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Canada launches visa program for hiring specialized foreign talent
June 11, Globe and Mail: Canadian technology companies are greeting a new federal blueprint for hiring foreign talent with open arms – and cautious optimism. The Canadian government’s global skills visa program – part of its Global Skills Strategy – officially opened...
read moreGraniz Mondal Inc., CPEIA Member Group NanoXplore Inc. announce intent to merge
June 8: The Proposed Transaction is an arm's length reverse takeover. NanoXplore of Montreal is Canada's largest producer of graphene and one of the largest graphene producers in the world. It supplies few layer graphene powder, master batch pellets of...
read moreMaking Flexible Electronics with Nanowire Networks
June 6, Scientific American: At CPES2017 recently, the CPEIA named NanoCnet as our first Startup of the Year. What is the market potential for this company's silver nanowire technology? This is a field that is crucial for flexible smartphones, e-paper and a new...
read moreiOS 11 could use the iPhone’s NFC chip for more than Apple Pay
June 6, Engadget: A new framework will give iOS apps access to the short-range protocol which could create new opportunities for CPEIA Members in the NFC space. Apple already announced new NFC functions coming to the Apple Watch with watchOS 4, but according to...
read moreUltra-thin printed copper-clad polyimide using photonic sintering for HDI applications
CPEIA member company Novacentrix and Intrinsiq Materials have teamed up to create a high-performance, low cost, copper-clad polyimide achieved without the use of adhesives or time-consuming sputtering.These printed electronic thin film substrates cannot be produced...
read moreInformation Mediary Corp.’s Med-ic Syringe Pack equipped with Med-ic ECM wins 2016 HCPC Innovative Design Award
May 8, New Jersey and Ottawa – For the third time, Ottawa-based smart packaging and printed electronics developer and CPEIA member Information Mediary Corp (IMC) (www.informationmediary.com) has been awarded the prestigious "Package of the Year Award" by the...
read moreStretchable electronics: everything you need to know
May 3, Printed Electronics World: Stretchable Electronics is a term that conceals great diversity. Indeed, it is an umbrella term that refers to a whole host of emerging electronic materials, components and devices that exhibit some degree of mechanical...
read moreBiodegradable electronics could cut e-waste
May 3, newelectronics: A United Nations Environment Program report has found there was almost 50 million tons of electronic waste in 2017. Looking to address the issue, Stanford engineer Professor Zhenan Bao and her team have created a flexible electronic device that...
read moreA once forgotten element holds promise for the future of electronics
April 19, Yale News: Discovered more than 100 years ago, black phosphorus was soon forgotten when there was no apparent use for it. In what may prove to be one of the great comeback stories of electrical engineering, it now stands to play a crucial role in the future...
read moreXerox CEO: Our journey from paper docs to printed electronics
April 18, Tech Republic: CEO Jeff Jacobson on how Xerox will transcend it roots, and emerge from a declining industry by investing in new technologies. He acknowledges that Xerox needs to change tack, to refocus its efforts on areas in print where demand is growing,...
read more‘Spray-on’ memory opens the door for future bendable storage devices
April 4, Electronics 360: Ubiquitous USB flash drives are used by many to transport information from one device to another or for storing information that is easy to distribute. Researchers at Duke University are working on a technology that could one day enable this...
read moreIn-mould electronics enable innovative functional surfaces
March 28, EETimes Europe: Dutch-Belgian R&D powerhouse Holst Centre has presented a functional demonstrator for intuitive human-machine interfaces, based on the in-mold electronics (IME) technology developed there. The demonstrator, a centre console for vehicles,...
read moreSee-through flexible e-skin is powered by underlying photovoltaics
March 24, EETimes Europe: Researchers at the University of Glasgow have devised a graphene-based transparent and flexible capacitive touch-sensor that not only delivers touch-detection but also pressure-sensing. Because it is transparent, the tactile sensitive layer...
read more3D-printed sensor-integrated skin for robots
March 24, Electronics360: Skin for robots that is flexible but coated with sensors is something that could revolutionize a number of industries, but the costs would be extreme. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory may have...
read moreUsing inkjet printing to build intelligent flexible hybrid circuits
March 14, Electronics360: Researchers from the University of Barcelona have developed a bonding technique to build intelligent flexible hybrid circuits using an inkjet printer with silver nanoparticles ink. The need for a fast yet reliable and cheap process for...
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