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This article at IDTechEx talks about the decline of the traditional printing industry, and new markets in the field of printed electronics. Are the ink makers, machinery suppliers and others variously specialising in flexo, litho, ink jet, screen, gravure and other technologies looking like the steam engine experts of one hundred years ago? The answer is [...] According to a report by Displaybank Overall OLED shipments reached more than 61 million units for the year 2005, and revenues hit almost US$600 million, according to Displaybank (CEO Kwon Sang-Sei), a market research firm. The clear leaders in 2005 were Taiwan (27 million units) and Korea (22 million units), followed by Japan (8 million units). Kyosemi Corporation is developing solar cells consisting of 1mm spheres on a flexible substrate. In mid-2006, Kyosemi Corp. plans to begin full-scale mass production of its Sphelar spherical micro solar cell at its Eniwa Operation in Eniwa City, Hokkaido, Japan. BusinessWeek has a story on electronic ink applications, such as Hitachi’s electronic paper advertisement displays, updated via wireless connection. But the fact is, paper hasn’t gone away. The spread of the Internet and the rise of the PC [...] Epaper.org.uk is reporting that Plastic Logic and iRex (both are developers of electronic ink e-book reader technology) are joining the IFRA eNews initiative. One of the world’s leading organisation for newspaper and media publishing, Ifra, is joining forces with more than 20 of the world’s leading publishing houses and a group of four leading technology developers [...] LG.Philips LCD, one of the world’s leading TFT-LCD manufacturers, announced today that it has entered an evaluation agreement for active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) development with Eastman Kodak Company. Under the terms of the agreement, LG.Philips LCD and Kodak will jointly evaluate display technologies for mobile displays and consider other opportunities, including the [...] Details here, including a bit more info on Konarka: Founded in 2001, Konarka has steadily expanded its presence. Previous funding in Konarka—$60 million since 2001—has allowed the company to make considerable advances in its photovoltaic technology, while continuing to strengthen its intellectual property (IP) position. In 2004, Konarka acquired Siemens AG’s organic photovoltaic research activities, as [...] Supercapacitors or ultracapacitors use electrodes with very high surface area (e.g. porous activated carbon) and are currently used in niche application such as hybrid vehicles. New electrode materials with increased surface area have the [...] As reported here, the UK start-up Novalia expects to launch its patented electronic card game by the end of 2006. NE Asia Online on the 2006 OLED Technology Report by DisplaySearch Revenues of OLED industry is expected to total over US$500M in 2005, up 18% Y/Y, according to the 2006 OLED Technology Report from DisplaySearch. OLED display makers are in transition from passive matrix to active matrix centricity, not unlike LCDs in the early to mid [...] Universal Display Corporation announces a prototype full-colour flexible active-matrix OLED display at the USDC’s 5th Annual Flexible Displays & Microelectronics Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. In the paper titled “Full Color 100 dpi AMOLED Displays on Flexible Stainless Steel Substrates,†Dr. Anna Chwang will highlight the performance characteristics of a novel flexible, full-color AMOLED display [...] GE Global Research is presenting details on its successful development of a substrate system for flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) at the Flexible Displays & Microelectronics Conference, Feb. 6-9 in Phoenix, Ariz. The system features a developmental high-temperature Lexan(1) polycarbonate (PC) film from GE – Plastics combined with a transparent, ultra-high-barrier coating to help protect [...] Philips has now realized the first plastic-electronics-based tag that is capable of transmitting multi-bit digital identification codes at 13.56 MHz – the dominant industry-standard radio frequency for RFID tag applications. As an additional demonstrator for the technology, scientists at Philips Research have also developed a 64-bit code generator, showing the practicality of building plastic electronic [...] Last year (July 2005) revealed a keyboard design with customisable keys using individual OLED displays. It looks like we will have to wait (at least) until the end of 2006 for this, but they are now taking pre-orders for the mini three keyboard. Same design, but only three keys. |
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