pee_top_banner
Register now and join attendees from 32 countries so far. Visit the World's largest exhibition on the topic with 67 exhibitors.

Delegate Information
Delegate Information


Conference Pamphlet

Konferenz-Agenda

Presentations and audio are available only where permission has been given by the speaker. If you have any problems please contact Ali Lewis at

Download individual presentations - please click on speaker/company names in the list below the table.

In order to open the Day 1 or Day 2
set of presentations (.ZIP) please
click here to download the software required.

 
 
 
 
 

Tuesday, 07 Apr 2009

 Keynote
08:15IDTechEx
08:30Ravensburger
08:55Centro Ricerche Fiat
09:20Nokia Research Center
09:45Plastic Logic
10:10Coffee & Networking Break
10:45NASA - Johnson Space Center
11:10SBf Spezialleuchten Wurzen
11:35Soligie
12:00Kovio
12:25Lunch & Networking Break

Track 1

 Radical New Printed Electronics Products
14:00Menippos
14:25Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart
14:50Bundesdruckerei
15:15Daimler
 Healthcare & Bionic Man
15:40Medixine
16:05Coffee & Networking Break
16:45CSEM
17:10Toumaz Technology
 Transit
17:35RATP (Paris Transport)
18:00Cubic Corporation
18:25Day 1 Ends

Track 2

 Thin/Flexible Batteries
14:00Power Paper
 Conformal/Flexible Displays
14:25Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
14:50Sony
15:15Texas Instruments Deutschland
15:40QD Vision
16:05Coffee & Networking Break
16:45Liquavista UK
 E-readers
17:10Prime View International
17:35Bridgestone
18:00Day 1 Ends

Track 3

 Photovoltaics
14:00CTF Solar
14:25Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
14:50SOLARC
 Organic Photovoltaics
15:15Konarka Austria R&D
15:40Fraunhofer ISE
16:05Coffee & Networking Break
16:45Heliatek
17:10University of Potsdam
17:35TU Ilmenau
18:00IAPP - TU Dresden
18:25Day 1 Ends

Wednesday, 08 Apr 2009

Track 1

 Transistors & Logic
08:30University of Cambridge
08:55Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia
09:20PriMeBits
 Roll-to-Roll Manufacture Challenges/Opportunities
09:45Soligie
10:10Sächsische Walzengravur
10:35Coffee & Networking Break
 Processing
11:15NovaCentrix
 Digital Printing
11:40Samsung Electro-Mechanics
12:05Trident Industrial Inkjet
12:30PixDro
12:55Lunch & Networking Break
14:30Optrex Europe
 Stretchable Electronics for Clothing
14:55Interactive Wear
15:20Embedded Systems Lab of University Passau
15:45Sefar - Filtration Solutions
16:10Coffee & Networking Break
16:40Philips Applied Technologies
17:05TEXSYS
17:30Fraunhofer FIT
17:55Day 2 Ends

Track 2

 Conductive Materials
08:30Applied Nanotech
08:55Agfa Materials
09:20IFW Dresden
09:45Vorbeck Materials
 Organic & Inorganic Semiconductors
10:10HTWK Leipzig
10:35Coffee & Networking Break
11:15Merck Chemicals
 Sensors & Actuators
11:40NanoTecCenter Weiz Forschungsgesellschaft
12:05Future-Shape
12:30NXT Technology
12:55Lunch & Networking Break
 Graphene Carbon Nanotubes
14:30Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey
 Lighting
14:55Novaled
 Memory
15:20Thin Film Electronics AB
 RFID
15:45DB Schenker
KSW Microtec
Memsfab
16:10Coffee & Networking Break
16:40PolyIC
17:05VTT
 Smart Substrates & Stretchable Electronics
17:30TNO Science and Industry
17:55Day 2 Ends

Track 3

 Thin Film Inorganic Photovoltaics - CIGS & CDTe
08:30centrotherm photovoltaics
08:55Würth Solar
09:20EMPA
 DSSC
09:45Universitat Jaume I
10:10Helsinki University of Technology
10:35Coffee & Networking Break
 Solar Textiles
11:15University of Michigan
11:40Power Textiles
 Photovoltaic Materials
12:05TITK Institute
12:30DuPont (UK)
12:55Lunch & Networking Break
14:30XLIM
 Photovoltaics Manufacture
14:55Imaging Technology International (iTi)
15:20Risø National Laboratory
 Energy Harvesting
15:45University of Southampton
16:10Coffee & Networking Break
 Barrier Materials
16:40ITRI
17:05Alcan Packaging
17:30IDTechEx
17:55Day 2 Ends
 
