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Toward 'invisible electronics' and transparent displays

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Researchers in California are reporting an advance toward the long-sought goal of "invisible electronics" and transparent displays, which can be highly desirable for heads-up displays, wind-shield displays, and electronic ...


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Xerox Develops Silver Ink for Cheap Printable Electronics

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Xerox has developed an ink which can be used to print circuits onto plastics, films, and textiles. Although circuits printed on flexible materials aren't new, Xerox's method may be cheap and ...


HP Enables New Field of Flexible Electronics with Reflective Display Technology

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

HP today announced the launch of a new display technology for the personalization of consumer electronics products.


Super-thin flexible OLED from Sony

Super-thin flexible OLED from Sony

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (29) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony is showing off prototypes incorporating its super-thin, flexible OLED technology at the CREATEC JAPAN 2009 IT and electronics trade show in Makuhari Messe (Chiba) in Japan.


A bright future for plastics -- robot 'skin,' flexible laptops and electric posters

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 30, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 0

WITH market analysts predicting a ten fold increase in the value of the organic light emitting display industry, from £1.5 billion to £15.5 billion, by 2014, it is no wonder that scientists and governments alike are keen ...


Scientists report significant advances in flexible electronics research

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 1

In work that represents a key step toward bringing bendable, flexible electronic devices into our homes and businesses, Stanford University researchers have created very thin, high-performance transistors using networks of ...


Speedier flexible electronics possible with new fabrication process

Speedier flexible electronics possible with new fabrication process

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A clever but simple new way of making transistors out of high-performance organic microwires presents a potential path for products such as smart merchandise tags, light and cheap solar panels, ...


Carbon nanotube 'ink' may lead to thinner, lighter transistors and solar cells

Carbon nanotube 'ink' may lead to thinner, lighter transistors and solar cells

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a simple chemical process, scientists at Cornell and DuPont have invented a method of preparing carbon nanotubes for suspension in a semiconducting "ink," which can then be printed into ...


Peeling stickers may lead to stretchable electronics

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A study of stickers peeling from windows could lead to a new way to precisely control the fabrication of stretchable electronics, according to a team of researchers including one at MIT.


Record speed for thin-film transistors could open door for flexible electronics

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 04, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (26) | comments 0

A pair of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a method of making flexible, thin-film transistors (TFTs) that are not only inexpensive to produce, but also capable of high speeds — even microwave frequency, ...


Flexible electronics could find applications as sensors, artificial muscles

Flexible electronics could find applications as sensors, artificial muscles

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 02, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Flexible electronic structures with the potential to bend, expand and manipulate electronic devices are being developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the ...


Significant Progress in Flexible Display Nanoresearch Announced

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created Mar 21, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Advance Nanotech, Inc., today announced significant findings in a research project exploring new techniques for powering flexible displays. The project, a collaboration with the Center for Advanced Photonics and Electronics ...


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Toward a new generation of paper-thin loudspeakers

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (48) | comments 6

In research that may redefine ear buds, earphones, stereo loudspeakers, and other devices for producing sound, researchers in China are reporting development of flexible loudspeakers thinner than paper that ...


Researchers make new electronics -- with a twist

Researchers make new electronics -- with a twist

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

They've made electronics that can bend. They've made electronics that can stretch. And now, they've reached the ultimate goal -- electronics that can be subjected to any complex deformation, including twisting.


Researchers redefine ultrathin display process

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 29, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University has developed a new process for manufacturing high-performance flexible displays on transparent plastic.