Optomec® is the world-leading provider of additive manufacturing systems for high-performance applications in the Electronics, Photovoltaic, and Aerospace & Defense markets. Optomec's Aerosol Jet ® Deposition System (formerly known as M3D) is a breakthrough additive technology enabling finer feature sizes than traditional ink-jetting and screen printing processes. The Aerosol Jet system utilizes an innovative aerodynamic focusing technology that produces electronic and physical structures with feature sizes down to 10 microns. The Aerosol Jet system supports a wide variety of materials including nanoparticle inks and screen-printing pastes, conductive polymers, insulators, adhesives, and even biological matter that can be accurately deposited onto non-planar substrates.

 

Aerosol Jet is a registered trademark of Optomec, Inc.

Agfa Materials has a leading position in producing film and related products for the graphical and healthcare industry. Agfa Materials commercializes with ORGACON™ a portfolio of PEDOT/PSS based formulations and printing inks. Fields of application range from antistatic or ESD protection to the use as transparant conductive flexible electrode

for ITO replacement. More information can be found on www.agfa.com/orgacon

BASF is the world's leading chemical company - The Chemical Company. With over 95,000 employees we serve customers and partners in almost all countries of the world.

Cambridge Display Technology, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Chemical, leads the development of display technology based on solution processable organic light emitting diodes (P-OLEDs). P-OLEDs offer superior performance characteristics to other display technologies, such as liquid crystal displays, in many applications.

P-OLEDs are already in commercial use, and are expected to be used in mobile applications, televisions and lighting. CDT owns key intellectual property around P-OLED materials, devices and processes, such as inkjet printing, which are used in the manufacture of P-OLED displays.

Ciba is a leading global company dedicated to producing high-value effects for its customers' products. We strive to be the partner of choice for our customers, offering them innovative products and one-stop expert service. We create effects that improve the quality of life - adding performance, protection, color and strength to plastics, paper, automobiles, buildings, home and personal care products and much more. Ciba is active in more than 120 countries around the world and is committed to being a leader in its chosen markets.

Founded in 2002, cintelliq focuses exclusively on providing information services and strategic consulting based on independent analysis of the emerging organic semiconductor industry. Its range of services aims to address the needs of both individuals and organisations with an interest in the development of technologies and applications across the whole of the organic semiconductor industry. cintelliq invests its resources in: monitoring and tracking commercial and technology developments; attending exhibitions and conferences; conducting independent research; codifying its analysis.

Coding Products, a division of ITW, is a manufacturer of thermal transfer printer ribbons, hot stamp foils and hot ink rolls that are used in a broad range of applications. Located in northern Michigan, Coding Products has been a supplier to the printing industry since 1977 and is primarily focused on meeting marking/decorating needs with specialized requirements (e.g. high durability, color matching, sterilization, etc.). Coding Products participates in a variety of key markets including medical devices, card personalization, outdoor signage and pipe/cable markings. The core technologies of Coding Products are new formulation development, milling, ink mixing, coating and custom slitting. Coding Products and Printexs have collaborated to develop a ribbon suitable for use in thermal transfer printers capable of digitally printing conductive traces and images. The prints produced by this ribbon exhibit excellent conductive properties. While our early interests in this new technology were focused on the fabrication of electroluminescent signage for Coding Products' core signage market, we have come to recognize that the ribbon developed has the potential to meet the needs of many applications in both consumer and industrial applications.

Daetwyler understands the tolerances required for printed electronics. We have been designing and building high-precision, sub-micron machines for the gravure printing industry for 25+ years. Our R&D division in Dayton, Ohio focuses on creating new uses for our specialty software and high-resolution engraving units. This dedicated focus ensures maximum accuracy through the use of the latest controls including temperature monitoring, laser-based position feedback, and advanced linear induction drives. Headquartered in Switzerland, Daetwyler is a global leader in the development of prepress software and equipment for the printing industry.

