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Tuesday, 07 Apr 2009
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Wednesday, 08 Apr 2009
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Tuesday April 07, 2009
Keynote (08:15 - 12:25)
08:15 - 08:30 "Printed Electronics - Hot Applications and Market Sizes 2009-2019"- The new products
- Industry State-of-play
- 2009-2019 forecasts revealed
- Past experiences of combining paper board games with electronic components
- Future plans of Ravensburger regarding electronics in games
- Requirements for Printed Electronics in Games
- Key business and technology trends towards future mobile devices
- Nanomaterials for future mobile devices
- Printed electronics enables new device form factors
- Overview of Plastic Logic's development and technology
- First commercial factory for plastic electronics based in Dresden
- E-readers: Product, uses and advantages
- Plastic Logic's e-reader based on organic electronics technology
10:10 Coffee & Networking Break
- What the World's largest space agency needs from printed electronics
- Photovoltaics, Displays and Logic - our current progress with the new electronics
- Organic LEDs do have some nice features - first areal light source.
- But they're worthless without an application.
- For the use in trains, the OLED technology has to fulfill a number of standards.
- Is is that far developed?
- Value proposition for Printed Electronics
- Uses of Printed Electronics
- Technical & manufacturing challenges
- Roadmap and the path for moving forward
- Turning vision into reality
- From world's first all-printed silicon transistors (2007) to world's first silicon ink based RF tags (2008) to first applications (2009)
- Partnering for success
12:25 Lunch & Networking Break
Radical New Printed Electronics Products (14:00 - 15:15)
14:00 - 14:25 "Revolutionizing Paper"- Reality check: don't believe in printed electronics
- The Menippos technology: production ready
- Next products and developments
- Join the party
- Screen printing
- Antenna
- Antenna integration
- Flexible electronics and device requirements for secure ID systems
- Technology description and security concept with e-paper and OLED displays
- Application scenarios and roadmap
- Smart Textile Technology has left the research labs and found first applications in medical, sportswear and safety products
- New applications in the automotive industry seem to have potential and may give access to entirely new system approaches
- In a BMBF-funded project (INSITEX) Daimler develops and evaluates new textile sensor approaches for driver monitoring and passive safety systems
- Future car concepts, like e-drive for instance, will strongly require energy savings based on intelligent components, e.g. for heating purposes
Healthcare & Bionic Man (15:40 - 17:35)
15:40 - 16:05 "Preventive eCare using Printed Electronics, RFID and Communication Software"- Data acquisition and transfer
- Application examples
- Merging data to PHR (Personal Health Record)
- Alerts, reminders and support
16:05 Coffee & Networking Break
- Wearable, non-intrusive opto-electronic sensing elements to monitor continuously the user's heart rate (HR) and blood oxygenation (SpO2).
- Multi-channel (such as redundant emitters and receivers) and multi-sensor (such as auxiliary MEMS) approach to compensate artefacts due to body motion, ambient light and body contact.
- Development and integration roadmap towards a wearable and continuous health status monitor.
- Sensium is a technology platform for clinical quality ultra low power body area monitoring
- Together with printed electronics solutions(batteries, sensors, etc.) this allows for small size wearable devices
- Description of the infrastructure around the technology platform to enable a variety of applications
Transit (17:35 - 18:25)
17:35 - 18:00 "2009 a New Look at Disposable Tickets"- The objectives of Navigo Project
- Underlying business consideration, a place for today's low cost?
- Possible solutions for single tickets
- Opening towards event based ticketing
- Security systems are in need of organic and printed sensor solutions
- The state of technology and the challenges of applying nano-sensors within large security environments
- Organic and printed electronic solutions in consideration
18:25 Day 1 Ends
Thin/Flexible Batteries (14:00 - 14:25)
14:00 - 14:25 "Fully Printed Iontophoertic Platform with an Integrated Printed Battery"- structure of the printed electrochemical cell
- Supporting technologies which enables fully Printed cell and its integration in the final product
- Gaps & solutions for designing and producing fully printed, battery assisted, integrated system
- The effect on design flexibility, product reliability and cost.
Conformal/Flexible Displays (14:25 - 17:10)
14:25 - 14:50 "Printable TFT's for Flexible Display"- Overview of printable TFT's
- Various technologies for Flexible Display
- Some results of SAIT
- Formulation of small molucule semiconductor ink
- Ink-jet printing technology of organic semiconductor
- Integration techonology of printed organic TFT for EPD
- OLED and Flexible OLED Technology and Power Supply Requirements
- Flexible Batteries - Technology and Charge/Discharge Requirements
- Quantum dot light emitting diodes (QD-LEDs) are a printable thin film electroluminescent technology that delivers exceptional color and efficiency at low cost of manufacture for display and solid-state lighting applications.
