Printed electronics allows manufacturers to print or roll materials onto surfaces to produce an electronically functional device.
Printed electronics require conductors to create light or energy and that usually happens with calcium, magnesium or lithium.
Printed electronics holds out the promise of flexible devices that can be fabricated at high volume and low cost.
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And, the creation of that plastic solar cell could change the requirements for the manufacturing of organic printed electronics.
The combination of FDM 3D printing and printed electronics technologies can provide benefits over traditional prototyping, manufacturing and field repair processes.
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Over the past eight years, Plextronics scientists have refined and further developed this technology to deliver exceptional performance for printed electronics.
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That plastic solar cell was created through a special program at Georgia Tech called the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE), which studies the use and development of printed electronics.
Last year in April 2012, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology created the first plastic solar cell (Forbes: New Technique Creates First Plastic Solar Cell) which they hope will help change requirements for manufacturing of organic printed electronics.
The most ambitious is Socket HMD, a complete 1, 280 x 800 headset that involves a 3D-printed shell and custom-assembled electronics.
Multi-Fineline Electronics, a provider of flexible printed circuit boards used in mobile phones and other products, late Thursday warned that results for its fiscal third quarter ended June 30 will fall short of previous estimates.
Plextronics, Inc. is an international technology company that specializes in printed solar, lighting, display and other organic electronics.
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These three kits are perfect companions to the MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer, as they all require custom items to hold the electronics, which can all be 3D printed on a MakerBot.
In electronics, an example is Meiko Corporation, a leader in printed board production.
Miniaturized as todays drug laboratory may seem, it hardly goes beyond what electronics manufacturers were doing 40 years ago when they came up with printed circuit boards.
Singapore makes lots of other electronics devices: printers, CD-ROM drives, DVD drives and printed circuit boards -- not to mention DRAMs (memory chips) and the sound cards and graphics cards found in PCs.
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