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Heliatek awarded by World Economic Forum

Wednesday 05 August 2015
Companies / Markets

Heliatek GmbH, the Dresden-based company that produces ultra-light, flexible and less than 1mm thick photovoltaic solar films, was awarded as one of the World Economic Forum’s “technology pioneers”, a selection of the world’s most innovative companies.

The new light extraction materials from Pixelligent can be incorporated into OLED lighting panels

Pixelligent launches new light extraction materials for OLED lighting

Tuesday 04 August 2015
Products

Pixelligent Technologies, a leading manufacturer of high index materials for demanding optoelectronics applications based in Baltimore (MD), USA, has added four new OLED lighting products to its PixClear Zirconia nanocrystal family. These new products are expected to deliver revolutionary light extraction and efficiency for a wide variety of OLED light applications.

LG Display to invest in 6th generation OLED panel line

Tuesday 28 July 2015
Companies / Markets

LG Display, Korean-based provider of display technologies, has announced that it will invest KRW 1.05 trillion (over $900M) in a 6^th generation flexible OLED display production line as part of its efforts to lead the flexible OLED display market, which has emerged as increasingly attractive.

BASF inaugurates new research building

Thursday 23 July 2015
Companies / Markets

BASF SE, a leading chemical, plastics and performance products company, has inaugurated a new research building at its headquarters in Ludwigshafen, Germany, after two years of construction. The building accommodates around 200 employees of the research division Advanced Materials & Systems Research, who have so far worked in different buildings in Ludwigshafen.

OPV module with eight cells in series, fully manufactured by inkjet printing

CEA-Liten announces first fully inkjet-manufactured flexible PV modules

Tuesday 21 July 2015
Products

The organic/hybrid printed photovoltaic field is growing and reaching the production scale, where the development of large area processes is urgently needed. To this aim, researchers from CEA-Liten, based at the French Institut National de l’Energie Solaire (INES), have developed a flexible organic photovoltaic module manufactured entirely by inkjet printing processes.