Display announces an extended OLED evaluation agreement with Japan Display

12 Jun 2017

Universal Display believe that this agreement will strengthen their collaborative bond with JDI for innovative OLED products

Universal Display Corp has announced that the Company and Japan Display Inc. have entered into an extended and updated evaluation agreement.

Under the agreement, Universal Display will supply its proprietary UniversalPHOLED phosphorescent OLED materials and ...

Novaled holds formal ceremony to lay cornerstone for the company's new building

12 Jun 2017

By investing over 25 million euros in the Dresden location Samsung SDI as Novaled parent company has made a very clear commitment to the economic region and to Novaled

Novaled has recently held a formal ceremony to laid the corner stone foundation for the new company premises at Elisabeth-Boer-Strasse 9 in Dresden. On the 10,200 m2 site in the north of Dresden ...

OLEDWorks GmbH announces the appointment of a managing director

12 Jun 2017

Mr. Goergen, as managing director, will be responsible for leading the strategic growth and development of OLEDWorks GmbH into new and emerging markets

OLEDWorks has announced the appointment of Wolfgang Goergen as the Managing Director for OLEDWorks Gmbh, effective immediately. Mr. Goergen assumes the role of Managing Director from Eric Meulenkamp. Meulenkamp remains committed to driving OLED as ...

CPEIA and AFELIM establish strategic partnership for North America and Europe

12 Jun 2017

The partnership is a non-financial commitment to collaborate together, such as technical working groups, webinars, technical seminars and conferences

The Canadian Printable Electronics Industry Association and France's AFELIM have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to help each association’s members gain market traction and find new opportunities beyond their borders.

The Memorandum of ...

FlexTech and CPEIA announce partnership

12 Jun 2017

The partnership is a non-financial commitment to collaborate together, such as technical working groups, webinars, technical seminars and conferences

SEMI | FlexTech and the Canadian Printable Electronics Industry Association have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support each other's programs and drive the continued development and adoption of printable, flexible hybrid, and wearable electronics ...

Coronado Brewing uses coasters with Thin Film Electronics' technology to boost website conversions

12 Jun 2017

These innovative 'smart' coasters helped increase web conversions up to 17.5 times as part of new product launch

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) announced that they have kicked off a collaboration with Coronado Brewing Co. by distributing innovative coasters that engaged the craft brewer's consumers with the simple tap of a smartphone.

The ...

Caliva partners with Thin Film Electronics

12 Jun 2017

The technology will enable Caliva to establish personalised, one-to-one relationships with their consumers, communicate brand values, and increase long-term loyalty

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced a partnership with one of California's leading cannabis companies, Caliva. Through the collaboration, Caliva will integrate Thinfilm's technology into branded products distributed throughout California, enabling a direct ...

Quad Industries and partners demonstrate 1st "plastic" 12-bit RFID tag and read-out system with screen-printed

5 Jun 2017

The demonstrator has been designed for badge security applications, but holds promises for many other applications, including smart packages, wearables and interactive games

Quad Industries, Agfa, imec and TNO demonstrate 1st "plastic" 12-bit RFID tag and read-out system with screen-printed antenna

Quad Industries, Agfa, imec and TNO have announced that they have demonstrated a "plastic" 12-bit RFID tag ...

EPFL researchers build ultra-stable perovskite solar cell that remains stable for more than a year

5 Jun 2017

The researchers said that this breakthrough resolves the problem of perovskite solar-cell stability, and can viably move the technology into the commercial sphere

EPFL scientists have recently published the results of a low-cost, ultra-stable perovskite solar cell that has operated for more than a year without loss in performance (11.2%). The work is published in Nature Communications ...

2017FLEX Monterey to focus on accelerating to manufacturing as industry growth escalates

5 Jun 2017

FlexTech's annual Flexible Electronics Conference and Exhibit – 2017FLEX – is set for the Hyatt Regency Hotel & Spa in Monterey, Calif. from June 19-22, 2017

FlexTech's annual Flexible Electronics Conference and Exhibit – 2017FLEX – is set for the Hyatt Regency Hotel & Spa in Monterey, Calif. from June 19-22, 2017. Consistently attracting 500+ registrants, the event is the premier technology conference ...

FlexTrans EU funded project launches project website

5 Jun 2017

FlexTrans is a multi-party project involving several European pioneers in the display industry - the project is co funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme

SmartKem has announced further details of an innovative project to accelerate the production of a new generation of display based products. FLEXTRANS is a two-year programme to support the transition to market of their truFLEX ...

Opvius OPV installs organic photovoltaic charging system for Velotaxis

5 Jun 2017

The Velotaxi project provides Opvius with an opportunity to bring OPV technology that bit closer to the consumer

Opvius has announced they have installed organic photovoltaic charging system for MVV Energies' branded Velotaxis that was recently introduced at this year's Mannheim May Market - reported to be the biggest regional consumer fair in ...

Meyer Burger supplies CONx Microfab R&D and pilot production system for use in production of FHE at NextFlex

5 Jun 2017

The Gen-2.5 multi-process CONx Microfab will be used to manufacture Flexible Hybrid Electronics devices and to leverage key partners' materials

Meyer Burger has announced that they in partnership with DuPont, Eastman Chemical and Intrinsiq Materials, are delivering a CONx Microfab cluster tool that includes two PiXDRO IP410 inkjet printing systems, a FLEx LT PECVD deposition ...

University of Newcastle unveils printed solar cell demonstration site

22 May 2017

Their lab-scale printer is reported to easily produce hundreds of metres of material per day, on a commercial-scale printer this would increase to kilometres

The University of Newcastle (UON) has announced they have unveiled their first printed solar demonstration site at the University. Printed solar creator, UON’s Professor Paul Dastoor said that at 100 m2 in size ...

Idemitsu and BOE Technology mulling OLED tie-up

22 May 2017

Idemitsu is looking to further expand its horizons with an eye on growing demand - BOE - is working toward mass production of OLED screens at several local plants

According to a report on the Nikkei Asian Review news website Idemitsu Kosan is considering forming a partnership with China's BOE Technology Group to produce OLED display panels, the Japanese company is reported to ...

JOLED announces World's 4K OLED panel manufactured by RGB printing methods

22 May 2017

The company plans to start first with OLED panels for medical monitors, and then progressively address other segments of the market

JOLED has announced they have developed the world's first 21.6-inch 4K (3,840 RGB × 2, 160 for a total resolution of 8,290,000 pixels) high-definition OLED panel using an RGB printing system ...

Nanoco and Kyulux sign agreement to combine quamtum dot and tadf oled technologies

22 May 2017

By combining the best of quantum dot technology with the best of new generation OLED technology, the companies aim to bring world-class display technology to market

Nanoco Group and Kyulux Inc.have announced they have signed a collaboration and joint development agreement. Under the agreement, Nanoco's heavy metal free quantum dots (CFQD quantum dots) will be combined with Kyulux's ...

Cynora announces record results for high-efficiency blue OLED emitters

22 May 2017

Cynora plan to commercialise their highly efficient blue emitter by the end of 2017, a green emitter by 2018 and a red emitter by 2019

Cynora has announced they have reached new performance records with the company's newest blue emitter material. With the current performance, the company is getting close to commercialisation of its first product by the end ...

Perovskite patent landscape report and patent dataset

15 May 2017

The perovskite patent landscape report is ready to go for you to use to gain an insight into this emerging technology, it also includes a supplementary patent dataset

Are you developing perovskite solar cells?

Then you will want to know more about the patent landscape of this emerging solar cell technology.

  • Do you want to know which assignees are filing patents?
  • Do you ...

FlexEnable and Merck collaborate to enable novel display shapes using flexible LCDs

15 May 2017

Combining Felxenables' OTFT flexible backplanes with Mercks' polymer wall technology allows LCD frontplanes to be bent into complex structures and shapes

FlexEnable has announced they are partnering with Merck to enable novel display shapes, building on FlexEnable's recent developments with conformable, large area, full colour and video rate OLCDs.

According to the announcement organic LCDs ...

InScope EU project aims to develops an open access pilot line service for hybrid and printed systems

15 May 2017

Maturing the hybrid printed electronics roadmap requires parties to supply large amounts of products at a high quality to allow industrial relevant tests, such as consumer satisfaction, clinical trials and large scaled demonstrators

The EU funded project InSCOPE has announced it aims to create an open access pilot line service for Hybrid Printed electronics systems.

The pilot line is modular thereby ensuring a comprehensive toolbox of printing, assembly ...

Universal Display announces financial results for first quarter 2017

15 May 2017

Universal Display believe that the OLED industry is poised to grow faster than expected this year - therefore 2017 revenue to be at least US$260 million to US$280 million

Universal Display Corp announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2017.

Total revenue increased 87% to US$55.6 million in the first quarter, compared with US$29.7 million in the ...

Necomada EU funded consortium aims to address materials challenges in the IoT

15 May 2017

The project aims to advance material development to reduce the final system costs, and trial them on a roll-to-roll pilot line located at the Centre for Process Innovation facilities

The EU funded Necomada consortium today announced that it will be addressing the material challenges associated with the Internet of Things (IoT), to allow for the integration of electronics into a wide range of everyday ...

Universal Display's subsidiary Adesis purchases Delaware facility to expand operations

15 May 2017

The integration of Adesis has progressed extremely well and we believe the purchase of the building is the next step in facilitating the business' long-term growth plans. This will also support our increasing technical capabilities, as we expand our OLED

Universal Display Corporation has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary - Adesis Inc. - has purchased its New Castle, Delaware building, to expand its custom organic synthesis, research and development, and speciality manufacturing capabilities.

The New Castle, Delaware ...

Pragmatic Printing set to establish billion-unit production capacity for flexible ICs by 2018

8 May 2017

The First "FlexLogIC" fab-in-a-box system being commissioned aims to enable mass market roll-out of intelligence for everyday items

Pragmatic Printing (Pragmatic) has secured agreements for installation of its first "FlexLogIC" system capable of producing billions of flexible integrated circuits.

FlexLogic is a self-contained, fully automated, modular "fab-in-a-box" for high throughput manufacturing of flexible ...

Fraunhofer FEB to showcase OLED microdisplays as high-precision optical fingerprint sensors

8 May 2017

The fingerprint sensor uses this bidirectional functionality of light-emission and detection as well - the finger gets illuminated and the reflected light will be detected and analysed

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP is set to present a high-resolution fingerprint-sensor based on OLED microdisplays at the forthcoming SID Display Week 2017, from May 23-25 2017 in ...

Enfucell and Central Midori sign a license agreement for manufacturing

8 May 2017

Enfucell is widening the geographical coverage of its partner network to be able to serve the rapidly growing markets for Internet of Things and wearable devices that are powered by printable batteries

Enfucell Oy and Central Midori (Int’l) Pte Ltd (CMI) have signed a license agreement for printing Enfucell SoftBattery power sources. Enfucell is widening the geographical coverage of its partner network to be able to ...

OLEDWorks introduces the Brite Amber OLED panel

8 May 2017

This innovative Amber panel is free of blue wavelength making it ideal for application in the healthcare, senior living and residential markets

OLEDWorks will introduce the Brite Amber panel to its suite of OLED lighting products at LIGHTFAIR International 2017. OLEDs can be tuned to emit specific wavelengths for a variety of colors as well as both ...

Opvius develop printed organic photovoltaics "solar umbrellas"

8 May 2017

The solar umbrellas developed consist of several OPV modules laminated between two polycarbonate plates

Opvius has announced they have provided The "Climate Pavillion" at the Thüringen State Horticultural Show with "solar umbrellas" to demonstrate the effectiveness of solar power.

These "solar umbrellas" are based on organic photovoltaics (OPV), and ...

AUO smartwatch AMOLED panels adopted by fashion brands

8 May 2017

AUO said it will begin shipments of circular AMOLED panels in the second quarter of 2017 and expects quarterly shipments to reach one million units in the second half of the year

According to a news report on the Digitimes website at the recently held "Baselworld 2017 Watch and Jewellery Show" in Switzerland 11 fashion brands showcased smartwatches, and nine of them adopted 1.2- and 1 ...

Perovskite patent dataset and patent landscape report

1 May 2017

The perovskite patent dataset is ready to go for you to use for your own analysis it also includes a supplementary patent landscape report

Are you developing perovskite solar cells?

Then you will want to know more about the patent landscape of this emerging solar cell technology.

  • Do you want to know which assignees are filing patents?
  • Do you ...

Thin Film Electronics announces first commercial shipment of temperature sensor smart labels

1 May 2017

Emerson is the initial partner being supplied - Thinfilm plans initial launch with other key customers in 2017-Q2 including Temptime

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced they have successfully completed the first commercial shipment of a novel hybrid temperature sensor smart label, delivering a production quantity to partner, Emerson.

Thinfilm also expects to ship labels ...

Researchers succeeded in measuring the Hall effect of organic single crystal

1 May 2017

The doping efficiency of the organic single crystal was 24%, which is higher performance compared to 1% for the vacuum deposited amorphous film of the same material

Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences (Japan) have developed a method for high performance doping of organic single crystal. Furthermore, the researchers succeeded in measuring the Hall effect of ...

Kopin enters into partnership with Olightek and BOE for OLED micro-display production

1 May 2017

These agreements with BOE Group and Yunnan OLiGHTEK Opto-electronics aim to establish a state-of-the-art, high-volume facility for manufacturing OLED microdisplays

Kopin Corp has announced two agreements with two leading global OLED companies as part of its unique fab-less OLED manufacturing strategy for its silicon-based Lightning OLED displays introduced at CES in January 2017.

Kopin said ...

eMagin announces fourth quarter and full year 2016 financial results

1 May 2017

eMagin now have in place multiple agreements with commercial partners for next generation prototype products for consumer HMD’s and expect a considerable boost to 2017 revenue from our commercial efforts

eMagin Corp. has announced financial results and corporate highlights for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2016.

Revenues for the fourth quarter of 2016 were US$4.6 million as compared to ...

Researchers develop low-bandgap tandem perovskite tandem solar

24 Apr 2017

The researchers report that their low-band-gap perovskite solar cells achieved a maximum power conversion efficiency of 17.6% and a certified efficiency of 17.01%

Researchers at The University of Toledo have announced they have developed an all-perovskite tandem solar cell that has reportedly achieved "world-record" conversion efficiency for a solar cell that uses less toxic lead. The researchers said ...

Perovskite patent dataset and patent landscape report

24 Apr 2017

The perovskite patent dataset is ready to go for you to use for your own analysis it also includes a supplementary patent landscape report

Are you developing perovskite solar cells?

Then you will want to know more about the patent landscape of this emerging solar cell technology.

  • Do you want to know which assignees are filing patents?
  • Do you ...

Thin Film Electronics forms partnerships with three providers of NFC-reader hardware

24 Apr 2017

Thinfilm's technology partnerships will allow industrial users to implement NFC at any stage of operations while leveraging deployed IT infrastructure

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced technology partnerships with three leading providers of NFC-reader hardware - Socket Mobile, Famoco, and SpringCard. Each partner is collaborating with Thinfilm to the market and help position NFC as an ...

RiTdisplay to further expand PMOLED capacity

24 Apr 2017

RiTdisplay will not extend development and production to AMOLED units because AMOLED entails large investment and there are many new competitors for AMOLED panels

According to Digitimes website PMOLED panel maker RiTdisplay has expanded monthly production capacity from 15,000 glass substrates to 18,000 units, and will further expand monthly capacity by 40% to 25,200 glass substrates ...

Samsung and LG continue expanding their small- to medium-size AMOLED panel capacities

24 Apr 2017

Since flexible AMOLED panels are used in curved-surface smartphones, and the proportion of these smartphones is on the rise, Samsung Display and LG Display are focusing their capacity expansions on small- to medium-size flexible AMOLED panels

According to news reports on the Digitimes website Samsung Display and LG Display continue their expansion of small- to medium-size AMOLED panel production, with combined annual capacity expected to reach 16.069 million m2 ...

Tianma Micro-electronics to start production at Gen-6 AMOLED factory

24 Apr 2017

Tianma began construction in January 2016 and it is the first Gen-6 AMOLED in China as well as the world's first Gen-6 fab producing both rigid and flexible AMOLED panels

According to Digitimes Chinese manufacturer Tianma Micro-electronics has begun production of both rigid and flexible AMOLED panels based on LTPS (low-temperature poly-Si) backplanes at a new Gen-6 AMOLED line in Wuhan, central China, according to ...

Innolux and Sharp cooperating on OLED panels

24 Apr 2017

In addition to cooperation in OLED panels, Innolux and Sharp may cooperate on IGZO TFT-LCD panels.

According to a news report on the Digitimes website Innolux is cooperating with Sharp on R&D of OLED technology and supporting Sharp's construction of a Gne-4.5 OLED factory in Japan.

EMS provider ...

New perovskite ink with wide processing window

17 Apr 2017

The NREL scientists developing these perovskite ink with wide processing window believe it will lead to scalable high-efficiency solar cells

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DoE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a new perovskite ink with a long processing window that allows the scalable production of perovskite thin films ...

Organic electronics used to control plant growth

17 Apr 2017

A drug delivery ion pump constructed from organic electronic components has been shown to control the root growth of a small flowering plant, the thale cress

Researchers from the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at Linköping University who previously developed a drug delivery ion pump constructed from organic electronic components also collaborated with researchers from the Umeå Plant Science Centre to use ...

Opvius organic photovoltac technology receives CE approval

17 Apr 2017

Graubner Industrie-Beratung and OPVIUS conclude successful joint project for CE marking of OPV modules

Opvius GmbH and Graubner Industrie-Beratung GmbH have worked together to jointly undertake a CE conformity assessment of Opvius OPV technology. During the CE conformity assessment procedure, numerous relevant aspects of the product were examined and ...

Thin Film Electronics Q4 2016 and full-year 2016 financials

17 Apr 2017

Sales revenue was related to product development projects, delivery of prototypes and products to strategic customers and partners, technology transfer and product deliveries

Thinfilm’s revenue and other income in 2016 amounted to US$ 3,845,000, 13% lower than the same period in 2015 (2015: US$ 4,413,000). Excluding the other income recognised in the period ...