- In this paper we report our progress on solution-processable QD-LEDs including devices with peak external quantum efficiencies exceeding 5% and peak brightnesses exceeding 40,000 units.
- These performance benefits make QD-LEDs a compelling full-color display technology and planned future improvements will open up markets in solid-state lighting and advanced photonic devices.
16:05 Coffee & Networking Break
- Electrowetting technology
- 3 distinct modes; transmissive, reflective and transflective
- Roadmap, costs and applications
E-readers (17:10 - 18:00)
17:10 - 17:35 "Progress from Glass to Flexible e-Books"- 1st Gen glass e-Boooks are recognised for being pleasant to read and easy to use
- 2nd Gen e-Books will be thinner, lighter and more robust due to the use of flexible displays
- Our flexible displays use most of the same equipment and processes as glass displays, so we have a largely proven technology with reduced start-up costs
- Electronic Paper
- Flexible Display
- Printed Color Filter
18:00 Day 1 Ends
Photovoltaics (14:00 - 15:15)
14:00 - 14:25 "Pathway Towards Grid Parity with Roth & Rau CTF Turnkey Facilities"- Latest developments of CTF Solar
- Introduction of Roth & Rau CTF Turnkey Technology
- Pathway to Grid Parity with CdTe Technology
- Fundamentals of Photovoltaic energy harvesting systems
- State of the art components
- Applications and limits in mobile or flexible products
Organic Photovoltaics (15:15 - 18:25)
15:15 - 15:40 "Organic Photovoltaics - A Low Cost, Scalable Technology"- State of the art performance and future roadmap of OPV
- Production technologies for OPV - what does it take to scale up
- First applications and markets
- Upscaling of the production technology
- Investigations on the longterm stability
- Applications for small flexible organic solar cell modules
16:05 Coffee & Networking Break
- High efficiency organic p-i-n type tandem cells
- Extrapolated lifetime in excess of twenty years
- Efficient modules with integrated series interconnection
- Processes determining the efficiency of polymer-based solar cells
- Tuning nanomorphology in polymer-polymer blend devices
- Acceptors for polymer-based solar cells with high open circuit voltage and high fill factor
- Joule Losses and Influence of Series Resistance
- Laser Ablation as a Route to Optimized Module Design
- Advantages of Vacuum Processing
- Optimising the device morphology and optics for blend layers
- Accurate device characterisation of efficient solar cells
18:25 Day 1 Ends
Wednesday April 08, 2009
Transistors & Logic (08:30 - 09:45)
08:30 - 08:55 "Fabrication and Stability Characterisation of Thin Film Transistors Based on Indium Zinc Oxide Deposited at Low Temperature"- The deposition of metal oxides using a high rate sputtering technology will be described.
- Thin film transistors fabricated using amorphous indium zinc oxide as the channel layer will be shown to have a field effect mobility of 10 cm2 V-1 s 1, which is an order of magnitude better than amorphous silicon technology.
- The results of stressing metal oxide thin film transistors will be presented to allow assessment of stability.
- Printable memory solutions for sensor, ID, and media applications
- Motivation and objectives of the project
- Targeted application areas
- Technical approaches taken
Roll-to-Roll Manufacture Challenges/Opportunities (09:45 - 11:15)
09:45 - 10:10 "What to look for in a Printed Electronics Partner"- Challenges / problems for printing forms and makers in the new century.
- Laser application - a versatile tool for print form makers.
- New generation of printing forms.
- Where? What? Why?: The need of characterization.
