POWERFILM: Roll-to-Roll Plastic Displays

Engineers and technophiles have long dreamt of plastic-based displays that are flexible, lightweight, and rugged compared to their glass-backed counterparts. But plastic screens still aren’t widely available, partly because they’re so hard to manufacture reliably in large numbers. Now a company called Phicot has adapted a technique for printing amorphous silicon electronics onto plastic that [...]

POWERFILM EXPECTS TO WIN A BIG CONTRACT

The Corps plans to spend $9 million to equip Marines deployed to Afghanistan with portable solar panels by 2012. It wants to increase the number of solar-powered generators there from nine to 300 by December 2012. One of the companies likely to vie for at least part of the $9 million is PowerFilm (PFLM.L), which [...]