DANBURY, CT -- Quantum Solar Group LLC is a new venture formed to help PCB, SMT and electronic assembly industries and industry suppliers better understand the commercial opportunities available in the area of solar technology.
Founders Marc Chason, Dr. James J. Hickman and Gene H. Weiner (with +100 years of electronics expertise in PCB fabrication and assembly industries) plan to help with the expansion of existing equipment and consumable supplies into the solar industry.
QSG will focus on assembly processes, new chemicals and materials needed to meet the technology trends resulting from new solar power applications.
PALO ALTO, CA – The flex circuit
market was worth some $7.3 billion in 2007 and will reach $16.4 billion in
2014, says research firm Frost & Sullivan.
Innovative demands from
various end-user verticals including telecommunications, automotive, aerospace
and defense, medical, and industrial packaging expect to fuel robust growth in
the flexible printed circuit board market. The compliant nature of flex
circuits makes it useful in dynamic motion products, and its development
dramatically alter the landscape of the PCB market. Flex has also become the
technology of choice for advance packaging, which includes both multichip and
3-D, says Frost.
URBANA, IL and WEST LAFAYETTE, IN -- Researchers at Purdue University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have successfully created networks of carbon nanotubes.
This technology will make it possible to create print circuits on plastic sheets for applications including flexible displays. Carbon nanotube transistors can be used to create high-performance, shock-resistant, lightweight and flexible integrated circuits. Nanonets are produced at low temperatures so the circuitry can be placed on flexible plastic sheets, reducing base material costs.
Nanonets are circuits made of numerous carbon nanotubes that randomly overlap in a fishnet-like structure. Until recently, this technology has not demonstrated production robustness. The nanonet networks were often contaminated with random metallic nanotubes that caused shorts.
The problem was solved by cutting the net into strips to break the path of metallic nanotubes and eliminate the shorts.
The researchers created a flexible circuit containing more than 100 transistors, the largest nanonet ever produced and the first demonstration of a working nanonet circuit.
BEIJING – With the Olympics around the corner, Chinese authorities in Beijing have restricted the traffic flow of goods and materials in an approximate 200-mile ring around the city through Oct. 17.
ARLINGTON, VA – US shipments of consumer electronics will top $173 billion in 2008, according to new data from the Consumer Electronics Association. That’s up $2 billion from the trade group’s January estimates.
CEA now forecasts shipments will grow 7.3%, and will another 6% next year, reaching more than $183 billion.