 
 

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
 
08:30 - 08:55 "Past, Future and Requirements of Printed Electronics in the Games Sector"
  • Past experiences of combining paper board games with electronic components
  • Future plans of Ravensburger regarding electronics in games
  • Requirements for Printed Electronics in Games
 
08:55 - 09:20 "Photovoltaic and other Printable Functionalities Enabling Efficient Electrical Mobility"
 
 
09:20 - 10:45 "Morph - Transformable Mobile Device"
  • Key business and technology trends towards future mobile devices
  • Nanomaterials for future mobile devices
  • Printed electronics enables new device form factors
 
09:45 - 10:10 "The E-Reader as a Product Application for Plastic Electronics Technology"
  • 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
 
10:45 - 11:10 "Printed Electronics at NASA"
  • What the World's largest space agency needs from printed electronics
  • Photovoltaics, Displays and Logic - our current progress with the new electronics
 
11:10 - 11:35 "Requirements for Organic LED Lighting in Train Applications"
  • 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?
 
11:35 - 12:00 "Printed Electronics in New Product Initiatives & the path to Commercialization"
  • Value proposition for Printed Electronics
  • Uses of Printed Electronics
  • Technical & manufacturing challenges
  • Roadmap and the path for moving forward
 
12:00 - 12:25 "A New Semiconductor Technology Paradigm - Printed RFID is now a Reality"
  • 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
 
14:25 - 14:50 "Integration of Screen-Printed Antennas in Plastic Body Parts"
  • Screen printing
  • Antenna
  • Antenna integration
 
14:50 - 15:15 "Prospects and Challenges for ID Documents with Integrated Displays"
  • Flexible electronics and device requirements for secure ID systems
  • Technology description and security concept with e-paper and OLED displays
  • Application scenarios and roadmap
 
15:15 - 15:50 "Application of Smart Textile Technology in Automotive Industry"
  • 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
 
16:45 - 17:10 "Wearable Optoelectronic Life Sign Monitors"
  • 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.
 
17:10 - 17:35 "Sensium and Printed Electronics - Enabling Continuous Body Area Monitoring"
  • 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
 
18:00 - 18:25 "Securing Public Infrastructure with Organic and Printed Sensors"
  • 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
 
14:50 - 15:15 "Ink Formulation and Printing Technique for OTFTs"
  • Formulation of small molucule semiconductor ink
  • Ink-jet printing technology of organic semiconductor
  • Integration techonology of printed organic TFT for EPD
 
15:15 - 15:40 "OLED, Flexible OLED, Flexible Batteries - Technologies and Power Supply/Charge/Discharge Requirements"
  • OLED and Flexible OLED Technology and Power Supply Requirements
  • Flexible Batteries - Technology and Charge/Discharge Requirements
 
15:40 - 16:05 "Printed Quantum Dot Light Emitting Devices for Displays and Lighting"
  • 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
 
16:45 - 17:10 "Colour, Flexible Displays with Video Motion"
  • 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
 
17:35 - 18:00 "Electronic Paper QR-LPD by using Electronic Liquid Powder"
  • 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
 
14:25 - 14:50 "Power from the Sun: The Advent of Mesoscopic Solar Cells"
 
 
14:50 - 15:15 "Photovoltaic Microsystem Integration in Flexible Products"
  • 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
 
15:40 - 16:05 "Flexible ITO-free organic Solar Cell Modules"
  • Upscaling of the production technology
  • Investigations on the longterm stability
  • Applications for small flexible organic solar cell modules
 
16:05 Coffee & Networking Break
 
16:45 - 17:10 "Organic Based Photovoltaics"
  • High efficiency organic p-i-n type tandem cells
  • Extrapolated lifetime in excess of twenty years
  • Efficient modules with integrated series interconnection
 
17:10 - 17:35 "Photovoltaic Performance of Polymer-Based Solar Cells with Non-Fullerene Acceptors"
  • 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
 
17:35 - 18:00 "Geometry of Efficient Polymer Solar Cells"
  • Joule Losses and Influence of Series Resistance
  • Laser Ablation as a Route to Optimized Module Design
 
18:00 - 18:25 "Efficient Organic Solar Cells made from Small Molecules"
  • 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.
 
