The semiconductor industry association SEMI and its printed electronics strategic partner FlexTech have signed a memorandum of understanding with the Canadian Printable Electronics Industry Association CPEIA. The partners want to support each other’s programmes and drive the continued development and adoption of printable, flexible hybrid, and wearable electronics.
SmartKem (Manchester, UK), a leading developer of organic semiconductors for the manufacture of low power, lightweight and conformal liquid crystal (LC) and OLED displays, has revealed further details of an innovative project to accelerate the production of a new generation of display-based products. FLEXTRANS is a two-year programme to support the transition to market of their truFLEX thin film transistor (TFT) platform for the manufacture of high performance active matrix display backplanes on glass or plastic.
CYNORA, which is based in Bruchsal, Germany, a leader in TADF (thermally activated delayed fluorescence) materials for OLEDs, has reached new performance records with its newest blue emitter material. With the current performance, the company is getting close to commercialisation of its first product by the end of 2017.