DuPont Microcircuit Materials has 40 years of experience in the development, manufacture and sale of specialised ink compositions for a wide variety of electronic applications in the display, photovoltaic, automotive, biomedical, industrial and telecommunications markets. The company holds a lead position in these markets with success based on close customer relationships and a comprehensive worldwide support infrastructure.

Utilising core expertise such as materials science, chemistry and fine particle technology, the inks are used on a wide variety of substrates suitable for many new Printed Electronics applications, for example DuPont™ Solamet® Ag inks for thin film photovoltaics.

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For over 50 years, Emerson & Cuming has focused on providing high performance conductive inks and adhesives for the most demanding electronic industries around the world. Their state-of-the-art antenna inks provide the best solution for solvent and temperature-sensitive substrates, while their novel snap cure die attach adhesives enable low cost tag assembly at high production speeds. The company remains at the forefront as a proven leader with exceptional antenna inks and die attach adhesives for RFID tag assembly.

Enfucell, Ltd is a dynamic, innovative company offering state of the art customer solutions for disposable low voltage (1,5 - 3.0 V) power needs.

 

Enfucell's thin, flexible and environmentally friendly SoftBattery(R) represents the next generation of battery technology, offering a completely new level of performance and thinness. The manufacturing process is based on traditional paper printing and lamination technology, making it cost competitive, using freely available industrial raw materials thus offering the company a key competitive advantage.

 

The SoftBattery(R) can be used in a wide range of new applications such as semi-active RFID, functional printing & packaging, sensor based tags and transdermal drug & cosmetic delivery patches.

Five Star Technologies is a supplier of high-performance dispersions, inks and pastes used in semiconductor and microelectronic packaging, displays, photovoltaics and ceramic component applications. Combining its patented hydrodynamic cavitation process with innovative chemistry, Five Star produces precision dispersions of a wide range of materials, as well as the new ElectroSperse™ series of inks and pastes. The ElectroSperse line features a range of conductive pastes with excellent printability, high levels of conductivity, strong adhesion to a variety of substrates, and RoHS compliance. ElectroSperse grades can be tailored for a range of processing techniques, including screen, gravure, extrusion and ink jet printing. Targeted applications include display electrodes, photovoltaic contacts, sensors, and hybrid microcircuits.

FUJIFILM Dimatix's MEMS-based technology lets inkjet printing create products like displays and electronics, RFID antennas, smart tags, DNA arrays, smart packaging and wearable electronics. The DMP-2831 is a low-cost, cartridge-based piezo inkjet printing system that enables direct deposition of functional fluids - including nanoparticle-based metallic and organic materials. Similarly, the DMP-3000 is capable of printing a wide range of functional fluids from both experimental cartridge-based printheads with small volumes and high performance printheads appropriate for industrial and high throughput applications.

 

FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc. is the world's premier provider of piezoelectric inkjet printheads and systems. As of July 2006, FUJIFILM Dimatix is a wholly owned subsidiary of FUJIFILM Corporation. Our products are designed to accurately dispense a wide range of fluid types in demanding imaging and fabricating applications. FUJIFILM Dimatix has more than 20 years experience in advancing the performance of drop-on-demand dispensing devices and applications. Our state-of-the-art technology provides solutions for the printed electronics industry.

 

H.C. Starck Clevios GmbH is a 100% daughter of H.C. Starck GmbH, Germany.

H.C. Starck Clevios GmbH manufactures a range of patented conductive polymers based on PEDOT:PSS (Clevios P) - chemistry for electronic applications. From conductive polymers for antistatic, OLED, organic solar cell and capacitor applications to new printable electronics, versatile Clevios meets the requirements of emerging flexible electronic materials. High conductive materials, such as PEDOT:PSS with 1000S/cm or 100Ohn and new HIL materials for OLEDs and Solar Cells will be spotlighted by the company.

IDTechEx provides independent analysis on the development and application of printed electronics, RFID and allied technologies.

 

You can trust IDTechEx to help you build your business. We provide consultancy, market research and executive-level events across the US, Europe and Asia.

