In this week's issue:
BAYTRON renamed CLEVIOS
From 8 April, the 3,4-polyethylene dioxythiophene based BAYTRON® from H.C. Starck, will be sold only under its new name of CLEVIOS™.
According to H.C. Starck, the new name stands for the "Clever invention of solutions".
All patent rights for the BAYTRON® products remain with H.C. Starck, but when the company separated from the Bayer group, Bayer retained the naming rights for BAYTRONŽ. This meant that
H.C. Starck had to find a new name for the product.
OSA Direct would be interested to hear our readers' alternative suggestions for a new name for BAYTRON. Send your ideas to
clevios@cintelliq.com. We will publish the best ones next week.
www.hcstarck.com
Rohm and Haas buys Gracel Display
Rohm and Haas Company has acquired a controlling interest in Gracel Display in a deal worth around $40 million.
The acquisition of Gracel and its portfolio of OLED materials broadens Rohm and Haas's growing display technologies business. Rohm and Haas manufactures TFT photoresists and
related materials as part of its display chemicals group.
Rohm and Hass acquired Eastman Kodak's Light Management Films business in June 2007, and in December 2007 launched SKC Haas Display Films, a new joint venture that develops
and manufactures advanced films and filters for LCD and plasma displays.
Including this latest acquisition of Gracel, Rohm and Haas has invested $270 million during the last 12 months to build its display technologies business unit.
Dr Pierre Brondeau, Rohm and Haas executive VP, business group executive, said that OLED was an important addition to the company's display materials portfolio and added,
"As part of our Vision 2010 initiative, Rohm and Haas has accelerated its investment in growth platforms, including our Electronic Materials franchise. Over the last
12 months, we've focused on building a world class Display Technologies business."
www.rohmhaas.com
www.graceldisplay.com
Dupont Teijin Films and Thinfilm to collaborate on volume
production of printed memory
Thin Film Electronics (Thinfilm) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with DuPont Teijin Films UK. The collaboration will facilitate the low-cost production of printed memories,
through DuPont Teijin Films supplying existing, commercially available substrates or specifically developed substrates to Thinfilm's production partners and customers.
Johan Carlsson, Thinfilm CEO, stated, "Thinfilm has found that substrates from DuPont Teijin Films have excellent performance as substrates for printed memory, making them
highly suitable for the implementation of our polymer memory technology [...] Following the joint development agreements with print equipment, ink suppliers, manufacturers and
application developers announced in 2007, we have with this collaboration and MOU completed the full value chain and secured technology partners in all areas enabling our manufacturing
partners to produce Thinfilm printed memories in high volumes."
www.thinfilm.se
www.dupontteijinfilms.com
Soligie delivers roll-to-roll printed smart packaging and drug delivery patch
Soligie has been awarded contracts to develop a drug delivery patch and a smart packaging product using its high-speed roll-to-roll electronics production line. Prototype versions
have already been delivered to customers and are in testing.
These products use numerous conductive silver and silver/silver-chloride inks as well as carbon-based resistors, dielectric materials and vias, all to be manufactured in a single pass
on a continuous web at high speeds.
Matt Timm, Soligie president, said, "We are excited to be shipping medical patch and smart packaging components to customers who are leaders in their respective industries. This type
of progress is essential for the printed electronics industry to achieve the game-changing results expected by analysts."
www.soligie.com
OSRAM and Ingo Maurer unveil OLED table lamp
OSRAM
Opto Semiconductors and lighting designer Ingo Maurer have unveiled a revolutionary lighting application based on OLEDs at the Light+Building Fair. Ingo Maurer is the first designer to use OLEDs
from OSRAM in a functioning table light. The limited-edition light, known as 'Early Future' uses tiles directly from the OSRAM laboratory and demonstrates the enormous potential of using OLEDs for lighting applications.
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors made prototypes of OLEDs available to Ingo Maurer for his exclusive creation. The designer used OLED tiles with an area of 132 x 33 mm for his creation.
For Maurer, unusual design is not an end in itself. "'Early Future' represents an important stage in the transition from abstract object to functional designer lighting," he said. Maurer
has been shaping developments in light-as-art and lighting design for many years and has received numerous awards for his avant-garde work with light.
www.osram-os.com
www.ingo-maurer.com
light-building.messefrankfurt.com
eMagin completes $1.7 million private offering
eMagin has completed a $1.7 million private placement of its common stock and warrants with both new and existing institutional investors. The net proceeds from the financing will be used to provide working capital.
Admiral Thomas Paulson, eMagin interim CEO, said, "These funds will not only help to support our balance sheet, but will also allow us to undertake capital expenditures on our production line to
support our efforts to increase revenues and meet expected demand this year and enhance the introduction of new products that will drive our growth in the years to come."
www.emagin.com
Thinfilm wins Frost & Sullivan award for printed electronics
Thin Film Electronics has received the 2007 Frost & Sullivan - European Printed Electronics Technology Innovation Award. Frost & Sullivan recognised Thinfilm for its pioneering contribution in the
use of polymers as the active material in electronic memory devices.
Rashmi Sundararajan, research analyst, Technical Insights at Frost & Sullivan, said, "The most promising prospect of Thinfilm's polymer memory lies in the fact that it is possibly the only non-volatile
memory that can be fabricated entirely by printing methods thereby being the prime candidate for printed embedded memory applications as well as printed stand-alone applications."
www.thinfilm.se
www.awards.frost.com
PolyIC wins best new product development award 2008
PolyIC's printed RFID tag, which was
first demonstrated at OEC-07 in September 2007, has been named Best New Product Development 2008 by IDTechEx.
The tag consists of roll-to-roll printed transponder chips based on the organic semiconductor polythiophene printed on flexible polyester film. The chips are mounted on a low-cost antenna and work at the
high-frequency range of 13.56 MHz.
Wolfgang Clemens, PolyIC Head of Applications, explained, "These first printed tags do not contain ID information, but a unique oscillating signal. The first applications of PolyID® are systems
for electronic presence detection and brand authentication."
www.polyic.com
www.oec-europe.com
MED appoints non-executive director and operations manager
MicroEmissive Displays (MED) has appointed Glenn Collinson as a non-executive director of the company and Alaistair Whyte as operations manager.
Collinson co-founded CSR, a fabless semiconductor company, providing single chip wireless devices, in 1998 and retired from the company 2007. He is currently a non-executive director of DiBcom, a fabless
semiconductor company manufacturing chipsets for low-power mobile and portable TV reception. Glenn also provides consultancy services to other high-tech start-ups throughout Europe in the fabless semiconductor sector.
Alaistair Whyte will be based at the company's manufacturing centre in Dresden bringing the total number of employees in Dresden to 34.
Whyte joined MED in August 2007 as Device Engineering Manager. Prior to this he spent 23 years in a variety of engineering positions at Motorola then Freescale, where he gained substantial volume manufacturing experience.
www.microemissive.com
Organic semiconductor industry market watch
Week ending 4 April 2008
Thin Film Electronics priced in Norwegian Kroner
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