New Products: Optoelectronics

摘要

In early July, the U.S. Display Consortium announced that it was morphing into a new organization with a different focus. To be known as the FlexTech Alliance, the new organization will concern itself with so-called printed-electronics technology based on conductive-ink circuitry. Predictions are the technology, now in its early stages, may affect not only displays, but solar panels, medical electronics, lighting, and a wealth of other electronic products. According to Michael Ciesinski, the San Jose, CA-based Alliance's Chief Executive Officer, the shift has its roots in the R&D funding strategy USDC initiated several years ago for substrates, tooling, and reel-to-reel processing for flexible displays. However, consortium members realized that displays were not the only market for their technologies, and hence the need to change direction.