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Tuesday, 03 Apr 2012
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Wednesday, 04 Apr 2012
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Tuesday April 03, 2012
Opening Keynotes (08:45 - 14:25)
08:45 - 09:10 "Printed Electronics 2012-2022: The Reality, Opportunity and Winners So Far"
• An overview of the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) industry
• Products and markets within the IVD industry
• Opportunities for new technologies in diagnostics
- Volume drives cost - low cost opens new applications
- P&G and Printed Electronic - how does these fit together
- Let's challenge the chicken and egg paradoxes - Systems vs. Costs vs. Scale
10:25 Break
- Recently, demanding issues evolved from flat panel displays (FPDs) system are concerned with development of high-performance and low cost thin-film transistors (TFTs) backplanes on desired substrates by easy-to-process yet highly integrated system.
- In particular, even though active-matrix display with printable, novel semiconductors is attractive among FPDs, it is not realized because new organic semiconductors comparable to conventional a-Si TFT technologies are not developed.
- For the production of well-defined and very uniform printed OTFT arrays, we have molecularly designed ambient processable functionalized conjugated copolymers with liquid-crystalline nature, enabling the high-performance OTFTs.
- Our approaches enable the realization of polymer based flexible color-display, and offer a promising solution for the advance of future display.
- Use of transparent conductive oxides in inorganic photovoltaics
- Direct write approaches for metallization (Ag, Cu, Ni, and Al)
- Atmospheric processing of thin film solar cells
- Predictions for change in the field of education
- Traditional textbooks vs. electronic displays
- How printed electronics and electronic paper will transform education
12:45 LUNCH
Consumer Packaged Goods (14:25 - 16:45)
14:25 - 14:50 "Printed Electronics; a Great Enabler for Communicating the Brand Story"- Overview of Oxylane
- Advantage/disadvantage of current technologies used in electronic sport products
- Opportunities of Printed Electronics for sport products (new functionalities, user's & industry's requirements...)
• Current Landscape of electronics integration in Print Media and Promotions
• Demonstration of actual production samples for Blue Chip Brands involving electronics
• Future landscape of printed electronics in Print Media and Promotions.
16:05 Break
Consumer Electronics (16:45 - 17:10)
16:45 - 17:10 "Printed Wireless Power and Electronics (Opportunities to Accelerate Printed Wireless Power Technology Development)"- Connecting industry to applications using wireless power - a link that enables a value based application of printed electronics, like intelligent and controllable business cards , magazines, and interactive packaging .
- Fulton is connecting industries and technology providers through wireless power with power control using printed components and working off a universal wireless power standard (Qi) in current and future projects.
- Wireless power industry seeking to build strong relationships with companies that provide interesting technologies that solve real problems when combined with wireless power.
-Providing the capability to power and read data from printed circuits allows many new and unique opportunities.
End User Forum (17:10 - 18:00)
17:10 - 18:00 "Abbott Diagnostics, Mars, IDTechEx"18:00 Track 1 Ends
OLED Displays (14:25 - 15:40)
14:25 - 14:50 "OLED Progress: Fact & Hype"- The presentation will cover P-OLED for displays and lighting as well as OSC and OPV developments
- Konica Minolta's OLED lighting activities
- World's first all-phosphorescent OLED product
- Technical approach for R2R coating for OLED lighting
OLED versus LED Lighting (15:40 - 18:00)
15:40 - 16:05 "OLEDs vs Diffuse LEDs - Performance and Cost Comparisons"LEDs vs OLEDs - performance comparison
LEDs vs OLEDs - customer appeal
LEDs vs OLEDs - manufacturing challenges and cost projections
16:05 Break
- Reduction of the energy consumption in Lighting is
- By fluorescent blue / phosphorescent green & red hybrid structure,
- All phosphorescent white OLED has the great potentiality in efficacy
- Panasonic launched OLED lighting business last year and would like to expand rapidly this year.
very important challenge in order to conserve our Earth.
56 lm/W / CRI > 91/ LT50 > 150,000 h was achieved in large panels.
up to 128 lm/W, which would be the highest value ever reported on WOLED.