10:35 Coffee & Networking Break
Processing (11:15 - 11:40)
11:15 - 11:40 "High-Speed Drying, Curing and Sintering on Low-Temperature Substrates"- Processing approach for high-temperature material on low temperature substrates
- Attainable roll-to-roll processing speeds
- Conductivity results for inkjet and screen inks on paper and PET
Digital Printing (11:40 - 14:55)
11:40 - 12:05 "SemJet(R): Versatile Inkjet Print-Head for Printed Electronics Application from Samsung"- MEMS based inkjet print-head specified for printed electronics application
- PZT actuated DPN capable 256 nozzles available for 1, 5, and 30 pL
- Functional fluids: nano-Cu ink and an example of its practical application
- Ink Jet Deposition
- Jettable Materials
- Surface Treatments Minimizes Spread
- Inert Printheads for Aggressive Fluids
- From research to production
- Core technology
- Advanced Research Tools
- (Solar cell) applications
- Scaling IJ printing into production (ELEMENTS.IJP concept)
12:55 Lunch & Networking Break
Stretchable Electronics for Clothing (14:55 - 17:55)
14:55 - 15:20 "Wearable Electronics - Applications, Trends and Opportunities for Printed Electronics"- Opportunities for Printed Electronics in several application segments like Fashion/Sports, Wellness/Medical, Safety/Security with products like Keypads & Displays, Heating Pads, EL/OLED, Organic Solar Cells, and RFIDs
- Applications of new technologies in fashion industry are marketing driven, creating new opportunities and market awareness for both fashion and technology vendors
- Printed Electronics will gain popularity in textile industry as the emerging technologies mature - first organic solar cells, OLEDs and displays will be seen in products within the next years
- Fabrics as substrate for electrical circuits
- Insight into heating fabrics
- Pitfalls to market a smart fabric product
16:10 Coffee & Networking Break
- Definition of Smart Wearable Systems and related main applications/trends
- Challenges to be solved for the related timely introduction in the market
- Related proof-points and activities carried out in Philips Applied Technologies
- Technical requirements on PCB, FPC and assembly for wearable applications
- Electronic design and reliability studies for embedded glove and power heating solutions
- Technology and product roadmap 2010/11
- How people relate to new technologies such as printed electronics
- The case of designing new technologies for firefighters
- Some considerations on creating technology that people use happily
17:55 Day 2 Ends
Conductive Materials (08:30 - 10:10)
08:30 - 08:55 "Inkjettable Copper Nanoparticles Ink Breakthrough: a stab to replacing silver ink"- Stable dispersions
- Piezo-electric and aerosole jetting capability
- No need of inert atmosphere and processing temperatures under 100 degrees C
- Obtained 30 micrometer wide traces with resistivities as low as 3 x 10(-6) ohm-cm
- Newest developments in PEDOT technology
- Orgacon(TM) Inks in new high bright AC-EL
- Orgacon(TM) in OLED light
- Charge-Injection Barriers
- Energy Level Alignment
- Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Organic & Inorganic Semiconductors (10:10 - 11:40)
10:10 - 10:35 "Printing of Functional Layers using Flexography"dispersions with conductive properties to certain surfaces?
- How do different solvents and additives influence the homogenity of
the transferred layers?
- Which defined mechanical porperties of the special coating and
flexoplates should be realized in flexoprinting units?
10:35 Coffee & Networking Break
- How good can soluble/printable organic semiconductors be?
- Formulation concepts can enhance processability and improve material/device performance
- What does the industry need for the "final push"?
Sensors & Actuators (11:40 - 12:55)
11:40 - 12:05 "Novel Concepts for Organic and Inorganic (Printed) Sensor Devices"In this contribution we report on the design, realisation and characterization of novel active partly printed gas sensor and IR detectors. In particular we will present
- a novel concept of an integrated optical oxygen probe, which is realised using a OLED device
- a novel concept of a sub ppm ammoniac detector by means of a printed conducting polymer resistor
- a novel concept of a printed IR detector utilising different inorganic nanoparticles.
- Printed smart textiles
- Textile sensor structures
- SensFloor(R) applications
- Introduction to NXT and its Distributed Mode Loudspeaker (DML) technology
- Low cost multifunctional DML, Light, Touch and Haptics panels enabled by Printed Electronics
- High information Content Human Interface Devices using multifunctional NXT panels
12:55 Lunch & Networking Break
Graphene Carbon Nanotubes (14:30 - 14:55)
14:30 - 14:55 "Graphene-Based Thin Films for Transparent and Flexible Electronics"- Graphene for high-performance electronics
- Mass production of graphene via chemical exfoliation of graphite
- Properties of large-area graphene-based thin films
Lighting (14:55 - 15:20)
14:55 - 15:20 "High Efficiency OLEDs for Lighting Applications"- Key Challenges for OLED lighting
- Latest Developments in OLED Technology for Lighting applications
- OLED Lighting - a Roadmap
Memory (15:20 - 15:45)
15:20 - 15:45 "Volume Manufacturing of Printed Rewritable Memories"RFID (15:45 - 17:30)
15:45 - 16:10 "An Innovative Combination of SMART RFID and MEMS Sensor - A Leading edge product for transport monitoring in the logistic"Joint presentation: Schenker, KSW Microtec & memsfab
- Transport monitoring
- Combinations RFID and mems
- Roll-to-Roll procedure
16:10 Coffee & Networking Break
- Electronic ticketing with PolyID
- Printed smart objects with PolyLogo
- Status and roadmap for applications
- By using weakly conducting inks, low-cost invisible electric tags were demonstrated.