Imec and Solliance announces improved 4cm x 4cm perovskite solar cell

10 Apr 2017

The 4cm x 4cm perovskite solar cell achieved 12.4% power conversion efficiency under more than ten minutes maximum power point tracking as certified by Fraunhofer ISE

Imec and partner Solliance have announced that they have improved their 4 cm x 4 cm perovskite module and achieved a certified conversion efficiency of 12.4%, which the researchers believe is amongst the highest ...

E Ink and Sony Semiconductor to establish a joint venture to operate ePaper display business

10 Apr 2017

The new JV will leverage both E Ink's development and manufacturing technology for electronic paper displays and Sony's expertise in product development and marketing

E Ink Holdings (E Ink) and Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corp, have announced that the two companies have agreed to establish a joint venture (JV) responsible for planning, designing, developing ...

Aixtron and major Asian OLED display manufacturer to qualify production deposition technology

10 Apr 2017

The collaboration targets the qualification of Aixtron’s technology for the production of OLED displays

Aixtron has announced they have received a purchase order from a leading Asian OLED display manufacturer for a deposition system to be installed at the customer site within the second half of 2017. The collaboration ...

Researchers have designed and fabricated the first ultra-thin microprocessors

10 Apr 2017

Using transistors made from the TMD molybdenum disulphide, the microprocessors are capable of 1-bit logic operations and the design is scalable to multi-bit operations

Researchers from the Graphene Flagship have demonstrated the "first" fully functional microprocessor based on a "layered" material. The processor chip consists of 115 integrated transistors and is a first step toward ultra-thin, flexible logic devices ...

HyperOLED - EU Horizon 2020 project starts

10 Apr 2017

The HyperOLED project will develop materials and device architectures for high-performance, hyperfluorescent OLEDs for display applications and solid state lighting

Merck has announced the successful launch of the HyperOLED project, a € 4 million project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.

Within the scope of this project, Merck, as the ...

Aixtron reports financial results for Q4 2016 and full financial year 2016

10 Apr 2017

Revenues represents the highest quarterly revenues since 2011, and was due to a high volume of planned system shipments

Aixtron has recently announced financial results for the fourth quarter 2016 and the full financial year 2016.

Following a strong second half, Aixtron met its guidance published at the beginning of the year. At EUR ...

ANU researchers achieve more than 26% efficeincy for perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells

3 Apr 2017

The researchers believe this will lead the way to making low-cost perovskite solar cells a viable alternative to silicon solar cells

Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have announced they have achieved a new record efficiency for low-cost semi-transparent perovskite solar cells which they believe moves closer towards lowering the cost of generating solar electricity ...

Sekisui Chemical to begin pilot production of flexible dye-sensitised solar cells

3 Apr 2017

The production capacity of the pilot production machine is 20,000 m2 per year and is scheduled to start initial production of DSSC this year

According to a recent Tech-on news report Sekisui Chemical has announced that they will commission a pilot production of a flexible dye-sensitised solar cell (DSSC) with the eventual aim to enter mass production.

The production ...

Apple reported to have placed an order for 70 million OLED panels with Samsung

3 Apr 2017

The premium iPhone 8, which is believed will cost more than US$1,000, will sport a slightly curved 5.2-inch OLED screen

According to an article on the Nikkei Asian Review website Apple has recently placed orders for flexible OLED panels with Samsung Electronics for use in 70 million handsets this yea.

The large order suggests that ...

CSOT to set up Gen 6 flexible AMOLED line

3 Apr 2017

Initial production to begin in second-quarter 2019 and volume production in first-half 2020, the factory will produce 3- to 12-inch high-resolution flexible AMOLED panels for smartphones and tablets

Digitimes reports that China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) will invest CNY35 billion (US$5.08 billion) to set up a Gen 6 line flexible AMOLED panels using LTPS (low-temperature poly-Si) TFT-LCD backplanes in Wuhan City ...

LG Display to showcase their latest OLED lighting products at Euroluce 2017 in Milan

3 Apr 2017

LG Display will exhibit a range of OLED lighting panels - including their collaborations with Ross Lovegrove - a leading industrial designer

LG Display has announced it will showcase the latest OLED lighting products at Euroluce 2017 from April 4 to 9 in Milan, Italy. Under the theme of "The Light of Inspiration" LG Display will exhibit ...

CSEM Brasil, SUNEW and Cambrios develop fully transparent organic photovoltaic power film

27 Mar 2017

OPV Power Film will be manufactured and sold by SUNEW, which was formed in 2015 - their aim is to create the world's largest facility to manufacture OPV

CSEM Brasil, SUNEW and Cambrios have announced they have jointly developed "OPV Power Film" that uses Cambrios' ClearOhm materials to make transparent solar cells which will be integrated into windows and make use of the ...

Opvius develops and ships organic solar cells laminated in polycarbonate to French village

27 Mar 2017

These panels are part of the first shipment of more than 700 in total, which will be installed around the CCAM region in several independent projects to demonstrate the aesthetics, functionality and adaptability of Organic PV to local needs and weather co

Opvius has announced they have produced and shipped the "world's first" large-scale polycarbonate laminated OPV modules to the Communaute de Communes Adour- Madiran (CCAM) in France ready for installation in heritage and cultural sites ...

German OLED Technology Alliance (GOTA) formed

27 Mar 2017

The partners bring their respective competencies in OLED manufacturing into the alliance enabling them to act as a single supplier for "all-in-one" OLED manufacturing solutions

Four German companies - Von Ardenne, MBraun Inertgas-Systeme, Notion Systems and Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP - have joined together to found the German OLED Technology Alliance (GOTA).

According to the announcement the alliance is ...

GOTA to supply Chinese producer with an OLED manufacturing line

27 Mar 2017

According to the announcement the new production facilities will be able to print large quantities of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) for a special application

The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP and three other German companies have been commissioned by a Chinese producer to develop an OLED production facility for its site in China. The four development partners ...

The Holst Centre demonstrates a "smart" shirt for monitoring key vital signs

27 Mar 2017

The new demonstrator is the 3rd generation of vital sign monitoring shirt created with Holst Centre's smart clothing integration platform

Researchers from the Holst Centre have developed a prototype smart shirt that integrates imec's validated medical-grade electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring with breathing rate and breathing depth.

There use of "state-of-the-art printed electronics technology" offers complete ...

The Holst Centre demonstrates intuitive automotive and consumer user experiences

27 Mar 2017

The demonstrator, a car center console, features a mobile phone storage space with integrated NFC connectivity and touch controls illuminated by flexible OLEDs. Light and conformal, IME technology

The Holst Centre has developed a functional demonstrator using Holst Centre's in-mold electronics (IME) technology and points to a bright future for intuitive human-machine interfaces (HMIs) in automotive electronics and consumer appliances

Developed by ...

CPI and partners to develop innovative tyre management system technology

27 Mar 2017

CPI along with Bath University and Silent Sensors aim to develop a key component for the future of intelligent tyres, using piezoelectric energy harvesting, which converts mechanical motion into electrical energy

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has announced that it is collaborating with Bath University and Silent Sensors to develop a key component for the future of intelligent tyres, using piezoelectric energy harvesting, which converts ...

Flexible AMOLED display revenues to exceed rigid AMOLED display revenues by Q3 2017

27 Mar 2017

Smartphone brands believe using flexible AMOLED panels in their latest high-end products will differentiate themselves from competitors still using rigid AMOLED displays

According to AMOLED & Flexible Display Intelligence Service by IHS Markit, most smartphone makers are aiming to apply flexible AMOLED displays to their products in 2017, but some of them would still find it difficult due ...

Research consortium Konfekt develops ultra thin rollable glass

27 Mar 2017

To avoid any breakage of the ultra-thin glass when rolling or processing the consortium partners are are focusing on the optimisation of the process, and to deliver a glass on roll

The KONFEKT research consortium have been working together to drive forward the development of a "convertible thin-glass functional substrate for applications in organic electronics". The KONFEKT project is planned to run until mid-2018, and has ...

Researchers demonstrate organic power electronics

20 Mar 2017

The researchers demonstrated an organic mains power converter that makes it possible to drive OLED devices with high luminescence, and to charge supercapacitors

Researchers at Linköping University and Umeå University have published their finding on developing a small and inexpensive organic electronics main power converter, paving the way to have organic and printed electronics powered by high voltage ...

RK PrintCoat forms collaboration with Indian National Centre of Flexible Electronics

20 Mar 2017

Access to a R2R processing facility in India will provide a boost to development of domestic industry in the field of printable electronics

RK PrintCoat Instruments has announced their collaboration with National Centre of Flexible Electronics (FlexE Centre) at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) to design, manufacture and supply a bespoke roll-to-roll (R2R) pilot line for their ...

OLED display manufacturers could reduce their dependence on imported organic materials

20 Mar 2017

Digitimes Research analysis suggest this reliance is reducing due in part to Samsung and LG internal mergers and investments in foreign enterprises to access relevant patents

Digitimes Research recently published analysis that Samsung Display and LG Display current dependence on imported organic materials used in vapour deposition - for front-end manufacturing process of flexible OLED panels could reduce in the future. The ...

Dyesol announes half-year financials ending 31 December 2016

20 Mar 2017

During the half year Dyesol received AU$3.85m cash rebate from the Federal Government for its R&D activities during full-year 2016

Dyesol has announce half-year financial 2017 ending 31st December 2017. Revenues increased by AU$175k arising mainly from the revenue recognition of an initial mobilisation payment that was received for a contract to supply a ...

Solliance sets world record of 12.6% efficiency for roll-to-roll produced perovskite solar cells

13 Mar 2017

All process steps on this roll-to-roll line were performed using low cost materials whilst keeping the process temperatures below 120 oC

Solliance has announced the demonstration of an industrially-applicable roll-to-roll process for the production of solar cells, achieving a "record" 12.6% conversion efficiency on cell level. Solliance believes that this exciting development paves the way ...

PCAS invests US$8 million to increase manufacturing capacities of organic electronic materials

13 Mar 2017

Half of the investment is focused on OLED, OPV, OFET and sensor technologies - while the other half will be dedicated to photolithography polymers and chemicals

PCAS invests US$8 million to increase manufacturing capacities of organic electronic polymers and chemicals

PCAS has announced they will spend US$8 million within the next few years to significantly increase its production capacity ...

Kateeva expands silicon valley headquarters to meet growing demand

13 Mar 2017

At HQ headcount has nearly tripled to 330 people, and orders for YIELDjet systems have soared, the new building, aims to doubles manufacturing footprint

Kateeva has announced that it is expanding its Silicon Valley headquarters. The company has leased an adjacent building at its Newark campus, adding 75,000 sq. ft. that is zoned for manufacturing and business operations ...

BASF acquires Rolic AG

13 Mar 2017

Rolic's technology know-how and customer relationships and BASF's market reach will create new opportunities for co-developing next gen LCD and OLED displays

BASF has announced that they have acquired the private company Rolic AG headquartered in Allschwil, Switzerland. Both companies have agreed not to disclose financial details of the transaction. The transaction includes Rolic’s affiliates in ...

Universal Display announces fourth quarter and full year 2016 financial results

13 Mar 2017

In the fourth quarter, total emitter sales increased 25% sequentially, the adoption of next-generation emitters commenced

Universal Display Corp. has announced its results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31 2016

For the full year 2016, the Company reported revenue of US$198.9 million, up from US$191 ...

ASU, Stanford researchers achieve record-breaking efficiency with tandem solar cell

6 Mar 2017

The researchers combined perovskite and silicon to create a tandem solar cell with an efficiency of 23.6 percent, just shy of the all-time silicon efficiency record

Researchers at Arizona State University and Stanford University are exploring new methods to improve the performance of solar-cells - such as stacking two different solar cell technologies in a tandem cell - in this case silicon and ...

University of Toronto researchers move closer to low-cost, printable perovskite solar cells

6 Mar 2017

The researchers have developed a new chemical reaction than enables them to grow an ESL made of nanoparticles in solution, directly on top of the electrode

University of Toronto researchers more closer to low-cost, printable perovskite solar cells The researchers have developed a new chemical reaction than enables them to grow an ESL made of nanoparticles in solution, directly on top ...

C3Nano closes US$15 million series D equity financing

6 Mar 2017

C3Nano will use the new funding to build manufacturing operations in China and increase its capacity in South Korea to support its sales growth

C3Nano Inc has announced that they have recently closed US$15 million in equity financing. The latest financing was led by existing investor GSR Ventures, new investors Nissha Printing and Xinjiang Guoli Minsheng Equity Investment ...

Universal Display announces initiation of quarterly cash dividends

6 Mar 2017

Shareholders will receive a first-ever dividend of US$0.03 per share that will be paid on 31 March 2017 - future dividends will be subject to board approval

Universal Display Corp. has announced that its Board of Directors approved the initiation of quarterly cash dividends to its shareholders.

The quarterly dividend of US$0.03 per share of common stock, Universal Display's ...

Fraunhofer FEP announces advances in their thin-film coatings on plastic film technology

6 Mar 2017

The initial results are promising offering the ability to combine layers that were fabricated using PVD and fabricated using lacquering processes

Fraunhofer FEP scientists have - over the past year - been commissioning and testing their new atmoFlex system. The developments have been driven by the desire to broaden their capabilities offered to customers by being able to ...

Thin Film Electronics launches CNECT software portal

6 Mar 2017

The new portal is aimed at enabling consumer brands to rapidly implement turnkey IoT solutions

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced the availability of its CNECT software portal globally. The portal is a multi-tenant cloud-based platform that integrates with Thinfilm's NFC SpeedTap and OpenSense tags. The turnkey solution provides ...

Arcus collaborates with Thin Film Electronics to deliver 'smart' LINIE aquavit

6 Mar 2017

This combination creates a compelling one-to-one mobile marketing platform from which Arcus can connect directly with its consumers

Thin Film Electronics ASA (Thinfilm) has announced Arcus ASA (Arcus) as a new customer. Preparations are underway for an initial field trial, which is expected to begin in the second quarter.

For the trial, Thinfilm ...

Thin Film Electronics completes purchase of EAS manufacturing equipment for roll-to-roll line

6 Mar 2017

By migrating production from sheet-based to roll-based lines, Thinfilm is expecting to increase the capacity of its EAS and NFC product lines to the billions of units annually when fully installed

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has recently announced that it has completed the purchasing of manufacturing equipment to be used in the roll-to-roll production of its Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) tags. The equipment will be housed ...

Scientists develop ultra low-cost "lab-on-a-chip"

13 Feb 2017

Microfluidics, electronics and inkjet technology underlie a newly developed all-in-one biochip from Stanford that can analyse cells for research and clinical applications

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a way to produce a cheap and reusable diagnostic "lab-on-a-chip" with the help of an ordinary inkjet printer - at a production cost of as little ...

Flex+ has announced they have successfully concluded their two-year BMBF funded project

13 Feb 2017

The flex+ Technology Platform goal was to develop a comprehensive approach for successful development and manufacturing of flexible electronics

Flex+ has announced they have successfully concluded their two-year BMBF funded project. Fraunhofer FEP along with the project's several partners have developed new routes in the design and development of flexible organic electronics as ...

Dyesol has been awarded AU$2.5 million grant for commercialising perovskite solar cells

13 Feb 2017

The funding support is for an 18 month project titled, "Large Area Perovskite Photovoltaic Material Coating on Glass Substrate"

Dyesol Limited has announced they have been awarded a AU$2.5 million grant under the Cooperative Research Centre Projects (CRC-P) programme. The grant is administered by the Australian Department of Industry.

The funding support ...

BOE Technology to set up OLED manufacturing platform in Central China

13 Feb 2017

The platform is reported to benefit from a total investment of CNY1 billion (US$145 million) and BOE will invest CNY600 million for a 75% stake

According to an article on the Digitimes news website Chinese display panel maker BOE Technology is working with the government of Hefei City, in central China, to establish an OLED manufacturing platform in the city ...

IHS Markit expects AMOLED production equipment purchases to reach record high in 2017

13 Feb 2017

With an estimated US$23 billion of expenditures on AMOLED production equipment between 2016 and 2018, equipment manufacturers

According to that latest IHS Markit report "Supply Demand & Equipment Tracker" the flat-panel display (FPD) industry is in the midst of a historic wave of building new factories to manufacture active matrix organic light emitting ...

Northern Lights Spirits to distribute connected gin bottles featuring Thinfilm's NFC Technology

13 Feb 2017

Each SpeedTap tag is uniquely identifiable and virtually impossible to clone, and can be read with the simple tap of an NFC-enabled smartphone or device

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced that Northern Lights Spirits Ltd. (NLS) as a new customer. NLS - a Finland-based distiller of handcrafted gin and vodka - will begin distributing "smart" bottles of its premium Kalevala Gin ...

PPG and Universal Display invest US$15 million to expand production capacity

6 Feb 2017

This investment anticipates the rise of high-volume OLED display manufacturing capacity and aims to meet the company's customers' increasing needs for OLED materials

PPG and Universal Display Corporation have announced that Universal Display will invest US$15 million in PPG's Barberton, Ohio, manufacturing facility to double commercial production capacity for Universal Display’s proprietary UniversalPHOLED phosphorescent emitter ...

Opvius is the new name for Belectric OPV

6 Feb 2017

Opvius' next steps are to establish larger production facility, and to focus on building a bigger worldwide customer base

The rebranding of Belectric OPV GmbH to Opvius GmbH reflects increased customer interest in customised organic photovoltaics (OPV) solutions. The brand Opvius bas been created in response to the increase more design and aesthetic-driven customer ...

Imec, Holst Centre and Cartamundi show printed NFC tag communicating with smartphones

6 Feb 2017

The self-aligned TFT architecture is optimised for low parasitic capacitance and high cut-off frequency to convert incoming 13.56 MHz into the system clock for the "printed" chip

imec, Holst Centre and Cartamundi have demonstrated at the 2017 International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, a thin-film tag on plastic, compatible with the NFC Barcode protocol, a subset of ISO14443-A, which is available ...

