MaDriX: Alliance project for printed electronics launched

“PolyIC, BASF, Evonik Industries, Elantas Beck and Siemens have announced the launch of a new German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)-sponsored alliance project called MaDriX to advance the development of high-performance printable Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. [...]

PolyIC leads the consortium engaged in the three-year joint project. The total investment sum amounts to [...]

PolyIC: first printed RFID and smart objects for the market

PolyIC, “The chip printers”, are announcing two product lines: PolyID® (RFID) and PolyLogo® (with additional display function).

Applications of products from the PolyID® and PolyLogo® lines will be presented at OEC [Organic Electronics Conference] 2007. PolyIC presents applications in the fields of brand protection, voucher systems, marketing, and logistics.

Within the PRISMA (Printed Smart Labels) project, [...]

Plastic Sheet of Power

Takeo Someya and coworkers at the University of Tokyo have created a flexible sheet comprising organic TFTs that inductively charges electronic gadgets placed on its surface.

According to this Technology Review article, the

system is designed in a way that overcomes the limitations of common induction schemes. Traditional induction systems can only spread small amounts of power [...]

ORFID and BASF team up to develop printable organic electronics

ORFID Corporation [...] has signed an agreement with BASF Future Business GmbH (BFB), a subsidiary of BASF Aktiengesellschaft, to collaborate on the development and commercialization of printable organic electronic devices for use in display backplanes, RFID tags and other next generation electronic products.
Under the agreement, BFB will provide organic materials, materials expertise and financial resources [...]

Organic electronics market forecasts

NanoMarkets predictions for the OLED and e-paper, smart packaging, and thin-film photovoltaics industries:

Markets for OLED and Paper-Like Displays to Total $10.2 Billion by 2011:

combined sales of OLED displays and paper-like displays will reach $10.2 billion by 2011 and then go on to reach $14.7 billion by 2013.
shelf-edge displays will be the biggest opportunity for the [...]

Ring Oscillator on Carbon Nanotube

As reported in Science magazine (”An Integrated Logic Circuit Assembled on a Single Carbon Nanotube”; 24 March 2006; Vol. 311, no. 5768, p. 1735), researchers at IBM in New York and co-workers have created a ring oscillator on a single carbon nanotube.

According to the BBC, running at 50 megahertz,

the circuit is 100,000 times faster than [...]

Thin Film Electronics printed polymer memory: cheap, fast, high-density, low-power

Thin Film Electronics (TFE) are developing low-cost non-volatile memory, consisting of a bistable polymer layer between two arrays of orthogonal addressing lines. This technology provides several advantages compared to conventional, silicon-based memory. As the memory function is a property of the acticve layer, no circuitry is required in the actial memory element. Further, the simple [...]

Novalia: printed electronics for packaging and toys

As reported here, the UK start-up Novalia

expects to launch its patented electronic card game by the end of 2006.
Printed electronics company Novalia is in advanced discussions with a printing company to produce the electronics on the cards. [...]
Stone [Nick Stone, founder of Novalia] says that it is likely Novalia will be working with packaging companies [...]

Holst centre to develop wireless microsystems and system-in-foil technologies

The Holst centre, an independent research center set up by IMEC and TNO,

will develop future generations of wireless autonomous transducer solutions and systems-in-foil. [...] Philips, a leading player in the field of polymer electronics and microsystems, has committed to become the first industrial partner.

The centre, to be located at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven [...]