Conference Agenda
Tuesday, 08 Apr 2008
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Wednesday, 09 Apr 2008
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Tuesday April 08, 2008
Keynote (08:30 - 12:00)
08:30 - 08:55 "The Global Market for Printed Electronics"
- Market by sector 2008-2028
- Market drivers
- Breakthroughs and setbacks
- Big company vs small company
- West vs East
- History of Polymer Vision Ltd.
- Rollable display technology
- Specification of the first rollable display generation
- TFT development on a thin metal foil for high resolution EPD
- CF development on a plastic substrate for high resolution EPD
- Image quality Improvement using colour algorithms
- Self-Aligned Imprint Lithography (SAIL) a R2R process for electronics fabrication that solves the key challenge of alignment
- Demonstration of the first active matrix backplanes made exclusively with roll-to-roll processes
- Challenges and benefits of roll-to-roll manufacturing
10:10 Exhibition and Networking Break
- Downscaling, high resolution printing
- Ambipolar transport
- Reliability
- Printing is most suitable for mass-production
- Nanosolar's proprietary process technology
- Thinner solar cells at high throughput
- Project Topless: aims and expectations
- Lighting challenges for organic solid state lighting
- Customer expectations
12:00 Lunch and Networking Break
Applications (13:30 - 16:15)
13:30 - 13:55 "How to Make Money from Printed Electronics"- Where can Printed Electronics take Transit?
- Printed Electronics; Is the technology ready to meet the challenge of the Transit and Retail industries?
- Where are the technical and business challenges to achieve success? How do we quantify success?
- Introduction to Adherence or Therapy Compliance and a brief intro to The Compliers Group.
- The Smart Blister: self-adhesive active RFID labels for today's blister medication package, System-In-Foil, SIF solutions for industrial active RFID blister fabrication.
- Applications: now and in the future, OtCM and NFC mobile telephones and other telemedicine devices.
15:10 Exhibition and Networking Break
- The medium is the method - Printed electronics or electronic print?
- Differentiating for "digital natives"
- Making the most of mass-media opportunities
Paper & Packing (16:15 - 17:55)
16:15 - 16:40 "Low-Voltage all Printed Organics Transistors"- Towards low-voltage printed electronics on paper substrates
- Novel device architectures needed
- Report fully printed organic transistors operating below 2V
- Products and applications
- Hybrid Media
- Technology development
- Hybridzation of silicon intelligence and printed sensor functionality
- Market aspects for disposible sensors in health care and environmental monitoring
- Market drivers and show stops
17:55 Day One Ends
Logic & Memory (13:30 - 16:40)
13:30 - 13:55 "Organic TFTs and Their Solution Processability"- Options in smart wearable electronics applications
- Assessment of technology scenarios
- Philips Applied Technologies activities in this field
- Advantages and challenges of jet-printing electronic circuits
- Novel approaches for all-additive printed circuits
- Flexible electrophoretic displays using printed backplanes
15:10 Exhibition and Networking Break
- Motorola's Printed Electronics R&D activities in Europe
- Creating an Ambient Environment with Printed Sensors
- Developing Application and Services with Printed Electronics
Printed RFID & Anti-Counterfeiting (16:40 - 17:55)
16:40 - 17:05 "Printed RFID - Status and First Applications"- Printed RFID tags realized (PolyID)
- First applications of PolyIDs
- Roadmap of printed RFID and smart objects
- A Vision fro Low Cost RFID
- InkSure Chipless Development Status
- Target Applications
- Needed technology steps for the future
- Imagination of new products
17:55 Day One Ends
Wednesday April 09, 2008
Photovoltaics (08:45 - 10:25)
08:45 - 09:10 "Vacuum Deposited Organic Solar Cells for Mass Production"- organic p-i-n type tandem cells
- lifetime and thermal stability
- first modules with integrated series interconnection
- State of the art in Switzerland
- Intercomparison with c-Si technologies
- BIPV with Thin Film
- Performance of printed solar cells - the organic PV roadmap
- Performance requirements for first applications
- New trends outlook to future innovations
- Benefits from the development of thin film technology
- Technical and physical challenges
- Recent advances compared to existing results
10:25 Exhibition and Networking Break
Printed Electronics Manufacture (11:00 - 16:25)
11:00 - 11:25 "Inspection Systems for Printed Electronics"- Interactive and automated systems for 2-D optical inspection
- 3-D analysis though laser height profiling
- Print head performance evaluation through analysis of drops-in-flight
- Example applications
- Technology status
- Printed electronic applications
- Ink jet equipment
- M3D Aerosol Jet print solution
- Printed electronic applications
- Meeting PV metallization requirements
- Current Manufacturing Challenges
- Ink Jet as Solution
- Case Study Successes
12:40 Lunch and Networking Break
- Overview of Micro Piezo Technology
- Application for LTCC substrate
- Possibility for embeded package
- System development
- Application cases
- PixDro tools / modules
15:15 Exhibition and Networking Break
- Flexography as a means of manufacturing printed electronics.
- Compare and contrast with other printing processes.
- Report on WCPC's research to produce flexible electronic devices.