ITO Electronics show prototype solar windows based on organic photovoltaic (OPV)

6 Feb 2017

The window is made by placing 96 organic thin-film solar cells (polymer type, 5 x 5cm each) between transparent acrylic plates

It has been reported by Tech-on that Ito Electronic recently exhibited a window equipped with organic solar cells at the 1st Intl Building & Urban Development Expo, which took place at the end 2016, at ...

Konica Minolta and Pioneer form a joint venture to accelerate commercialisation of OLED lighting

30 Jan 2017

The new company's business focus will be on the emerging field of automotive lighting

Konica Minolta and Pioneer have announced that the companies have entered into an agreement to establish a joint venture for OLED lighting business to accelerate the commercialisation OLED lighting through the integration of their respective ...

Novaled breaks ground for new R&D facility

30 Jan 2017

Novaled's parent company Samsung will invest more than 20 million Euros in the new fab and office buildings

The construction work for the new company headquarters of Novaled GmbH will start on Thursday in the north of Dresden with the symbolic first groundbreaking. In the next few months, an old mill, a listed ...

Linköping University researchers develop the world's first heat-driven transistor

30 Jan 2017

Heat-driven transistor opens the possibility of novel applications such as detecting small temperature differences or medical dressings that monitors the healing process

Researchers Dan Zhao and Simone Fabiano from at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, have created a thermoelectric organic transistor. A temperature rise of a single degree is sufficient to cause a detectable current ...

Researchers develop ultrahigh sensitivity graphene infrared detectors

30 Jan 2017

These novel graphene-based infrared (IR) detector with record high sensitivity for thermal detection - pave the way for high-performance IR imaging and spectroscopy

Researchers working at the Cambridge Graphene Centre have developed a novel graphene-based pyroelectric bolometer that detects infrared (IR) radiation to measure temperature with an ultrahigh level of accuracy.

The work, published in Nature Communications, demonstrates ...

Aixtron's CEO Martin Goetzeler to leave the company at the end of February

23 Jan 2017

Kim Schindelhauer, former Aixtron Executive Board Member and current Supervisory Board Chairman will become CEO effective March 1, 2017, until a successor is found

Aixtron has announced that the current CEO of the company, Martin Goetzeler, is leaving the company at the end of his contract on February 28, 2017.

Former Aixtron Executive Board Member and current Supervisory Board ...

CSEM and Sefar successfully develop a low-cost electrode technology for large-area OLEDs

23 Jan 2017

Low-cost, flexible, transparent, conductive electrodes made of fabric substrates comprising flexible metallic wires and polymeric fibers woven together

CSEM and Sefar have announced they have succeeded in designing a promising state-of-the-art, low-cost, efficient method of increasing the attractiveness of OLEDs for lighting. This technology opens up new opportunities for applications in residential, architectural ...

Flexenable provides OLCD for Yanfeng Automotive Interiors' vehicle interior concept

23 Jan 2017

FlexEnable provided a 12.1-inch conformable organic liquid crystal display (OLCD) that has been incorporated into a car's A-pillar to allow for greater visibility and safety

FlexEnable has announced they are collaborating with Yanfeng Automotive Interiors (YFAI) to create an "Invisible A-pillar" concept for an autonomous demonstrator.

FlexEnable provided a 12.1-inch glass-free, conformable organic liquid crystal display (OLCD) that has ...

Thin Film Electronics partners with Beneli to strengthen NFC label conversion services in Europe

23 Jan 2017

Beneli maintains a strong presence in the spirits, medical, cosmetics, and tobacco verticals, and also serves the food, pharmaceuticals, and logistics industries

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced a partnership with Sweden-based Beneli AB (Beneli). The partnership aims to significantly strengthens Thinfilm's converter program by providing strategic coverage in Scandinavia and the broader European region.

In ...

Belectric OPV wins the AIT Innovation Award Architecture + Building at BAU 2017

23 Jan 2017

Organic photovoltaics are set to become an important and highly promising technology in the world-wide adoption and integration of photovoltaics (PV) into buildings

Belectric OPV has announced that its OPV product line OPVIUS, co-developed with Merck received the Innovation Award Architecture + Building at the BAU 2017. The exhibited active solar films produced by Belectric OPV under the brand ...

Idemitsu Kosan to establish OLED materials development company in Switzerland

16 Jan 2017

Idemitsu has been collaborating on OLED technology with BASF, but has now decided to establish its own research centre in Basel and will hire the BASF OLED researchers

Idemitsu Kosan has announced plans to establish, in January 2017, an OLED materials development company in Switzerland, in order to enhance its development structure in preparation for future growth in demand for OLED materials.

The ...

E Ink and Texen partner to bring personalised digital packaging for cosmetics

16 Jan 2017

Digital customisation, neuro-cosmetics, targeted advertising campaigns and DIY beauty formulation among the envisaged use cases for the design concept

E Ink and Texen have announced a collaboration to bring personalised packaging solutions to cosmetic customers. The smart packaging design concept combines E Ink's low power, high contrast paper-like display technology with Texen's ...

National University of Singapore achieve major technology development in flexible electronics

16 Jan 2017

The researchers have developed new classes of printable electrically conducting polymer materials that make better electrodes for organic electronics

Researchers and scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has successfully developed conducting polymer films that can provide "unprecedented" ohmic contacts to give superior performance in organic electronics, including organic light-emitting diodes, solar cells ...

Aixtron no longer being acquired as GCI halts their 670 million Euro offer

9 Jan 2017

The recent US prohibition of the acquisition of Aixtron was the last straw for CGI and it decided alternative options not as attractive

Aixtron has recently announced that Grand Chip Investment GmbH (GCI) has decided to halt 670 million euro ($710.60 million) public takeover offer for the acquisition of all shares, including all shares represented by ADSs ...

LG Display reported to be aiming to double the output of large OLED panels in 2017

9 Jan 2017

Currently, LG Display is able to produce 34,000 Gen 8 sized OLED panels per month and is planning to increase this value to 60,000 per month

According to various news reports from CES in Las Vegas - LG Display has decided to double the output of large OLED panels and will focus on securing new customers by continuously increasing production of small ...

QuirkLogic introduces Quilla the world's first connected eWriter

9 Jan 2017

Quilla is the result of a three year R&D partnership between QuirkLogic and E Ink Holdings

QuirkLogic has announced Quilla - the world's largest "Connected eWriter system" - a 42-inch electronic paper device that aims to replicate the familiar feel of paper and pen on the world’s largest eWriter.

QuirkLogic has ...

Aixtron considers its options going forward including selling off non-core parts of the business

9 Jan 2017

Without the GCI deal the company has to choose between investing its limited funds in new technology and hope for a recovery in demand, or shrink its business and workforce

According to recent news report by Reuters Aixtron's CEO Martin Goetzeler said in an interview that the company may sell off part of its business, which could open the door for bidders after a ...

Aixtron announces it will voluntarily delist its American Depositary Shares from NASDAQ

9 Jan 2017

Aixtron has decided to voluntarily delist and terminate its American Depositary Shares (ADSs) to reduce complexity and costs

Aixtron has announced that it intends to voluntarily delist its American Depositary Shares (ADSs) from The NASDAQ Global Select Market (NASDAQ) and deregister and terminate its reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ...

Graphene electrodes for OLED displays

2 Jan 2017

Fraunhofer researchers together with partners from industry and research, have for the first time, produced functional OLED electrodes from graphene

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP) together with partners, has succeeded for the first time in producing OLED electrodes from graphene. The electrodes have an area of 2 × 1 ...

Kopin debuts lightning OLED microdisplay with 2k x 2k resolution for mobile VR

2 Jan 2017

Kopin's Lightning OLED microdisplay addresses the most challenging VR technical hurdles - screen door effect due to insufficient display resolution, bulky goggles, and nausea

Kopin Corp.have announced they will demonstrate the smallest, fastest, highest-resolution organic light emitting diodes (OLED) microdisplay for virtual reality (VR) systems at CES® 2017.

Kopin's Lightning OLED microdisplay has 2048 x 2048 resolution ...

Chinese panel manufacturers ship more that one million units for AMOLED in 3rd quarter

2 Jan 2017

Driven by improvements in manufacturing technology in Chinese panel manufacturers can offer domestic smartphone brands an alternative AMOLED supplier

According to recent analysis by IHS Market Chinese panel manufacturers shipped more than one million AMOLED smartphone displays for the first time in the third quarter of 2016.

While the Chinese manufacturers account for less ...

Shipments of flexible AMOLED to reach 150 million units in 2017

2 Jan 2017

Shipments are expected to be larger based on the assumption that Apple will launch a iPhone with an AMOLED display

Digitimes has reported that an estimated 150 million flexible AMOLED panels for use in smartphones will be shipped globally in 2017, triple the shipments in 2016, according to industry sources.

In addition, a grwoing number ...

eMagin set to announce their highest brightness OLED microdisplays

2 Jan 2017

eMagin have developed and will be demonstrating full colour OLED at brightness levels above 4,000 cd/m2 that can achieve truly immersive virtual reality

eMagin Corp. (eMagin) has announced that the company will be demonstrating their highest brightness, direct patterned micro-displays designed for the virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) market by appointment to select customers at CES ...

eMagin announces US$5 million revolting credit facility

2 Jan 2017

The funds will help the growth of the company's consumer products business and provide flexibility as they expand their presence in commercial and consumer markets

eMagin Corp. has announced that on December 21, 2016, the Company entered into a US$5 million revolving credit working capital facility. The financing will be used for general corporate purposes including funding the inventory ...

Smartkem secures additional investment

19 Dec 2016

The investment will escalate the company's continued growth in Asia

Smartkem has announced that they raised a further £3 million of funding from the company's existing investment syndicate members, including BASF Venture Capital, Octopus Ventures and Entrepreneurs Fund. The funding represents a further expression ...

Japan Display secures government investment of US$636 million

19 Dec 2016

According to published business plans JDI aims to become the leading innovator in the medium-size display market based on printed OLED technologies

According to news reports on the Wall Street Journal Apple Inc. supplier Japan Display Inc said on Wednesday it would receive ¥75 billion (US$636 million) in aid from its largest shareholder, the government-backed Innovation ...

Kopin to enter the OLED microdisplay market

19 Dec 2016

The initial markets be for mobile VR and AR products supported by a new technology and business model

Kopin Corp has announced their entry into the fast growth OLED microdisplay market with first product demonstrations to be shown at CES 2017.

Kopin has developed a novel silicon backplane structure to drive high-speed OLED-on-silicon ...

Researchers at NTU and NTHU achieve high-efficiency near IR OLED at 740nm

19 Dec 2016

Bright and efficient organic emitters of near-infrared light would be of use in applications ranging from biological imaging and medical therapy to night-vision devices

Researcher teams from the National Taiwan University (NTU) and National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) have announced they have synthesised a platinum complex compound that can form a linear array able to extend efficient light-emitting wavelengths ...

Thinfilm and Prime Vision partner to deliver NFC solutions to the mail and parcel industry

19 Dec 2016

Partners will address security, communication, and ecommerce needs using innovative printed electronics technology

Thin Film Electronics ASA (Thinfilm) has announced a partnership with Prime Vision. The two companies are collaborating to deliver innovative smart-packaging solutions across the broader mail and parcel industry. Dutch postal operator PostNL is a ...

Phillips 66 announced they have set a world-record for polymer organic solar cells

12 Dec 2016

The 11.84% efficiency has been certified by Newport Corporation - a recognised centre for independent verification of solar cell results under standard testing conditions

Phillips 66 has announced they have successfully set a "new world record" in power conversion efficiency for polymer-based single junction organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. The 11.84% efficiency has been certified by Newport Corporation - a ...

Japan Display to raise its shareholding of JOLED with the aim to acquire full control

12 Dec 2016

The deal will see the merging of Japan's two remaining display manufacturers in a bid to compete better against Chinese and South Korean panel manaufacturers

According to a report in the Nikkei Asian Review - Japan Display is acquiring JOLED - an OLED panel manufacturer created through the merger of Panasonic's and Sony's operations - in a bid to better compete ...

China panel manufacturers making strong investments in OLED manufacturing

12 Dec 2016

The investment is being driven by the growth in AMOLED panel demand which could reach 2,600,000 m2 in 2016

According to a report by Digitimes Chinese panel manufacturers are making big investments in OLED technology, with EverDisplay Optronics (Shanghai) kicking off construction of a Gen-6 AMOLED factory.

In addition to EverDisplay Optronics, China-based display ...

Idemitsu set to expand Korean OLED materials production facility

12 Dec 2016

The decision to expand production capacity is in order to meet the accompanying increase in demand for OLED materials and to fulfil its commitment to supply its customers

Idemitsu Kosan (Idemitsu) has announced they are to expand production capacity of the OLED materials at its Korean subsidiary - located in Paju, Gyeon-do, South Korea.

Idemitsu has supplied OLED materials to both domestic and foreign ...

Organic PV in glass façades passes safety tests

12 Dec 2016

In order to comply with building codes and safety regulations for vertical integration of laminated glass, shatterproof tests were carried out and passed for this specific project

Bischoff Glas Technik (BGT) and Belectric OPV have announced they have completed a project in Marburg, designed by AiD architecture, where in glass laminated OPV elements have been used as a façade to cover an ...

IHS forecast that flexible display shipments to increase sharply in 2017

12 Dec 2016

Tight supply conditions are expected to change in 2017 once Samsung Display and LG Display start operating their new fabs to increase supply capacity for flexible display

According to IHS Markit flexible displays are expected to comprise 3.8% of total display unit shipments in 2017. As more smartphone manufacturers build designs using flexible display technology, shipments of flexible displays are expected ...

FlexEnable announces new 12.1-inch plastic LCD flexible displays for next generation products

12 Dec 2016

FlexEnable said it is already supplying strategic partners with small and large area display prototypes for integration into the next generation of products

FlexEnable has announced they have developed a 12.1-inch glass-free, conformable organic liquid crystal display (OLCD) which they say marks an important milestone in the commercialisation of large area flexible displays.

The FlexEnable OLCD platform ...

Oxford PV has received a further £8.1m funding and three key strategic investors

5 Dec 2016

This additional funding will help accelerate commercial development activities as well as supporting the next generation product research in the UK

Oxford Photovoltaics (Oxford PV) has announced a further equity investment of £8.1m, adding to the £8.7m first close investment announced on 18th October 2016.

According to the announcement the bulk of this ...

Large area perovskite cell achieves 12.1% efficiency for 16 cm2 cell the largest single to be independently certified

5 Dec 2016

According to the researchers the new cell is at least 10 times bigger than the current certified high-efficiency perovskite solar cells on record

Senior Research Fellow Dr. Anita Ho-Baillie at the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP), has announced that her team at University of New South Wales, Sydney (UNSW) has achieved what they researchers claims is the ...

Oxford PV signs Joint Development Agreement with a major industrial partner

5 Dec 2016

The JDA will focus on that path to commercialisation, scaling up the silicon/perovskite tandem PV technology and developing the necessary processes for manufacture

Oxford Photovoltaics (Oxford PV) has announced a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with a global manufacturer of solar cells and modules.

The agreement will see the two companies working together to further develop Oxford PV's ...

Researchers develop a simple processing technique that could cut the cost of organic photovoltaics

5 Dec 2016

The researchers said that the simple solution-based electrical doping technique could help reduce the cost of polymer solar cells and organic electronic devices

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and colleagues from three other institutions, have developed a technique that provides a new way of inducing p-type electrical doping in organic semiconductor films. The process involves briefly ...

US President prohibits the acquisition of any part of Aixtron's US business

5 Dec 2016

The Order defines the US business of Aixtron to include Aixtron Inc. and any asset of Aixtron used in, owed for the use in or benefit of, the activities in interstate commerce in the US of Aixtron Inc. (including U.S. patents and patent applications)

Aixtron has announced that the President of the United States issued an order (the "Order") on December 2, 2016 prohibiting the acquisition of the U.S. business of Aixtron SE (Aixtron) by Grand Chip Investment ...

Thin Film Electronics successfully completes private placement raising NOK 529 million

5 Dec 2016

The funds will be used to prepare and equip Thinfilm's newly leased manufacturing site at North San Jose, California in order to achieve an expected production capacity of five billion NFC units

The Company recently announced that it has raised NOK 529 million in gross proceeds through a private placement consisting of 135,200,000 new shares (the Private Placement). The subscription price in the Private Placement ...

Thin Film Electronics share capital increase registered

5 Dec 2016

The Company's registered share capital is NOK 81,978,502.87 divided into 745,259,117 ordinary shares each having a par value of NOK 0.11

Thin Film Electronics (thinfilm) recently announced on 2nd December 2016 a private placement of shares in the company.

The share capital increase related to issuance of Tranche 1 shares has now been duly registered ...

The PI-Scale OLED lighting open access pilot shows first flexible OLED panel demonstrators

28 Nov 2016

PI-Scale made demonstrators on the S2S and R2R process flows of the pilot lines up to 15 m long OLED-stripes with an efficiency higher than 30 lm/W and with nearly 100% yield

The European open access pilot line project PI-SCALE has produced their first demonstrators of flexible OLED out from this project. The demonstrators represent results from first pilot line production within the PI-SCALE project at the ...

Holst Centre moves closer to commercialisation and scaling up of sALD processes

28 Nov 2016

Novel high-speed deposition process outperforms current techniques could soon become the preferred method for creating large-area thin-film and flexible devices

Researchers at the Holst Centre have shown that sALD can deliver semiconductor layers with better performance than physical vapour deposition (PVD) at the same - and potentially even higher - throughput. An easily scalable, atmospheric-pressure process, sALD ...

Samsung Display's AMOLED dominance to be challenged as early as 2019

28 Nov 2016

Chinese AMOLED manufacturers are to collectively ship 2.4 million panels in 2016, increase to 2.6 million units in 2017, 3.5 million units in 2018 and 4.8 million units by 2019

According to a research article on the Digitimes news website although Samsung Display has dominated the global supply of AMOLED panels used in smartphones, Chinese AMOLED manufacturers will begin to challenge Samsung's dominance sometime ...

Thin Film Electronics reports interim financial results for Q3 2016

28 Nov 2016

Thinfilm has maintained a high activity level through the first nine months of 2016, as the Company has taken further steps to becoming a complete NFC solutions provider

Thin Film Electronics's (ThinFilm) revenue and other income in the first nine months of 2016 amounted to US$ 2,826,000, slightly ahead of the same period in 2015 (9M 2015: US$ 2,814 ...

