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 ...

In a recent study published in Nature Electronics, an international team of researchers led by Fudan University in China examined the potential for printable, wirelessly powered sensor nodes that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A huge portion of electronic devices that are discarded at the end of their lives are never recycled, and a big part of the problem is the difficulty in separating out and recovering the valuable ...

In a groundbreaking new study, researchers used a customized, low-cost 3-D printer to print electronics on a real hand for the first time. The technology could be used by soldiers on the battlefield ...

Printable electronics are probably the holy grail of gadgets, they have been talked about for ages but very few products have actually emerged. This is mostly because of the high cost involved in ...

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 ...