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Organic compounds for “printed electronics” and revolutionary forms of lighting

Solvay Solexis and Thin Film Electronics ASA (Norway) are collaborating to get the best out of ferroelectric polymer materials and obtain enhanced performance from electronic memory in the form of printed thin layers.

Solvay’s involvement in printed electronics and in research aimed at replacing solar cells based on crystalline silicon with organic cells, which would be cheaper, is also achieved by research contracts with Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) and by an investment in the Plextronics company.

Applications of printed electronics being developed include diffuse lighting panels using organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), which are very energy-efficient, and flexible screens, which produce greater contrast and are thinner, opening the way to portable televisions the size of a poster and mobile-phones that could be rolled up.