GCI's acquisition of Aixtron to be referred up to the President of the United States of America

28 Nov 2016

Under the CFIUS statute, the U.S. President must render his decision to block or allow the proposed transaction within 15 calendar days

Aixtron recently announced that the investigation period for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to review the tender offer by Grand Chip Investment GmbH (GCI) from a U.S. national security ...

Nanoco Technologies acquires QLED electroluminescent display patents from Kodak

28 Nov 2016

Nanoco's current focus is on driving near-term revenue from the supply of cadmium-free quantum dots, to the LCD industry manufactured and sold by them and their licensees

Nanoco Group has announced the company has acquired a group of patents from the Eastman Kodak Company (Kodak) in connection with the use of quantum dots in electroluminescent displays, a future display technology. With this ...

Royole secures US$ 80 million in series pre-D funding with US$ 3 billion valuation

21 Nov 2016

The new round of funding will help the company invest more resources into research and development, production, sales, and other fields in order to accelerate its growth

Royole Corp. has announced they have received US$ 80 million (approximately) in series Pre-D funding from Warmsun Holding Group. The company now has a market valuation of approximately US$ 3 billion B, which according to ...

FlexEnable to showcase 500 dpi flexible fingerprint sensor in a smartcard form factor

21 Nov 2016

The 500 dpi flexible optical fingerprint sensor uses high performance organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) on low cost plastics - it is the only flexible sensor technology that has achieved such high resolution

FlexEnable has announced they are to showcase a 500 dpi flexible fingerprint sensor in a smart card form factor.

As biometric authentication is growing in importance for the smartcard industry, flexible fingerprint sensors have the ...

Thin Film Electronics partner Jones Packaging has certified as first 'preferred converter' for integration of NFC tags

21 Nov 2016

Standardises process for high-volume, high-speed application of OpenSense and SpeedTap tags to OTC/Rx paperboard cartons for pharma packaging

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced that Jones Packaging Inc. (Jones) is the first folding carton converter in the world to receive Preferred Converter certification for the application of Thinfilm's NFC tags to paperboard ...

Thin Film Electronics and Bedford delivers turn-Key solution for NFC mobile marketing

21 Nov 2016

ElastiTag featuring SpeedTap technology aims to lower barrier-to-entry for smart packaging, making NFC solutions accessible to brands of all sizes

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced a partnership with Bedford Industries. The two companies will integrate Thinfilm's NFC SpeedTap technology into Bedford's popular ElastiTag hang-tag product line to deliver turn-key intelligent-packaging solutions to ...

Oxford PV acquires thin-film development line for perovskite scale-up

14 Nov 2016

Initial production is expected to begin within a few months, and by the end of 2018 the first cells would could be available on the market

Oxford Photovoltaics (Oxford PV) has announced that it has acquired the production site previously operated by Bosch Solar CISTech GmbH. The site, located in Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany, will be equipped to provide modern ...

Researchers push efficiencies of perovskite/silicon cells to more than 24%

14 Nov 2016

The researchers have been able to achieve a record efficiency of 16.6 per cent for a semi-transparent perovskite cell, and 24.5 per cent for a perovskite-silicon tandem

Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) have found a novel way to fabricate high efficiency semi-transparent perovskite solar cells that could lead to more efficient and cheaper solar generated electricity. The research has recently ...

JOLED getting ready to begin commericalisation printed OLED panels

14 Nov 2016

JOLED is expected to use oxide semiconductor backplanes to produce 10- to 30-inch printed OLED panels and aims to fully utilise its production capacity in fiscal 2018

It has been reported by Digitimes and Nikkei that JOLED is planning to launch prototype printed OLED panels initially for use in medical monitors and commercial displays in the first half of 2017. JOLED was ...

Demand for AMOLED panels from Chinese smartphone manufacturers rising

14 Nov 2016

In response to changing designs trends Chinese smartphone manufacturers are buying AMOLED panels to develop new flagship models that are expected to be launched in 2017

Digitimes has reported that supply of AMOLED panels for smartphone applications could see shortages during 2017 largely due to growing orders from China-based smartphone manufacturers, according to sources within the Taiwanese mobile phone supply chain ...

eMagin announces third quarter 2016 financial results

14 Nov 2016

Financial performance did not meet expectations, but eMagin will further the company's technological advantages in microdisplays to a view to generate profitable growth

eMagin Corp. has announced financial results and corporate highlights for the third quarter ended September 30, 2016.

Revenues for the third quarter of 2016 were US$ 4.3 million, down 20% from the third quarter ...

Enfucell appoints Seppo Borenius as Vice President, Product Management

14 Nov 2016

Seppo Borenius brings broad experience in R&D and product management in IT and telecommunications industry

Enfucell has announced they have appointed Seppo Borenius as Vice President, Product Management with effective from 14 November 2016.

Seppo Borenius will report directly to CEO, Dr. Markku Ellila, as well overall responsibility for product ...

Merck and Idemitsu sign collaboration agreement in the OLED materials

7 Nov 2016

The companies expect this collaborative agreement will give them greater freedom to develop high-performance materials and expand the overall market for OLED materials

Merck has announced that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Idemitsu Kosan (Idemitsu) that allows each party to use the other party's OLED material-related patents in certain areas.

According to the announcement ...

Major advance in solar cells made from cheap, easy-to-use perovskite

7 Nov 2016

This first version of a new layered perovskite solar cell already achieves an efficiency of more than 20% - producing more than 0.5 volt of electricity

In a paper appearing online in advance of publication in the journal Nature Materials, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists report a new design that already achieves an average steady-state efficiency ...

Successful Kickstarter campaign fuels interest in polymer solar cells

7 Nov 2016

InfinityPV plans to increase its production capacity to meet future demands on flexible polymer solar cells for all types of products from DIY to full scale energy production

After a highly successful Kickstarter campaign the Danish company infinityPV raised 1,250,000 DKK for its compact solar charger, the HeLi-on.

Now the company has manufactured and shipped the HeLi-ons to Kickstarter backers all ...

E Ink and Japan Display form a strategic alliance

7 Nov 2016

This new alliance will cemented further their relationship, aiming to create new business by adding ePaper products in JDI's product line-up

E Ink has announced they have agreed to enter a long-term strategic alliance with Japan Display Inc for electronic paper (ePaper) business. Through the partnership with E Ink, JDI intends to diversify its business scope ...

Universal Display announces third quarter 2016 financial results

7 Nov 2016

Third quarter 2016 results were in line with our expectations for the year, revenue growth expectations have been delayed until 2017

Universal Display Corp. has reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2016. Revenues for the third quarter of 2016 were US$30.2 million, compared to revenues of US$39.4 million ...

German government blocks takeover of Aixtron

31 Oct 2016

The German Ministry of Economics has withdrawn the clearance certificate and reopened a review of proceedings of the planned takeover of Aixtron by Grand Chip Investment

Aixtron has announced that the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy has withdrawn vis-à-vis Fujian Grand Chip Investment Fund LP.

As indirect shareholder of Grand Chip Investment GmbH, its Clearance Certificate (Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) issued on ...

Linkoping University researchers develop organic ion pump

31 Oct 2016

Organic electronics components can conduct both ions and electricity - in this case PEDOT:PSS enables electrical signals to be converted to chemical signals the body understands

Our nerve and muscle cells send signals to each other using ions and molecules. Certain substances, such as the neurotransmitter GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid), are important signal substances throughout the central nervous system.

Eighteen months ...

Fraunhofer FEP develops nenergy saving OLED microdisplay for data glasses

31 Oct 2016

While ordinary data glasses require an output of 200 mW, the Fraunhofer FEP display only uses with 2mW to 3mW - a mere one hundredth of the original amount

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP has announced that they have developed a particularly energy-saving display that is also very bright. The scientists have many years of experience in ...

Thin Film Electronics announces large order from leading Asian packaging firm

31 Oct 2016

This order from the tobacco segment signifies the growing importance of NFC technology

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced that it has received a six-figure order for NFC OpenSense tags from a leading Asian packaging firm. The firm specialises in providing a broad range of packaging solutions to ...

Thin Film Electronics helps Italian olive oil brands to authenticate products

31 Oct 2016

Launched in 2014, iOlive has created a comprehensive electronic guide and tracking system that catalogues vital data on more than 150 of Tuscany's extra virgin olive oils

Thin Film Electronics ASA (Thinfilm) has announced that it is integrating its NFC SpeedTap tags in the packaging of Italian olive oil brands to enable product authentication, enhance consumer engagement, and fuel online sales. The ...

New perovskite solar cell design could outperform existing commercial technologies

24 Oct 2016

Researchers have created a new type of solar cell that replaces silicon with a crystal called perovskite, this design converts sunlight to electricity at efficiencies similar to current technology but at much lower cost

Scientists at Stanford University and Oxford University researchers have announced they have created novel solar cells from crystalline perovskite that they claim could outperform existing silicon cells on the market today. They said their design ...

Dyesol and CSIRO sign letter of intent to collaborate on perovskite solar cells

24 Oct 2016

The LOI allows for individual projects to be the subject of specific binding agreements and also establishes a framework for the parties to combine their technical and commercial expertise in seeking to access various government funding sources

Dyesol has announced that they have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to collaborate in the field of Perovskite Solar Cells (PSC).

The non-binding agreement provides ...

HaRFest project successfully develops printed energy harvesting device

24 Oct 2016

Powered by near-field communication (NFC) technology, the device will draw energy from the user's mobile telephone, facilitating the wider adoption of NFC-enabled printed electronic components

Powered by near-field communication (NFC) technology, the device will draw energy from the user's mobile telephone, facilitating the wider adoption of NFC-enabled printed electronic components

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) and HaRFest partners ...

Fluxim releases Large Area Organic Electronics simulation tool (LAOSS)

24 Oct 2016

The LAOSS software is used to design optimal electrode lay-outs of any shape with and without current carrying grids

Fluxim has recently announced their latest product LAOSS, the first simulation tool aimed specifically at the design of large area organic electronics devices such as OLEDs for displays and lighting as well as organic and ...

Pragmatic raises £18 million in new investments from AveryDennison and others

17 Oct 2016

This investment in Pragmatic is expected to accelerate the mass deployment of intelligent packaging

Pragmatic has announced they have secured £18 million of funding including a strategic investment from Avery Dennison. Avery Dennison joins existing shareholders Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) and ARM, who also participated in the round.

This ...

OxfordPV raises another £8.7 million in first close of Series C funding round

17 Oct 2016

A portion of the funding will be used to develop a demonstration line to showcase the technology to manufacturers, bringing the company one step closer to commercialisation

Oxford Photovoltaics Ltd (Oxford PV) has announced an equity investment of £8,700,000, the first portion of a Series C funding round. This investment was provided by a combination of new and existing shareholders ...

FlexEnable and Isorg reveal 500dpi flexible fingerprint sensor

17 Oct 2016

Using organic electronics on a 0.3 mm plastic sheet the fingerprint sensor can also capture veins, providing a second level of security since each user's finger vein pattern is unique

FlexEnable and ISORG have announced they are the first companies to jointly launch a flexible fingerprint sensor with 500 dots per inch (dpi) image resolution.

The high resolution of the flexible sensor has been enabled ...

Foxconn-Sharp alliance contemplates manufacturing OLED panels in China

17 Oct 2016

The alliance will also mull whether to utilise plants in China owned by Innolux, a Foxconn group company in Taiwan and a major LCD panel maker

Nikkei Asian Review recently reported that Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn, and its Japanese subsidiary Sharp might start making next-generation display panels for smartphones in China as early as 2019 ...

Hands-on OLED Lighting Workshop & Intl OLED B2B Forum

17 Oct 2016

The events aims to increase awareness and understanding of the huge opportunities in product design and distinct advantages of flexible OLED technology

A one day event organised by the PI-SCALE project to explore the business and product design possibilities created by flexible OLED lighting, which consists of a "Hands-on" OLED Lighting Workshop where attendees can explore their ...

Researchers develop efficient organic solar cells with very low driving force

10 Oct 2016

The researchers achieved PCE of 9.5% for organic photovoltiacs and are confident that they have developed a system with a huge potential to increase the power conversion efficiency in organic solar cells

It has been common to believe that efficient operation of organic solar cells requires a large driving force, which limits the efficiency of organic solar cells.

Now researchers led by Feng Gao, lecturer at IFM ...

Researchers develop organic solar cell with improved operation stability and 11.6% PCE

10 Oct 2016

By applying a small amount of macromolecular additive to the photoactive layer the research team developed an effective and simple strategy to improve and stabilise the performance of OPVs

A new type of organic solar cells (OSC) with 11.6% efficiency has been developed by a research team, affiliated with UNIST. This solar cell maintained almost 80% of its initial efficiency after 60 days ...

NREL researchers discovered how to make perovskite solar cells out of quantum dots

10 Oct 2016

In addition to developing quantum dot perovskite solar cells, the researchers discovered a method to stabilise a crystal structure in an all-inorganic perovskite material at room temperature

Scientists with the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for the first time discovered how to make perovskite solar cells out of quantum dots and used the new material to convert sunlight to ...

Thin Film Electronics secures facility to house new high-volume roll-to-roll manufacturing line

10 Oct 2016

In the short term, the facility upgrade enables Thin Film Electronics to scale existing sheet-based manufacturing of its NFC, EAS, and sensor label products

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced that it has leased a former Qualcomm-owned manufacturing facility in Silicon Valley and will relocate its current US headquarters and NFC Innovation Center in the first quarter of 2017 ...

EPFL and Panasonic find rubidium can push perovskite solar cells to 21.6% efficiency

3 Oct 2016

This research was a collaboration between EPFL and Panasonic's Materials Research Laboratory

EPFL and Panasonic researchers have announced that they have stabilised perovskite solar cells by integrating rubidium into them. The innovation pushes power-conversion efficiency to 21.6%, which the researchers believe will usher in a new ...

Cynora achieves a new milestone in efficiency and stability of blue TADF emitters for OLEDs

3 Oct 2016

Cynora believes they are "on track" to reach the performance requested by the OLED industry, with the commercialisation of TADF materials still planned for the end of 2017

Cynora has announced they have developed new material classes that combine both, high efficiency and long lifetime, for blue emission. With these new achievements, Cynora said they are "on track" to reach the performance requested ...

Non-toxic solvent with reduced toxicity lowers the barrier to commercialisation of perovskite solar cells

3 Oct 2016

By combining methylamine and acetonitrile, researchers developed a clean solvent with a low boiling point and low viscosity that crystallises perovskite films at room temperature

Non-toxic solvent with reduced toxicity lowers the barrier to commercialisation of perovskite solar cells

Scientists at Oxford University have developed a solvent system with reduced toxicity that can be used in the manufacture of perovskite ...

E Ink, HTC and Palladio collaborate to develop smart label for IoT-based healthcare services

3 Oct 2016

The collaborations aims to enable real-time medication consumption tracking, symptom and side effects disclosure, and treatment outcome evaluation

E Ink Holdings (E Ink), HTC Healthcare, and Palladio Group, have announced a collaboration to improve medication adherence by harnessing the healthcare segment of the Internet of Things (IoT).

The announcement said that medication nonadherence ...

Stacked perovskite/CIGS solar module achieves efficiency of 17.8%

26 Sep 2016

According to the announcement this is the first time, this tandem module has surpassed the highest efficiencies of separate perovskite and CIGS modules

Scientists from imec (partner in Solliance and EnergyVille), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research, ZSW), have announced that they have fabricated a ...

OLED on ceramic opens up new possibilities for durable, flexible lighting and displays

26 Sep 2016

This new structure needs just the ceramic substrate at the bottom and a thin film top encapsulation deposited by PECVD and printing of a few layers on top of the device

This new structure needs just the ceramic substrate at the bottom and a thin film top encapsulation deposited by PECVD and printing of a few layers on top of the device Most flexible OLEDs require ...

Enfucell and Molex have signed a license agreement for manufacturing Enfucell SoftBattery

26 Sep 2016

Enfucell guarantees capacity to deliver critical battery materials in sufficient quantities to manufacture a minimum of 1,000,000 batteries per year

Enfucell and Molex have announced they have signed a worldwide, non-exclusive manufacturing license agreement for printing Enfucell’s SoftBattery power sources.

Enfucell is strengthening its partner network in order to be able to serve the ...

Toppan and E Ink develop largest full-colour, flexible display

26 Sep 2016

Toppan is reported to have not only overcame this issue of thermal expansion with its new filter technology, but also succeeded in creating more vivid, bright colors than its previous technology could

It has been report by Tech-on news website that Toppan Printing and E Ink have produced the world's largest full-colour, flexible "e-paper" display panel that can be adapted to curved surfaces.

The companies plan ...

LG Display OLEDs used by Ron Arad and Zinoo Park in inspirational art exhibit at 100% Design

26 Sep 2016

OLED lighting gives designers the freedom to disregard the limitations of traditional lighting, their structural flexibility and the similarity to natural light give a warm feeling to anybody who experiences it

Renowned architect and designer Ron Arad explored the possibilities of light, using LG Display OLED light panels. In support of a must-see exhibition at 100% Design, Ron Arad collaborated with Korean artist Zinoo Park.

Using ...

AMOLED to surpass a-Si LCD as leading technology for small- to medium-size displays in 2016

26 Sep 2016

The rise in flexible displays used in smartphones, tablet PCs and connected wearable devices, is driving growth in AMOLED which is set to become the leading next-generation display technology

AMOLED to surpass a-Si LCD as leading technology for small- to medium-size displays in 2016

According to a Digitimes news article IHS Merkit has published their latest research on small-,medium display. The forecast that ...

Heliatek raises €80 million

19 Sep 2016

The company will use the funding to expand manufacturing and support worldwide market development

Heliatek has raised €80 million (US$88 million) round to finance the expansion of its HeliaFilm manufacturing capacity by one million m² p.a. This round comprises €42 million in equity, €20 million in debt ...

