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.
The 2026 Kindles use what Amazon calls a reverse stack construction, oxide backplanes and, on the colour model, nitride LEDs in the front light. Resolution for the larger models was not stated.
Soft optical fibres roughened on one side tell bending up from bending down. The reconstruction error is under 4mm, but the fibres are still a millimetre thick and the electronics sit off the sheet.
UC San Diego, Princeton and Sungkyunkwan researchers report 26.5% cells, 25.9% certified, from a two-salt additive. The stability test is short and the LED results are thinly described.
At a technical seminar on 8 October the company gave its first detailed numbers for FLiPP, which patterns OLED pixels by photolithography. No production date or investment figure was given.
Falling prices for 27-inch gaming monitors are doing most of the work. TCL CSOT's inkjet-printed panels add a third supplier, though not at scale until 2028.
The two companies told a Texas court on 8 October that both suits were resolved. Neither said what Samsung paid, if anything, after a patent-office ruling removed nearly half the damages.
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