A full subscription to +Plastic Electronics, your source of the latest news on the business and market strategies for organic and printable electronics, is available for just £95.
For only £95 subscribers receive six 64-page issues in each volume, which are published bimonthly. The editorial published in +Plastic Electronics magazine is exclusive to the publication. Over 40 individual sources are interviewed for each issue, globally.
Take a look at a sample article on Nanoident from our first ever issue.
What do I get in each issue?
Plugged in
In each issue an exclusive 20-page editorial analyses opportunities for printed, organic and hybrid electronics in an end-use market. To produce the reports our journalists and editors consult a range of data and information sources - market report forecasts, event presentations, websites, news sources, blogs - and hold interviews with developers, end-users, regulators, analysts and other experts.
These consultancy-level reports track the commercial status and potential of plastic electronics in different end-use markets and explore the specific challenges each industry presents to developers of these technologies and their supply chain partners. The depth of research means these issues can be retained long after publication for consultation and reference. Our 'Plugged in' series has so far have covered: Construction, healthcare, sport and outdoor wear, packaging, lighting and solar cells.
Features on commercialisation
Innovation is crucial for those brand owners and end-users that are at the top of their market or are looking to crack new ones, but it carries huge risk. +Plastic Electronics magazine takes you inside the strategies of brand owners and end users developing new products using plastic electronics.
Wire
Provides in-depth analysis of the most significant stories to break in the industry.
Circuit
Dissects the big debates taking place at leading industry events throughout the year and provides an event diary.
Market watch
Exclusive extracts of market report forecasts and data from IntertechPira, packed with tables and analysis for organic and printed electronics in applications, markets and processes including OLED and EL lighting and displays, solar cells, smart packaging, printing, e-paper and textiles.
Regional focus
Profiles clusters of emerging plastic and printed electronics R&D and production, and investment strategies.
Standby
Reveals the next product launches featuring plastic electronics to look out for.
Who should subscribe ?
- OLED and LED producers
- Printed electronics materials suppliers
- Organic and dye solar cell developers
- E-paper and e-reader producers
- Lighting companies
- Printable and organic battery makers
- Backplane producers
- Conductive films
- Paper and plastics substrate producers
- Chemicals companies supplying coatings
- Inkjet, flexo, gravure and offset and materials to plastic electronics print equipment suppliers
- Silver and conductive inks
- Consultants in emerging technologies
- Device integrators
- Science parks and technopoles
- Regional, states and national investment agencies
- Banks and financial institutions
- Venture capital companies
- Brand owners looking to use plastic and printed electronics in new products
Take a look at a sample article on Nanoident from our first ever issue.
Cover Feature: Pressing for change
Brand owners worldwide are seeing the potential for printed electronics in paper and board applications: from birthday cards and children's books, to board games and packaging.
In this headline article, Hallmark speaks to +Plastic Electronics about where these emerging technologies could be used, while its UK business Tigerprint discusses its collaboration with Nano ePrint on a series of cards for Marks & Spencer. Print Yorkshire, Novalia and Polyscorp also reveal their work on applications and manufacturing plans for integrated electronics.
Silver service
Printed electronics rely on the high conductivity inks deposited onto flexible substrates. And silver-based inks offer the conductivity needed to drive these emerging applications.
Nanogap is a producer of nanomaterial inks that could help create new products such as printed displays, integrated RFID and electronic advertising. Executive director Allen Reid discusses the company's work on nanosilver inks, how they are being prepared for market, and the R&D projects that are pushing this progress.
Plugged in
Nanomaterials are used to add new or enhanced functionality to materials, and technology such as nanosensors and nanoinks are likely to play a big part in making printed electronics efficient and economical.
In this Plugged in feature, +Plastic Electronics runs a series of articles on the opportunities for exploiting nanotechnology in printed and organic electronics, and challenges to widespread market use. Developers such as Novacentrix, Intrinsiq Materials, Bayer MaterialScience and Nano Science Diagnostics reveal their strategies to progress in the market.
Market watch
Nanomaterials have the potential to create new materials and devices for diverse applications, including medicine, electronics and energy production. Nanotechnology is already being used to improve paper and board, inks and pigments.
Market watch uses information from Pira market reports to illuminate the biggest markets for nanotechnology-based printed electronics, and forecast growth areas.
The wire
Mitsubishi Chemical's scale-up of OLED lighting manufacture, and LG's plans to work with ex-Kodak employees at TechnoCorp Energy suggest that OLED lighting is becoming the focus of Asia's electronics manufacturers.
UK-based projects are pushing the development of building-integrated photovoltaics, as Dyesol, Corus Colors, Polysolar and Pilkington Glass prepare business offerings for the construction market.
Apple's iPad is making e-reader companies like Bookeen, Polymer Vision and Plastic Logic change their market approach - though the iPad is by no means an e-reader killer.
And paper could be the substrate of choice for printed electronic power devices. R&D at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Institute for Print and Media Technology at Chemnitz University of Technology aims to prove cheap production of paper-based photovoltaics.
Circuit
+Plastic Electronics reports from Smart Fabrics 2010 in Miami, Florida. The April event included presentations on best practice for getting smart textile products to market, and discussions on how to attract interest and partnership from commercial brands. Presentations came from the likes of Textronics, Ardica Technologies and Angel Chang.
Organic Photovoltaics 2010 in Philadelphia highlighted the ways in which developers can exploit the unique characteristics of organic solar cells to find commercial applications. Presentations also revealed the major obstacles to practical use of organic cells, and proposed technical solutions, with talks from Navigant Consulting and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
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