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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.

Jabil was honoured for its community support and charitable work in the Tampa Bay area – and its aim to raise awareness to cardiovascular diseases (photo: pixabay.com)

Jabil recognised as philanthropic corporation of the year

Friday 29 November 2019
Companies / Markets

Jabil (St. Petersburg, Florida) recently received recognition as Philanthropic Corporation of the Year by the Tampa Bay chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). Johns Hopkins All Children’s Foundation and the American Heart Association nominated Jabil for the philanthropic work that the global manufacturing company does in the Tampa Bay community.

An Aerosol Jet HD system (photo: Optomec)

Optomec extends production runtimes for 3D printed electronics solutions

Monday 25 November 2019
Companies / Markets

Optomec (Albuquerque, New Mexico), a global supplier of production-grade additive manufacturing equipment and software, announced that its Aerosol Jet print engine has been upgraded to operate with an uninterrupted 8-hour runtime. The solution enables full shift operation to better meet the needs of current and next-generation electronics manufacturing across a broad range of industries.

Thin glass is a versatile material with many applications (photo: Fraunhofer FEP)

GLASS4FLEX – pioneering new process technologies for flexible glass in optical systems

Thursday 21 November 2019
Companies / Markets

Ultra-thin glass – one human hair thick – is ideally suited as a material for mass production of optical components and parts as well as for encapsulating optical and optoelectronic systems. Its production requires a completely coordinated process chain – from manufacture to functionalisation. This is the goal to be accomplished by 2022 in the GLASS4FLEX joint research project.