- An integrated, low-cost reader device was developed for reliable close-range detection of printed electric codes on various substrates.
- The electric coding technology is mature for applications in packaging industry, product authentication, forgery and counterfeit detection etc.
Smart Substrates & Stretchable Electronics (17:30 - 17:55)
17:30 - 17:55 "Printing Conductive Structures on Textiles and Membranes"- Pretreatment of the substrates in order to prepare it for metallization
- New techniques to make selective metallization possible
- Application of a variety of electroless techniques on a wide range of substrates
17:55 Day 2 Ends
Thin Film Inorganic Photovoltaics - CIGS & CDTe (08:30 - 09:20)
08:30 - 08:55 "Turn-Key-Production Line from centrotherm photovoltaics AG for High Efficient and Low-Cost CIGS Thin Film Modules"- CIGS technology from centrotherm
- CIGS turn-key production lines offered by centrotherm
- Roadmap of conversion efficiencies and production cost for CIGS-modules
- What is thin film CIS, CdTe and a-Si
- penetration of the PV market by thin films
- status and perspectives and potentials
- CIS technology of Wurth Solar
- Current status of flexible CIGS and CdTe technology
- Challenges of monolithic interconnection
- Advantages of high efficiency and roll-to-roll manufacturing
- Manufacturing challenges
- Future prospects
DSSC (09:45 - 10:35)
09:45 - 10:10 "Pushing up the Performance of Colloidal Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells"- Sensitized solar cells
- Quantum dots
- Cadmium Selenide
- How to understand and predict them by simple device modeling
- How to measure them with impedance and light modulation techniques
- How to minimize them though better materials and device architecture
10:35 Coffee & Networking Break
Solar Textiles (11:15 - 12:05)
11:15 - 11:40 "Solar Textile Research Update"- Solar cells on textiles: structure and challenges;
- Microwave plasma enhanced CVD of silicon;
- Characterisation of Si films and devices on polyester
Photovoltaic Materials (12:05 - 14:55)
12:05 - 12:30 "Thienopyrazine-based Low-Bandgap Polymers for Polymer Solar Cell Applications"- materials research for flexible polymer solar cells
- advantages and room for improvements of low-bandgap polymers
- development of single processing steps with a laboratory reel-to-reel wet coating machine
- Development of Front Side Ag compositions for CIGS and other thin film PV cells.
- Processing and Performance data - to include contact resistivity on ITO
- Reliability studies at 85°C/85% RH
12:55 Lunch & Networking Break
- Correlation between the active layer morphology and cell performance
- Effect of electric field-induced orientation of carbon nanotubes in the active layer on cell performance
- Anode alternatives
Photovoltaics Manufacture (14:55 - 15:45)
14:55 - 15:20 "Inkjet as a Digital Fabrication Process for Photovoltaics Applications"- Inkjet process development
- Implementing inkjet for printed electronics - application examples
- Digital fabrication equipment for printed electronics using inkjet technology
- Processes for all solution Roll-to-roll coating of polymer solar cells
- Lifetimes studies, performance and demonstration of polymer solar cells
- Roll-to-roll encapsulation methods for stable polymer solar cell modules
Energy Harvesting (15:45 - 16:10)
15:45 - 16:10 "Screen-Printed Piezoelectric Films for Energy Harvesting"- introduction to vibration energy harvesting
- optimisation of screen printed piezoelectric films
- application of printed piezoelectric energy harvesters in aeronautical applications
16:10 Coffee & Networking Break
Barrier Materials (16:40 - 17:55)
16:40 - 17:05 "Breakthroughs in Barrier Materials for Flexible Electronics"- ITRI's work on flexible barriers
- Performance, cost
- industrial scale high barrier film based on packaging technology
- printing technology for transparent conductive films
- Needs by device type
- Comaprisons of existing solutions
- What is still needed
17:55 Day 2 Ends






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