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Intel’s Preferred Quality Supplier Award (photo: Intel)

Brewer Science receives Intel’s Preferred Quality Supplier Award

Friday 06 March 2020
Companies / Markets

Brewer Science (Rolla, Missouri) has been recognised by Intel as a recipient of a 2019 Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) Award. The PQS Award honours companies that Intel believes have relentlessly pursued excellence and conducted business with resolute professionalism.

Smartrac is now part of Avery Dennison (photo: Avery Dennison)

Avery Dennison completes acquisition of Smartrac’s RFID transponder business

Thursday 05 March 2020
Companies / Markets

On 2 March 2020, Avery Dennison (Glendale, California) announced the completion of the acquisition of Smartrac’s transponder business, for the purchase price of €225M, subject to customary adjustments.

cyBlueBooster – CYNORA’s fluorescent blue emitter in OLED devices (photo: Dr Harald Flügge, CYNORA GmbH)

CYNORA introduces fluorescent blue emitter that gives OLED devices a substantial efficiency boost

Wednesday 04 March 2020
Products

CYNORA (Bruchsal, Germany) debuted its first commercial product, a fluorescent blue emitter that promises to significantly improve the efficiency of Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) displays used in mobile phones, laptops, TVs, and other applications. The company is an emerging OLED materials leader. The product, known as the cyBlueBooster, employs an advanced molecular design and is >15 percent more efficient than comparative emitters. It can be easily integrated into existing OLED stacks and is available in multiple shades of blue for application customisation. The product aims to help display manufacturers immediately harness untapped efficiencies in the emission layer of their OLED devices.

Mock-up of an ingestible pill with prototype transceiver (photo: imec)

Imec: First millimetre-scale wireless transceiver for electronic pills

Tuesday 03 March 2020
Products

Imec (Leuven, Belgium), a leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presented the first mm-scale wireless transceiver for smart insertable pills. It is a first breakthrough in imec’s aspiration to realise autonomous ingestible sensors that can measure health parameters such as gut health and transmit in real time the data outside the body.

The European Commission will further support the Graphene Flagship (photo: Graphene Flagship)

European Commission signs €150M grant funding the Graphene Flagship

Monday 02 March 2020
Companies / Markets

The European Commission (EC) has signed the €150M grant agreement to continue funding the Graphene Flagship's research and innovation on graphene and related materials from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2023. With this signature, the EC continues its commitment to support the €1bn flagship project, which began in 2013.