Konarka Technologies & Webasto collaborate for Organic Solar Application in automotive industry

Passion, excellent know-how and close networking win the Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2011.

Imec, Polyera and Solvay set 8.3% efficiency record for organic solar cell with inverted device architecture

Vorbeck Materials Corp. announced that it has completed a fully subscribed series 3 financing.

Entrepreneur Karen Bender could have "hatched" her latest venture anywhere in the world but she chose Wellington's business incubator Creative HQ over them all.

The three scientists succeeded in adapting organic semiconductors for use in a wide range of products, thereby creating the basis for innovative applications in displays, lighting, and photovoltaics.

PolymerVision showcased their truly rollable 6" display technology capable of showing animated images (10Hz) at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA vent earlier this month - the world's largest event on the topic.

Peratech is offering a novel and interesting ink that can change its resistance by as much as 16 orders of magnitude when pressed with a finger!

Industrial Inkjet Ltd (IIJ) exhibited at the 8th Annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA conference held in Santa Clara, CA November 30th through December 1st. IIJ presented the new XYPrint 100 deposition printer based on Konica Minolta printhead technology.

Molybdenite, a new and very promising material, can surpass the physical limits of silicon. EPFL scientists have proven this by making the first molybdenite microchip, with smaller and more energy efficient transistors.

Aerotech's A3200 MotionPAC is a software-based Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) that is completely integrated with Aerotech's A3200 motion controller to increase programming efficiency, decrease development time and to increase quality.

Last week IDTechEx held the largest (worldwide) printed electronics and photovoltaics conference and tradeshow in Silicon Valley (Santa Clara Convention Center, California). This show brought together more than 1300 attendees from 28 countries. Players active across the entire value chain were present; covering the full range from research organisations to end-users, and from small start-ups to multi-billion internationals.

The annual printed electronics award winners were announced at the IDTechEx Awards Dinner in Santa Clara, California. The awards recognize outstanding progress in the development and commercialization of printed electronics, an industry that produces a huge amount of technical innovation which will be used in many products.

The wonder material of modern science now promises all-printed, flexible and transparent graphene devices on more or less any surface Inkjet technology.

Metalonix, Inc., a ground-breaking provider of functional metallic inks, is pleased to announce its official corporate name has changed to Liquid X Printed Metals, Inc. ("Liquid X"). Liquid X spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 2010 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The world's first three dimensional touch panel product, is being developed by Nissha and Unidym.

Researchers demonstrate future of computing with graphene, racetrack and carbon nanotube breakthroughs. Prototypes developed for first time in real-world manufacturing environments are critical step towards transferring research into commercial devices.

Technology never sleeps, and the five years that have passed since the previous edition of Flexible Circuit Technology was released have provided a substantial amount of new material for the all-new fourth edition of Flexible Circuit Technology, edited by 40-year electronics interconnection industry veteran Joseph Fjelstad and coauthored with some the world's top interconnection technologists.

Individual molecules have been used to create electrical components like resistors, transistors and diodes that mimic the properties of familiar semiconductors. But according to Nongjian (NJ) Tao, a researcher at the Biodesign Institute at ASU, unique properties inherent in single molecules also may allow clever designers to produce novel devices whose behavior falls outside the performance observed in conventional electronics.

RUSNANO has announced the acquisition of 41.37 percent of owners' equity in project company SynBio. RUSNANO paid 900 million rubles for the share as part of an earlier signed investment agreement whose participants include the Human Stem Cells Institute, Pharmsynthez, Cryonix, FDS Pharma LLP (United Kingdom), and Pharmsynthez's chairman Dmitry Genkin as a private investor .