ImageXpert Inc. is a leader in part inspection systems and tools for printed electronics. Developers and manufacturers rely on ImageXpert systems in R&D and in production. We offer expertise in analyzing printed materials from a variety of traditional and digital printing technologies and a long history of providing machine-vision based image quality measurement and part inspection systems to imaging companies worldwide. Our hardware configurations include 2-D camera-based systems, 3-D laser height profiling systems, and line scan camera-based systems. Specialized systems include JetXpert, an innovative system for analysis of drops in flight for any inkjet print head or jetting technology, and ImageXpert Solar, a solar cell inspection system that uses machine vision with both visible and NIR cameras to measure finger widths, spacing and other features.

 

All of our systems use the same flexible, analytical software to produce objective, repeatable data.

imaging Technology international Corporation (iTi) is a leading digital fabrication systems supplier. Established in 1992, headquartered in Boulder, CO with its European office in Cambridge UK, iTi designs, develops and manufactures high precision digital material deposition systems that incorporate inkjet technology. iTi's strategy is to support customers from Lab2Fab with a comprehensive range of flexible, printhead independent R&D tools, which include the Drop Watcher and MDS 300 materials deposition system, through to high volume fabrication systems such as the VJet and Digital Web Press.

 

In 2009, iTi established the iTi Solar division to advance the economies of clean, renewable energy through the use of industrial inkjet technologies. iTi Solar develops precision industrial inkjet systems for use in the manufacturing of efficient, low-cost solar cells. iTi Solar's material deposition systems are used by a number of labs worldwide, including the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL).

 

iTi is widely acknowledged for its technical expertise in incorporating inkjet technology as a digital manufacturing process. Our in-depth understanding of the capabilities of inkjet technologies, combined with expertise in industrial design, electrical, mechanical and software engineering assist our customers in a wide variety of deposition applications.

 

iTi can shape a world-class solution that makes sense for your inkjet challenge - work with us from Lab2Fab.

Transparent Silver Inks, developed by InkTec with patented technology, are Ag-based conducting inks suitable to RFID Tag, PCB, reflective film, display, and EMI shielding, etc. Differently from other prior conductive inks based on nano-technology, InkTec inks are purely transparent silver inks which are not formulated by particle structure. The inks are stable even in long-term storage and applicable to various substrates because they enable ink sintering in low temperature for conductive trace. According to our business plan for electronic materials, it was completed the 2nd plant in March 2007 and this plant will be occupied by electromagnetic manufacturing facilities.

ISRA VISION supplies in-line surface inspection systems that provide 100% inspection of printed, patterned, and un-printed materials. For printed electronics applications, the system inspects 100% of each repeat and detects defects like mis-registration, shorts, opens, cracks, "mouse-bites", and substrate defects. Defects are classified by type and the location of each defect is mapped. Continuous web (reel to reel) or sheets can be inspected. ISRA VISION is a global acting company and the leader in surface inspection with over 400 employees committed to providing in-line 100% inspection solutions for process improvement and quality assurance.

Multek Flexible Circuits is a high-volume flexible circuit manufacturer processing almost 20 million square feet of single and double-sided circuits annually. Multek's technology is based on low cost, high volume, reel-to-reel fabrication processes and techniques. With over 40 years of flexible circuit experience, Multek is a global leader in flexible circuit development and delivery. On the foundation of our Sheldahl Technical Materials business unit, we uniquely offer vertical integration to rapidly tailor our materials to meet the specific requirements of our customers.

NanoMas Technologies, Inc. is an innovative technology leader in nanomaterials development and commercialization. Our proprietary technologies integrate the art of precision nano-scale engineering with LOW COST mass production of functional nanomaterials; thereby, enabling the HIGHEST PERFORMING conductive and semi-conductive

nanoparticle inks and pastes for the emerging Printed Electronics industry.

 

NanoMas currently markets two products: NanoSilver(tm) ink and NanoGold(tm) ink, which are the highest performance printable

conductive inks, with finest particle size (~5 nm), highest conductivity (~4.3x107 S/m), lowest curing temperature (70-150ºC) and shortest curing time (~ 2 min).

