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.
Shown at IFA 2026 as a concept, the ThinkBook prototype trades a thicker lid for a wider workspace, and raises the usual questions about durability.
The filing shows 3.6 million rings sold in a year and about 5 million paying members, while Ultrahuman prepares to ship a redesigned Ring Pro in the US.
With silver futures near $66 an ounce, IDTechEx expects pure silver-flake ink to fall to 32% of conductive-ink demand by the end of the decade.
A foundry-compatible process thins photonic circuits to a few microns on polyester film, with curved AR displays and conformable health monitors in view.
At SEMICON Taiwan, AUO showed glass core substrates made with Corning glass, and Innolux promoted a 620 × 750 mm RDL substrate made on repurposed G3.5 display lines.
The Series B funds Alpha, a wrist-worn display fed by Smack’s Omega AI software, which the company says is about a year from a working prototype.
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