Printed and Flexible Electronics Technologies

In the effort to convert sunlight into electricity, photovoltaic solar cells that use conductive organic polymers for light absorption and conversion have shown great potential. Organic polymers can be produced in high volumes at low cost, resulting ...

UK's Durham Graphene Science (DGS) raised £1.2 million in its seed round of financing. The lead investors are IP Group and the North East Technology Fund. DGS (a spin-off from Durham University) is developing mass production technology for grap...

Electronics and electrics on or in paper is being used for security, safety, crime prevention, brand enhancement and merchandising. Cost, weight or bulk are a problem, so conventional electronics in paper products is being replaced with printed elect...

In a boon for the local solar industry, a team of researchers from Swinburne University of Technology and Suntech Power Holdings have developed the world's most efficient broadband nanoplasmonic solar cells. In a paper published in Nano Letters, th...

Heliatek GmbH is the only company in the organic photovoltaics sector producing modules based on vacuum-deposited small molecules. In mid-2012, their first roll-to-roll production line will start to roll out flexible organic photovoltaic (OPV) module...

C3Nano, Inc, a Silicon Valley startup developing a nanomaterials-based transparent conductive film, has raised US $6.7 million in Series-B financing led by Phoenix Venture Partners, with participation from existing investor, GSR Ventures. To date, ...

Konica Minolta has successfully developed a high-accuracy inkjet head capable of 1-picoliter drop size, the first for printed electronics applications. The new print head utlilizes the company's proprietary MEMS technologies for the first time. KM wi...

Researchers at the Nano-Science Center at the University of Copenhagen have developed a new nano-technology platform for the development of molecule-based electronic components using the wonder material graphene. At the same time, they have solved a ...

IDTechEx will host the Printed Electronics Asia conference and tradeshow on 2-3 October in Tokyo, Japan. The event, part of the IDTechEx global series of events on the topic, focusses on a region that has invested more in printed electronics than any...

Microdisplay company eMagin has received a $1.12 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). This project will optimize eMagin's WUXGA OLED microdisplay for mass production a...