Advanced Materials

In this article, we look at other aspects of what will and will not happen with electric vehicles land, water and air in 2013, whether they are hybrid or pure electric.

This article shares some of the research in the newly updated IDTechEx report, "Stretchable Electronics Comes to Market."

The second and final day of Printed Electronics USA in Santa Clara really illustrated how far the technologies had progressed and the huge variety of players in the field. The event, organized by IDTechEx, was the best and biggest edition of the series so far. Amongst the attendees were company founders, directors, engineers, academics, but also students and patent attorneys. In particular, there were a large number of end users attending the show.

New drivers are opening up new frontiers in the display industry, resulting in technological innovation and the expansion and diversification of the market. This article summaries some of these recent developments and research from IDTechEx's brand new report "Metal Oxide TFT Backplanes for Displays 2013-2018: Analysis, Trends, Markets."

Leading designers of printed electronics collaborate on printed electronic demonstration give-a-way

The IDTechEx report The Market for Gold Inks 2013-2019 is looking to identify and assess the opportunities for a printable nano-gold ink, excluding its use in graphic arts applications (where it could be used for both its graphic arts benefits in addition to being used as a functional component in a circuit, such as printed touch switches, are taken into account).

Graphene promises to offer excellent material properties in almost all applications. Its extraordinary performance has led many to call it the 'superlative' or 'wonder' material. However, the reality is different.

As more and more flexible devices are becoming available, the need for better performing barriers and encapsulation materials at lower cost points intensifies.

Today, only one type of film - Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) - is used for almost all transparent conductive films with a market size of over $2 billion this year.

Conductive inks are a simple and unglamorous layer but they will constitute a hefty $2.86 billion market in 2012.