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Wednesday, 03 Dec 2008
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Wednesday December 03, 2008
The Application of Printed Electronics to Products (08:15 - 10:50)
08:30 - 08:55 "Printed Electronics in 2009"
- The new products
- The new chemistries
- Exclusive: 2009 forecasts revealed
- Key business and technology trends towards future mobile devices
- Nanomaterials for future mobile devices
- Printed electronics enables new device form factors
During this presentation, we will discuss:
- Details of the production planning and execution process for 100,000 E Ink Esquire Magazine covers
- The "gotchas" or story behind the story
- Lessons for the next E Ink cover.
- How Avery Dennison leveraged its roll to roll know how in printed electronics
- Applications and case studies in the consumer packaged goods market
10:10 Break
Radical New Printed Electronics Products (10:50 - 14:00)
10:50 - 11:30 "Possiblities and Influence of Printed Electronics"- What Printed Electronics can Deliver.
- Printed Electronics' Influence to Industries
- Toppan Forms' Engagement and Approach to Printed Electronics
- Plastic Electronics technology, pioneered by Plastic Logic and 10 years in the making, is poised to disintermediate the existing silicon based semiconductor process with a range of new products at substantially lower costs.
- Overcoming the technical and commercial challenges for creating flexible plastic displays from lab to fab.
- Opportunities and trends in market penetration for plastic electronics displays. First stop: The electronic reader category, which is on the verge of dramatic growth.
Discussion will include:
- Turning vision into reality
- From world's first all-printed silicon transistors (2007) to world's first silicon ink based RF tags (2008)
- Partnering for success
- Printed Intelligence and the Solutions
- System Integrator for packaging industry?
- Expectations
12:45 LUNCH
Healthcare and Bionic Man (14:00 - 14:50)
14:00 - 14:25 "A New Light Source for Medicine"- rapid growth of skin cancer
- unmet clinical need for simple treatment
- demonstration of ambulatory treatment by OLEDs
Thin, Flexible Printed Batteries (14:50 - 17:10)
14:50 - 15:15 "Thin, Printed, Flexible Batteries"- Organic radical battery is a new class of rechargeable battery using charge storage plastic.
- Bendable battery can be fabricated because flexible polymer is used as the electrode material. .
- Organic radical batteries are considered suitable power sources for plastic electronics.
15:40 Break
- Infinite Power Solutions is supplying a postage stamp sized energy storage device to makers of thin-film and Organic PhotoVoltaic cell arrays, with efficient acceptance and storage of PV generated currents even down to room lighting levels;
- Perfectly suited for harvesting of RF, Heat, Light, or Kinetic Energy, in any combination, the cell essentially lasts forever;
- The cell is packaged to be compatible with any attachment or lamination process, and permanently embedded into any autonomous managed energy platform.
- The increasing prevalence of smart cards, RF devices, remote sensors and implantable medical devices is driving demand for smaller, flexible energy storage technologies.
- Different battery types, such as primary zinc/manganese dioxide and primary and secondary lithium chemistries, are battling to find niches which suit their cost and performance profiles.
- The micro power market is unlike any other battery market, characterized by huge unit shipments in the billions each year, but at tiny unit prices measured in cents instead of dollars - this talk will delve into the key aspects of what it will take to be successful in this space.
Electronics as Art, Signage, Human Interface - Large Area Displays (14:00 - 16:45)
14:00 - 14:25 "New Capabilities in Printed Electronic Manufacturing Yields Better and Brighter Products"- Equipment and manufacturing capabilities that are critical for effective screen printing
- High yield manufacturing of electroluminescent lamps for large scale, animated advertising applications
- Screen printing electronic components quickly, simply, and cost effectively
- Faster refresh rates of Electronic Paper Displays: new developments and applications
- The advent of color Electronic Paper Displays
- How much progress has been made thus far?
- Inkjet as a manufacturing technology for fixed image and digital displays
- Reflective Digital Display Technology
- HybridSignsTM, the marriage of green-tech reflective digital displays and fixed image displays
- Factors determining color performance for displays
- Color dependency on LCD technology
- Optimizing LCD color quality
15:40 Break
Smart Substrates and Stretchable Electronics (16:20 - 17:35)
16:45 - 17:10 "Interfacing thin-film electronics with the human body"- Stretchable Bio-Electronics are electronic interfaces designed to undergo extreme and multi-directional deformation,
- provide reliable electrical functionality, and be biocompatible.