 

In the product pipeline: semiconductor inks, dielectric inks, electroluminescent inks, low temperature conductive pastes and solders, high quality carbon nanotubes and nanowires ...

NovaCentrix is focused on technologies and products to enable products and manufacturing in Printed Electronics. The PulseForgeTM line of tools dries, sinters, and anneals metallic, non-metallic, and semiconductor inks, without damaging fragile substrates such as foils and plastics. With processing times of only milliseconds, surface depositions can be heated to melting or crystallization temperatures without damaging low temperature substrates. The very short processing times also allow high-speed processing rates, and the PulseForge tools are capable of roll-to-roll production at speeds approaching 300 meters per minute.

NovaCentrix also offers MetalonTM conductive inks, specially suited for maximum performance with PulseForge tools. Use with the PulseForge tools allows the Metalon inks to be formulated for maximum printability while still attaining maximum conductivity. Silver inks and breakthrough true-copper inks are also available. Metalon inks can be applied to substrates such as plastic films, paper, transparent conductive oxides, and glass. With PulseForge tools and Metalon inks, Now You Can.

Organic & Printed Electronics serves professionals involved in the development, integration and utilization of organic and printed electronics products and technologies in North America. The publication provides a cost-effective way for vendors providing products and services for the organics and printed electronics marketplace to reach qualified buyers and specifiers with a magnitude that has not been possible before.

PixDro is an innovative company, specialized in the research & development of industrial inkjet applications and the manufacturing of advanced inkjet printing systems for research and industry. Our experience in the inkjet printing market has resulted in various innovative technologies and products.

 

Our products consist of printing modules embedded in an open system architecture allowing PixDro to customize our systems (LP 50 and LP 150) for client specific processes and applications. These building blocks enable easy integration and migration from entry-level single layer printing for R&D purposes to volume printing in an industrial system.

 

With these products and modules PixDro facilitates the development of applications and offers a migration path to a complete industrial production system.

 

As part of the OTB-Group, PixDro offers complete printing solutions including pre and post processing; thereby, providing a complete solution for your requirements.

www.pixdro.com www.otb.nl

PolyIC produces printed electronics in a high-speed printing process. Printed electronics means that in a printing process electrical conducting and semi conducting plastics, so called polymers, are applied in several layers on a polyester film. The printing process is conducted in an exactly defined design so that electronic devices can be created. These devices are integrated, for example, into a RFID (radio frequency identification) tag. PolyIC's product line for RFID is called PolyID. Printed electronics makes low-cost RFID tags possible that can be used for mass applications. Furthermore, this new technology is also used in displays and complex systems, called smart objects. PolyIC sells smart objects under the name of PolyLogo.

 

PolyIC is a joint venture between Siemens AG and Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG and is located in Fuerth, Germany. PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 2003.

Plextronics, Inc. is an international technology company that specializes in printed solar, lighting and other electronics. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, the company's focus is on organic solar cell and OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) lighting, specifically the conductive inks and process technologies that enable those and other similar applications.

A privately held company with select partners and strategic corporate and venture investors, some of the country's most prominent venture capital firms in the light, power and circuitry markets have invested in Plextronics. The company has also teamed up with multinational companies in joint development agreements, strategic alliances and research partnerships.

 

Plextronics was founded in 2002 as a spinout from Carnegie Mellon University, based upon conductive polymer technology developed by Dr. Richard McCullough. Over the past seven years, Plextronics' scientists have refined and further developed this technology to deliver exceptional performance for printed electronics.

Printed Electronics World provides you with a daily update of the latest industry developments. Launched in May 2007, this free portal covers the progress to printed electronics in all its forms - from transistor circuits to power, sensors, displays, materials and manufacturing.

 

Hosted and written by IDTechEx, the leading printed electronics analyst and event organiser, articles provide commentary, analysis and give a balanced view of the issue. You can opt-in for an email to be sent to you every Wednesday listing the new articles posted in the previous week. We aim to make this service your most valuable tool for keeping up to date with the printed electronics industry.

