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New OLED alliance established in Taiwan

Tuesday 29 July 2014
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The Taiwanese Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a nonprofit research and development organisation working in applied research and technical services, has initiated a new forum to jointly advance the countries OLED technology named Organic Light-emitting Diode Lighting Commercialization Alliance (OLCA).

From left to right: Dr Nicolas Schiller, deputy director of Fraunhofer FEP, Prof Volker Kirchhoff, acting director of Fraunhofer FEP, and Dr Uwe Vogel, deputy director of Fraunhofer COMEDD

Fraunhofer COMEDD becomes part of Fraunhofer FEP

Tuesday 15 July 2014
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The German Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, one of the world’s leading institutes for scientific research, decided to merge Fraunhofer COMEDD(Center for Organic Materials and Electronic Devices) and Fraunhofer FEP(Institute for Electron Beam-, Plasma Technology )with an aim to pool knowledge at one location. Starting with 1 July 2014 the research in organic electronics will be carried on under the name COMEDD at Fraunhofer FEP.

Graphene Flagship announces new partners

Monday 23 June 2014
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Following its competitive call Graphene Flagship, one of the largest-ever European research initiatives, has just announced that it invited 66 new partners and thereby will double in size.

Transparent, printed photovoltaics can be integrated into to the facade of a building to generate energy (Photo: Heliatek GmbH)

OE-A starts new working group focused on energy harvesting

Tuesday 11 March 2014
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OE-A (Organic and Printed Electronics Association), a Working Group within the German VDMA, has gathered leading companies and institutes in the area of organic electronics that are focused on energy generation to found a new working group on Organic Electronics Energy (OEE).

Cambridge Graphene Centre and Plastic Logic announce strategic partnership

Wednesday 26 June 2013
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Cambridge University’s Graphene Centre and Plastic Logic Ltd, UK, recently announced the signing of a formal collaboration agreement, marking Plastic Logic joining the Centre to start work on a specific research programme, aimed ultimately at revolutionising the commercial exploitation of graphene in flexible plastic electronics.