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, [...]

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 [...]

European Commission announces RFID tag study

From the BBC:

The aim of the consultation exercise is to gauge reactions to RFID by both businesses and citizens in Europe.
Viviane Reding, the EU commissioner behind the exercise, warned that wider use of RFID would not be allowed to undermine the fundamental liberties that European citizens enjoy.

According to Vint Cerf, one of the “founding fathers [...]

Printing the Electronic Future

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tesco Gillette RFID trial – privacy concerns

In January 2003 Tesco and Wal-Mart announced plans to install ’smart shelves’ to keep track of sales of RFID-tagged Gillette Mach3 razor blades.
The Tesco trial in Cambridge, UK was met with criticism, especially after the US based Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy and Invasion and Numbering revealed in July 2003 that anyone taking a pack of [...]