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Konica Minolta is planning a new roll-to-roll pilot manufacturing line for OLED lighting panels. The company today announced a construction of a new roll-to-roll pilot coating line to manufacture OLED lighting within its Hino facility in Tokyo. The pilot line is dedicated to establish production technology toward mass-production and to sell the product on the limited [...] This Samsung flexible OLED prototype is certainly impressive. The apparent absence of defects indicates that Samsung is putting serious effort into developing flexible displays:
[via OLED-Info] G24 Innovations (G24i) and consumer electronics bag manufacturer Mascotte Industrial Associates are announcing the world’s first commercial product using Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC): The G24i photovoltaic panel will be integrated into a range of bags targeting the consumer market. The panel will harvest energy while used outdoors as well as in low light conditions indoors – [...] PolyIC and Thin Film Electronics announce that they have jointly manufactured fully functional re-writable polymer memory products in a high-volume roll-to-roll printing process. [...] University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed flexible photodetectors consisting of 250 nm thick single-crystal germanium membranes transferred onto 175 µm thick PET substrates using a dry printing technique. This could allow distortion-free photos without the need for fancy lenses. Inspired by the human eye, Ma’s curved photodetector could eliminate that distortion. In the eye, light enters [...] HP and the Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University (ASU) have demonstrated a protoype flexible display fabricated using HP’s self-aligned imprint lithography (SAIL). SAIL (3D resist mask on a multi-layer stack and several consecutive etching steps) enables the patterning of multiple layers without alignment issues in a roll-to-roll process. The first practical demonstration of [...] The ECN (Energy research Centre of the Netherlands) is teaming up with the Holst Centre to transfer their lab-scale solar cell processing to Roll-to-Roll production: At ECN, organic photovoltaics are being researched for almost a decade. The knowledge of materials, system designs and production processes has come to a point where transition to large scale [...] Citala are making flexible, reflective displays using roll-to-roll manufacturing. The Active Pixel Display (APD™) technology is based on their proprietary Onyx™ layer sandwiched between two ITO coated PET foils. A matel layer is added for reflective displays. First products include displays for smart-cards, reconfigurable keypads for mobile devices, and optical-shutter windows. In the future Citala also [...] “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 [...] New Scientist is reporting on printable batteries with carbon nanotube (CNT) electrodes. The batteries were created by George Gruner and colleagues at the University of California in Los Angeles, US, and use the same zinc-carbon chemistry as ordinary non-rechargeable batteries. To make the battery, a layer of nanotubes is first deposited in the form of “nanotube ink” [...] Konarka, developers of organic photovoltaics, today announced it has raised $45 million in private capital financing. The financing was led by Mackenzie Financial Corporation, a leading investment management firm with over $60 billion in assets under management, and was co-led by existing investor, Good Energies, a leading investor in the renewable energy industry. Lead investors from [...] 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, [...] Konarka (organic photovoltaics) and Toppan Forms (Data Print Services and information management services) have signed a joint agreement to accelerate the development, manufacturing and commercialization of polymer-based organic photovoltaic (OPV) technologies for consumer and electronic applications. Under the agreement, the mutual goal is to bring Konarka’a organic photovoltaic material, Power Plastic®, to market. “Konarka’s Power Plastic is [...] According to the NewScientist, full-colour photonic crystal displays could be on the market within two years. A team of Canadian researchers have developed a reflective display based on silica microspheres which can produce the whole visible spectrum without the need for colour filters. The researchers stretch the crystals by bonding them to an electroactive polymer that [...] Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed thin, flexible energy storage devices consisting of more than 90 percent cellulose. The paper is infused with aligned carbon nanotubes (electrodes), and an electrolyte (e.g. an ionic liquid). The technology allows to fabricate batteries, supercapacitors, or devices which combine both functions. According to the press release, the devices can [...] |
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