Novaled Ramping up Manufacturing and Testing

Novaled is reinforcing its production of samples to better respond on the increasing customer requests. Additional Manufacturing and Testing capacities will be installed in Novaled’s clean rooms in Dresden, Germany within this year.
“We just recruited new production staff to be able to operate our equipment 24 hours a day seven days a week” says Kai [...]

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 [...]

CDT and Toppan roll-printed AM-PLED display

Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) and Toppan Printing

have produced a number of 5.5 inch full color active matrix polymer OLED (P-OLED) displays using a roll printing method. A demonstrator will be shown at the SID conference in San Francisco. The displays – believed to be the first of their type ever produced – are the result [...]

Tohoku Pioneer Launches White OLED Mass Production

According to Displaybank

Japans’ Tohoku Pioneer has launched mass production at its new plant dedicating to producing white organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) for mobile handset backlights (BLUs), the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reports. The company is first to start mass production of white OLEDs in Japan. With this launch, the OLED plans to ship white OLEDs from [...]

Toppan Flexible Electronic Paper Driven by Oxide Semiconductor TFT

According to their press release

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. has developed an amorphous oxide semiconductor thin film transistor (TFT) array and succeeded in driving an electrophoretic E Ink front panel laminate to fabricate a prototype flexible electronic paper display.

Apparently the amorphous InGaZnO semiconductor used here has a higher charge carrier mobility (> 5cm^2/Vs) than [...]

Sphelar – Spherical Solar Cell

Kyosemi Corporation is developing solar cells consisting of 1mm spheres on a flexible substrate.
More information on the Sphelar solar cells: production process, main features, overview (PDF):

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.
While existing planar solar cells [...]

MicroEmissive Displays ships first product

MicroEmissive Displays (MED) developer of polymer organic light-emitting (P-OLED) based microdisplays have announced the shipment of its first product:

The Company has now shipped the first batch of a multiunit order for distribution into Asia. This first fulfilment is confirmation of the improvement in manufacturing yield, which had previously prevented the Company achieving efficient mass production [...]