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Isorg’s fingerprint sensors can be integrated into smartphones and support multi-fingerprint-on-display technology (photo: Isorg)

Isorg’s full-screen fingerprint sensor supporting multi-finger authentication to be showcased at CES 2020

Friday 13 December 2019
Products

Isorg (Grenoble, France), a pioneer in organic photodetectors (OPDs) and large-area image sensors, will demonstrate its full-screen Fingerprint-on-Display (FoD) module for improved multi-finger smartphone authentication at CES 2020. It supports up to four fingers simultaneously touching a smartphone display.

Canatu’s new building in Vantaa (photo: Canatu)

Canatu celebrates opening of new factory

Tuesday 10 December 2019
Companies / Markets

Canatu’s new factory was opened on 20 November 20129 in Vantaa, Finland. The new factory has room to increase the manufacturing capacity 150 times compared to the old Konala factory. In the new site, Canatu introduced the new CNB production line and one of Finland's largest clean rooms. The company has several design wins which will lead to mass production according to their customer's product plans. The first mass production case started in 2015.

Avery Dennison expands its offering with the acquisition of Smartrac (photo: Avery Dennison)

Avery Dennison to acquire Smartrac’s RFID inlay business

Monday 09 December 2019
Companies / Markets

The Avery Dennison Corporation (Glendale, California) announced a definitive agreement to acquire Smartrac’s Transponder (RFID Inlay) Division, for the purchase price of €225M, subject to certain closing and post-closing adjustments. The division is a leader in the development and manufacture of RFID products, with 2019 estimated global revenue of approximately €125M, or approximately $140M, and approximately 900 employees.

Expected sales revenue in the OPE industry (source: OE-A)

Organic and printed electronics industry expects an increase of 3 percent in sales revenue in 2019

Tuesday 03 December 2019
Companies / Markets

Despite the current slowing down of the overall economy, the organic and printed electronics industry continues to grow. This is the clear message to result from the latest business climate survey conducted by OE-A (Organic and Printed Electronics Association), a Working Group within VDMA (Mechanical Engineering Industry Association). 80 percent of survey participants expect the industry to continue its positive development in the coming year.

Holst Centre shows next step towards cheaper flexible electronics

Monday 02 December 2019
Companies / Markets

Researchers from Holst Centre (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) have become the first to use spatial atomic layer deposition (sALD) to create both the semiconductor and dielectric layer in a thin-film transistor (TFT) backplane. Using a low-temperature, large-area process for the backplane, the team created a 200 ppi QVGA display demonstrator. The process allows TFTs to be produced on cheaper, transparent plastic foils, significantly reducing the cost of flexible electronics applications such as displays and image sensors. To showcase the technology, Holst Centre has produced a display demonstrator using a backplane of top-gated self-aligned TFTs on a PEN foil.