- Fabricating such interfaces require a unique set of design and fabrication rules. Our approach is to use low process temperature, thin-film technology, and elastomeric substrates. Challenges and technological solutions will be highlighted with two examples (prosthetic skin and implants for nerve repair).
- Building multi-functional high performance systems on unconventional substrates
- Optoelectronics on plastics and glasses
- Converting contact lenses into smart microsystems
Thin Film Transistor Circuits - New Possibilities (14:00 - 16:20)
14:00 - 14:25 "Inkjet Printing: A Nano technology production process"- Emerging technologies
- Critical inkjet printing process development
- Inkjet printing processes and applications in production
- 2007 PolyIC demonstrated the first Roll-to-Roll printed RFID - current status and applications
- Description of the development approach and technology milestones
- Projected future work and roadmap
- ULSI silicon is by far the least expensive source of small circuits for ubiquitous electronics, including RFID, wireless sensors, etc.
- Only silicon can provide the performance and security required by most applications
- The required breakthrough in handling and packaging of ultrasmall and thin chips is enabled by Terepac's transfer printing technology
15:40 Break
Sensors Networks & Actuators (16:20 - 17:35)
16:20 - 16:46 "Printed flexible sensors and circuits for imaging and diagnostics"- 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
Thursday December 04, 2008
Thin Film and Printed Photovoltaics (08:30 - 09:20)
08:30 - 08:55 "Low-Cost Solar to Electric Energy Generation Using Concentrating Photovoltaic III-V Solar Cell Technology"- Highest efficiencies with tandem concentrator cells
- Efforts towards lower cost structures
- Development of technology suitable for terrestrial applications
- Will review the process of printed OPV technology
- Look at the applicable market segments
- Demonstrate products in use.
PV: Panel Discussion (09:20 - 11:00)
09:20 - 10:10 ""10:10 Break
PV: Nano-Enabled Technologies (11:00 - 11:50)
11:00 - 11:25 "Popcorn-Style Dye Sensitized Solar Cells"- Formation of microsized aggregates of ZnO nanocrystallites or TiO2 nanotubes by means of solution processing.
- Significant enhancement of power conversion efficiency (~300%) through effective light scattering by microsized aggregates while retaining desired specific surface area for dye molecule adsorption.
- Power conversion efficiency higher than 11% is anticipated when the popcorn structure and surface chemistry is successfully optimized.
- inkjettable copper ink comprised of copper nanoparticles
- inkjettability proven with piezo-electric and aerosole jetting demonstrated
- obtained 30 micrometer wide traces with resistivities as low as 3 x 10(-6) ohm-cm.
PV: Inorganic Photovoltaic (11:50 - 12:15)
11:50 - 12:15 "Rapid Fabrication of CIGS Solar Cells by the FASST(R) Printing Process"- CIGS offers some inherent cost advantages in thin film solar cells (e.g., high efficiency, low energy needs), and some technology-dependent cost advantages (e.g., monolithic integration, rapid printing)
- CIGS films printed with HelioVolt's FASST(R) process have high quality grain structure and produce high performance solar cells
- FASST(R) printing, especially combined with the use of liquid precursors, provides a long-term technology-based cost advantage
PV: Organic PV- Organic Concentrators (12:15 - 16:00)
12:15 - 12:40 "Advances in OPV, Accelerating Commercialization through new Materials Technology"- Advances in efficiency for R&D and large-area OPV devices
- Ink development for large-area deposition
- Process technology for large-area deposition
12:40 Lunch
- Overview of Solarmer's translucent plastic solar cell technology
- Product integration plans & potential applications
- A power source that is "transparent" to consumers
- Trackerless, flat-plate concentrators for increased conversion efficiency
- Organic thin films for optical concentration to III-V solar cells
- Top junction for Si, CIGS, and CdTe solar cells
- Materials
- Novel architectures
- Results & Future work
15:15 Break
Novel RFID approaches (16:00 - 16:15)
16:00 - 16:25 "Printed electronics and secure tags: the key to affordable RFID privacy and security in item-level tagging"- Item-level tagging with RFID tags is currently hindered by cost, privacy and security issues.
