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Sang Deog Yeo, president of the OLED business unit of LG Display

Universal Display and LG Display announce entry into long-term OLED patent license

Thursday 29 January 2015
Companies / Markets

The OLED experts at Universal Display Corporation (Ewing (NJ), USA) have signed a new OLED technology license agreement and supplemental material purchase agreement with LG Display Co., Ltd., a leading developer of display technologies based in Seoul, South Korea. The contract will run through December 2022.

Holst Centre and Flex-o-Fab take first step towards “lighting by the mile”

Monday 26 January 2015
Products

Researchers from the EU-funded Flex-o-Fab project have successfully fabricated working OLED devices on a flexible barrier layer produced in a roll-to-roll process. The Flex-o-Fab project aims to help bring flexible OLEDs to the market by 2018. It brings together companies and institutes with strong background in organic electronics from across Europe and is coordinated by the Dutch research institute Holst Centre.

The ELGUIDER DRS 24 from Erhardt + Leimer

Erhardt + Leimer presents web guider for printed circuits at LOPEC

Friday 23 January 2015
Products

Typically accuracies of +/- 0.1mm are achieved with web guiders, in special cases the control accuracy is twices as high at +/- 0.05mm. However, absolute position tolerances of maximum 10µm are allowed during the production of printed circuits – a real challenge for the engineers. Erhardt + Leimer, a provider of web guiding and tension measurement equipment based in Stadtbergen, Germany, will present a sophisticated solution for this issue at the upcoming LOPEC trade fair in Munich, Germany.

Last year's Demo Line was a great success among both visitors and exhibitors at LOPEC

Demo Line at LOPEC to demonstrate production of electroluminescent film

Wednesday 14 January 2015
Exhibitions / Events

Thousands of electronic elements printed onto film or paper in a few hours: The Demo Line at the printed electronics trade show LOPEC 2015 in Munich, Germany, will showcase the production of electroluminescent film.

A schematic illustration of Apple's latest patent for flexible electronics in mobile devices

Apple allowed patent for flexible electronic devices

Monday 12 January 2015
Exhibitions / Events

The American consumer electronics giant Apple has been granted a patent for foldable and flexible mobile devices such as tablets and smart phones. The new technology is reported to protect the devices from damages caused by dropping and offers new input options. For example, certain video games could be controlled by bending or folding the device, claim the developers. In more general terms, bending could be used to switch the hardware on or off.