Conference Agenda
Tuesday, 13 Nov 2007
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Wednesday, 14 Nov 2007
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Tuesday November 13, 2007
Keynote Presentations (08:30 - 12:45)
08:30 - 09:00 "The Global Market for Printed Electronics"- Market by sector 2007-2027
- Market drivers
- Breakthroughs and setbacks
- Big company vs small company
- West vs East
- A new semiconductor technology paradigm
- The opportunity for printed silicon electronics
- Key achievements and applications roadmap
- What forces are driving RFID Transit and Retail solutions?
- How is technology being applied to couple Transit & Retail?
- Can Transit and Retail RFID products really benefit from each other?
10:30 Exhibition and Networking Break
- Fine-Patterned OTFT
- Solution Process
- Top-Gate Device Structure
- Printed electronics offers the next technological revolution of scalability, flexibility, low power consumption, light weight and reduced manufacturing costs
- The vision for technical developments in low cost printed electronics is fast becoming a commercial reality.
- The race is on to take advantage of emerging opportunities in displays, lighting, sensors and RFID components.
12:45 Lunch and Networking Break
Applications (14:00 - 17:50)
14:00 - 14:25 "Smart Medication Blister Anatomy and Prognosis:"- Introduction to The Compliers Group (TCG)
- 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.
- The Convergence of Capabilities
- Diverse Applications
- Effects Upon the World
15:40 Exhibition and Networking Break
- History of Functional Printing
- Current and Developing Applications
- Requirements to Compete
- Printed Electronics Sensor Design
- Printed RF Communication
- Design, Simulation and Manufacturing
- Pioneering applications in new markets
- The strength of the Idea
- Unusual marketing
Thin Film Transistor Circuits (TFTCs) and Memory (14:00 - 17:50)
14:00 - 14:25 "On the Road to Printed Electronics: Performance and Lifetime of Semiconducting Polymers in Thin Film Transistors for Active Matrix Backplanes"- Organic materials are forming a new basis for the manufacture of electronic devices, such as displays
- Flexible substrates present unique challenges for printed electronics.
- The electrical performance of TFTs is rapidly approaching that of amorphous silicon, but the highest performance prototypes may be difficult to achieve in practice.
- Discussions of issues in the fabrication of practical printed active matrix backplanes
- Design of OTFT devices and circuits
- Processing flow-chart
- Litho and sub-litho test structures
- Advantages of a vertical structure
- Vertical transistor characteristic
- Utility for displays
- Printable organic microwave rectifier for RFIDs
- MHz Planar diode/transistors
- Printable circuits based on planar devices
15:40 Exhibition and Networking Break
- advances on n-type organic semiconductors
- optimization of interfaces between organic semiconductors and dielectrics
- OTFT and circuit data.
- First products and roadmap
- PolyID - printed RFID
- PolyLogo - printed smart objects
- Printed memory available today
- How many bits do you need ?
- Recent progress and future challenges
- High process rates for synthesis of inorganic multinary compound layers
- Vast reduction in thermal budget enabling transfer to sensitive substrates
- Use of electrostatic fields to manipulate distribution of ionic species during reactive synthesis
Wednesday November 14, 2007
Displays and Lighting (09:00 - 17:00)
09:00 - 09:30 "Progress Towards Flexible Polymer OLEDs"- Key technology developments in OTFT
- Recent advances in inorganic systems
- Inorganic TFT deposited at ambient conditions
10:30 Exhibition and Networking Break
12:30 Lunch and Networking Break
- Summary of recent development activity for flexible displays
- Applications to non-display printed electronics
- Update on the USDC initiative on flexible, printed, and organic electronics
- Inkjet approach as an enabler to full color displays based on quantum dots
- Update on latest progress on inkjet printing of electroluminescent colloidal quantum dots and the experimental parameters to achieving ordered structures (packing)
- Demonstration of light emitting devices based on printed quantum dots
15:30 Exhibition and Networking Break
- Gravure printing technique for OLED manufacturing
- Device characteristics
- Large area OLED lighting demonstrator
- Flexible displays
- Technology challenge
- Value chain companies
- Applications and market forecast
Photovoltaics and Batteries (09:00 - 11:30)
