Printed Electronics is Pivotal to the Future of Mobile Phones

There are plenty of startups in this subject as well. For example, speaker Vishal Shrotriya is from Solarmer Energy. This is a company based in El Monte in Southern California, around 10 miles east of downtown LA. Solarmer was founded through private equity funding in 2006, and obtained exclusive licenses on key patents from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as its seed IP. Solarmer is developing translucent, flexible and low-cost plastic solar cells which are versatile and aesthetically pleasing. He says, “Our novel technology uses conjugated organic polymers as the active material, and as a result, our plastic solar cells have the potential to be light-weight and easy to manufacture on a large-scale at a much lower cost than traditional silicon and other thin-film PV cells. Solarmer has established a state of the art research and development center and its corporate office in El Monte. We are currently recruiting engineers, scientists and managers to build a world class R&D and management teams.”