ITO Replacement – Page 2

Canatu Gains New CNB Customer

by Tom Allen

Canatu is celebrating another customer win for its carbon nanotube (CNB) Flex Film. The film, which detects touch signals, is used on the flexible OLED display of a customer’s curved wearable device. (However, Canatu …

Ultrasonics Enable Non-ITO Liquid Crystals

by Tom Allen

Ultrasound has been used to replace ITO in LCD displays, by researchers in Japan. ITO is formed using rare metals such as indium. It is not only costly, it is also rigid. The display …

Tags:ITO Replacement| Japan| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 12

Indium Prices High but Fairly Stable

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Indium is the key ingredient in Indium-Tin Oxide (ITO), a transparent conductive coating found in virtually all displays, including both LCDs and OLEDs. It is also used in many types of touch screens. The …

Perovskites As A Transparent Conductor

by Matthew Brennesholtz

I had previously written about perovskites as laser materials and wavelength conversion materials in competition with Quantum Dots (QDs). (See my Display Daily on Perovskites and my companion DD on Quantum Dots). Now I …

Tags:ITO Replacement| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Perovskite| Vol 23 - Issue 09

A New Means to Produce Transparent Conductors Based on Nanotechnology

by Arthur Berman

The touchscreen part of a display is typically coated with a grid of electrodes composed of a highly transparent conductive material. The function of the grid is to detect the position of the user’s …

Tags:ITO Replacement| Touch Interfaces| Transparent Semiconductors| Vol 23 - Issue 06

ITO Replaced by 2021?

by Tom Allen

Touch Display Research has predicted that ITO replacement technologies, such as silver nanowire and carbon nanotubes, will not become the major transparent conductor for touch panels until 2021. A new report analyses the market …

Canatu Secures CNB Design Win

by Tom Allen

Canatu has secured a design win for carbon nanobud technology, with a customer in North America. The customer required flexibility, thinness and zero haze or reflections. Canatu designed a bespoke on-cell touch solution that …

Cambrios Focusing on AIOs – and Winning!

by Bob Raikes

Cambrios, which makes silver nanowire materials for procap touch and other applications, was in the Westgate hotel. The company has found a segment of the market, All-in-one (AIO) PCs, that need the performance of …

Fraunhofer Shows Gladiator Results

by Tom Allen

Fraunhofer FEP has announceed that it will show OLEDs on graphene at the Plastic Electronics show, taking place on the 6th – 8th October in Dresden. The OLEDs to be shown are the interim …

Beyond Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) – Materials for Next Generation Consumer Electronics (Technical Insights)

by Helen Vince

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/8s5plj/beyond_ito) has announced the addition of the “Beyond ITO – Materials for Next Generation Consumer Electronics (Technical Insights)” report to their offering. The global consumer electronics industry is constantly evolving according …

Tags:ITO| ITO Replacement| Materials Market| Touch Displays

Transparent Flexible Conductors Proliferate at Display Week

by Ken Werner

You could make a case for Transparent Flexible Conductors (TFCs) based on thinness, lightweight and ruggedness even when they are being applied to displays with rigid substrates. Now that flexible displays are entering the …

UniPixel Updates on X-Sense Acquisition (IC14)

by Bob Raikes

Jeff Hawthorne is CEO of UniPixel which makes engineered films and hard coat resins for displays. The firm has just acquired the X-Sense flexible touch film product line from Atmel. The firm’s touch sensor …