Foldable handsets normalised the technology, but the next wave — slates, laptops, automotive interiors and rollable TV — is what turns flexible OLED from a flagship feature into a display-industry baseline. We unpack the numbers behind the 24.6% growth forecast.
Silver flake still dominates conductive ink formulations on performance and process maturity. But with silver trading near historic highs, copper and graphene alternatives are finally winning design-ins where cost-per-gram matters more than conductivity headroom.
After a decade of conference demos, printed pressure arrays are shipping in soft grippers, rehabilitation wearables and surgical training tools — applications where conformality beats the precision of silicon MEMS at a fraction of the cost.
R2R equipment spending is rising on the back of flexible display and sensor volume. We look at where the tool orders are landing, and why registration accuracy — not throughput — remains the industry's hard problem.
Indoor photovoltaics are quietly becoming organic electronics' most practical near-term market — powering sensors and e-labels where batteries and wiring don't make sense.
Six analyst houses, a ten-fold spread, and a lesson in how to read any electronics forecast. We compare the numbers, find the definitional fault lines, and explain which figure to use for which decision.
Skin patches made printed batteries a commercial reality. Inside the ~28% CAGR flexible-battery market and the disposable medical devices pulling it forward.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the fifth edition in New Delhi. Organisers expect hundreds of exhibitors, though the published figures do not agree.
Nanjing University and Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report 27.35% in the lab and 26.88% certified, ahead of the 26.4% SERIS reported in 2025.
E-paper price tags now ship in the hundreds of millions a year — the one display category where printed-electronics unit economics already work at scale.
Pharma cold chain needs per-package temperature proof, not one logger per pallet. A printed antenna and a threshold indicator answer exactly that question.
4 Sep 2026/5 min read
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