18:00 Track 2 Ends
Photovoltaics (14:25 - 18:00)
14:25 - 14:50 "Printing Solar Power"- History and current status of the CIS technology
- Production issues
- Products and applications
• Screen printing as the metallization technology of choice for crystalline silicon solar cells
• Technology roadmap: how to cope with future needs
• Case studies: Double Printing and Selective Emitter technologies
• p-i-n tandem cells with 9.8% certified efficiency on 1cm² with superior low-light and high-temperature performance
• Efficient modules on glass and PET foil
• Towards roll-to-roll production
16:05 Break
- New markets for solar cells beyond rooftop installations and solar farms
- Technology options beyond crystalline silicon
- Challenges and adoption barriers
- Novaled position in the OPV market
- Novaled PIN technology and materials
- OPV tandem devices
18:00 Track 3 Ends
Wednesday April 04, 2012
Closing Keynotes (16:40 - 18:20)
16:40 - 17:05 "Printed Electronics for Ultra-low Powered Smart Packaging"- There is much talk about printed electronics, hybrid printed electronics for large area applications, printed components, and even completely printed ICs.
- Michael will look beyond the current state of the art and look into what is involved in creating printed electronic smart packaging applications which are not just efficient on the inside, but attractive and interactive on the outside.
- Only Energy harvesting systems have the potential to power low cost electronics
- Mobile phones are suitable power sources we all carry
- Fully printed UHF rectifiers provide activated security function
18:20 End
Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene (08:30 - 09:20)
08:30 - 08:55 "Fully Printed CNT Electronics"• High mobility, low temperature CNT backplane solutions for mobile display applications.
• Pathway to high yield ink-jet printed electronics.
• Benchmark comparison to LTPS, a-Si and metal oxide semiconductor backplane solutions.
• Low power, high mobility, fully printed CNT backplane transistor demonstration.
- Introduction to Graphene
- Production and Processing of Graphene
- Optoelectronic Properties of Graphene
- Printed, Flexible and Transparent devices based on graphene inks and solutions
System Integration (09:20 - 11:40)
09:20 - 09:45 "Imprinted Logic: Enabling Commercial Printed Electronics Products"- Customer-driven applications development
- Commercial production of imprinted logic
- Value chains for complete product solutions
- PARC is demonstrating new solutions for integrating functionalities such as logic, memory, and sensors on the same substrate.
- Beyond the applications made possible by these integration advances, this work demonstrates what it takes to move from early-stage concept to commercial reality.
- What are the key factors for process compatibility and operational compatibility?
- What gaps need to be addressed when faced with expectations from mature industries? What are the tradeoffs we need to pay?
10:10 Break
• Successful implementation of Additive Manufacturing of Electronics (AME), which includes printing and other additive methods of production, starts with a detailed understanding of customer needs and translating those into product specifications.
• Analysis of the available technologies and manufacturing approaches results in the determination of a realistic path for product development and production.
• Examples showing where AME is capable of meeting requirements and where it falls short will be discussed.
• Success can often be achieved by combining AME with traditional electronics.
- Understanding the state-of-the art of the technology
- From idea to prototype: Develop a feasibility study
- Possible models for developing a partnership with a System Integrator
Logic and Memory (11:40 - 14:45)
11:40 - 12:05 "From Stand-Alone Memory to Printed Systems"12:30 LUNCH
4. - Strategies to overcome the limit of R2R gravure for integrating TFTs on plastic foils for generating 96 bit digital codes.
- Key issues in R2R gravure printed 96 bit RFID tags for attaining 95% of production yield.
- Critical factors for reading out gravure printed 96 bit RFID and NFC tags using a smart phone.
• A new phase of hafnium oxide - cubic-like amorphous hafnium oxide - will be presented
• The material is deposited without substrate heating by a remote plasma sputtering method
• Material properties include a dielectric constant of 30, a resistivity of 10^14 ohm.cm and a breakdown strength of 3MV/cm
• Deposition can be scaled to large areas and is ideally suited to large area plastic electronics where uniformity is critical
Touch Sensors and Screens (14:45 - 16:40)
14:45 - 15:10 "Novel Materials and Trends in Capacitive Touch Sensing"- QTCs are a new class of electronic materials in solid, powder and ink forms
- They are anisotropic, non-linear, intrinsically safe and can carry large currents
- Bespoke resistance ranges covering more than 16 orders of magnitude
- Used for sensing a range of stimuli or to make printable switches
16:00 Track 1 Ends
Bistable Display Technology (08:30 - 10:50)
08:30 - 08:55 "Bright Zero-Energy e-Skin"- Bright e-Skin technology enables (green) novel applications
- Ultra-low power consumption, also for gray scale
- This enables "Zero-Energy e-Skin", demonstrated for indoor photovoltaic cells and RF power
This talk will give a summary of Plastic Logic's challenges and learning faced during the development of a high-volume production capability for large-area, organic-electronics driven flexible and rugged Plastic PaperTM-based displays. Following an overview of the company and its technology, the challenges faced in the transfer of our technology from Lab to volume manufacturing are reviewed. The major learning in adapting production process and equipment to meet the requirements of mass production are explained and the results after process optimization and stabilization are shown. Relevant issues of the organic materials used related to material manufacturability, failure analysis and the development of the infrastructure necessary for electrical testing and reliability improvement are discussed. Finally, our first application available in the market is presented.
