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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 …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Graphene

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 …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Graphene| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Plastic Logic| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 16

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 …

Tags:Flexible Devices| ITO Replacement| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Silver Nanowire| Vol 22 - Issue 14

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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, …

Tags:Cambrios| Flexible Devices| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Silver Nanowire| Vol 22 - Issue 13

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 …

Tags:AMOLED| Flexible Batteries| Flexible Devices| Flexible Displays| Flexible PCBs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED TVs| Samsung| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 08

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 …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Plastic Logic| Vol 22 - Issue 06

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 …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Flexible Displays| Graphene| Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 06

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 …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TFT| Vol 21 - Issue 47

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 …

Tags:AMOLED| Awards| Back Panel| Flexible Devices| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Plastic Logic| Vol 21 - Issue 44

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 …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Fraunhofer| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Gel Film Transistor Speeds Flexible Electronics

by Super User

Yang Yang, a researcher at UCLA, and colleagues claim to have developed an ‘inexpensive and simple way’ to produce transparent, flexible transistors. Transistors are generally produced using a multi-step photolithography process (printing a pattern …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

Flexible Phones Next Year, Says Smartkem

by Super User

Flexible smartphones will be available by ‘late 2015’, according to UK-based organic semiconductor materials supplier Smartkem. Mike Cowin, head of strategic marketing, told Mobile Today that this year’s fixed-curve models are “just the beginning… …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21