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.
PragmatIC (Cambridge, UK), a leader in ultra-low cost flexible electronics, has secured agreements for installation of its first FlexLogIC system capable of producing billions of flexible integrated circuits. FlexLogIC is a self-contained, fully automated, modular “fab-in-a-box” for high throughput manufacturing of flexible plastic semiconductor devices. With the concept announced a year ago,
PragmatIC has now completed design and engineering work, and the final specification delivers both higher capacity and lower production cost than the original concept.
