, the developer and manufacturer of thin flexible solar panels and flexible electronics, recently gave a live demonstration of its roll to roll flexible electronics technology for government officials. The officials attending included U.S. Congressman Tom Latham, Iowa Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds, Iowa Economic Development Director Debi Durham, and Kevin Condon from the office of Senator Tom Harkin.

Smartkem's novel organic semiconductor materials achieve 'better than amorphous-silicon' performance.

Currently, massive investments are being made into production facilities for new products based on organic and printed electronics. Driving forces are organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) for lighting, flexible displays and organic photovoltaics.

The members of the OE-A (Organic and Printed Electronics Association) elected a new Board of Directors at their annual General Assembly meeting.

PragmatIC Printing Ltd, the pioneer in imprinted logic circuits, and Holst Centre,an open-innovation initiative by imec (Belgium) and TNO (Netherlands), have recently announced their collaboration in the research, development and exploitation of flexible electronics.

Enables interactive functionality in ultra-thin form factor

The pen is writing whole new chapters in low-cost, flexible and disposable electronics.

The $12.5 million Series B round is led by new investor, Braemar Energy Ventures, and joined by returning investors North Bridge Venture Partners, Osage University Partners, and Terawatt Ventures.

Thinfilm launches printed memory for secure documents and high-volume consumer applications. Thin Film Electronics have launched the Thinfilm Passive Array Memory, a fully printed non-volatile rewriteable memory suitable for secure documents. The capacity is doubled compared to Thinfilm's standard memory.

Ynvisible is awarded a Portuguese National Strategic Reference Framework incentive for a one million Euros project.

Siemens exclusively licenses imaging technology to Nikkoia SAS

Fujitsu Limited and Sapporo Shirakaba-dai Hospital recently announced the joint development of a clinical appointment guidance system that employs color electronic paper (e-paper). The system recently began full operations.

Researchers and developers have achieved a new efficiency record in the laboratory for OLED. The laboratory sample achieves 87 lm/W, significantly exceeding the current peak value. And the most important thing: the laboratory sample is highly proximate to the product, thus paving the way for highly energy-efficient OLED products with considerably higher brightness ...

Following the pioneering work in spatial atomic layer deposition and the launch of the revolutionizing research and development tool TFS 200R for continuous ALD in 2009, Beneq has closed the deal for a roll-to-roll ALD system, the Web Coating System WCS 500. The first WCS 500 unit will be delivered to the ASTRaL laboratory at Lappeenranta University of Technology (FIN).

Official Lemelson-MIT Prize announcement honoring mc10 co-founder John Rogers.

Organic and Printed Electronics Association

Enhanced hardware establishes new industry standard for performance in production applications

Currently the key enabling technologies in electric vehicles are motors, batteries and control systems. For the next ten years, add to that energy harvesting, supercapacitors (ultracapacitors) and range extenders that replace internal combustion engines in hybrids, notably fuel cells and mini turbines.

Secretary Chu announced nearly $15 million for next generation energy-efficient lighting

Sensors printed onto the sleeves of wetsuits could alert the wearer to contaminated water. Navy divers could also use the sensors to locate underwater explosives, such as mines.