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Thin Film Electronics ASA (Oslo Stock Exchange : ( THIN )) is a Norwegian printed electronics company, headquartered in Oslo with its main R&D offices in Linköping, Sweden. Thin Film Electronics ASA ("Thinfilm") produces rewriteable non-volatile memories based on ferroelectric polymers using roll-to-roll printing. Thinfilm has been developing memories based on polymer materials since 1994; first as part of Opticom ASA and then as an independent company. For the first ten years, the focus was on hybrid memory devices with polymer-based memory and silicon-based control circuitry, as developed jointly with Intel.〔(Doubles its stake in 'Flash killer' Polymer RAM producer ) The Inquirer, 27 June 2001〕 From 2006, Thinfilm has concentrated its efforts on printed electronics. Thinfilm successfully demonstrated roll-to-roll printed organic memory in 2009, and was awarded IDTechEx Technical Development Manufacturing Award the same year.〔(Thinfilm and InkTec awarded IDTechEx' Technical Development Manufacturing Award ) IDTechEx, 15 April 2009〕〔(PolyIC, ThinFilm announce pilot of volume printed plastic memories ) EETimes, 22 September 2009〕〔(All set for high-volume production of printed memories ) Printed Electronics World, 12 April 2010〕〔(Thin Film Electronics Plans to Provide ‘Memory Everywhere’ ) Printed Electronics Now, May 2010〕 In September 2012, Thinfilm was selected by web 2.0 blog GigaOM as one of its Top 15 Mobile companies that are changing or could potentially change the mobile landscape in a significant way.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://gigaom.com/2012/09/18/gigaom-mobile-15/ )〕 In January 2014 Thinfilm acquired the assets of Kovio and opened the Thinfilm NFC Innovation Center in San Jose.〔http://www.thinfilm.no/investor-relations/market-announcements/page/6/〕 ==Technology== The ferroelectric polymer is sandwiched between two sets of electrodes in a passive matrix. Each crossing of metal lines is a ferroelectric capacitor and defines a memory cell. This gives a non-volatile memory comparable to ferroelectric RAM technologies and offer the same functionality as flash memory.〔(Printed non-volatile rewritable ferro-electric memories ) EETimes, July 2011〕 Thinfilm's patented passive matrix dispenses with the need of active circuitry within the memory cell. It allows the memory to be separate from the read/write electronics enabling stand alone application without integration with printed logic. The passive array memory architecture also enables high density memories as well as the possibility to stack memory layers on top of each other. In October 2013, Thinfilm produced the first ever electronically printed (stand-alone sensor ) system. The sensor was built in the form of a temperature tracking label and is expected to go into production in 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thin Film Electronics ASA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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