03/27/2008  March 27, 2008 -- /PRNewswire/ -- PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Honeywell (NYSE:HON) announcesthat it will expand production of Aclar^R film to meet growing demand for the clear, moisture-barrier material, which is used extensively in pharmaceutical packaging.

03/01/2008  ;inclusion of the annual Small Tech Business Directory—this issue features another one: For the first time, Small Times is supplementing its standard print features with “Web exclusive feature articles” available only online.

02/04/2008  Smart credit cards with embedded displays, e-packaging with printed RFID chips, and mobile devices with rollable, e-paper screens are among the flexible, printed, and organic electronics (FPOE)-enabled gizmos that have reached or are about to reach commercialization. But significant manufacturing and infrastructure challenges remain for this to become a multibillion-dollar market, as Small Times Senior Contributing Editor Tom Cheyney explains

01/24/2008  ; ZESTRON Asia/Pacific has announced its recent relocation to a much larger facility in Shanghai, China. Located in the Zun Xuan Industrial Park, ZESTRON's new facility is reportedly home to the largest Asia/Pacific Application Technology Center.

01/24/2008  ; Honeywell Electronic Materials and the US Display Consortium (USDC), a public/private partnership chartered with developing the supply chain for the flat panel display industry, have announced a new agreement to develop materials for flexible electronics. Under this new $500,000 agreement, Honeywell will focus on developing materials to prevent short circuits in leading-edge flexible electronics for devices used by the US military.

01/22/2008  ; hopefully before anybody else does.

01/16/2008  EV Group, a supplier of manufacturing equipment for the advanced packaging/3D interconnect, MEMS, SOI (silicon-on-insulator), nanotechnology, compound semiconductor and silicon-based power devices markets, says it has received a multi-million-Euro order from a leading European plastic electronics manufacturer for the high-volume production of flexible displays.

10/26/2007  ; Leaders in the emerging printed electronics sector will be showcasing technological advances at the 3rd Global Plastic Electronics Conference from October 29-30th in Frankfurt, Germany. Printed electronics technology enables new products or significant improvements, in applications such as handheld devices, flexible displays, or printed sensors and batteries.

10/18/2007  Before "Star Trek" devices became near-prototypes for futuristic real-life gadgets, the "Dick Tracy" wristwatch phone inspired generations of engineers. Universal Display's PHOLED technology is helping to make the tiny-display portion of that dream a reality.

07/10/2007  Nantero, Inc. says it is working with HP to explore the use of HP inkjet technology and Nantero's carbon nanotube formulation to create flexible electronics products and develop low-cost printable memory applications.

05/22/2007  NANOIDENT Technologies AG says it has delivered the world's largest printed semiconductor-based photodetector array on a flexible PET foil substrate. The company says the array eliminates the need for costly optical filters.

05/09/2007  May 9, 2007 - Solar PV silicon startup Solaicx says it has closed a Series C round of funding totaling $27.1 million, led by the D.E. Shaw group, with participation from several VC firms as well as an increased investment from Applied Materials' VC arm.

03/01/2007  Georgia Tech researchers have used the semiconducting and piezoelectric properties of zinc oxide nanowires to create a new class of electronic components and devices that could provide the foundation for a broad range of new applications.

02/15/2007  As the first commercial flexible electronics reach consumers, significant manufacturing and technological obstacles remain for the potential multibillion-dollar market. This was one of the key themes at last week's Flexible Display & Microelectronics Conference.

01/19/2007  Advance Nanotech Inc., a New York-based provider of financing and support services to drive the commercialization of nanotechnology related products for homeland security and display technologies, announced that its subsidiary, Advance Display Technologies plc (ADT), commenced trading on the PLUS-quoted market in London.

01/03/2007  January 3, 2007 - Taiwan's government-funded Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has set an aggressive budget over the next two years to support research and development of flexible electronic technologies and products, according to the Taiwan Economic News.

11/20/2006  November 20, 2006 - Furthering its newfound interests in the high-growth solar market, Applied Materials Inc. says it has invested $3.0 million in Solaicx, a privately held manufacturer of single-crystal silicon wafers for the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry. The firm plans to use the investment to open a second manufacturing site in the US by next year.

10/01/2006  GOLDEN, CO - To build high-volume manufacturing facilities for its proprietary thin-film batteries, Infinite Power Solutions (IPS) attracted funding from existing and new corporate investors.

08/31/2006  U.S. scientists using an off-the-shelf inkjet printer have developed a technique for printing patterns of carbon nanotubes on paper and plastic surfaces.

08/07/2006  August 7, 2006 - Arrowhead Research Corp. and the U. of Florida say they will collaborate on development of flexible thin-film transistors (TFT) using carbon nanotubes.