- The next wave of displays will be flexible, foldable and unbreakable displays.
- Polymer Vision has created the World's thinnest and most flexible display platform that is unique in fulfilling all these needs.
- Flexible monochrome and color e-paper displays are already at pilot production level.
- These will be followed by full-color and video capable flexible displays.
10:10 Break
The Energy Storage Gold Rush (10:50 - 12:05)
10:50 - 11:15 "Where are the Printed Batteries - and their Applications?"- High expectations - little evidence; what's wrong with printed batteries and their applications?
- If we just could do it again; what should we learn from the past?
- Key challenges the PE industry must solve in order to succeed
- Hear how innovations in printed battery technology are enabling a host of new applications in printed and traditional electronics.
- The presentation will include an overview of printed battery technology, its capabilities and exciting new applications such as interactive packaging, sensors and RFID.
- Live demonstrations of the technology will be included.
Energy Harvesting (12:05 - 12:30)
12:05 - 12:30 "Printed Piezoelectrics - Technology and Applications"1. An introduction to the technology of screen-printable piezoelectric materials will be presented with a focus on PZT (Lead Zirconate Titanate) thick films.
2. Basic electrical as well as piezoelectric properties of the PZT thick films will be discussed.
3. A broad range of possible application areas will be introduced, including: energy harvesting, acceleration sensors and acoustical devices.
12:30 LUNCH
Flex & Stretch - Flexible and Stretchable Electronics (13:55 - 16:00)
13:55 - 14:20 "Stretchable Electronic Manufacturing and Applications"• a fabrication technology for stretchable printed circuit boards
• Assembly and integration of electronic components to form a stretchable system
• Integration of stretchable electronics into textiles
• Application examples of stretchable electronic systems
- New system for a transcutaneous measurement of renal function
- Minimal invasive approach
- Principle: injection of an organ specific fluorescent dye, measurement of its disappearance over time
- Other organ functions may be measured similarly
- Introduction
- Mechanical modeling & design
- Technology description
- Reliability assessment
- Applications
- High performance inorganic semiconductors are powerful, but restricted to a flat, rigid form factor.
- Through novel mechanics, conventional materials and processes are used to produce high performance stretchy integrated circuit arrays, enabling electronics to stretch and conform to different form factors and substrates
- Stretchable silicon electronics have broad potential for cleantech, robotics, imaging, and biomedical applications
16:00 Track 2 Ends
Photovoltaics (08:30 - 10:50)
08:30 - 08:55 "Solar Cells in Textile Products"- Some basics about photovoltaic systems
- Integration methods of solar cells and modules
- Typical applications for solar textiles
- Pros and cons of solar textiles
- A gold thin film of only 0.5 nm introduced at the interface between the ITO or ZnO anode and the organic electron donor in organic photovoltaic cells induces a strong improvement of the cell efficiency.
- XPS and SEM have shown that only 15% of the anode is covered by gold, which proves the high efficiency of gold as anode buffer layer in organic photovoltaic devices.
- The average gold nano-dots size is 5-6 nm2, while the averaged distance between them is 5-6 nm.
- These gold nano-dots are also efficient in others organic devices such as organic light emitting diodes.