09:00 - 09:30 "World First – 5.4% Efficiency from Single Layer Organic Solar Cells"- Graphic vs. functional requirements
- Interactive multilayer printed structures
- The challenge: thin pinhole free layers
10:30 Exhibition and Networking Break
- Thin flexible power source with low environmental impact
- Low cost and natural resource saving
- Suitable for printed electronics
Materials and Substrates (11:30 - 17:00)
11:30 - 12:00 "Challenges of Printing Electronics on Paper – Ways Forward"- Why paper is increasingly important
- Challenges of paper morphology
- Organisations progressing printed electronics on paper
- Remarkable achievements so far
Sun Chemical Corporation, United States, Dr Philippe Schottland, Manager / Advanced Technology Group- Leveraging 50 years of expertise in inks and coatings for the electronics industry
- Innovative products for membrane switches, RFID and photovoltaics
- Building printed electronics capabilities for the future
12:30 Lunch and Networking Break
- Involvement of BASF in Organic Electronics
- High performance polythiophenes for printed electronics
- Development in n-type semiconductors
- Polyethylenedioxythiophene-polystyrenesulfonate (PEDOT/PSS, BAYTRON® P) is a versatile inherently conductive polymer and a solution-processable alternative to ITO in transparent conductor applications
- The basic structural properties of the PEDOT/PSS polymer and its chemical & physical interactions with a variety of coating additives will be summarized. Easy-to-use coating formulations can be optimized for specific applications that require transparent conductive coatings.
- Additional products in the portfolio for printed electronics will be discussed that include novel oligothiophene semiconductors for the production of Organic Transistors.
15:30 Exhibition and Networking Break
- Carbon nanotube films with tailor-made electrical and optical properties
- Transparent low resistance coatings and electrodes as short-term application
- High performance TFT transistors under development
- Current and new production processes of Orgacon Base Products and Processes lead to new product concepts
- Market experiences on Orgacon Inks.
- Orgacon Key Properties enable new applications.
- Latest improvements in Orgacon product performance pave the way to printed electronics applications
Sensors & Sound (09:00 - 14:30)
09:00 - 09:30 "Printed Actuators, Generators, and Sensors"- Introduction to Electroactive Polymer Artificial Muscle (EPAM)
- Design and Applications of EPAM
- Manufacturing Process Development of Printed Actuators, Generators, and Sensors
- Introduction to NXT and its Distributed Mode Loudspeaker (DML) technology
- Thin form moving coil NXT exciters & piezo-based distributed mode actuators (DMA)
- The electronics and Non Volatile Memory (NVM) requirements for NXT PE Audio solutions
- Short overview printed Electronics and BIOIDENT
- Potential Applications in Life Sciences
- Advantages of using printed electronics for devices and production process
- Examples
10:30 Exhibition and Networking Break
- Interactions of print technology on system issues
- Demonstration of component technologies for RFID
- Demonstration of chemical and biological sensors
- Organic photovoltaic power sources
- Integrated sustainable portable power sources for sensors
- Low cost printable antennas for wireless technologies
12:30 Lunch and Networking Break
Manufacturing (14:30 - 17:00)
14:00 - 14:30 ""- An alternative to inkjet printing that does not use liquid solvents
- High resolution patterning of organic thin-film transistors will be shown
- Expansion of the concept to printing by local atomic layer deposition will be discussed
- Machine vision overview
- Technology challenges for printed electronics
- On-line and off-line applications
- Case studies
15:30 Exhibition and Networking Break
- Current R&D Applications
- Economics and Timing for Production Printing
- Status of Ink Jets in Production
- New Tools for Production with Ink Jets
- Ink Jet Applications and Systems
- Product Solutions
- Research, Pilot Scale and Integrated Organic and Inorganic Deposition Systems
- M3D Printing of High Resolution Electronic Features and Coatings
- Comparison vs. Ink-Jet Printing
- Applications in Solar, Display, Fuel Cell and Life Scieces
- Multi-Nozzle Production Solutions
America's largest event on printed and thin film electronics. With over 50 exhibitors and more than 500 delegates anticipated - the whole industry will be at this event. Will you?
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