Modelling, Testing, Reliability (16:25 - 17:15)
16:25 - 16:50 "Electrical and Optical Simulation of OLED Devices"- Introduction to OLED device simulator SimOLED® for modeling electrical and optical properties of OLEDs
- Methodologies for input parameter determination are presented
- Electrical simulation results and calculated optical angular emission spectra of multilayer phosphorescent OLED are shown and compared to experiment
17:15 Conference Ends
Conformal & Large Area Electronics (08:45 - 09:35)
08:45 - 09:10 "Application Tailoring of Display Performance in Microcup Electrophoretic Displays"- Microcup electrophoretic technology for flexible display applications
- Media platform performance tailoring for specific applications in display cards, retail signage, keypads, and ereaders
- Advances in speed, reflectivity, low temperature performance, flexibility
- Lifetime evaluation
- Plastic Logic has developed an innovative technology for flexible displays for a range of new innovative products based on organic materials and a flexible substrate using low temperature processing.
- For manufacturing, a production facility in Dresden, Germany was designed and construction is on progress for the ramp up in 2008. State of the art equipment has been selected and ordered for this production line.
- An overview of the status of the facility and the challenges in transferring such a technology into mass production will be given.
Displays (09:35 - 12:15)
09:35 - 10:00 "Flexible Displays Gaining Momentum - Technologies, Applications and Markets"- Why 2008 is special for flexible active matrix displays
- A variety of technologies and applications
- Market forecast to 2013
- What is a microdisplay
- What are the applications and markets for P-OLED Microdisplays
- How do P-OLED microdisplays work and how are they made
10:25 Exhibition and Networking Break
- Paper like display
- Programs for flexible display in SAIT
- Future plan
- Introduction to redox doping approach
- Device Aspects
- Material Aspects
- Historical perspective on how color has impacted product adoption.
- The importance of color in the market today.
- How color changing electro-optic effects will drive the adoption of printed electronic products and applications.
Lighting (12:15 - 14:50)
12:15 - 12:40 "From Electroluminescence to Printed Electronics - Light, Functionality and More"- From label printing to functional printing - a sustainable way for a printing company
- Electroluminescence - facts and possibilities concerning the integration of light and function
- "Functional Ideas" - the next steps for a mid-sized company in the field of printed electronis
12:40 Lunch and Networking Break
- ITO-free OLED using polymeric anodes are realized
- Efficiencies are higher than for ITO-based OLED
- Very high white efficiencies have been reached
- Inkjet printing thin, flexible OLED devices for signage applications
- Gravure printing for OLED lighting applications
- Comparison of characteristics of inkjet and gravure printed devices to traditional spin coating techniques
Batteries & Sensors (14:50 - 16:50)
14:50 - 15:15 "Power Supply Considerations and Solutions for Printed Electronic Tags and Sensors"15:15 Exhibition and Networking Break
- Introduction to printed Sensors
- Semiconductor 2.0 platform Technology
- Applications in Biometrics & Life Science
- A battery is not a product
- Battery mass production is missing - why?
- The battery is one of the easiest printed electronic products - and it is complex.
16:50 Conference Ends
Materials (08:45 - 12:15)
08:45 - 09:10 "Chisso's High Functional Inks - Key Materials for Industrialization of Ink Jet Printing System"- Dielectric polyimide ink and high sensitive UV curable ink that are suitable for ink jet printing.
- Extremely high concentrated polyimide ink, which is potentially applicable to thicker films.
- Films that are prepared from the developed UV curable ink have significantly higher resistance properties.
- What is required from organic semiconducting materials and processes?
- How can we print and process OSC's?
- Examples of printed TFT performance we obtain.
- BASF's involvement in printed electronics
- Sepiolid (TM) product range
- Application in CMOS circuitry
- An introduction to DuPont Microcircuit Materials and the use of their inks in Printed Electronics.
- Real life applications - inks for RFID, EL, Biomedical, Interconnects, PV and more.
- Future directions - DuPont and Printed Electronics.
10:25 Exhibition and Networking Break
- Printing highly conductive metal films with low-temperature sintering nanoparticle inks
- Key issues that affect on performance and cost of nanoparticle inks
- Applications using low-temperature sintering nanoparticle inks
- Market Trends in Transparent Conductive Coatings
- Application Examples
- Cima Nanotech's Self Assembling Technology
Replacing Rare Materials (12:15 - 14:25)
12:15 - 12:40 "Recent progress in PEDOT:PSS dispersions and oligothiophene based semiconductors"- Improvements in the conductivity of PEDOT:PSS polymer films
- Recent examples for successful adaptation of the PEDOT:PSS polymers
- Oligothiophene based organic semiconductors
12:40 Lunch and Networking Break
- Essential functional metals
- Metal scarcity or availability
- Resource strategy
Progress in Biggest Territories (14:25 - 16:50)
14:25 - 14:50 "Printed Electronics - Germany's Next Top Industry?"- The business case for printed electronics in Germany
- Application markets for next-generation technology
- Commercialization and investment support
- The talk will review the status across the UK of research and development in the key applications of Plastic (printable) Electronics
- Applications covered will include RFID, Electronic Paper, Communication accessories, Smart packaging and clothing
- Case Studies of leading companies will be presented to outline current product development.
15:15 Exhibition and Networking Break
- Vision and Mission
- OE-A's Application and Technology Roadmap
- Demonstrator projects
- Global activities
16:50 Conference Ends
Attended by over 350 delegates in 2007! Printed Electronics Europe 2008 will be the biggest event covering the topic.
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