08:55 - 09:20 "From e-paper to paper-e"
 
 
09:20 - 09:45 "PriMeBits EU FP7 Project on Printed Memories"
  • 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"
 
 
10:10 - 10:35 "New Area of Printing Forms - potentials, challenges, applications."
  • 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
 
12:05 - 12:30 "Digital Fabrication Using Flexible, Inert Piezo Printhead Technology"
  • Ink Jet Deposition
  • Jettable Materials
  • Surface Treatments Minimizes Spread
  • Inert Printheads for Aggressive Fluids
 
12:30 - 12:55 "Inkjet Printing in Industrial Solar Cell Production"
  • 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
 
14:30 - 14:55 "Printing for OLED and LC Display Manufacturing"
 
 

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
 
15:20 - 15:45 "Wearable Electronics and Applications"
 
 
15:45 - 16:10 "Current Approaches to Bridge the Gap Between Electronics and Fabrics"
  • Fabrics as substrate for electrical circuits
  • Insight into heating fabrics
  • Pitfalls to market a smart fabric product
 
16:10 Coffee & Networking Break
 
16:40 - 17:05 "Smart Wearable Systems: Trends and Challenges"
  • 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
 
17:05 - 17:30 "Wearable Electronic Solutions - mystic, challenging or reality explained at the first telecommunication glove G-cell and power heating"
  • 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
 
17:30 - 17:55 "Printed Electronics; Weird Stuff: How people might come to use, hate, break, or love it"
  • 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
 
08:55 - 09:20 "Orgacon(TM), the high conducting and stable PEDOT electrode for printable electronics"
  • Newest developments in PEDOT technology
  • Orgacon(TM) Inks in new high bright AC-EL
  • Orgacon(TM) in OLED light
 
09:20 - 09:45 "Charge-Injection Barriers at Realistic Metal/Organic Interfaces: Metals Become Faceless"
  • Charge-Injection Barriers
  • Energy Level Alignment
  • Photoelectron Spectroscopy
 
09:45 - 10:10 "Opportunities for Graphene in Printed Electronics"
 
 

Organic & Inorganic Semiconductors (10:10 - 11:40)

10:10 - 10:35 "Printing of Functional Layers using Flexography"
  • Is the flexographic process able to transfer special anorganic
  • 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
     
    11:15 - 11:40 "Advances in Material and Formulation Development for Printed Organic Electronics"
    • 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.
     
    12:05 - 12:30 "SensFloor(R) - A Large-area Sensor System Based On Printed Textiles"
    • Printed smart textiles
    • Textile sensor structures
    • SensFloor(R) applications
     
    12:30 - 12:55 "Printed Electronics Enables New Sound, Light and Touch Human Interface Devices"
    • 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
     
    16:40 - 17:05 "Printed RFID and more for New Applications"
    • Electronic ticketing with PolyID
    • Printed smart objects with PolyLogo
    • Status and roadmap for applications
     
    17:05 - 17:30 "Ultra Low-Cost Printed Electric Tag Technology is Ready for the Market"
    • 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
     
    08:55 - 09:25 "Thin films in PV already penetrating the market, status and perspectives and in detail the CIS technology"
    • 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
     
    09:20 - 09:45 "High Efficiency Flexible Solar Cells Based on CIGS and CdTe Thin Films"
    • 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
     
    10:10 - 10:35 "Performance Limiting Factors in Flexible Dye Solar Cells"
    • 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"
     
     
    11:40 - 12:05 "Development of flexible Solar Cells on Textiles"
    • 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
     
    12:30 - 12:55 "Advanced Screen-Printable Thin-Film PV Front-Side Silver Conductor Compositions"
    • 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
     
    14:30 - 14:55 "High performance Organic Solar Cells through Enhanced Charge Transport"
    • 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
     
    15:20 - 15:45 "Roll to Roll Coating for Photovoltaics"
    • 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
     
    17:05 - 17:30 "Barrier Solutions and Printed Electrodes for Flexible Electronics"
    • industrial scale high barrier film based on packaging technology
    • printing technology for transparent conductive films
     
    17:30 - 17:55 "Needs and Requirements for Barrier Layers for Flexible Electronics - The Big Opportunity"
    • Needs by device type
    • Comaprisons of existing solutions
    • What is still needed
     
    17:55 Day 2 Ends
     
     
     

     

     
    Research & Products Consulting Service Events Contact e-Store