Solvay divests key parts of its OLED patent portfolio to Nissan Chemical Industries Ltd

19 Sep 2016

Solvay has decided to stop its research activities in this area and has started a value assessment of its OLED patent portfolio

Solvay has announced they have reached a final agreement with Nissan Chemical Industries Ltd for the purchase of patents and expertise for hole injection and hole transport materials for solution processible OLEDs.

The sale follows ...

Cynora and Juhua sign MoU to cooperate on printed OLED TV development

19 Sep 2016

The companies will participate in an open technology platform coordinated by CSOT and Tiamm to accelerate printing technologies for OLED TV production

Cynora and Juhua, the Chinese open platform company aiming at the industrialisation of printing OLED technology to produce OLED TVs, have signed a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) to cooperate on OLED TV development. Cynora is ...

Fraunhofer FEP researchers develop OLED microdisplays in data glasses to improve human-machine interaction

19 Sep 2016

Integrating an image sensor directly into the microdisplay, eye movements can be recorded by the smart glasses and utilised to provide guidance and control functions

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP) has been actively developing a range of applications using OLED microdisplays. One application is to integrate the capabilities of an image sensor directly ...

Canatu raises Eur 22 million funding to strengthen R&D and increase production capacity

12 Sep 2016

The funding will enable Canatu to respond to market demand and to invest heavily in R&D and manufacturing expansion - including the construction of a new, larger factory

Canatu has announced they have received 22 million euros late stage funding via a series of investments of 10 million Eur and a loan of 12 million Eur from the European Investment Bank. This investment ...

Lapp and Belectric OPV form strategic partnership to develop OPV connection technology

12 Sep 2016

Lapp believes the process they have developed will bring about a big advance in the use of organic photovoltaics

Belectric OPV and The Lapp Group have signed an agreement establishing a close partnership. The two companies will jointly develop new technologies for connection and cabling of flexible organic photovoltaic modules.

According to the announcement ...

Sarine to use Thin Film Electronics' SpeedTap solutions to create digital identities for diamonds

12 Sep 2016

SpeedTap tags are thin, flexible labels that integrate with a product's packaging that are uniquely identifiable, virtually impossible to clone and can be read with the tap of an NFC-enabled smartphone

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) have announced a collaboration with Sarine Technologies Ltd. (Sarine) to integrate Thinfilm's NFC SpeedTap tags in the Sarine Profile sales and consumer support system.

Sarine Profile features a collection of ...

Iowa State engineers treat printed graphene with lasers to enable paper electronics

12 Sep 2016

The researchers believe this work paves the way for not only paper-based electronics with graphene circuits, but also the creation of low-cost and disposable graphene-based electrochemical electrodes

Researchers at Iowa State University have been looking for ways to use graphene and its amazing properties in their sensors and other technologies. Graphene is considered by many to be a wonder material, the carbon ...

Thinfilm progresses with expansion plans in US and China

12 Sep 2016

The initiative aims to give Thinfilm a valuable sales and business development presence in China, enabling use local manufacturing support, and improves its ability to conduct business in the APAC region

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced progress on several strategic initiatives related to business expansion in China, a new US facility, and its Quality Management program.

According to Thinfilm the company has taken steps to ...

Merck opens new OLED materials production plant in Darmstadt

5 Sep 2016

This €30 million investment aims to strengthens Merck's position in the OLED materials business with a five-fold increase in capacity

Merck has announced that it has opened its new production plant for OLED materials in Darmstadt. After a 14-month construction period, high-purity OLED materials for use in state-of-the-art displays and lighting systems are being produced ...

LG Electronics showcases world's largest OLED exhibit

5 Sep 2016

The LG booth consisted of 216 separate 55-inch curved OLED panels to create a stunning 5m tall, 7.4m wide and 15m long stunning and immersive OLED tunnel

LG Electronics (LG) has been showcasing to visitors at the company's IFA 2016 exhibition booth an awe-inspiring and immersive OLED Tunnel measuring a record-breaking 5m tall, 7.4m wide and 15m in length.

To ...

Smartkem awarded €1.8m EU grant to speed-up adoption of organic semiconductor backplanes

5 Sep 2016

The two-year project will focus on the industrialisation and transfer of their organic semiconductor platform over large area plastic substrates using slit coat processing

SmartKem has announced the company has secured a €1.8 million EU grant to support the industrialisation and technology transfer of their semiconductor platform to display makers in Asia.

With a €850k contribution from SmartKem ...

Evoled aims become a major player in OLED materials

5 Sep 2016

Evoled is a Latvia start-up developing and commercialisation lanthanide aromatic carboxylates as emitters for OLED displays

Evoled is a start-up based in Latvia focused on the commercialisation and development of novel OLED materials. Working with research teams and commercialisation teams from the Russian Lomonosov Moscow State University, Institute of Solid State ...

LG Display showcases OLED light panels at IFA 2016 in Berlin

5 Sep 2016

The 80 flexible OLED light panels were installed in the middle of the pavilion ceiling with 700 100mm x 100mm rigid square OLED light panels forming the OLED light constellation

LG Display showcases OLED light panels at IFA 2016 in Berlin

LG Display recently showcased OLED light panels at the LG SIGNATURE Pavilion, titled "The Art of Essence," at IFA 2016. The pavilion, in collaboration ...

eMagin announces second quarter 2016 financial results

5 Sep 2016

eMagin remain encouraged by expanding end markets for Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and military applications that can leverage the company's OLED technology

Revenues for the second quarter of 2016 were US$5.5 million, down 21% from the second quarter of 2015.

Product revenues totaled US$4.8 million, 12% less than second quarter last year, primarily ...

Mbraun Group acquisition of CreaPhys receives full board approval

29 Aug 2016

The acquisition represents an important step as MBraun continues to transform its business to meet the changing needs of customers in today's worldwide markets

The MBraun Group and CreaPhys announced earlier this year the execution of a definitive merger agreement whereby the MBraun Group would acquire the shares of CreaPhys GmbH. The merger agreement has now been unanimously approved ...

Heliatek announces successful implementation of 2nd phase of BIOPV pilot project

29 Aug 2016

HeliaFilm is being rigorously tested under the tropical weather conditions of Singapore to provide new urban fit energy solutions for the ever growing cities of Asia

Heliatek has announced the successful implementation of 2nd phase of BIOPV pilot project in Singapore

Heliatek has announced that the 2nd phase of the company's large pilot installation has been successfully completed in Singapore ...

Enfucell to raise new sources of funds via crowdfunding campaign

29 Aug 2016

Enfucell pursues this round of funding through crowdfunding instead of venture capital funding, as it aims to broaden its investor base in preparation for a potential IPO

Enfucell has announced they have opened a crowdfunding campaign on August 24. The company is aiming to raise 800,000 Euros.

Funds raised will be used to ramp up sales and marketing efforts, and ensure ...

Dyesol and partners awarded £800,000 EPSRC grant application

29 Aug 2016

The background to this proposed research is the recent joint discovery by Dyesol and Cristal that halide modified titania (TiO2) surfaces in Perovskite Solar Cell (PSC) devices can provide a significant performance uplift

Dyesol and its collaboration partners have been awarded an approximate £800,000 grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The EPSRC is the UK's main agency for funding research in engineering ...

LG Display to build a business case for OLED interior lighting for automobiles

22 Aug 2016

With limited space inside the car, the thinness and lightness of the OLED light panels are ideal, giving a luxurious and glamorous feel for passengers

LG Display has announced they have supplied OLED light panels to Chang's Custom, a Korean car customising company, to create the world's first van equipped with OLED interior lighting.

According to LG Display ...

Pragmatic Printing awarded Eur 1.6 million to develop production equipment

22 Aug 2016

Flexlogic "fab-in-a-box" aims to scale production capacity to billions of flexible integrated circuits driving the mass adoption of flexible electronics

Pragmatic has announced the company has been awarded Eur 1.6 million funding under the European Union's Horizon 2020 SME Instrument programme, for development of its Flexlogic equipment announced in April earlier this year ...

Fraunhofer FEP carried out cytocompatibility studies of OLEDs on cell cultures

22 Aug 2016

Researchers studied the potential effects of toxic substances that may diffuse from OLEDs due to electrical or mechanical operations and could alter the characteristics of cells

Fraunhofer FEP have announced they carried out cytocompatibility studies of OLEDs on cell cultures to test how well OLEDs are tolerated by cells. The results offer promising prospects for the use of OLEDs in the ...

Thin Film Electronics reports interim financial results for Q2 2016

22 Aug 2016

The increase in sales revenue, year on year, is primarily due to the kick off of a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with the announced global pharmaceutical company

Thinfilm's revenue and other income in the first six months of 2016 amounted to US$ 1,997,000. Sales revenue was largely related to product development projects, delivery of prototypes and products to strategic ...

eMagin enters into early warrant exercise transaction

22 Aug 2016

A portion of the proceeds from the transaction will be utilised to fund the Company’s growth initiatives with consumer AR/VR partnerships and for the Company’s consumer product launch in Q4 2016

eMagin Corp. has entered into an early warrant exercise transaction with certain of the Company’s warrant holders through a letter agreement between such warrant holders and the Company to raise approximately US$4.5 ...

Pixelligent closes US$10.4 million in funding

15 Aug 2016

Capital will boost capacity for North American manufacturing, drive Asian expansion, and continue innovation in solid state lighting and OLED display applications

Pixelligent Technologies has announced that it closed US$10.4 million in new funding. The round was led by The Abell Foundation, The Bunting Family Office, and David Testa, the former Chief Investment Officer of ...

Taiwan's Government to invest NT $100 billion (US$3.2 bn) in OLED technology development

15 Aug 2016

The government working through Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) plans to support the building of a flexible OLED display supply chain

According to news reports Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has announced it will be supporting the development of OLED technology in Taiwan and will be investing NT $100 billion (about US $3.21 ...

Kyulux licenses Harvard's deep learning artificial intelligence platform for OLED development

15 Aug 2016

In addition three key researchers who developed the system have chosen to join Kyulux's computational chemistry group in Boston

Kyulux has announced that it has secured a license to Harvard University's Molecular Space Shuttle deep learning system for the discovery of materials for display and lighting applications.The Molecular Space Shuttle is an ...

Smartkem expands UK process capability to support its service offering to customers in Asia

15 Aug 2016

The investment in state-of-the-art equipment and personnel enables Smartkem to focus on developing processes and formulations that speeds up the technology transfer process to customers

SmartKem has announced the company has made significant investments to support its expansion and the roll-out of its technology platform with display manufacturers in Asia.

SmartKem announced they have expanded its presence at the Centre ...

Universal Display and Tianma Micro-electronics enter into OLED patent license agreements

1 Aug 2016

Additionally, Universal Display will supply phosphorescent OLED materials to Tianma Micro-electronics for use in its licensed products

Universal Display Corp. has announced the signing of an "OLED Technology License Agreement and Supplemental Material Purchase Agreement" with Tianma Micro-electronics Co. Ltd., a leading Chinese small-and medium-size display panel manufacturer.

The agreements run for ...

NREL scientists develop technique to improve perovskite photovotaics

1 Aug 2016

The researchers boosted efficiency to 19% by converted a low-quality perovskite film with pinholes and small grains into a high-quality film without pinholes and with large grains

Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in collaboration with researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), devised a method to improve perovskite solar cells, making them more efficient and reliable ...

DoE funds researchers to develop chalcogenide perovskite thin films for solar cell devices

1 Aug 2016

The long-term goal is to produce chalcogenide perovskites solar cells that are highly efficient, and also able to be manufactured at a low cost at a commercially viable scale

The University of Buffalo and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have announced funding from the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative to develop light-harvesting films using chalcogenide perovskites.

The SunShot Initiative, part of the DoE ...

Universal Display announces financial results for second quarter 2016

1 Aug 2016

Universal Display expects strong revenue growth in 2017, as new OLED production from the multi-year capital expenditure cycle is slated to start

Universal Display reported revenues of US$64.4 million, compared to revenues of US$58.1 million for the same quarter of 2015, an increase of 10.8%.

Material sales were US$22.3 million ...

LG Display to invest US$1.75 billion for flexible OLED display production line

25 Jul 2016

LG Display aims to complete the new facility by 2018, with 30,000 Gen-6 OLED sheets per month, these flexible OLED panels are expected to be mainly used in high-end smartphones and smartwatches

LG Display has announced they will invest US$1.75 billion (KRW1.99 trillion) in a new Gen-6 (1,500mm x 1,850mm) flexible OLED display production line in Paju, South Korea, as part of ...

OLED to become the leading smartphone display technology by 2020

25 Jul 2016

IHS Markit believes that Apple's upcoming adoption of OLED displays will be a milestone for OLED in the display industry

According to IHS Markit AMOLED displays with a low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) backplane will account for more than one-third (36 percent) of all smartphone displays shipped in 2020, becoming the most-used display technology in smartphone displays ...

Scientists make discovery that could lead to higher efficient perovskite solar cells

25 Jul 2016

According to the researchers this discovery could also lead to new sensors for oxygen and water vapour

While investigating perovskite crystals, University of Groningen scientists made an observation that could make perovskite solar cells more efficient. According to the researchers it could also lead to new sensors for oxygen and water vapour ...

Samsung rumoured to be stopping transparent OLED panel production

25 Jul 2016

Although everyone liked transparent displays not enough wanted to buy one

Various news reports are suggesting that Samsung is to call a halt to further production of transparent OLED displays.

While they have received interest and ideas for niche applications they have not found broad appeal ...

Ritdisplay files for IPO to expand production by 20% to meet growing OLED demands

18 Jul 2016

Ritdsiplay see soaring orders as OLED demands for wearable devices and other emerging applications increases, its production capacities are running at high utilisation rates

According to a report published by LEDInside news website Ritdisplay, a subsidiary of the Ritek Group, an OLED panel manufacturer issued its IPO on June 29, 2016 and is currently planning to be listed on ...

Cynora appoints Dr. Andreas Haldi as Chief Marketing Officer

18 Jul 2016

The appointment of the new CMO is a significant signal of Cynora's further development and its forthcoming market entry

Cynora has announced the appointed of Dr. Andreas Haldi as its Chief Marketing Officer. Andreas Haldi will reinforce Cynora in the forthcoming commercialisation of its high performance blue TADF (thermally activated delayed fluorescence) OLED materials ...

Aixtron and researchers partners begin HEA2D project

18 Jul 2016

HEA2D consortium aims to create basis for end-to-end processing chain for high-volume manufacturing of innovative 2D nanomaterial products

Aixtron announces that together with five partners they have begun working in the HEA2D project to investigate the production, qualities, and applications of 2D nanomaterials.

The joint project HEA2D is now researching an end-to-end processing ...

LG Display increases shipment of large-area OLED panels to 140,000 units

18 Jul 2016

LG Display shipment of 65 inch OLED panels also increases to 28,000 units

According to UBI Research, LG Display has sold approximately 140,000 units of OLED panels for TV in Q2 2016. Of these approximately 28,000 were 65 inch panels for large area TVs about double ...

IHS forecast rise in flexible displays due to the growth in wearables and mobile devices

11 Jul 2016

Flexible displays for tablet PCs, near-eye virtual reality devices, automotive monitors and OLED TVs expected by 2022

According to IHS revenues from flexible displays is expected to increase more than 300 percent, from just $3.7 billion in 2016 to $15.5 billion in 2022. This growth is linked to the popularity ...

NHK demonstrates new OLED device with long lifetimes and high water/oxygen-resistant

11 Jul 2016

The latest OLED device is based on the "inverted OLED (iOLED)" technology used a new organic material and an additive for the electron injection layer of the red iOLED device

Tech-on news website has reported that Japan Broadcasting Corp (NHK) has recently announced that it has dramatically extended the lifetime of a red OLED device for flexible displays and drastically reduced its power consumption.

NHK ...

SEL shows 8k OLED display features 120Hz drive frequency and 12-bit colour

11 Jul 2016

To realise the 13.3 inch display with 8k resolution at 664ppi the numbers of transistors and capacitors in each pixel were reduced to three and one, respectively

Tech-on news website reported that Semiconductor Energy Laboratory (SEL) recently announced technologies to realise a 13.3-inch OLED display that has a resolution of 8k, drive frequency of 120Hz and 12-bit colour scale.

The OLED ...

NIMS achieves 18.2% efficiency using 1cm2 perovskite photovoltaics

11 Jul 2016

The NIMS research group achieved energy conversion efficiency exceeding 18% using standard size perovskite solar cells by reducing electrical resistance within the solar cells

A research group led by Liyuan Han, a leader of the Photovoltaic Materials Group, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), achieved energy conversion efficiency exceeding 18% using standard size (1 cm2) perovskite solar cells ...

Perovskite photovoltaics could reach 31%

4 Jul 2016

Scientists discovered a large difference in energy conversion efficiency between facets on individual grains, with poorly performing facets adjacent to highly efficient facets

The scientists say these top-performing facets could hold the secret to highly efficient solar cells, although more research is needed.<

Solar cells made from compounds that have the crystal structure of the mineral perovskite have ...

LG to begin mass production of plastic OLED panels next year

4 Jul 2016

The new equipment will be placed at the firm's E5 production line for which LG Display invested 1.5 trillion won in July last year in its bid to meet growing demand for flexible displays used for such products as smartphones and automobiles

According to news website Korea Times LG Display is reported to begin mass producing plastic OLED (POLED) panels in the first half of next year. POLED panels use substrates made of plastic so the display ...

Kateeva's OLED inkjet printer could be adopted by Samsung within two years

4 Jul 2016

The printing system will improve production efficiency by two times compared to the current OLED panel production technology

It has been reported that Bae Kyung-min, vice president of Kateeva Korea, at the OLED Frontier Forum, said, at the recently held industry conference held in Seoul on July 5, that the display-making unit of ...

Thin Film Electronics partners with global pharma company to create NFC technology platform for medical devices

4 Jul 2016

The partnership with one of the world's leading pharma companies is focused on delivering such a solution by making medical devices smart

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced that it has entered into an agreement with a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical firm to create an NFC OpenSense platform for medical devices.

The partners aim to leverage Thinfilm's ...