Printexs Located in Mesa, Arizona, Printexs has established itself as a leader in custom digital, functional printing. Their specialty is applying EMI, RFI and conductive coatings. Printexs employs a broad range of high performance functional coatings which include EMI/RFI coatings (copper, silver, etc.), epoxy, polyurethane, acrylic and enamel coatings. The core strength of Printexs is the expertise of its technicians in their particular area of coating and printing applications. In addition to the above coatings, Printexs offers customized silkscreening, photo etching, CNC machining, Large format thermal and inkjet printing.

 

Printexs is working with partnering companies on digital thermal transfer conductive and non-conductive ribbons and substrates for functional printed electroluminescent lighting and printed electronic applications.

RadTech International is the trade association for UV & EB curing technology and is the authoritative source for information on the use of UV & EB curable materials for flexible and printed electronics. Visit our website to discover the possibilities in using UV & EB technology to cure inks, coatings, and adhesives in your flexible and printed electronics process.

Rieke Metals, Inc. is a world leader in supplying semiconducting materials for photovoltaic devices, printed electronics and OLED displays and lighting. RMI offers many polymers including 3-alkyl polythiophenes and water soluble polythiophenes in grams to kilograms. Many substituted monomers are also available including 3-hexyl thiophene and 2,5-dibromo-3-hexylthiophene. The company also supplies active metals and novel Grignard reagents.

The Durel Division of Rogers Corporation will present their Printed Electronics and Lighting Solutions. Durel has over twenty years of design and high volume manufacturing experience in printed electronics. Our screen printing capabilities include product design, electrical, mechanical and optical testing, precision registration along with finished product converting and assembly operations.

 

Products and applications include medical electrodes and sensors, capacitive sensors, conductive adhesives, antenna, electroluminescent lamps, light guide film backlights and polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC).

 

Rogers Corporation (NYSE: ROG) is a global technology leader in the development of high performance specialty-materials-based products for a variety of applications in diverse markets. The company operates sales and manufacture facilities in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Soligie is the leading company to utilize high speed manufacturing to produce printed electronics with a variety of conductive, resistive and proprietary materials on flexible substrates such as PET, paper and foil. State of-the-art design and development capabilities enable customers to realize products that push traditional boundaries. Soligie engages in development projects from the product concept phase through high volume manufacturing. The Company is on the cutting edge of the production of electronic components using high speed, fully additive roll-to-roll processes. Soligie offers a full range of services from concept design, circuit design, design for manufacturability and final volume production. Soligie currently serves the medical device, smart packaging, RFID and flexible interconnect markets. Through the combined use of emergent materials and proprietary manufacturing processes, electronics components such as memory, sensors, displays and batteries will soon be integrated into applications on thin flexible substrates.

SonoPlot designs and sells Microplotter® picoliter fluid dispensing systems for drawing features as small as 5 microns. Our patented ultrasonic dispensing technology enables true contiguous lines for superior conductive traces and enables the deposition of a wide range of fluids, including solutions containing graphene, carbon nanotubes, nanoparticles, and polymers. This technology allows the Microplotter® to print inks with viscosities up to 450 cP without the hassle of tuning them to the printer. Integrated digital video and precise positioning allow for accurate dispensing on MEMS or other complex surfaces. The Microplotter® systems provide unparalleled price per capability in the market.

 

At this year's conference, SonoPlot will be introducing the GIX Microplotter II, which offers a unique combination of 5 micron positioning resolution, a compact form factor, and an affordable price. This new system is ideally suited for rapid prototyping of printed electronics, high-precision dispensing of biomaterials, and printing using solutions that inkjets struggle with.

Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, is a leading provider of materials to packaging, publication, coatings, plastics, cosmetics, and other industrial markets. With annual sales over $3 billion and 11,000 employees, Sun Chemical operates in 110 countries worldwide. Leveraging 50 years of experience as a supplier to the printed circuits industry, Sun Chemical has recently commercialized a range of new products for membrane switch, RFID and photovoltaics markets. Through an ongoing commitment to developing innovative products that provide value to our customers, Sun Chemical is investing in facilities and technologies targeted at the evolving printed electronics market.