- Our patent-protected Privacy and security Ensuring Affordable RFID System (PEARS) allows the use of secure passive tags in all item-level applications. These tags are particularly good at anti-counterfeiting and security applications; and also protect consumer privacy without the need for deactivation at the point of sale.
- Our secure passive tags are very simple and suitable for printing with Printed Electronics. The market for these tags is enormous and we are looking for partners to develop them and make the most of the market opportunity.
Printed Electronics Standards and Global Progress (16:25 - 17:15)
16:25 - 16:50 "Global Network for the organic and printed electronics industry"- General Trends
- OE-A's Application and Technology Roadmap
- Global approach
- Progress in Japan, Korea, Taiwan
- How East Asia is leveraging the LCD and silicon infrastructure
- Progress versus Europe and North America
Materials:Organic and Inorganic Semiconductors, Dielectrics (08:30 - 09:45)
08:30 - 08:55 "Progress in Materials Development for Printed Electronics"- BASF's involvement in printed electronics
- Sepiolid (TM) product range
- Application in CMOS circuitry
- Research Activities in Korea
- Research Activities about Flexible Electronics at KIST
- Flexible Transistors
Materials: Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene (09:45 - 11:25)
09:45 - 10:00 "Printable Nanotube Inks and Their Applications"- How carbon nanotubes offer high performance for printed electronics applications
- Printability, costs and scaling
- First applications
10:10 Break
- Graphene for high-performance electronics
- Mass production of graphene via chemical exfoliation of graphite
- Properties of large-area graphene-based thin films
Materials: Conductive Materials (11:25 - 14:25)
11:25 - 11:50 "Low Temperature Sintering Nanoparticle Inks for Printed and Flexible Electronic Devices"- Challenges in the materials development to meet the needs in the development of printed electronic devices
- Why and where the nano-sized materials can play the enabling role in the development of printed electronic devices
- Examples that demonstrate various applications of nanoparticle inks in the development of printed electronic devices
- Opportunities in material supply identified by Sun Chemical
- Printing inks: what users need to know
- Qualifying inks
- FPD manufacturers have tried to make silmplify their process especially mask-patterning related.
- Conventional patterning methods are based on subtractive process-removes unwanted areas after whole area coating and at least 70% or more of materials are wasted.
- Novel patterning of silver electrode using gravure-offset reduces the number of processing steps and provides the potential in the patterning of complex applications.
- At present SSCP Corp. have supplied not only the offset printable silver paste for electode but also the printed mesh filter to FPD manufacturer.
12:40 LUNCH
- Introduction to two types of Chisso's high functional inks for inkjet printing, dielectric polyimide ink and high sensitive UV curable ink.
- Extremely high concentrated polyimide ink is applicable to thicker films and can form fine line pattern by the inkjet method.
- Chisso's solvent-free type UV curable ink for inkjet printing can be suitably used for an etching resist, a protective coat and insulation layer, etc.
Materials: Meta-Materials (14:25 - 14:50)
14:25 - 14:50 "Metamaterials - for Super-Lenses and Invisibility Cloaks from DC to Optics"- Metamaterials are artificial materials that can be designed to have electromagnetic properties (permittivity and permeability) that were hitherto unobtainable.
- They can manipulate electromagnetic waves to provide novel functions such as sub-wavelength focussing and invisibility cloaks.
- Their potential application areas range from DC to optical frequencies, and provide challenges of optimization and fabrication.
Materials: Material Scarcity (14:50 - 16:25)
14:50 - 15:15 "CLEVIOS(TM); P [PEDOT/PSS] for the Production of Highly Conductive Transparent Films and Oligothiophene Semiconductors for Organic Transistors"- Polyethylenedioxythiophene-polystyrenesulfonate (PEDOT/PSS, CLEVIOS(TM) 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 and 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 Oligothiophene Semiconductors, High Work Function HIL coatings, and new Highly Conductive PEDOT/PSS materials for the production of Organic Transistors.