Universal Display acquires BASF's OLED IP for €87 million

27 Jun 2016

Largely consisting of phosphorescent materials and technologies, BASF’s OLED portfolio has an average lifetime of 10 years

Universal Display Corp. has announced that they have acquired the OLED Intellectual Property (IP) assets of BASF SE. The purchase will be conducted through its wholly-owned subsidiary UDC Ireland Ltd.

The BASF IP represents 15 ...

Raynergy Tek achieves OPV with power conversion efficiency of 11.51% using halogen-free ink

27 Jun 2016

Raynergy Tek believes that going beyond 11% efficiency using halogenated free ink is an important step forward for both the company and the green energy industry

Raynergy Tek has announced that their latest developed organic photovoltaics (OPV) donor Polymer [PV5001] which required non-halogen formulation component has achieved "world record" Power Conversion Efficiency of 11.51% using inverted device architecture.

The devices ...

Samsung Display AMOLED shipments to increase to 560 million units in 2019

27 Jun 2016

Apple is expected to launch iPhones with AMOLED displays in 2017, Samsung Display's could supply 40 million units in 2017, 80 million units in 2018 and 120 million units in 2019

According to Digitimes Research Samsung Display has dominated global production and supply of smartphone-use AMOLED panels and will maintain the leading status over the next few years, with its shipments to increase to 560 million ...

Samsung Display and LG Display continue expanding AMOLED capacities

27 Jun 2016

Demand for smartphone-use AMOLED panels from Samsung Electronics and Apple alone in 2019 will exceed 420 million units

According to Digitimes Research Samsung Display and LG Display, in order to put pressure on competitors, are focusing on AMOLED panels and are expected to continue expansion of their respective AMOLED production capacities, with combined ...

Heliatek organic photovoltaic films installed on RWE Biogas facility

27 Jun 2016

About 95m2 of HeliaFilm have been installed directly on profiled steel panels of the fermenter façade, and is considered to be a world first for such a technology approach

Heliatek announces that RWE has inaugurated a modern biogas plant in Bergheim-Paffendorf. Besides the production of bio-methane, the large façade of the fermenters is being used for a pilot installation of the organic solar film ...

Thin Film Electronics and Mario & Donato make luxury handbags smart

27 Jun 2016

The two companies are integrating Thinfilm's NFC SpeedTap tags into Maria & Donato's handbags to battle counterfeiting and address growing concerns of fraud within the broader luxury goods market

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced a partnership with Maria & Donato. They will work together to integrate Thinfilm's NFC SpeedTap tags into Maria & Donato's exclusive handbag collections to battle counterfeiting and address growing ...

Universal Display announces strategic acquisition of Adesis

20 Jun 2016

Adesis is a critical technology vendor to companies in the pharmaceutical, fine chemical, biomaterials, and catalyst industries, and has worked with Universal Display over the last few years

Universal Display Corp. has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Adesis, Inc. Adesis is a privately held contract research organisation (CRO) with 43 employees specialising in organic and organometallic synthetic research ...

IGNIS announces signing a patent license agreement with LG Display

20 Jun 2016

The efforts of IGNIS over the last 10 years have been focused on circuit technology as a viable solution for material and device issues inherent in emissive displays

Ignis Innovation has announced the execution of a Patent License agreement with LG Display. Under the agreement, Ignis Innovation will provide LG Display under a non-exclusive license, access to its circuit technology to enhance the ...

Heliatek deploys with Kandil Steel its first large BIOPV project on African continent

20 Jun 2016

The company is working on new solutions for distributed energy generation because of rising energy prices and declining government subsidies

Heliatek has announced they have implemented, with its partner Kandil Steel, its first Building integrated Organic Photovoltaic (BIOPV) pilot project in Africa. HeliaFilm, Heliatek's organic solar film, is at the core of this installation ...

Samsung plans to increase production of OLED display panels by more than 50%

20 Jun 2016

OLED production will account for around 80% of Samsung's capital investment in its panel business this year

According to news from the Nikkei Asian Review website Samsung Electronics is planning to increase production of the company's next-generation smartphone display panels by more than 50% this year. This increase in production is ...

IHS OLED TV shipments in 2020 to reach 5,800,000 units

20 Jun 2016

IHS revised the forecasts down from 8,500,000 due in part to low yields and Samsung not entering the market

According to industry sources IHS is reported to believe that OLED TV shipments will be lower in 2020 than they forecast earlier this year. The figures are significantly lower than the previous forecasts made by ...

BMBF funded R2D2 project on flexible OLEDs concludes

20 Jun 2016

Fraunhofer FEP was able to demonstrate through this project for the first time that ultra-thin flexible glass is able to be coated and processed roll-to-roll

The R2D2 project - a joint project to analyse and development high-TRL processes and technologies for manufacture of flexible OLED funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has been successfully completed.

Fraunhofer ...

Aixtron announces perovskite solar cell research project PeroBOOST

20 Jun 2016

The aim of the project is to investigate the stability of the solar cells and to develop processes and materials to enhance stability

Consortium to develop basis for innovative and efficient solar cells

Aixtron announces the formal launch of the research project PeroBOOST on perovskite solar cells together with partners. The basis for this three-year project (03/2016-02 ...

Alderley Park Ventures invests in NeuDrive's printable electronics platform

13 Jun 2016

The APV funding will support Neudrive's proof of concept work in biosensors and commercialisation of the FlexOS organic semiconductor inks platform in flexible displays

Alderley Park Ventures (APV) has announced they have made an initial £50,000 investment into NeuDrive to help develop a printable electronics platform technology which will be applied in the Biosensor field.

NeuDrive is dedicated ...

University of Manchester spins-out new graphene company

13 Jun 2016

Graphene Enabled plans to create a range of products such as composite materials, flexible conductive inks, high-performance electronic components and energy strorage devices such as batteries and capacitors

University of Manchester spins-out new graphene company Graphene Enabled plans to create a range of products such as composite materials, flexible conductive inks, high-performance electronic components and energy strorage devices such as batteries and capacitors ...

Picosun announces large-area ALD tools for printed electronics

13 Jun 2016

Flexible, invisible, and practically weightless ALD films form dense and pinhole-free encapsulation over the components' surface, down to the smallest nanoscale details

Picosun has announced the availability of new large area ALD tools, especially developed for the encapsulation needs of the printed electronics industries, high quality ALD films can be manufactured cost-efficiently on large plastic sheets and ...

Chinese display panel manufacturers actively establishing AMOLED production facilities

13 Jun 2016

Chinese vendors are forecast to ship 88 million smartphones with AMOLED display panels in 2016, accounting for 19% of all smartphones to be shipped by Chinese vendors

According to news reports on the Digitimes website Chinese panel makers, after watching smartphone vendors Oppo, Vivo, GiONEE and Meizu adopt AMOLED panels produced by Samsung Display in 2015 and then both Huawei Technologies and ...

Official opening of the Center for Organic & Printed Electronics - Hellas (COPE-H)

13 Jun 2016

Hellenic Organic & Printed Electronics Association (HOPE-A) and the JAPEC (Japan Advanced Printed Electronics Consortium) also signed a cooperation agreement

The Centre for Organic and Printed Electronics - Hellas (COPE-H) was officially opened during the recently held 8th Workshop of COPE-H titled "Boosting the Organic and Printed Electronics Industry in Greece" which was attended by participation ...

LG Electronics sets plans to sell more than 900,000 OLED televisions during 2016

6 Jun 2016

By increasing product offerings, the company hopes to supply more OLED panels to TV makers outside the LG group, with the aim is to stimulate the market for OLED TVs

According to various news reports LG Electronics has unveiled plans aimed at tripling volume sales of OLED televisions in 2016 to more than 900,000 units.

In addition to increasing product offerings, the electronics company ...

KAIST and POSTECH researchers develop graphene-based transparent electrodes for highly efficient flexible OLEDs

6 Jun 2016

Under this approach, graphene-based OLEDs exhibit 40.8% of ultrahigh external quantum efficiency (EQE) and 160.3 lm/W of power efficiency

A Korean research team led by Professor Seunghyup Yoo from the School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST and Professor Tae-Woo Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH ...

LG Electronics to ship dual-view flat OLED commercial display in July 2016

6 Jun 2016

The Dual-View Flat OLED display offers a space-efficient view to provide customers a two-sided media experience in Full HD (1920x1080) resolution, and three different installation options – ceiling suspension, wall-mount and floor stand

LG Electronics USA Business Solutions has announced that its brand new Dual-View Flat OLED Display, the first digital signage solution to offer OLED technology to the U.S. commercial marketplace, will begin shipping next month ...

eMagin announces ultra-high brightness direct patterned full-colour OLED microdisplay

6 Jun 2016

eMagin believes that ultra-high brightness OLED-ULT technology is at the cusp of enabling the next generation of AR/VR applications which demand ultra-high brightness, full colour imagery with extremely high contrast, compact size and very low power

eMagin has announced the company recently demonstrated for the first time in public a direct patterned OLED microdisplay that can reach a maximum luminance of 4,500 nits with vivid colours and in full video ...

CPEIA and IEEE sign MOU to promote adoption of printable, flexible electronics

6 Jun 2016

This MOU will open opportunities for the printable electronics industry to use IEEE's technical research, industry and standards development base for developing solutions

The Canadian Printable Electronics Industry Association and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), have entered into a strategic partnership with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the CPEIA and the IEEE ...

Canatu and E Ink team up to make flexible touch displays for wearables

30 May 2016

One-Plastic Solution (OPS) is an all-in-one touch solution incorporating a display window, touch sensor and decoration, and is specifically targeted to the wearable market

Canatu and E Inkannounce they are working together with the objective to offer a line of flexible touch displays for the wearable market, with the first product ready for sampling to customers in July 2016 ...

High frequency, stretchable circuits could yield new era of wearable electronics

30 May 2016

The unique structure has been inspired by twisted-pair telephone cables - essentially, they contain two ultra-tiny intertwining power transmission lines in repeating S-curves

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin—Madison - led by Zhenqiang "Jack" Ma, the Lynn H. Matthias Professor in Engineering and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in electrical and computer engineering, have created what the researchers believe ...

E Ink announces advanced colour ePaper for signage applications

30 May 2016

This is the first time an electrophoretic display (EPD) can produce full colour at every pixel without the use of a colour filter array

E Ink Holdings has announced they have developed what they consider to be a breakthrough technology with its Advanced Color ePaper (ACeP), a high quality, full colour reflective display. E Ink said for the first ...

Thin Film Electronics appoints new Chief Finanical Officer

30 May 2016

Mr. Thorsnes will join Thinfilm's executive management team reporting to CEO Davor Sutija, and act as secretary to the Board of Directors

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced that Ole Ronny Thorsnes has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Thorsnes will join Thinfilm's executive management team reporting to CEO Davor Sutija, and act as secretary ...

Aixtron set to be acquired by Chinese Investors

23 May 2016

The transaction values Aixtron’s equity, including net cash, at approx 670 million Euros and reflects a 50.7% premium to the three-month volume weighted average share price

Aixtron and the Fujian Grand Chip Investment Fund LP (FGC) has announced that Aixtron SE (Aixtron) and Grand Chip Investment GmbH (GCI), a 100% indirect subsidiary of FGC, have entered into an agreement. FGC is ...

Kateeva raises US$88 million in new funding round from Chinese investors

23 May 2016

The funds will be used to accelerate new product development, expand manufacturing at the company's Silicon Valley offices, and strengthen customer infrastructure in Asia

Kateeva has announced that it has closed its Series E funding round raising US$88 million in new financing. The funds will accelerate new product development. The money will also help Kateeva expand manufacturing capacity ...

Imec and Solliance partners announce the "first-ever" semi-transparent perovskite PV-module

23 May 2016

Stand-alone perovskite solar modules feature excellent power conversion efficiencies and can be manufactured with simple fabrication technologies, such as coating and printing

Imec, and partner in Solliance, have announced the "first-ever" semi-transparent perovskite PV-module, achieving power conversion efficiencies up to 12%. The technology enables for semi-transparent PV-windows which are considered to be a key step towards zero-energy ...

Dai Nippon Printing to invest Yen 6.0 bn in facility expansion evaporation masks for OLEDs

23 May 2016

Further expand the strengths of the world's top market share by raising the production capacity by 300%

Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) has announced that they intend to expand the production of evaporation masks (metal masks) used in the production of OLED panels display, the increased production will be located at the Hiroshima ...

eMagin announces first quarter 2016 financial results

23 May 2016

eMagin are encouraged by expanding end markets for Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Night Vision applications leveraging the company's OLED technology

Revenues for the first quarter of 2016 were US$7.0 million, an increase of 17% from the first quarter of 2015, and included US$1.0 million of licensing revenue from the agreement signed ...

Japan Display to mass produce OLED displays in 2018, and signs technology agreement with SEL

16 May 2016

Production initially should be the equivalent of 3,000 smartphone screens a month, with output reaching 1 million per month later and 5 million in 2018

According to a recent Nikkei Asian Review report Japan Display (JDI) is investing 50 billion yen (US$461 million) to establish a production facility OLED panels at a Japan-based factory, hoping to mass produce smartphones ...

Screen starts commercial production of Gen 6 polyimide coating for OLED panel manufacturing

16 May 2016

These machines can uniformly coat Gen-6 substrates with polyimide to a thickness of 10 microns in less than 120 seconds

According to the Nikkei Asian Review website Screen Holdings is reported to be entering the business of building production machines for manufacturing OLED panels, in response to growing production of such panels for smartphones in ...

Fraunhofer FEP showcases devarnishing by electron beam

16 May 2016

The specialised properties of electron beam technology open up several important advantages compared to other processes for devarnishing layers

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP has been developing electron beam technology as an alternative beam tool for devarnishing.

Fraunhofer FEP says that precise, selective devarnishing of layers from ...

Thin Film Electronics and Hopsy deliver smart beer to craft brew market

16 May 2016

Hopsy has developed a compelling service for the craft beer markets, and technology can play in growing its business and the businesses of its clients

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced a partnership with Hopsy, the USA's first local craft beer marketplace and beer delivery service. The two companies will collaborate to integrate Thinfilm's NFC OpenSense technology into ...

Solliance announces "first" scaled-up perovskite based PV modules with 10% efficiency

9 May 2016

The challenge is to scale-up perovskite cells to larger size industrially process-able modules with high efficiency and long lifetimes at low cost

Solliance has announced they have demonstrated a record 10% aperture area power conversion efficiency for its up-scaled thin-film perovskite photovoltaic modules. The efficiency was measured on an aperture area of 168 cm2. Twenty-five cells ...

OLED displays can activate live cells that are genetically programmed to respond to light

9 May 2016

Exposure to blue OLED light from pixels directly underneath cells enabled individual targeted cells to be stimulated, while neighbouring cells remained stayed inactive

Scientists at the University of St Andrews have discovered that OLED displays can activate live cells that are genetically programmed to respond to light. By harnessing the ability of OLEDs to "turn on" individual cells ...

Fraunhofer FEP fabricates glass-on-glass lamination for large-area OLEDs right from the roll

9 May 2016

Fraunhofer FEP has had success not only in applying OLEDs to flexible ultra-thin glass, but also in encapsulating the devices using an additional thin glass layer in a single roll-to-roll manufacturing step

Fraunhofer FEP has fabricated glass-on-glass lamination for large-area OLEDs right from the roll

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP has announced they have fabricated on ultra-thin glass and encapsulated ...

Acuity Brands launches new luminaires based on balancing LED and OLED technologies

9 May 2016

By balancing OLED and LED in a single luminaire AcuityBrands has developed a cost competitive lighting solutions that neither technology could achieve alone

Acuity Brands has announced a new high-performance architectural linear suspended lighting solution for commercial and professional office spaces - Olessence luminaires by Peerless. These luminaires balance OLED and LED lighting technologies to maximise both beauty and ...

Universal Display announces financial results for first quarter 2016

9 May 2016

Commercial emitter revenues grew 8% year-over-year, driven by strong green emitter shipments, while host material sales, in line with expectations, declined year-over-year

Universal Display Corp announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016. The Company reported revenues of US$29.7 million, compared to revenues of US$31.2 million in the same quarter ...

Thin Film Electronics reports interim financial results for Q1 2016

9 May 2016

The company is preparing to increase production capacity by development of roll-to-roll manufacturing processes that is expected to see up to a billion-unit scale

Thin Film Electronics (ThinFilm) has announced their first quarter financial report for 2016. Thinfilm’s revenue and other income in the first quarter of 2016.

Sales revenue amounted to US$ 150,000 in Q1 2016 ...

South China University of Technology researchers develop versatile electron transport/hole blocking materials

9 May 2016

Preliminary finding show power efficiency of 41 lm/W @ 1000 cd m-2 and half lifetime t50 of around 40 hours at an initial luminance of ~10,000 cdm-2 for green phosphorescent OLED

Researchers at South China University of Technology, have reported a versatile electron transport/hole blocking material (HBL) Phen-m-PhDPO possessing a deep HOMO level, wide bandgap, high triplet energy and a Tg of 94 °C, through ...

Cynora announces significant progress in highly efficient blue materials for OLEDs

2 May 2016

The TADF technology combines high efficiency (which the company claims is three times better than the state-of-the-art fluorescence technology) together with long lifetime

Cynora has announced they have made significant progress in its highly efficient blue material developments during the last six months which the company believes will enable the company to develop materials that reach the performance ...

LG Display to invest US$ 386 million in building OLED production at Gumi

2 May 2016

The company plans to use the investment to extend its technological know-how in smartphone and wearable device displays to foldable and automotive products

According to a news report on the Nikkei Asin Review website LG Display has publicly announced the company will invest 450 billion won (US$ 386 million) in its OLED display panel plants in Gumi, North ...

Completion of Flex-o-Fab project signals next stage of flexible OLED industrialisation

2 May 2016

By developing reliable processes for manufacturing OLEDs on plastic foils, Flex-o-Fab has successfully taken flexible OLEDs from lab to fab

Flex-o-Fab, a major collaborative project run by Holst Centre, has successfully completed its goals in the development of flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs).

Building on existing technologies and innovating new processes, the project's partners ...

