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Laser Pulse Prints Flexible Transistor

by Tom Allen

Researchers at the Netherlands’ Delft University of Technology have succeeded in printing silicon on a substrate. Previous work in printing circuitry has focused on organic and metal-oxide inks, but these materials have a lower …

FlexEnable to Enhance the Global Graphene Value Chain

by Tom Allen

FlexEnable, the leader in the development and industrialisation of flexible electronics, has announced its participation in the Graphene Flagship, the EU’s biggest ever initiative in the field of graphene and related materials. FlexEnable has …

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Flexenable Joins European Graphene Research

by Tom Allen

FlexEnable, a spin-off from Plastic Logic (Plastic Logic Divides into Two Companies), is now participating in the Graphene Flagship initiative (http://tinyurl.com/oo5gj7f). The Graphene Flagship is a research programme with a €1 billion budget, aiming …

Researchers Discover Self-Healing Nanowire Properties

by Tom Allen

Silver nanowires are one option to replace ITO as a conductive material in displays – they are lower-cost and flexible – but research has been limited due to a lack of understanding about their …

Cambrios and Heraeus Announce New Conductive Material

by Norbert Hildebrand

Cambrios and Heraeus have announced a new class of flexible, transparent and conductive material. Both companies already produce materials that produce such conductive layers. Heraeus is the supplier for Clevios a PEDOT:PSS organic solution, …

TVs and Tablets to Dominate OLED Share

by Tom Allen

OLED panel revenue fell 4% YoY in 2014, says Korea’s UBI Research, due to low sales of the Galaxy S5. Additionally, many TV manufacturers -including Samsung – are now looking at quantum dot LCD …

Plastic Logic Spin-Off Creates Flexible Circuit for OLEDs

by Tom Allen

FlexEnable’s OLED display reaches a 60Hz refresh rate and has a 0.25mm bend radiusFlexEnable, the new Cambridge-based company spun off of Plastic Logic (Plastic Logic Divides into Two Companies), claims that its work will …

Graphene-based LED Clears Way for Flexible Displays

by Tom Allen

Graphene and related 2D materials (such as boron nitride and molybdenum disulphide) can be used to create thin, flexible and semi-transparent LEDs for next-gen phones, tablets and TVs. Researchers at the University of Manchester …

SmartKem Doubles in Size

by Raverstead

UK-based SmartKem, a supplier of semiconductor materials for flexible displays and electronics, has opened a facility in Manchester, UK. The facility will be used for TFT fabrication and testing. Product development agreements will be …

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Plastic Logic Recognised With Excellence Award

by Raverstead

Plastic Logic’s AMOLED technology has been recognised at the Global OLED Congress in Shanghai. The technology won the OLED Innovation Excellence Award. Plastic Logic’s flexible AMOLED displays are based on its own sub-100 deg …

Flexible Electronics to Top $200 Million in 10 Years

by Super User

OLED displays are a growing market segment that requires flexible encapsulation. IDTechEx Research has thus forecast a flexible electronics market value of over $200 million by 2024 – mainly driven by flexible mobile displays. …

Flexible Device Work to be Discussed by Fraunhofer

by Super User

Fraunhofer FEP will present the results of its works on flexible electronics at Plastic Electronics 2014 (7th-9th October in Grenoble, France). As well as displays, the institute has examined devices such as flexible lighting …