15:15 Break
Materials: The Big Need: Barrier/ Encapsulation Materials (16:25 - 17:10)
16:25 - 16:50 "Barix multilayer barriers as protection for printed and flexible electronics"- Principles and performance of Barix barrier films
- Application in flexible (OLED) displays
- Barix Barrier Films for Thin Film Solar Cells
Printing:Roll-to-Roll Printed Electronics: Co-Deposition of Components (08:30 - 08:55)
08:30 - 08:55 "A Practical View of Manufacturing in Printed Electronics"- There is now an established manufacturing element to the Printed Electronics (PE) industry resulting in part from the realization of the steps necessary to integrate individual technologies or devices into applications in which the proper value of these technologies can be expressed.
- Manufacturing can be achieved now with sufficient volume, precision, and reliability to serve existing and developing markets in a commercially attractive way.
- We will consider some existing and emerging applications in PE, including interface technologies, review the challenges in bringing technologies from the lab. into production, and discuss examples from revenue-producing products which indicate what can be achieved now.
Printing: Breakthrough in Room Temperature Cure (08:55 - 09:20)
08:55 - 09:20 "Breakthrough in room temperature cure: Photonic Curing of conductive Inks"- The need for a new room temperature, atmosphere condition cure process
- The Novacentrix process with roll to roll capability
Printing: Digital Printing Breakthroughs (09:20 - 14:00)
09:20 - 09:45 "Aerosol Jet Printing of Thin Film Transistor Circuits"- Conductor, semiconductor, dielectric, and resistor materials printed with Aerosol-Jet
- Sub-micron layer thickness, 10 um feature size, and 5 um registration achieved
- TFT devices with high drain current (mA), high on-off ratio (10^5), and low operation voltage (1V) printed on plastic
- Multiple TFTs printed to form logic gates and ring oscillators
- System development
- Application cases
- PixDro tools / modules
10:10 Break
- Technology status
- Printed electronic applications
- Ink jet equipment
- Inkjet process development
- Implementing inkjet for printed electronics - application examples
- Digital fabrication equipment for printed electronics using inkjet technology
- Novel flexo printing sleeve for printed electronics - Potential of flexo printing in the printed electronics field
- Application of flexo printing
- Rfidium's patent-pending design process enables it to generate multiple variations of a design for quick verification and validation tests, along with a specialized laser-based system for precision prototyping in combination with a thin film deposition system for high-volume production.
- In this session, we will explore real-life case studies of how Rfidium's approach has been successfully applied in the RFID antenna/inlay marketplace.
- Featuring a highly interactive Q&A session on Rfidium technology's potential applicability to other high-detail patterning needs in printed electronics.
12:40 LUNCH
Process/Inspection/Testing Systems (14:00 - 14:50)
14:00 - 14:25 "Strategies for Roll to Roll Processing of Thin Films and other Electronic Substrates"- Equipment platforms for managing thin film substrates
- Process flow with islands of automation.
Printing: Conformal/Flexible Displays (14:50 - 17:15)
14:25 - 14:50 "Solution Printing of AMOLED Displays"- Performance of our solution processed small-molecule materials
- Cost reduction of printing versus incumbent technology
- Trade-offs and benefits of using common layers in OLED architectures
- Early market development opportunity for low cost printed flexible OLED displays
- Research & Development efforts and advancements in performance for air-printed, flexible P-OLEDs
- Manufacturing technology and technology transfer developments
- Applications and market opportunities
15:15 Break
- US based AJJER LLC is developing ultra low power electrochromic (EC) displays and indicators which will be able to operate in conjunction with passive RFID chips within their range of less than 5mW and typical voltage outputted lower than 2.4V.
- The displays can be fully printed, and consist of three layers including the conductive layers. ECs are non emissive, allowing them to be read easily in bright light and providing wide viewing angles.
- The company is focusing on developing monochrome EC displays initially, with versions which are bi stable (power is only needed to change the display) being stable for months; to a single switch version which once changed will not change back again, useful for threshold and warning indicators.
- The performance requirements of a printable active matrix OLED display backplane;
- The development of OTFT devices with the high mobility and low contact resistance needed to drive OLEDs;
- A new universal OTFT compact SPICE model, enabling the design of an all-printed backplane.
America's largest event on printed and thin film electronics. With over 80 exhibitors and more than 800 delegates anticipated - the whole industry will be at this event. Will you?