Samsung Electronics is looking for European companies that will provide it with technology for cameras, sensors, materials and coatings, and use cases for wearables.

An event was held recently under the auspices of the Silicon Saxony organisation to bring Samsung purchasing and central R&D executives face-to-face with European technology companies and discuss opportunities for supply deals and cooperation.

Three separate parts of Samsung were represented, covering the functions of purchasing, development and advanced R&D, at a three-day meeting in Dresden at which they laid out a shopping list of topics of interest to the Korean giant. The Samsung Innovation Days were held January 19 to 21 and involved Samsung's International Procurement Centre (IPC), Digital Media and Communications R&D Centre (DMC) and the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT).

Samsung said that it was looking for technology to fit into Samsung products in the areas of consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications. Some of these could be ready for market and others still in development.

The different parts of Samsung attending the event have different time-scales of interest. IPC is interested in technologies ready in one to two years. DMC's horizon is three to five years while SAIT is looking out over three to 10 years.

New technologies & innovations for wearable devices:

•New user scenarios
•Next generation User Experience (UX)
•Low power components

New technology for camera products:

•Auto focus / MEMS actuator
•Optical image stabilisation
•Active Lens technology
•Actuators
•High efficiency IR sensing image sensor

New material technology:

•Transparent barrier / film
•NIM (Nano Insulation Material) Organic
•Heating surface
•Material transmitting IR rays
•Sapphire coating
•5 axis CNC
•Technology for waterproofing / water repelling

MEMS Sensors:

•Touch Sensor, Dust or particle, Fingerprint, Force, Reed, GSR Sensors
•Ambient light / RGB Sensor
•Gesture: Optical proximity sensor / 3D time of flight –TOF
•Inertial Sensors: Accelerometers, Gyroscopes, Pressure sensor, Humidity sensor & Magnetometer
•Vital Sign Sensors (for healthcare devices): non-contact, non-invasive, motion cancelling, low power

Sensors:

•Fibre detection (cloth)
•Thermopile Sensors: Non-contact temperature sensing
•ToF = Time of Flight (measuring distance / length): non-contact distance measuring sensor
•PIR / TIR Bolometer (IR) Sensor
•Pressure
•Temperature / humidity
•Ultrasound sensor
•Flex Sensor
•Radon sensor
•Non-contact sleep detection sensor

By: DocMemory
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