Business Applications for Printed Electronics

Eight companies print AC electroluminescent displays and lighting on flexible plastic film, some being several meters across. Kovio has trialled printed transistor circuits in train tickets. G24 innovations has recently made first deliveries from its UK reel to reel production of so-called Dye Sensitised Solar Cells and Nanosolar is building a factory in Berlin to print a different type of photovoltaics called CIGS. Promotional inserts made by Toppan Printing in Japan have partly printed electronics—they record and play back, yet they are paper thin.