Ultra-thin and electricity-saving organic light diodes, OLEDs, have been introduced commercially in mobile phones, cameras and super-thin TVs.

Gresham Power Electronics, the Salisbury-based defence and commercial power solutions designers and manufacturers, has won a major contract for the Australian Navy to supply helicopter starting rectifiers and DC power distribution systems for the Hobart Class air warfare destroyer.

Infineon Technologies and ARM have signed a long-term strategic collaboration in the field of security controllers (MCU) for chip cards and security applications.

In its 3D Display Technology and Market Forecast Report, DisplaySearch forecasts that the total stereoscopic 3D display market will grow from 0.7 million units in 2008 to 196 million units in 2018, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 38% for revenue and 75% for units.

Australian company Digital Works has made a major breakthrough in the global battery charger market by developing two first-to-market products that leverage USB technology to charge different mobile devices from the one unit as well as standard rechargeable batteries.

Global large-area TFT LCD panel shipments reached a record high of 527 million units in 2009, with strong growth in TV, mini-note and public display applications, indicating recovery from the economic crisis in late 2008, according to the DisplaySearch Quarterly Large-Area TFT LCD Shipment Report.

Digi-Key has expanded its agreement with CTS Corporation to include the Tusonix range of EMI/RFI filters, capacitor assemblies and related components.

Renesas has completed a new building to increase microcontroller production capacity at the back-end process plant of Renesas Semiconductor in Beijing, China.

January LCD monitor production for top PC and monitor brands­ - about 85% of the market­ - was 12.5m, the highest level in more than a year, as noted in the newly announced DisplaySearch Monthly Desktop Monitor Brand and OEM Production Report.

Imec says it will take part in the Green Touch Initiative, a consortium initiated by Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent.

Fuelled by a rapidly developing OLED lighting market and many new applications for OLED displays beyond mobile phone sub-displays and MP3 players, there will be an explosion in demand for OLED materials of all kinds, says a new report from NanoMarkets, an industry analysis firm based in the US.

Essensium NV, a fabless provider of low-power systems-on-chip, has joined the Wavenis Open Standard Alliance as a participating member, enabling it to influence the voting committees as the first semiconductor member while continuing its partnership with Coronis SAS to complete Coronis's first Wavenis-compliant SOC.

The Opera electromagnetic simulator has played an important role in the design of the particle beam steering magnet currently being commissioned at Italy's hadron therapy centre in Milan - the Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica (CNAO).

Semikron has expanded its global network of solution centres to Zhuhai, China, that specialises in designing and manufacturing Semistack power assemblies, for wind generators and solar power inverters.

National Instruments and Denso Robotics are collaborating to integrate NI measurement and vision technology with Denso robotic arms. This is expected to increase productivity and performance in automated test, research and flexible manufacturing applications.