Front End | News Smart surface user experiences with aXiom S
upporting the next generation of automotive user interfaces and experiences, TouchNetix has announced that its aXiom technology now supports
smart surfaces.
The aXiom user interface chip technology seamlessly and cost efficiently integrates underneath materials and fabrics. With, what is said to be, the market-leading signal-to-noise ratio, aXiom facilitates features such as touch, force-sensing, haptic feedback, and 3D proximity and hover sensing, even when the sensor and the user area is separated by an air gap. This technology can be implemented through all types of wood, plastic, glass, and fabric, and even in combination with one another.
Car manufacturers are increasingly looking to redefine automotive user experiences by providing intuitive, safer, and more modern user interfaces at lower costs. Backlit icons directly behind the dashboard fabric can be activated upon power-up or by the user utilizing aXiom’s 3D proximity sensing gesture technology. Combined with aXiom patented touch and force-sensing technology, this allows for a modern and low-cost implementation of key functions directly on the dashboard. The aXiom single-chip technology supports curved shapes, finger guides and sliders as well as buttons, either directly on the dashboard fabric, or on a touch display or pad.
The aXiom family of user interface chips (AX54A, AX80A, AX112A and AX198A) are in production and available now. Demo, evaluation, and development kits for all chips are also available. aXiom chips are qualified according to AEC-Q100, and the family is being ASIL ready certified.
https://www.touchnetix.com/
New sustainable materials with enhanced properties for a high-volume production of flexible plastronic products
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he European-funded MADRAS project has developed a set of new sustainable materials, which have been processed via In-Mould Electronics (IME), to fabricate a new generation of plastronic products with enhanced properties.
These materials include a sustainable substrate and three types of advanced inks to be implemented as Transparent Conductive Electrodes (TCEs) and Hole Transport Layers (HTLs), allowing the development of devices by printing techniques with increased robustness, while reducing their cost and environmental impact.
Advanced Interconnection_CIE 210x130 ad template 13/10/2021 11:31 Page 1 The improvement of these materials is
leading to a wider range of applications for Organic and Large Area Electronics (OLAE) products, device robustness, materials cost reduction, reduced environmental impact and high productivity rates.
The conductive and transparent nanocellulose substrate, based on cellulose nanofibrils films, is made from renewable resources, mostly wood. It has been optimised up to a transparency of 90 per cent, which is the level needed to substitute most of the polyester films used currently. Several conductive and semiconductive inks for functional printing applications have also been manufactured, including transparent and conductive inks based
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