IHS says that AMOLED growth is a bright spot for the display industry

2 May 2016

Many of the obstacles to AMOLED development, such as production inefficiencies, yield-rate management issues, higher investment costs and a short lifetime were also resolved in 2015

According to the latest release of the IHS OLED Display Market Tracker AMOLED (active matrix organic light-emitting diode ) displays are rising fast, thanks to lowering costs, wider use in end-market consumer electronics devices and the ...

Flexible OLED/graphene smartphone makes its debut at a recent Chinese tradeshow

25 Apr 2016

The assumption is that the flexible display is an OLED panel with a graphene based touchscreen

Various news reports are circulating that a Chinese company has recently shown a flexible smartphone at a trade show at Nanping International Conventional Center in Chongqing. The company responsible for the development was not named ...

Korea government to provide subsidies so Korean OLED manufacturers remain competitive

25 Apr 2016

The announcement aims to reduce the impact the increasing oversupply of LCD panels will have on the commercial performance of Samsung and LG Display

According to a news report by Korea Times Korea is to offer further subsidies to business projects related to OLED technology, a move aimed at keeping ahead of Chinese competitors amid the continued oversupply in ...

Fraunhofer FEP develops ultra- high micropattening for OLEDs - achieving 12700 dpi

25 Apr 2016

The patented technology uses an electron beam process which takes place after finalising the OLED including the encapsulation

Scientist as The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP have developed a novel approach to pattern the emission area of an OLED at high resolution.

The patented technology uses an ...

University of Illinois researchers develop novel 1-step graphene patterning method

25 Apr 2016

This approach demonstrates a new possibility to overcome limitations imposed by existing post-synthesis processes to achieve graphene micro-patterning

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have recently published a paper describing how they have developed a one-step, facile method to pattern graphene by using stencil mask and oxygen plasma reactive-ion etching, and ...

University of Tokyo develops ultra-thin organic material for wearable e-skin display

18 Apr 2016

University of Tokyo researchers have developed an ultrathin, ultraflexible, protective layer and demonstrated its use by creating an air-stable, OLED display

The research group of Professor Takao Someya and Dr. Tomoyuki Yokota at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Engineering has developed a high-quality protective film less than two micrometers thick that enables the ...

ITRI showcases innovative OLED lighting for automotive applications

18 Apr 2016

ITRI aims to launch innovative LED and OLED applications, to create diverse smart lighting values and upgrade Taiwan's LED and OLED lighting technology

ITRI showcases innovative OLED lighting for automotive applications

According to news on the CTimes websites The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) at the recently held 2016 Taiwan International Lighting Show exhibited several types of innovative ...

Idemitsu's OLED material to be used in LG Electronics' forthcoming large-area OLED TV

18 Apr 2016

Idemitsu also has many related patents and manufacturing plants in both Japan and South Korea, and supplies materials to a variety of manufacturers

Idemitsu Kosan has announced that their OLED material will be used by LG Electronics in their latest OLED TV which will be released in Japan this coming mid-May.

Idemitsu has studied and developed OLED materials ...

Samsung is reported to begin supplying OLED panels to Apple

18 Apr 2016

Under the deal, Samsung Display will supply around 100 million units of 5.5-inch panels annually, the expected value of the order will be US$2.59 billion

According to a news article on the Yonhap news website Samsung Display is reported that the company will supply its OLED display panels to Apple Inc. starting next year, industry sources said Friday.

Under the ...

Graphene sensor detects harmful air pollution in the home

18 Apr 2016

The research group are aiming to bring the two technologies together to create ultra-low-power environmental sensor systems that can detect single molecules

Scientists from the University of Southampton in partnership with the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) have developed a graphene-based sensor and switch that can detect harmful air pollution in the home with ...

Graphenea increases production capacity with Aixtron BM Pro graphene deposition tool

18 Apr 2016

This new system is part of our large investment program to introduce graphene technology in commercial devices

Aixtron has announced a new order for a BM Pro system from Spanish company Graphenea. Graphenea's focus is in developing graphene-based films for use in the semiconductor industry.

Graphenea placed the order for the ...

Schott receives 2016 German Industry Innovation Award for ultra-thin glass

18 Apr 2016

Schott using a variety of glass types and proprietary down-draw technology, can reliably produce a portfolio of ultra-thin glasses down to a minimum thickness of 0.025 mm

Schott has announced they have won this year's German Industry Innovation Award in the category large companies for its ultra-thin glass. Thinner than a human hair and yet flexible enough that it can be ...

Hong Kong Polytechnic develops Perovskite-Silicon tandem solar cells with 25.5% efficiency

11 Apr 2016

Hong Kong Polytechnic's research team achieves this world record efficiency by making use of three innovative approaches

A research team in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) Department of Electronic and Information Engineering led by Professor Charles Chee Surya, Clarea Au Endowed Professor in Energy, has announced they have recently been successful ...

ITRI actively setting up roll-to-roll flexible OLED lighting production line

11 Apr 2016

The front-end process of the OLED lighting panel production line is now installed and it is expected that it will initially produce around 700 panels a month at the beginning of 2017

A recent news article on the Digitimes website reports that the Electronics and Optoelectronics System Research Laboratories at the Taiwan government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Organization (ITRI) is setting up a roll-to-roll production line of flexible ...

Printed organic transistors pave the way for intelligent windows

11 Apr 2016

Researchers at DTU Energy has found a way to integrate printed electronics and printed solar cells with an electrochromic organic sheet, resulting in a device which can operate without batteries

Researchers at DTU Energy have shown that transistors can be quickly and cheaply printed on a polymer foil. The ability to print them by the same processes and on the same foil as an array ...

Sharp develops bendable OLED panel

11 Apr 2016

Sharp plans to invest 200 billion yen (US$ 1.84 billion) into the OLED business over four years

According to news report on the Nikkei Asian Review website Sharp has developed a flexible OLED display panel that is aimed at the smartphone market, and other markets that would benefit from having a flexible ...

Aixtron partners with Institut Lafayette on further advancement of OVPD technology

11 Apr 2016

Institut Lafayette is ready for tests with potential customers and committed to further validate OVPD as the next generation deposition technology of choice

Aixtron has announced that a new organic vapor phase deposition (OVPD) system of the company which is capable of handling 200mm x 200 mm substrates has been installed and successfully tested at Institut Lafayette.

The ...

Haydale signs agreement for screen printable graphene ink aimed at the sensor market

11 Apr 2016

Haydale forms joint development and supply agreement with Dowton to create screen printable graphene inks and pastes that can be customised to meet customer needs

Haydale Graphene Industries has announced an agreement with Taiwan based Dowton Electronic Materials (Dowton) for the development, production, sales and marketing of a Haydale-branded graphene enhanced screen printable ink which will be aimed initially at ...

Kyulux raises US$ 13.5 million in series A financing

4 Apr 2016

Samsung Display, LG Display, Japan Display and JOLED, Japanese venture capital funds, and a Japanese Government affiliated venture fund participated in the funding round

Kyulux has announced today that Samsung Venture Investment Corporation took the lead in a US$13.5 million (¥1.5 Billion Japanese Yen) Series A round of venture funding.

Participating in the round were global ...

Taiyo makes investment in Jilin OLED

4 Apr 2016

Through this investment, TNSC has acquired the exclusive sales rights to Jilin OLED's products in the global market

Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. has announced that it, through Taiyo Nippon Sanso (China) Investment Co Ltd, has invested in Jilin OLED Material Tech (Jilin OLED), a Chinese venture company based in Changchun engaged in the ...

LG Display to build OLED display module factory in Vietnam

4 Apr 2016

LG Display will invest US$100 million to establish a local office and begin construction of the factory later this year, with operations during next year

LG Display has announced that the company has signed a deal with the city government of Hai Phong, the third-largest city in Vietnam, to build a display module factory there.

The Korean display firm will ...

Foxconn Technology (Hon Hai) Group plans to invest 200 billion yen in OLED technology

4 Apr 2016

The investment may go toward OLED production lines being set up by Hon Hai and Sharp in a flat panel plant - Sakai Display Products

The Foxcon Technology (Hon Hai) Group, which has agreed to acquire a stake in financially ailing Sharp Corp. of Japan, is planning to invest 200 billion Japanese yen (US$1.8 billion) in OLED technology ...

OLEDWorks receives NYSERDA grant to research on energy saving lighting for healthcare

4 Apr 2016

OLEDWorks will collaborate with the Highland Hospital, a team of doctors and nurses will provide feedback on the white and amber OLED lighting system

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and OLEDWorks have announced that OLEDWorks is developing a new lighting prototype with support from NYSERDA that would save energy and not disrupt sleep patterns ...

Silent Sensors work with CPI to develop printed sensor technology for automotive tyres

4 Apr 2016

UK SME Silent Sensors has recently moved to CPI’s National Printable Electronics Centre in order to scale up their patented tyre sensor technology

CPI has announced that London based, Silent Sensors has developed a new technology to measure tyre pressure and temperature that aims to transform the way transport fleets currently track, monitor and manage tyres.

The system ...

Pragmatic validates model of their process for scaling up production of flexible ICs

4 Apr 2016

The FlexLogIC system aims to offer the capacity for billions of flexICs per year at a capital cost between 100 and 1000 times lower than a silicon fab

PragmatIC has announced the completed of a detailed design study validating its FlexLogIC concept for production scale-up of flexible integrated circuits (flexICs), and is now working towards commissioning of the first system.

According to the ...

Photon recycling promises perovskite efficiency gains

28 Mar 2016

Perovskite materials can recycle light particles – a finding which could lead to a new generation of affordable, high-performance solar cells

Scientists have discovered that a highly promising group of materials known as hybrid lead halide perovskites can recycle light – a finding that they believe could lead to large gains in the efficiency of solar cells ...

Thin Film Electronics Q4 2015 and full-year 2015 financials

28 Mar 2016

The 20% increase in sales revenue year-on-year is a result of increasing product related revenue and technology transfer revenue

Thin Film Electronics (ThinFilm) has announced their fourth quarter financial report for 2015, and preliminary full-year results. Thinfilm’s revenue and other income in 2015 amounted to US$ 4,413 thousand. Excluding the other income ...

eMagin announces fourth quarter and full year 2014 financial results

28 Mar 2016

eMagin shipped fewer displays in 2015 in comparison to 2014, but at a higher average selling price, reflecting the shift in demand to advanced, higher priced products

eMagin Corp. has announced financial results and corporate highlights for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2015.

At December 31, 2015, the Company had approximately $9.3 million of cash and cash ...

LG Display commits to building the world's first Gen 5 OLED lighting panel manufacturing facility

21 Mar 2016

The ability to make large area panels will enable the company to penetrate the general lighting market

LG Display has announced that it will invest in a new OLED light panel manufacturing facility. The planned facility will be the first Gen-5 (1000mm x 1200mm) OLED light panel manufacturing plant in the world ...

Aixtron reaches a key milestone on the company's way to large-format OLED production

21 Mar 2016

The proprietary core elements specially designed by Aixtron for the OVPD process have been scaled and optimised for Gen-8.5 substrate sizes

Aixtron has announced the company has reached an important milestone with its new OVPD demonstrator OLAD (Organic Large Area Demonstrator). After an internal test phase lasting several months and producing excellent results in some cases ...

LG Display expanding AMOLED capacity

21 Mar 2016

By 2018 LG Display's total AMOLED production capacity will be more than 3.6x the production capacity operating in 2015

According to a news article on the Digitimes website LG Display has decided to invest KRW10 trillion (US$8.63 billion) over the next three years to expand its AMOLED production capacity. This will be ...

Merck, CPI and Polysolar collaborate on organic BIPV project

14 Mar 2016

The output of the project will be to produce large-scale organic photovoltaic devices using sustainable, low-cost manufacturing processes

Merck has announced today that it is collaborating with building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) producer Polysolar, and innovation center CPI for a project in the UK. The Innovate UK project called "Power Generating & Energy Saving Windows" aims ...

OLED materials used to produce OLED display panels grew 12% in 2015

14 Mar 2016

Revenues from organic materials used to produce OLED displays also grew 12 percent year over year, reaching US$465 million in 2015, is expected to amount to US$1.8 billion in 2018

According to a recent report from IHS shipments of OLED materials used to produce OLED displays grew 12% year over year in 2015, reaching 26,000 tons.

Revenues from organic materials used to produce OLED ...

Panasonic joins Solliance on perovskite R2R production research programme

14 Mar 2016

Panasonic will conduct feasibility studies on the possibility of large scale roll-to-roll production of printed perovskite photovoltaics

Solliance has announced that Panasonic Corporation has joined a research program focused on the development of roll-to-roll manufacturing processes aimed at large scale production of flexible perovskite solar cells as one of the industrial partners ...

OLEDWorks announce new addition to the product range

14 Mar 2016

The Keuka module uses Lumiblade OLED panels and will be available in several finishing levels allowing customers to have full control of the final design, look and feel of the product

OLEDWorks has announced a significant expansion to its product portfolio with new Lumiblade Brite 2 OLED panels featuring two white colour temperatures and the launch of the Keuka OLED Module. OLEDWorks will be showcasing the ...

LG Display to showcase innovative OLED Light products and solutions at Light+Building 2016

14 Mar 2016

OLED light is already creating new markets and is set to become part of everyday life and will transform the lighting industry

LG Display has announced that it is showcasing its latest advanced OLED light products and solutions at Light+Building 2016. In total eleven OLED light panels are being exhibited along with four solutions using the ...

LG Electronics launches 65-inch 4K ultra HD OLED digital signage

14 Mar 2016

LG is now expanding the OLED reach to end-users in the commercial arena for a truly immersive viewing experience that's unlike anything they've ever seen

LG Electronics USA Business Solutions has announced digital signage displays based on OLED technology. The paper-thin, dual-sided displays with perfect blacks and incredible colour will be available in curved and flat configurations.

The Dual-View Curved ...

CPI announces new roll to roll slot die/screen printing and encapsulation capability

14 Mar 2016

The new installation will allow companies to characterise and optimise coating capabilities using a range of different coating techniques

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has announced they have recently installed a specialist roll to roll line for the printing, coating and patterning of a range organic and inorganic solution based coatings.

The pilot ...

EU project TREASORES concludes successfully

7 Mar 2016

The project has since produced seven patent applications, a dozen peer-reviewed publications and provided inputs to international standards organisations

EU project TREASORES concludes successfully

After more than three years of work European scientists has concluded their research on the EU funded project Treasores (Transparent Electrodes for Large Area Large Scale Production of Organic Optoelectronic ...

EU funded project CHEOPS gets underway

7 Mar 2016

Perovskite semiconductors have generated great interest in photovoltaics research as they promise to enable the production of extremely efficient and very low cost solar cells

A new EU funded project CHEOPS has been official launched. In order to achieve its ambitious goals, CHEOPS unites a team of European leaders in academic and industrial perovskite research.

The title of the EU ...

China panel makers striving to develop flexible AMOLED

7 Mar 2016

The rapidly developing market for flexible AMOLE dhas triggered an grwoing and active interest from Chinese panel manufacturers

Digitimes Research has released new analysis of the Chinese flexible AMOLED market. According to the report as a result of seeing that Samsung Display and LG Display have started volume production of flexible AMOLED panels ...

New research unveils graphene "moth eyes" to power future smart technologies

7 Mar 2016

Solar cells coated with this material would be able to harvest very dim light, new types of sensors and energy harvesters would also benefit from this type of coating

Researchers from the University of Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute have recently published the findings in Science Advances which shows how graphene can be manipulated to create the most light-absorbent material for its weight, to ...

Novaled, IAPP and Technical University of Dresden honoured by German Physical Society

7 Mar 2016

The DPG honours these institutions for their success in developing scientific findings in the field of technologies and organic materials for the commercial production of OLEDs

The Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society, DPG) has honoured the Technical University of Dresden (TUD), the TUD Institut für Angewandte Photophysik (Institute for Applied Photophysics, IAPP) and Novaled GmbH for their particularly successful, sustainable ...

Aixtron reports financial results for Q4 2015 and full financial year 2015

7 Mar 2016

Excluding LEDs, Aixtron registered their best year in a long time by partially tripling the company's revenues driven by optoelectronics for laser and infrared LEDs, photovoltaics and power electronics

Aixtron has recently announced financial results for the fourth quarter 2015 and the full financial year 2015.

Aixtron said that on the way back to profitability, the company was able to reach important, but not ...

Universal Display and OSRAM announce collaboration for OLED lighting

29 Feb 2016

OLED with its ultrathin form factor and manufacturability on flexible substrates, means OLEDs can be made in almost any shape, and made transparent can emit light from both sides

Universal Display Corp. has announced a collaboration and evaluation agreement with OSRAM. Under the agreement, OSRAM will begin sampling Universal Display's proprietary PHOLED phosphorescent OLED materials for solid-state lighting applications.

According to Universal Display ...

Pi-Scale EU funded consortium gets underway to establish open access OLED lighting pilot line

29 Feb 2016

An open pilot line creates an opportunity for a wide range of companies to get flexible OLED technology out of the research and development phase and into products

The Pi-Scale EU funded project has been officially launched. Fourteen partners have joined together to form a consortium to develop an open access pilot line that will accelerate the commercial adoption of this promising new ...

Kyushu University develops long lifetime TADF materials for OLED displays and lighting

29 Feb 2016

TADF materials themselves can be very stable, making them really promising for future displays and lighting, and has the potential to solve the challenge of efficient and stable blue emission

Researchers at Kyushu University have - with just a tiny tweak - greatly increased the device lifetime of OLEDs that use a recently developed class of molecules to convert electricity into light with the potential for increased ...

Kyulux received US$13,000,000 investment to develop OLED materials

29 Feb 2016

Kyulux aims to develop TADF materials for OLED displays and lighting for commercialisation by 2018

Kyulux, a spin-out from Kyushu University, has announced plans to put organic electroluminescent materials into commercial production. The company aims to have a viable product ready for use in TV and smartphone screens by 2018 ...

BASF announce new organic semiconductor inks for printed electronics

29 Feb 2016

This recent development is expected to further reduce the size of transistors and enable higher resolution LCD or OLED screens on plastic substrates to be manufactured

BASF has announced that Company researchers have succeeded in improving the composition of the individual semiconductor ink components to double the mobility of the charge carriers in the printed circuits.|

According to BASF the mobility ...

