E Ink (Billerica, Massachusetts), the originator, pioneer, and global commercial leader in digital paper technology, has received the Dark Sky Certification from the International Dark Sky Association (IDA). E Ink is the first display technology to be certified through the IDA. As a reflective technology, E Ink displays do not emit any light, and rely on the ambient lighting around them to be viewed. For night viewing, a simple, small LED strip can illuminate the display without the need for significant wasteful stray light that disrupts the neighbourhood or the environment.
How can printed electronics be useful for monitoring sleeping babies or to support people who lost their leg? And what role can printed electronics components play for the gaming world? The answers to these exciting questions will be given at LOPEC 2022, the international platform for printed electronics, from 22-24 March live at ICM, Messe München.
Advances in microsystems technology and microelectronics are increasing the demand for measurements of structural details, for example to characterise channel depths and edge profiles on a lab-on-a-chip, to determine step heights, co-planarity and other packaging parameters, or to characterise MEMS based on their 3D structural profiles and derived surface parameters, such as roughness, flatness and deformation. With the TopMap Micro.View+, Polytec (Waldbronn, Germany) has a high-resolution microscope-based white-light interferometer in its range for such applications.