Manufacturer of LASER SYSTEMS, UV STEPPERS, UV SCANNERS and MASK ALIGNERS. Tamarack supplies photolithography and laser micromachining systems. We specialize in applications including: Displays, RFID, Solar Cells, Organic Electronics, MEMS, Medical Devices and HDI. Our Excimer and Solid State ablation systems are ideal for direct pattern etching thin metals from various organic substrates to form transistors or other electronic circuits. In addition, these systems are used to via drill most types of organic and inorganic materials with selective material removal, down to 1um. Systems designed for Roll-to-Roll, Reel-to-Reel and Sheet handling. Resolution capabilities to 1um. Machines designed for 24/7 production environments.

The OE-A is the key international industry association for organic and printed electronics and represents the whole value chain of this emerging industry. The OE-A is a working group within the German Engineering Federation (VDMA). It was founded in December 2004. Our members are leading international companies and institutions, ranging from component and material suppliers, equipment and tool suppliers, producers/system integrators and end-users to R&D institutes. More than 120 companies from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia are working together to promote the establishment of a competitive production infrastructure for organic and printed electronics. The vision of the OE-A is to build a bridge between science, technology and application. The activities of the OE-A include roadmap for organic and printed electronics, networking opportunities and strategic market understanding. Dedicated working groups cover the topics applications, technologies, quality control and measurement, demonstrators, education and upscaling production. To improve service for the members in North America, OE-A opened an office in the US in September 2008.

Blue Spark Technologies, Inc. is the leader in developing flexible, printed, "green," proprietary power source solutions for battery-powered printed electronic systems. The company was founded as Thin Battery Technologies in 2002 with patented technology and technical leadership from Energizer (Eveready Battery Company). Blue Spark customers include manufacturers, product designers, and integrators across multiple industries including: interactive packaging, RFID, pharmaceutical, powered smart cards, and novelty items. Users of products powered by Blue Spark batteries enjoy increased efficiency, greater convenience and portability, improved safety, lower manufacturing and assembly costs, higher profit margins, and greater environmental responsibility. For more information, visit www.bluesparktechnologies.com or call +1 440 249 5400.

Thin Film Electronics is providing non-volatile printed memories. By using the physical, chemical and electrical properties of advanced polymers TFE can add new functionality to printed products. Thin Film Electronics technology can be used in many different applications, ranging from high security anti-counterfeit application to children's toys. In fact, TFE's unique polymer memory technology can be used in any printed electronics application were a non volatile random access memory is desired, e.g., to store information on a package that can later be displayed to the customer

Unidym is a leader in the development, manufacture, and application of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for electronic devices. Unidym's CNT-based transparent conductive film delivers both process simplification and mechanical robustness for touch screens and display applications. When CNT-based films are compared to current ITO/IZO transparent electrode materials, Unidym's products offer valuable features such as uniform transmission across the entire visible light spectrum, mechanical flexibility, reduced reflectivity and are more cost effective to manufacture. In addition to its product applications, Unidym has an expansive IP portfolio, with over 200 foreign and domestic patents and patent applications on CNTs and their applications.

UniJet Co. Ltd is a total solution provider of inkjet printing systems and technology, especially for electronic material deposition. UniJet supplies printing systems ranging from R&D systems to mass production systems for LCD, PDP, OLED, PLED, solar cell, PCB, RFID, semiconductor packaging, and various coating applications. Mass production systems are customized to meet the application requirements and specifications with R2R printing systems. UniJet also offers process know how for various application developments as well as for application specific inks.

Xennia has a broad range of capability in inkjet technology applicable to printed electronics. Xennia is a leading developer and supplier of inks and processes including conductive, resistive, semiconductor, electrochromic, etch resist, colour filter and OLED inks. Xennia is also able to supply robust industrial inkjet modules and systems for production applications, and can support inkjet development programmes by supplying development tools and printing systems.