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Celanese and TracXon announce collaboration on large area LED-on-foil

Thursday 12 October 2023
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Celanese Micromax Electronic Inks and Pastes (Irving, Texas) announced a collaboration with TracXon (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), a fully-integrated foundry for printed electronics, to bring large area LED-on-foil to the automotive and consumer electronics markets. The uniqueness of the large area LEDs is not only its size capability, measuring in at 1.8 metres by 0.5 metres, but also the flexibility of the foil and the fine line resolution circuitry.

Real Nano: European project that reduces production costs and paves the way for mass production of organic electronics is completed

Friday 06 October 2023
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The European RealNano project has been completed and is set to transform the global organic electronics industry, a multi-billion-euro endeavour. RealNano is evolving the tens of billions of euros global industry by integrating innovative technologies of intelligent nano-characterisation techniques and Artificial Intelligence methodologies to improve in real-time the properties, quality and functionality of the produced Organic Electronics devices.

Fraunhofer FEP: Integrable system traverse for innovative 2D inline process monitoring

Tuesday 26 September 2023
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The coating of flexible substrates such as ultra-thin glass or web with functional layers is highly efficient thanks to the use of roll-to-roll (R2R) technologies. Crucial for plant operators and ultimately for the price is the coating thickness homogeneity and thus also the electrical properties of the applied coatings for a high and above all constant yield without rejects. Until now, the electrical properties of the coating could only be determined and analysed at defined measuring points. Within the joint project KODOS – Fabricated Thin Glass Composite for Optoelectronic Systems (funding reference 13N14607), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, an integrable solution for in-line process monitoring and mapping of process parameters was developed with the project partner SURAGUS GmbH at Fraunhofer FEP in Dresden, Germany.

German federal government and Bavaria commit support to ams OSRAM for groundbreaking semiconductor technology

Friday 22 September 2023
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ams OSRAM (Premstätten, Austria), a global leader in intelligent sensors and emitters, received notice of substantial public funding by the German federal government (i.e. the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action) and the Free State of Bavaria. The funding is intended to boost the further development of semiconductor technology. The envisaged IPCEI funding (Important Project of Common European Interest) will support ams OSRAM in making its own investments in the research and development of innovative optoelectronic components at its Regensburg location.

TactoTek: International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) publishes first standard on in-mould electronics

Wednesday 20 September 2023
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The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has published the first standard “63899-202-10: Printed Electronics – Materials – Resistance measurement on thermoformable conducting” providing the printed electronics industry a standardised way to characterise the material. Finnish Structural Electronics pioneer TactoTek has led the standard development project that is part of the Technical Committee (TC119) activities. First proposed by TactoTek, the development project initiated in 2019 has now resulted in this standard, which enables injection moulded structural electronics (IMSE) designers to create optimised designs with standardised materials.