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Full-colour AMOLED display is glass-free & flexible
FlexEnable has partnered with Chunghwa Picture Tube to drive the penetration of truly flexible AMOLED displays, a market predicted to explode to $16bn by 2020, according to the IDTechEX July 2014 report,The rise of plastic and flexible OLED displays.
Printed electronics will experience a CAGR of 8.6%
By Raghu Das The printed electronics sector has been fascinating to follow and report on. Several billion dollar industries such as OLED displays already exist but the OLEDs today are not printed. OLED displays alone exceeded $16bn in sales last year, driven by the need to differentiate in the tight margin LCD business. By revenue, the second largest sector is the printing of sensors. In 2014, the glucose test strip market accounted $6.4bn, whil...
Thermal interface materials to reach $3.7bn by 2015
Recent research, conducted by IDTechEx, finds that the Thermal Interface Materials market (TIM), including tapes, adhesives, greases, gels, pastes, elastomeric pads, phase change materials, graphite, solders, compressible materials and liquid metals, will grow from $1.7bn in 2015 to $3.7bn in 2025. Most growth is due to elastomeric pads, phase change materials and solders. Full details of the analysis is available in the IDTechEx Research report ...
Who controls the future of the automotive industry?
By Franco Gonzalez, Senior Research Analyst, IDTechEx. The days of car companies controlling the future of the automotive industry are numbered. Indeed, waves of creative destruction and globalisation are shaking the industry. All incumbent companies established and new, are either resisting or acting, sometimes both!
Motor's improved power-to-weight ratio suits atmospheric satellites
Newcastle University has been chosen by Boeing to develop an ultra-lightweightelectric motorfor an upper atmosphere electric aircraft. These spidery fixed-wing aircraft can have the wingspan of a jumbo jet but the weight of a small car. Such 'atmospheric satellites' are being designed to take 10,000lb payloads into atmospheric orbit at 65,000 ft.
The multi-billion dollar market for crossover motorcycles
By Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx The IDTechEx report, titled Electric Motorcycles and Three Wheel Electric Vehicles 2015-2025, reveals gaps in the market as e-motorcycles and their three wheel derivatives become a multi-billion dollar market. One gap is the crossover between bikes and motorcycles created as a premium-priced product.
Flexible battery market to increase to $400m by 2025
After years of slow progress from small companies, flexible batteries now have the attention of bigger brands such as Apple, Samsung, LG Chemical, Nokia and STMicroelectronics. These companies are set to drive the flexible battery market from $69m in 2015 to over $400m in 2025, according to IDTechEx Research in their latest reportFlexible, Printed and Thin Film Batteries 2015-2025.
Rapid evolution benefits design, but makes testing redundant
Autonomous vehicles are successful here and now but you are unlikely to meet one, because the successes are in the upper atmosphere, open cast mines, nuclear power stations, underwater, and in other relatively inaccessible places. As the IDTechEx report Autonomous Vehicles: Land, Water, Air 2015-2035 explains, the primary technology of an autonomous vehicle is that which confers autonomy and the powertrain, which is usually electric.
Hybrid vehicle range extenders: goodbye pistons
Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx Hybrid vehicles are already big business from hybrid cars, buses and trucks to outdoor forklifts, even hybrid tugboats. Indeed, many hybrid aircraft will soon appear. An increasing majority of hybrid powertrains are series hybrids where the engine only charges the battery: it never drives the wheels. As explained in the IDTechEx report, Range Extenders for Electric Vehicles Land, Water & Air 2015-2025, th...
Electric buses more advanced than you think
Recent IDTechEx conference presentations and webinars on the research carried out for the IDTechEx report, titled Electric Buses 2015-2025, attracted many questions. They reveal a general perception that things are moving much more slowly than is actually the case, with the exception of a few aspects such as use of fuel cells and continuous charging, both of which are failing to progress at the intended speed.