On 13 February, the 2018 FLEXI Awards recognised groundbreaking accomplishments in the Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) sector in the last year. Presented at the opening session of the 17th annual 2018FLEX Conference and Exhibition, in Monterey, California, the awards spotlighted the following leaders in the categories of R&D Achievements, Product Innovation and Commercialisation, Education Leadership and Industry Leadership.
NextFlex, America’s Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) Manufacturing Institute (San Jose, California), announced it has successfully proven the robustness of the FHE manufacturing process, producing multiple functional samples of a flexible Arduino system. As part of the Flexible Arduino Microcontroller Project, NextFlex redesigned a device typically built on a rigid printed circuit board (PCB)—by printing and attaching thin bare die on a flexible substrate while maintaining the performance associated with traditional packaged ICs. This achievement is ultimately intended to help realise FHE’s enormous potential for creating ubiquitous IoT and sensor products for consumer, commercial, and military applications.
Thin Film Electronics ASA (Oslo, Norway), a global leader in NFC (near field communication) mobile marketing and smart packaging solutions, recently announced that John McNulty has joined the organisation as EVP marketing. The company also announced the promotion of Christian Delay to EVP software.
