Organics

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Seoul National University (SNU) have learned how to tweak a new class of polymer-based semiconductors to better control the location and alignment of the components of the blend.

This week, the German ministry for Education and Research BMBF announced the 5 winners in a strategic program which aims to strengthen cooperation between science, research and industry with 200 million Euros over the next 5 years.

In Portugal, a new field effect transistor with paper interstrate layer has now been developed.

Printed electronics today is mainly a matter of inorganic rather than organic chemistry and the next ten years are unlikely to see the inorganic part drop below 50% of the high value materials required.

Printed electronics holds possibilities for applications including printed organic solar cells, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and flexible displays

Over the last three years significant developments have been made with efficiency of organic based PV cells.

Gate dielectrics in printed electronics can make the transistors exhibit higher current and lower voltage and are a hot area of research.

Germany's expertise in industrial production, printing processes, and chemicals - all essential elements to printed electronics - make it a leading location for investments.

OTTI, the East-Bavarian Technology Transfer Institute, will host an experts' forum on printed electronics 3-4 March in Regensburg, Germany.

Only RFID offers the electronic printing industry the potential of ten trillion devices yearly, in this case replacing barcodes.

Organic materials are of great interest for electronics applications, as they have many advantages over their inorganic counterparts.

Using room-temperature processing, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have fabricated high-performance field effect transistors with thin films of Carbon 60, also known as fullerene.

This two day meeting was organised by the Organic Materials Innovation Centre (OMIC) and the UK Displays & Lighting KTN and focused on research activities that address the major challenges in the chemistry, processing and physics of organic transistors, sensors, OLEDS and photovoltaic devices.

We are increasingly seeing demonstrations, samples and first products of printed electronic transistors and other products. Companies are focusing on yield improvements and a necessary part of this is adequate inspection of devices, preferably at high speed.

By laser-treating ink consisting of coated nano-particles of metal, scientists in Switzerland are able to manufacture a wide variety of printed microelectronics.

Transistors are the engine of the new electronics just as the silicon chip is the engine of the traditional electronics.

Products like the flexible transistor will account for 10 percent of the information technology (IT) device market within the next 10 years say researchers at KIST.

Procurement of equipment is already underway for printing conductive inks, metallised circuits and novel barrier layers onto flexible substrates and further R&D programmes for new customers will be introduced in the coming months.

Stretchability is needed in electronics if it is to be foldable, tightly conformal or following the form of something that changes in shape, like the human body.

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel together with colleagues from the U.S.A., recently succeeded in being the first to implement doping in the field of molecular electronics - the development of electronic components made of single layers of organic (carbon-based) molecules.

Two and a half years after its start, the European research project OLLA* presents its second milestone: a prototype white Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) light source, with an efficacy of 25 lumen per watt and a lifetime of over 5.000 hours

Brussels Belgium 28 Feb 1 March

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