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 [...]

Sony: first flexible colour OLED display

CNET News is reporting on the world’s first truly flexible OLED display fabricated by Sony.

According to Pink Tentacle

The 2.5-inch prototype display supports 16.8 million colors at a 120 x 160 pixel resolution (80 ppi, .318-mm pixel pitch), is 0.3 mm thick and weighs 1.5 grams without the driver.

The prototype, as well as technical details [...]

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 [...]

Philips demonstrates first 13.56-MHz RFID tag using organic electronics

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 [...]

Plastic Logic to develop flexible displays for NTT DoCoMo

According to a press release

Plastic Logic [...] has entered into a Joint Development Agreement with NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile communications operator in Japan, to develop flexible active-matrix displays for future mobile device applications.

Orgatronics – Orgatron

Orgatronics in Eindhoven (NL) is a joint venture of TNO, OTB Group, and the Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI). A key part of their facilities is the Orgatron,

an advanced research and development line based on OTB’s inline production system allowing easy transfer from R&D to full production of Organic electronics and OLED’s. The Orgaton uses advanced [...]

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 [...]

Organic Vapor Jet Printing

Stephen Forrest and coworkers at Princeton have developed a new solvent-free printing method. In Organic Vapor Jet Printing (OVJP), vapor of e.g. an organic semiconductor is transported by an inert carrier gas and ejected through a nozzle.

An article by Shtein et al in Advanced Materials describes the method. From the abstract:

Ultrahigh deposition rates, pattern resolution [...]