According to a new report from NanoMarkets, an industry analyst firm, the market for printable electronics will generate estimated revenues of over $7 billion ($ US) in 2010 driven by demand for ...

Newswise — WASHINGTON, D.C., April 4, 2017 – Memory devices -- as a subset of electronic functions that includes logic, sensors and displays -- have undergone an exponential increase in integration ...

When it comes to efficiency, sometimes it helps to look to Mother Nature for advice - even in technology as advanced as printable, flexible electronics. Researchers at the University of Illinois have ...

Silicon is the main substrate used for the integrated circuits found in almost all electronic equipment available today. However, silicon could soon be replaced by plastic, film or even fabrics, with ...

Creating smart sensors to embed in our everyday objects and environments for the Internet of Things (IoT) would vastly improve daily life—but requires trillions of such small devices. Simon Fraser ...

"This work is exciting because it helps reveal in new detail how we can achieve high performance transistors and solar cells with polymers," said UC Santa Barbara professor of materials Michael ...

Computers used to require entire buildings to operate. Now they fit in our pockets. Similarly, factory-size electronics manufacturing is approaching a contraction. Want proof? Look at that $50 printer ...

Advances in printed electronics could rapidly redefine what a “computer” is. Oslo, Norway-based ThinFilm Electronics announced plans to create an electronics device with basic computing components ...

The attractiveness of printing electronics over more conventional approaches lies in its potential to pattern large-areas and flexible devices inexpensively on plastic substrates. 1 Such technologies ...

While memory devices are becoming progressively more flexible, their ease of fabrication and integration in low performance applications have been generally been treated as being of secondary ...