Sensors

Researchers at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, have made electronic biosensors that identify bacteria in poultry plants.

some of the most compelling areas of future application involve the intimate, conformal integration of electronics with the human body in ways that are inconceivable using established technology.

Researchers have found a simple way to uniformly deposit between one and five layers of graphene to create transistors and proof-of concept electrodes for organic photovoltaics.

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.

ESL acknowledges the plastic electronics revolution on flexible substrates is here to stay and will meet their customers' challenges with off-the-shelf products, and with the development of proprietary or custom formulations.

Georgetown University, Gentag, Inc., and Science Applications International Corporation, have combined forces to develop a non-invasive method for glucose measurement.

Gentag, Inc. and MacroArray Technologies have teamed to develop a new wireless test platform that will incorporate Gentag's cell phone-sensor technology with MacroArray's proteomics discovery technology to create a series of new disposable, wireless diagnostic tests.

Project demonstrates potential of biosensors with integrated printed detectors for point-of-use tests.

Analysts see printed electronics rising exponentially to around $300 billion in twenty years' time, with demand for conductive inks alone reaching several billion dollars yearly five years from now.

Thanks to the design of an innovative jacket by a Middlesex University student in the UK, cyclists will be seen in the dark when giving hand signals.

German companies to develop a unique airborne pathogen detection system for the European Defence Agency.

A claimed breakthrough barrier technology from Singapore protects sensitive devices like organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and solar cells from moisture 1000 times more effectively than any other technology available in the market.

Like 3M and Illinois Tool Works, Motorola has had many activities involved in printed electronics and they have often been independent.

Taking medication wrongly is a huge problem, resulting in more than 150,000 people dying unnecessarily in both North America and in Europe every year.

Toumaz Technology and consortium partners win major EU funding to develop personal blood glucose predictor for diabetes patients.

Stretchable electronics is needed for many potential applications in healthcare and elsewhere.

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A silk garment printed with LEDs using Elumin8 technology that turns the intimate breath of the wearer into pulses of light was exhibited at the Back Gallery Project in Vancouver, Canada.

The vibrant new printed electronics industry is being created as energetically in Germany as anywhere else in the world.

Bed sheets with built in sensors are being developed so that heart patients can take a more proactive role at home in the treatment and management of their condition thereby reducing the overall healthcare costs in the EU.

These very affordable hand held devices and tiny tags permit items, people and animals to be located in 3D and, where necessary, electronically ring fenced.

Webbing that wraps around the heart could free patients from a lifetime of anti-rejection drugs.

It sounds like science fiction but smart paint may be available in the near future.

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

A stretchable, flexible self-cleaning device that can be used as a mobile phone or keyboard that harvests solar energy and senses the environment by using nanotechnology was launched this week.

Fraunhofer IZM, Germany reports that high throughput manufacturing of biosensors has remained a challenge. This is due to the different environments necessary for the survival of biological components on the one hand and current MEMS technologies on the other.

Gentag Inc, US has been notified by the Korean Patent Office that its patent entitled

Zephyr Technology, New Zealand and SIGMA SPORT® Germany announce an OEM agreement whereby Zephyr will supply best-in-class smart fabric-based, heart rate monitoring (HRM) products.

Women may soon be able to self diagnose breast cancer with the help of a smart bra which is being developed by researchers at the Centre for Materials Research and Innovation (CMRI) at the University of Bolton, UK.

IDTechEx look at aspects relevant to printed electronics from the Active RFID and Real Time Locating Systems RTLS conference.

In Sweden, Micromuscle AB relies on ionic effects in polymers whereas the acrylics and silicones of Artificial Muscle Inc of the USA, that can be stretched to 1000 times the area, rely on the electroactive forces in a capacitor-like structure with around 1200 volts applied.

Printed strain & stress sensors on textiles may provide information about the actions of the body

Smart, wireless, RFID skin patches for identification and diagnostic applications are now being manufactured by Frank Sammeroff Ltd., who has formed a strategic alliance with Gentag, Inc. for the production of the patches.

Optical sensors built into pixels of LCD panels result in a thinner, beautifully clear screen display compared to conventional touch screens.

A sensor developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectric Circuits and Systems IMS in Duisburg, Germany may be able to greatly reduce the visits to the physician by glaucoma sufferers in the future.

The millions to billions of tags involved in the Ubiquitous Sensor Networks often have RFID and power sources and be made by printing to achieve the necessary very low cost.

MIT researchers are developing technology that could be used to make paper embedded with wires, sensors, and computer chips, creating what they call "pulp-based" computing.

New Zealand based company Zephyr Technology is working with scientists at AUT University in Auckland to create high tech insoles for shoes, using sensor technology to measure foot temperatures to sense the onset of potential ulceration conditions in diabetics, potentially reducing a major health problem that results in 90,000 amputations each year in the United States.

Now we have smart skin patches that heal wounds by restoring the natural electrical signals in the skin at the site of a wound thanks to BIOFiSICA.

UK start up company Polymertronics is developing a new nanotechnology that will allow digital inkjet printing and instant curing of flexible electronic components.

Gentag, Inc. and The CORE Institute® in the USA have announced a joint collaborative effort to develop and market RFID diagnostic Skin Patches for Medical Applications in Orthopedics.

The smart fabrics industry is a $340 million dollar industry growing 19% annually and projected to reach $720 million by 2008, according to a recent study.

Researchers are developing biocompatible, stretchable, waterproof electronic circuit technology that can be integrated in stretchable applications like bandages or medical implants.

Imagine reading a book like the Da Vinci Code and being able to Google the name of one of the pieces of art or societies such as the Knights Templar by touching a word in the book.

BIOIDENT Technologies Inc., a developer of printed optoelectronic solutions for life sciences, announced the industry's first complete, functional lab-on-a-chip system—the PhotonicFlowTM System.

Mr Klaus G Schroeter, CEO NANOIDENT Technologies AG, Austria at Printed Electronics USA 2005