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The contactless payment wristband from Visa and Gemalto

Visa launches contactless payment wristbands at Eurovision Song Contest

Thursday 12 May 2016
Products

Gemalto, a leading provider of digital security solutions based in Meudon, France, has collaborated with Visa, one of the world's largest payment providers, to equip visitors at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest with contactless payment wristbands. Gemalto's solution for Visa encompasses personalisation, packaging and fulfilment of the contactless wristbands, and utilises its Allynis Smart Event Platform for the prepaid payment programme and event management.

Fraunhofer FEP's glass-on-glass lamination for OLEDs will be a highlight of the upcoming AIMCAL 2016 Conference in Dresden, Germany

Fraunhofer FEP presents glass-on-glass lamination for OLEDs right from the roll

Monday 09 May 2016
Exhibitions / Events

The German Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP) will be presenting flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) at AIMCAL 2016 in Dresden, Germany, from 30 May to 2 June. These OLEDs have been fabricated on ultra-thin glass and encapsulated with an ultra-thin glass foil in the same process.

Heliatek won the GreenTec Award for Production

Heliatek wins GreenTec Award

Friday 29 April 2016
Companies / Markets

The German-based solar film manufacturer Heliatek GmbH has won the GreenTec Award in the “Production” category. The company won the award for its innovative, vacuum roll-to-roll production process used to manufacture HeliaFilm, an organic solar film applied mainly on building facades.

Printed Electronics: Market forecast by component type in US$ billions. Source: IDTechEx

Printed Electronics Europe shows cutting edge technologies

Tuesday 26 April 2016
Exhibitions / Events

From 27 to 28 April, the Estrel Hotel and Convention Center in Berlin, Germany, will once again be the venue of Printed Electronics Europe. The event hosted by the business analysts and consultants from IDTechEx is one of the most prestigious events in the European calendar of the printed electronics community.

IN-CORE's collaboration with SEMILAB has resulted in a powerful tool designed specifically for printed PV application characterisation

IN-CORE, SEMILAB and partners develop new metrology and characterisation platform

Wednesday 20 April 2016
Products

IN-CORE Systèmes, a French-based provider of modular optical industrial inspection solutions, has developed and implemented a new and unique metrology and characterisation platform. The project was a cooperative effort of the company together with the Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) solar cell development project within CEATech at INES (National Solar Energy Institute) in France, in partnership with the manufacturer of metrology instruments for characterisation, SEMILAB.