News - OPE Journal - Organic & Printed Electronics

***** BST: New "Impurity Free" seal for safety, quality and sustainability in battery cell production *****
***** The size of a credit card and battery-free: Epishine, Minew and e-peas launch light-powered asset tracker *****
***** TactoTek granted 250th patent for structural smart surfaces *****
***** The Battery Show Europe 2024 returns to Stuttgart (Germany), the "cradle of the automobile" *****
***** ams OSRAM and DOMINANT Opto Technologies team up to facilitate smart automotive ambient lighting *****

Participants of the creative workshop in front of the OLED installation at COPT.CENTRE (photo: Dimitri Kourkoulos)

Innovative design with new lighting elements – First creative workshop of COPT.CENTRE and IHK Cologne

Thursday 18 May 2017
Exhibitions / Events

Designers make beautiful and esthetic products. Organic light diodes as light sources are extremely flat and deliver a cozy, glare-free light. This is reason enough to ask, how organic light diodes (OLEDs) can contribute to esthetic products. Questions like these were addressed at the first creative workshop hosted by the COPT.CENTRE, an organic electronics research facility in Cologne, Germany, and the IHK Cologne, the local Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

FlexEnable’s conformable plastic LCDs (photo: FlexEnable)

FlexEnable collaborates with Merck to enable novel display shapes using conformable plastic LCDs

Wednesday 17 May 2017
Companies / Markets

FlexEnable (Cambridge, UK), a leader in the development and industrialisation of organic electronics for flexible displays and sensors, has partnered with Merck, the global market and technology leader in liquid crystal mixtures, to enable novel display shapes, following FlexEnable’s recent breakthrough with conformable, large area, full colour and video rate OLCDs.

Tianma selects Orbotech Solutions for its Flex AMOLED Gen 6 Fab

Monday 15 May 2017
Companies / Markets

Israel-based Orbotech Ltd., a leading provider of process innovation technologies, solutions and equipment that are enabling the transformation of the global electronics manufacturing industry, announced recently that the Chinese company Tianma Micro-electronics Co. Ltd. (“Tianma”), a producer of display solutions with over three decades of experience in the Flat Panel Display (FPD) field, has selected Orbotech’s ArrayChecker and Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) solutions for its production line upgrade to flexible AMOLED technology.

Heliatek welcomes EU-Commissioner Oettinger and Dr Rößler, the president of the Saxon parliament

Thursday 11 May 2017
Exhibitions / Events

The President of the Saxon parliament, Dr Matthias Rößler, received the EU Commissioner for budget and personnel, Günther H. Oettinger in Dresden. Together they visited Heliatek and got a view of the production facility. Dr Martin Pfeiffer, one of the Founders, and Dr Ralph Wichtendahl, vice Ppresident operations, shared the latest information on technical and sales developments of the company.

The CoinPower series from VARTA Microbattery

VARTA Microbattery showcases its products at IOThings in Milan

Tuesday 09 May 2017
Products

Be it smart watches or fitness trackers – the market for wearables is growing enormously worldwide. Batteries are a strategic component here. VARTA Microbattery, based in Ellwangen, Germany, will showcase its solutions and products at this year’s IOThings from 16 to 17 May in Milan, Italy.