First Generation Roll-to-Roll printed RFID - Status and Future

Since 2004 Wolfgang Mildner is Managing Director of the newly founded PolyIC GmbH&Co.KG. PolyIC is a Joint Venture between SIEMENS AG and Leonhard Kurz GmbH. PolyIC develops new technologies, which will provide electronics from a printing machine. Additionally he is acting as Chairman of the Organic Electronic Association/VDMA.

 

Before joining PolyIC, he worked in several business positions for Siemens AG since 1986. He was responsible for a number of projects turning promising technologies to business. He studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Erlangen

PolyIC produces printed electronics in a high-speed printing process. Printed electronics means that in a printing process electrical conducting and semi conducting plastics, so called polymers, are applied in several layers on a polyester film. The printing process is conducted in an exactly defined design so that electronic devices can be created. These devices are integrated, for example, into a RFID (radio frequency identification) tag. PolyIC's product line for RFID is called PolyID. Printed electronics makes low-cost RFID tags possible that can be used for mass applications. Furthermore, this new technology is also used in displays and complex systems, called smart objects. PolyIC sells smart objects under the name of PolyLogo.

 

PolyIC is a joint venture between Siemens AG and Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG and is located in Fuerth, Germany. PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 2003.