10:10 Break
Sensor Technology (10:50 - 11:40)
10:50 - 11:15 "Organic Photo-Detectors, a Ready-to-Fly Technology for Advertising, Promotion and Multimedia Industries". ISORG company presentation
. A technology which transforms plastic, paper and glass into smart and interactive surfaces
. Enabling breakthrough user interfaces for 3D and contactless navigation
. Applications for Advertising, Promotion, Multimedia industries
Actuators (11:40 - 13:55)
11:40 - 12:05 "Solvene™ Electro Active Polymers for Printed Electronics"12:30 LUNCH
Future of Transparent Conductors (13:55 - 16:40)
13:55 - 14:20 "The Future of Indium Supply and ITO"• The availability and perceived scarcity of indium will be discussed as this topic underlies much of the discussion on ITO.
• The supply chain for indium will be explained in detail: Indium is a mining byproduct, and its supply to the market is affected by a set of interconnected loops that span activities from mining through extraction and refining to the final use market, which includes recycling from end users.
• Data on historic supply and demand of indium, as well as reserves, will be presented - despite a significant increase in demand in the last few years there is sufficient supply of indium for many decades.
• The outlook for indium applications will be discussed, focusing mainly on ITO. The role ITO can play in the printed electronics industry will be discussed, as well as a short comparison to competing transparent electrode technologies.
- ClearOhm™ is the only commercially available solution processed transparent conducting material with performance similar to or better than ITO
- ClearOhm is commercially used in the touch panels of andriod smartphones
- ClearOhm shows improved performance for OLED displays and Lighting
- ClearOhm is in pilot qualification for OPV applications
- ClearOhm can be printed and printed OLED's and OPV's have been demonstrated
• Synthesis of silver nanowire
• Printing of transparent conductive film based on nanomaterial
• Application of printed transparent conductive film
- An overview of Canatu's innovations will be presented covering its material and device manufacturing techniques and various demonstrated applications for printable, flexible and transparent electronics, optics and energy generation and storage. The talk will highlight Canatu's recent developments in printed organic circuits, thermoformed electronic components and haptics and touch sensing for displays and on complex surfaces.
16:00 Track 3 Ends
Conductors (08:30 - 10:50)
08:30 - 08:55 "Breakthrough in particle free conductive ink"• Liquid X Printed Metals has developed metal-containing inks for Printed Electronics applications.
• Metalized films and traces exhibit characteristics comparable to the base metal.
• Liquid X Printed Metals has accomplished industry breakthroughs in achieving high conductivity (>10⁶ S/m), low conversion temperatures ( 60 - 180 °C), extremely thin films (< 100 nm), and deposit fine traces (< 5 µm).
• Numerous deposition methods ranging from inkjet to gravure can be employed to deposit metal films and traces on to a variety of substrates including flexible and organic.
10:10 Break
Printed Electronics Manufacturing (10:50 - 15:35)
10:50 - 11:15 "JNC Materials for Printed Electronics"1) We will introduce two types of ink-jet inks; thermal curable polyimide ink and UV curable ink.
2) Thermal curable polyimide ink has a good thermal and dielectric property, which is suitable for insulation materials.
3) Owing to its high sensitivity and high transparency, UV curable ink can be used for fabrication of microlenses.
- introduction of OVPD and PVPD deposition technologies
- competitive advantages and possibilities
- results
12:30 LUNCH
• Update on UV LED technology
• Illustrated examples of recent applications
• Environmental and economic factors
For making Printed Electronics more affordable, the efficient and feasible, but in the same turn highly accurate, R2R production on flexible substrates is moving more and more into focus. For Printed Electronics, mostly customized machine solutions and processes are required, which however are based on standard machine components.
This presentation will give an overview of:
• the requirements to fulfil the demands of the Printed Electronics industry
• the state of the art high end printing and coating techniques, like e.g. bead coating
• the upscaling from laboratory scale to production
• the KROENERT Technology Centre
3D Printing (15:35 - 16:40)
15:35 - 16:00 "Stability and Reliability of Organic Field-Effect Transistors"• A bilayer gate dielectric leads to top-gate organic field-effect transistors that are air stable, can be operated under water and exposed to an oxygen plasma without significant changes of the transistor performance.
• Engineering compensating mechanisms into the transistor geometry leads to organic field-effect transistors with remarkable operational stability.
• Systematic reliability studies conducted by exposing top-gate organic field-effect transistors to oxygen and humid atmospheres, and its effects on device performance, are discussed.
• Optimization of the conditions for the fabrication of top-gate organic field-effect transistors with charge mobility values up to 2.8 cm2/Vs are described.
16:00 Track 4 Ends