Universal Display announces fourth quarter and full year 2015 financial results

29 Feb 2016

Fourth quarter results were less-than-anticipated, primarily due to year-end inventory management by customers and product mix weighing more to our lower priced emitters

Universal Display Corp. has announced its results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31 2015

For the full year 2015, the Company reported revenues of US$191.0 million, essentially flat compared to ...

Barbadillo to use Thin Film Electronics NFC technology to authenticate bottles of rare sherry

29 Feb 2016

Barbadillo family felt compelled to protect the sherry - given the rarity of this release and its significance to the family

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced that Barbadillo has unveiled an exclusive release of rare sherry in "smart bottles" protected by Thinfilm's NFC-based authentication technology. The NFC OpenSense tags incorporated into each bottle are ...

Woodford Investment Management invests US$ 42 million in Thin Film Electronics

22 Feb 2016

Thin Film Electronics continues to raise finances as its pursues the development and commercialisation of printed electronics and smart systems

Thin Film Electronics ASA (Thinfilm) has announced that Woodford Investment Management (Woodford) has agreed to acquire 120,000,000 new shares in Thinfilmin a private placement at a subscription price of NOK 3.00 per ...

FlexEnable showcases "first" wrist-worn, conformable OLCD for wearable applications

22 Feb 2016

Flexible displays are driving a paradigm shift enabling greater levels of innovation in wearable applications

FlexEnable has announced they will be showcasing a full colour, conformable organic LCD (OLCD) at Mobile World Congress 2016. Curved into a smartwatch form factor, the 0.3mm thick display component the demonstrator aims to ...

Flexible AMOLED panel manufacturers expand production capacity in 2016

22 Feb 2016

Unit-shipment share of flexible AMOLED is expected to grow to 40% of total AMOLED panel shipments in 2020

IHS has recently said that as the demand for flexible AMOLED rises dramatically, display manufacturers are aggressively investing in flexible AMOLED, including the latest foldable and rollable displays. With the growing popularity of the Samsung ...

CPI Graphene Centre opens for business

22 Feb 2016

The centre offers access to scale-up capability in the development of graphene, printable and formulation based products

The CPI Graphene Centre has opened its doors for business. The new facility integrates with existing development facilities at CPI’s printable electronics and formulation centres based at NETPark, Co. Durham. The new facility which ...

Epson announces world's lightest OLED binocular see-through smart glasses

22 Feb 2016

With OLED we can take advantage of reductions in power usage and weight, and improvements in response times, HD resolution, brightness and contrast

Epson has announced the 3rd generation of its Moverio smart glasses for Augmented Reality. It will be on display at the Mobile World Congress New window starting in Barcelona, Spain, and available in selected markets ...

Thin Film Electronics and Constantia Flexibles partner to deliver smart packaging solutions to the beverages market

22 Feb 2016

These collaborative efforts aim to position Constantia Flexibles as a leading Thinfilm preferred converter partner moving forward

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced a partnership with Constantia Flexibles (Constantia). The two companies are collaborating to deliver pressure sensitive labels utilising Thinfilm's NFC OpenSense technology to leading brands within the beverages industries ...

Leo Burnett/Arc and Thin Film Electronics announce exclusive technology partnership

22 Feb 2016

Technology affords people the opportunity to plan, shop, and buy on their own terms anytime and anywhere

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced an exclusive partnership with Arc, the shopper marketing and activation agency inside Leo Burnett. The two companies will collaborate to deliver Thinfilm's NFC OpenSense technology to Arc and ...

Thin Film Electronics and SmartSign partner to combat counterfeit products in Vietnam

22 Feb 2016

NFC OpenSense technology delivers product authentication and consumer engagement capabilities to brand owners and government agencies

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced a partnership with SmartSign. The companies are leveraging Thinfilm's NFC OpenSense technology as a means of addressing rampant counterfeiting that currently exists in many Vietnamese markets, including wine ...

Sumitomo to exhibit OLED Lighting at Light+Building 2016 and start commercial sales in April

15 Feb 2016

Sumitomo Chemical says that they are planning to start selling OLED lighting panels in April this year - with a view to further expand the company's OLED lighting business

Sumitomo Chemical has announced that the company will exhibit its polymer OLED lighting at the forthcoming "Light+Building 2016," one of the world’s largest trade fairs for lighting and building technology, to be held ...

Samsung Display moves full steam ahead with flexible OLED production

15 Feb 2016

Samsung Electronics plans to secure facilities with a monthly production capacity of 9 million flexible OLED panels for the Galaxy S7 Edge

According to a news article on the Business Korea news website Samsung Display has started production of AM-OLED panels for Samsung Electronics' strategic smartphones, Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge to be launched on Feb. 21 ...

CPI and Heidelberg Instruments develop R2R digital lithography tool for OTFTs

15 Feb 2016

The new tool is available on an open access basis, allowing companies to progress their current sheet processes towards roll to roll production of flexible OTFT arrays

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) and Heidelberg Instruments have announced that they have developed a new high resolution, high speed roll to roll digital lithography tool for the manufacture of flexible organic thin film ...

Thin Film Electronics receives order from Global FMCG Leader for NFC speedtap tags

15 Feb 2016

The Company expects NFC-enabled products featuring Thinfilm's OpenSense technology to reach the market in first-half of 2016

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced that the company has received a five-figure unit order for NFC SpeedTap tags from a leading global FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) brand. The client is working closely with ...

Heliatek announces new world record for an organic photovoltaic cell of 13.2%

8 Feb 2016

The newly developed cells corresponds to the output of conventional solar cells with 16% to 17% efficiency when both are operated under real world conditions

Heliatek have announced their R&D teams have achieved a record conversion efficiency of 13.2% for an OPV multi-junction cell, setting a new world record for the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity using ...

Haydales acquires invention from Swansea University

8 Feb 2016

The new invention relates to heatable articles, in particular clothing and bedding, incorporating carbon nanomaterial-based heaters

Haydale Graphene Industries has announce it is exercising its rights under its existing pipeline agreement with Swansea University and Swansea Innovation Limited (together Swansea) (the 'Pipeline Agreement') to acquire a new invention (the 'new invention ...

Umeå University develops method that enables ultra fast charge transport in polymers

8 Feb 2016

Their results, which enhance charge transport in polymers by more than 1,000 times, have implications for organic opto-electronic devices

A research team at Umeå University, led by Professor David R. Barbero, have recently published research that the researchers say shows, for the first time, that a very efficient vertical charge transport in semiconducting polymers ...

A cost-effective method for mass production of printed flexible graphene-based electronics

8 Feb 2016

This green, low-cost and versatile approach will enable in situ transfer of multiple electronic devices and it requires neither a clean room nor organic solvents

The ICN2 NanoBioelectronics and Biosensors Group, led by the ICREA Research Prof Arben Merkoci, recently published a paper in ACS Nano on a versatile, low-cost and customisable method for patterning graphene oxide onto substrates one ...

UK collaboration to develop printed sensing technology for metal tooling applications

8 Feb 2016

The Intelligent Tooling project will seek to develop a prototype tooling insert with embedded sensing capability, designed to withstand and exceed the harsh environmental conditions that are present in metal machining

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has announced it will be part of a UK based collaboration that aims to develop novel sensing technologies for the real time monitoring of machined metal parts.

The two ...

Konica Minolta exhibits flexible OLED lighting panels at Lighting Japan 2016

1 Feb 2016

Konica Minolta is expected to reach a global market share of 16.7% for OLED lighting in 2020, and LG Display to have a market share of 20%

Digitimes Research recently published analysis on Konica Minolta who exhibited their flexible OLED lighting panels at Lighting Japan 2016 in Tokyo January 13-15 2016.

According to the published analysis Konica Minolta :

  • has chosen plastic-based substrates ...

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology develops a novel organic photovoltaic module architecture

1 Feb 2016

Using an innovative series connection based on charge recombination that occurs at the contacts between charge transport layers large-area OPV modules can be easily fabricated

Using an innovative series connection based on charge recombination that occurs at the contacts between charge transport layers large-area OPV modules can be more easily fabricated

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) has announced ...

Smartkem achieves 529kHz for solution processed five-stage ring oscillator organic circuit

1 Feb 2016

A stage delay of 189 ns is the shortest reported to date for a solution-processed p-type semiconductor and compares favourably with evaporated small molecules circuits

SmartKem has recently published research of the fabrication of a truFLEX based all-organic 5-stage OTFT ring oscillator using solution coating that operates with an oscillation frequency above 500 kHz and stage delay of less than ...

Nagase and Inkron collaborate to develop novel OLED and on-cell touch sensor materials

1 Feb 2016

The collaboration relates to photo-patternable dielectric and light control materials, with unique optical properties and excellent processing suitability for OLED can be realised

Nagase and Nagase ChemteX Corp. (jointly called Nagase), and Inkron have announced the start of development and manufacturing collaboration for the area of OLED and on-cell touch sensor materials.

The collaboration relates to Inkron’s ...

LG Display announces world's first OLED lighting convergence with furniture

1 Feb 2016

LG Display's OLED lighting business has plans to build on this collaboration

LG Display has announced that it will supply OLED panels to ilroom, a specialised home furniture brand of the Fursys Group, a leading office furniture company in Korea.

According to the announcement LG display said ...

The CPEIA forms the IntelliPACK Leadership Council

1 Feb 2016

The Council will organise project committees and seminars, provide assistance with education programs, and monitor government initiatives in respect of the intelligent packaging industry, with the goal of bringing to market new products and applications

The Canadian Printable Electronics Industry Association has formed the IntelliPACK Leadership Council, in partnership with PAC, Packaging Consortium to speed the adoption of new intelligent packaging products and applications.

The joint IntelliPACK program launched last ...

Japan Display to produce OLED smartphone panels from 2018

25 Jan 2016

Rumours continue that Apple is gearing up to adopt OLED displays in iPhones and iPads - Japan Display as a strategic partner to Apple is well placed to take advantage of this move

According to news reports Japan Display Inc has said it will begin mass production of OLED panels in 2018, with the ambition to become effective competitors with Korean rivals - this adds to the grwoing speculation ...

Xerox Research Centre and NanoIntegris advance flexible electronic devices

25 Jan 2016

A thin film transistor package combines a novel dielectric ink with a high purity SWCNT ink that improves the overall performance of printed high-mobility p-type transistors

Xerox Research Centre of Canada (XRCC) and NanoIntegris have announced they have developed a materials package that aims to help advance the rapidly expanding wearable and flexible electronics market.

The thin film transistor package combines ...

University of Tokyo develop flexible and transparent pressure sensor

25 Jan 2016

These pressure sensors can wrap around and conform to the shape of the fingers while still accurately measuring pressure distribution at 144 location simulateoulsy

An international team of researchers led by Dr. Sungwon Lee and Professor Takao Someya of the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Engineering has developed a nanofiber-type pressure sensor that can measure pressure distribution ...

Applied Graphene Materials raises £8.5m in shares sale

25 Jan 2016

The fundraising followed a year of good progress in developing our commercial pipeline, including collaborations with a number of blue chip international partners

Applied Graphene Materials raises £8.5m in shares sale

Applied Graphene Materials is reported to have raised about £8.5 million in a recent share sale. The new investment is expected to be used to ...

New organic pv device architecture improves efficiency by 50%

25 Jan 2016

Modifying the material composition at the vicinity of the electrode opens the possibility to enhance the energy gap between the electrodes and thus also the built-in potential

Nir Tessler recently published a research paper - Adding 0.2V to the open circuit voltage of organic solar cells by enhancing the built-in potential - that explores the idea of useing a new device architecture to ...

LG Display sees 2015-Q4 profits fall to lowest level as panel demand weakens

25 Jan 2016

LG Display said the company faces a difficult environment in 2016-Q1 and is planning to invest 460 billion won to increase significantly the mass production of OLED panels

LG Display Co has announced that its fourth-quarter operating profit fell by 90 percent from a year earlier, missing market expectations, as weak demand for consumer electronics weighed on panel prices.

LG Display reported a ...

The University of Granada officially opens it new Graphene Laboratory

25 Jan 2016

The new facilities will allow the fabrication of different types and forms of graphene as well as the development of electronic nanodevices for IoT, biosensors, and 'wearable'

The University of Granada (UGR) has announced the launch the Graphene and Bi-dimensional Semiconductors Laboratory, one of the most complete public laboratories devoted to the manufacture and electric and structural characterisation of this material in ...

FlexEnable and ISORG reveal "first" large-area organic electronic fingerprint and vein sensor

18 Jan 2016

The technology is capable of measuring not only the fingerprint, but also the configuration of veins in the fingers

FlexEnable and ISORG have revealed what they are claiming to be the "world's" first large area flexible fingerprint sensor on plastic designed for biometric applications. The technology is capable of measuring not only the ...

Thin Film Electronics and Tata Consulting Services form global alliance

18 Jan 2016

The partnership aims to create new retail experience by combining NFC technology and retail solutions

Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has announced a global alliance with Tata Consulting Services (TCS). Through the partnership, the companies will create the "Next Experience in Retail" through a powerful combination of Thinfilm's proprietary NFC ...

CPI announce acquisition of CIT Technology Limited's assets and know-how

18 Jan 2016

This specialist rapid prototyping service enables clients to buy reliable conductive circuits for proof of concept and developmental work extremely quickly and at low cost

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has announced they have recently acquired the digital prototyping assets of CIT Technology Limited (CIT) and its associated licences and know-how. Going forward the technology will be available under ...

LG Display expected to reach 90% utilisation for 4K OLED TV panels

18 Jan 2016

The report said that LG Display has already reached similar utilisations for Full HD OLED panels and expects 4K applications to rise by the end of 2016

According to a news article on the Digitimes website LG Display is expected to realise utilisation rates for Ultra HD (4K) OLED TV panels somewhere between 80-90% during 2016.

The report said that LG Display ...

EPFL scientists develop hole-transport material that lowers perovskite solar costs and still reaches 20.2% efficiency

18 Jan 2016

To address this problem, a team of researchers at EPFL developed a molecularly engineered hole-transporting material, called FDT

EPFL scientists have recently published a research paper in Nature Energy that describes how they have developed a solar-panel material that can cut down on photovoltaic costs while achieving competitive power-conversion efficiency of 20.2 ...

AMOLED and LTPS to increase their share of the smartphone market in 2016

11 Jan 2016

More manufacturers of mid-range smartphones are adopting FHD display, as panel makers continue to lower their prices for LTPS products while expanding their capacities

According to recent research from WitsView, a division of TrendForce, reveals that shipments of panels for smartphone displays for 2015 are expected to reach 1.82 billion units, and the total shipments for 2016 are ...

Applied Nanodetectors and CPI to develop a needle-free "breathalyser" for daily diabetes testing

11 Jan 2016

Applied Nanodetectors is developing a simple breathalyser that will give diabetics a non invasive method for monitoring their daily glucose levels

Applied Nanodetectors Ltd is working together with the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) to focus on the feasibility of designing and printing a novel low cost glucose sensor to be incorporated into a breathalyser to ...

New research suggests that OLED gaining traction in smart window market

11 Jan 2016

Early markets include the US, Japan and Europe, and some early providers of the technology include Cardinal Glass Industries, Guardian Industries and PPG Industries

According to a recent news report from Digitimes Research suspended particle display (SPD) and polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) technologies used for making smart windows are facing increased competition from OLED as panel manufacturers such ...

eMagin signs licensing agreement for immersive headset intellectual property

11 Jan 2016

Our immersive headset has four times the resolution of alternative cellphone based VR headsets and provides a more realistic, 'screen-door'- free image

eMagin Corp. has signed a non-exclusive intellectual property (IP) licensing agreement for its unique 4 MegaPixel per eye immersive virtual reality headset technology with an undisclosed company.

The deal includes an upfront licensing fee of ...

CPI and Beneq sign collaboration agreement

4 Jan 2016

The collaboration agreement follows on from CPI’s recent installation of two atomic layer deposition tools from Beneq for the development of conformal nano-scale coatings

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) and Beneq have announced they have signed a long term collaboration agreement for the use of atomic layer deposition (ALD) technologies in printable electronics applications.

The agreement brings together ...

LG Display unveils new OLED display technology at CES 2016

4 Jan 2016

LG continues to offer the market and customers responding quickly to trends in the expanding OLED market, including the fast-growing automotive and signage sectors

LG Display has announced they will showcase their latest OLED display technology at CES 2016 in Las Vegas. LG Display will introduce its cutting-edge technologies under the slogan, "Your Imagination, Our Innovation", at its private ...

Panasonic develops stretchable substrate for stretchable and flexible electronics

4 Jan 2016

A novel insulating substrate that can be stretched to 2.5 times the original size and then return to the original form

Panasonic Corp has recently announced that the company has developed a soft, flexible, and stretchable polymer substrate film using its proprietary stretchable substrate technology. The Company will also provide a transparent electrode material and conductive ...

Korean panel makers to invest US$12.8 bn in OLED equipment to supply Apple

4 Jan 2016

The investments will be primarily allocated to equipment for flexible OLED displays - and could deliver between 60,000 - 90,00 substrates per month

Several reports are suggesting that Apple may be about to finalise agreements with Samsung Display and LG Display regarding the supply of OLED panels. These two panel manufacturers are estimated to be considering making a ...

Skyworth aiming to sell 200,000 OLED TVs during 2016

4 Jan 2016

The majority of the TVs will offer HDR and 4K ultra HD display resolution at 3840 x 2160 pixels and will be equipped with OLED display panels from LG Display

According to several news websites Chinese TV manufacturer Skyworth is reported to want to sell 200,000 of its new OLED HDR TV panels during 2016. The majority of the TVs will offer a package ...

FEDC and PARC develop world's largest flexible x-ray detector

4 Jan 2016

The prototypes uses a-Si technologies on a flexible substrate and the flexible x-ray sensor was coupled to a tablet device for control and image viewing

The Flexible Electronics and Display Center (FEDC) and PARC recently announced that they have successfully manufactured what they claim to be the world's largest flexible x-ray detector prototypes using advanced thin film transistors (TFTs ...