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Wednesday December 02, 2009
Keynotes (08:45 - 14:25)
08:45 - 09:10 "Printed Electronics Products: Who wants what, when, why and how much"- The taboo topic: routes to profitability
- Opportunities in the value chain: component integration, product creation
- What products are needed by different industries
- Penetration of printed electronics products: 10 year forecasts
- Technology highs and lows - what is hot, why
- US, Europe and Asia - trends and comparisons
- Procter & Gamble is a very large, global consumer products company whose products range from disposable paper goods to high-end electrically powered devices
- While Procter & Gamble sees great value in products which are enabled by printed electronics, there still exist gaps in many areas making commercialization difficult for much of our business
- This presentation will attempt to outline some of the challenges we see to commercialization and to identify help we need from the technology developers to make these products ubiquitous.
- Overview of smart fabric applications
- Production processes used to make smart fabrics
- Potential needs and user requirements for printed electronics in smart fabrics
- Compact wearable sensing for sports medicine, interactive media and exercise, and social interaction
- Wearable sensing for autonomous energy management
- Sensate Media, a.k.a., ultradense sensor networks as flexible, scalable multimodal electronic skins
End Users (14:15 - 16:45)
14:25 - 14:50 "Low Cost Conductive Material and its Applications"- High volume, low cost conductive material solution and its fundamental characteristics/capabilities
- Low cost disposable products/logistic applications using this material
- High speed processing potential and synergies with flexible/disposable electronics
- What is an Electronic Shelf Label (ESL)?
- The high volume market of ESL, now and in the near future.
- How printed electronics can be part of and change the ESL industry.
- Why Nano-Tech & Printed Electronics Sensors?
- Practical Technologies and Approaches
- Achieving Cost Effective Sensors
Radical New Products (16:45 - 18:00)
16:45 - 17:10 "eTape - A Low Cost Printed Electronic Fluid Level Sensor"- Milone Technologies is a specialized electronics products company focused on delivering new low-cost liquid level measurement technology to a developing market.
- We see ourselves as the innovators developing products enabled by printed electronics that will transform the level sensor market.
- Our company has only recently released it's product and sales are quickly outstripping our production capabilities.
- This presentation will outline the hurdles that we have faced, the obstacles that we need to overcome to establish our company, and our challenges to the technology developers to make our product successful.
- Low cost RFID alternative
- How does it work
- How can I use it
Printing Silicon Circuits (14:25 - 15:40)
14:25 - 14:50 "Printing Single Crystal Silicon (and Other High Performance Materials)"Explosive E-Reader Market (15:40 - 18:00)
15:15 - 15:40 "The eBook Reader That Means Business"- A 10-year journey from R&D lab, to fab and commercialization
- Plastic electronics: shaping a the future for eReaders
- Preview of the Plastic Logic Reader - extending the market for eReaders
- Unique properties of plastic electrophoretic SURF displays enable new and exciting applications - where no display has gone before
- Unique display shapes allow designers to Think Outside The Rectangle
- ePaper displays providing critical information when there is no power available
- Microcup electrophoretic displays are high contrast, flexible, reflective, and bistable and an excellent display for technology for integration with printed electronics.
- Status of current commercialization and available performance of black and white ereader and signage films will be described.
- Progress in color implementation will be shown.
- Why Astak pursues a policy of allowing end users to buy from almost any website and offers 12-14 formats!
- Innovation and moving quickly... the advantages for a medium- sized manufacturer.
- The environmental impact... electronic book readers versus printed paperback and hard covers and newspapers. What changes are coming.
Paper Electronics (17:35 - 18:00)
17:35 - 18:00 "From e-paper to paper-e"Organic and Composite Photovoltaics (12:45 - 17:10)
14:25 - 14:50 "Organic Photovoltaic Research at Intel Labs"- OPV Applications for small to large-scale power generation
- Templates for large-area scalability
- Transparent OPV
- OSPEC: a viable solution to the world's energy needs
- Working Principle of OSPEC
- Advantages of OSPEC technology
- Development of OSPEC array
- How new visions are being created for solar energy
- Turning technical innovation into working reality
- How the industry needs to lead the solar energy debate
Manufacturing the new Photovoltaics (15:10 - 18:00)
17:10 - 17:35 "Aerosol Jet Production Pathways for improved C-Si Cell Efficiencies"- Scalable non-contact print process
- Supporting wide variety of materials
- Metals, alloys, etchants, dopants
- Facilitates the move to thinner wafers
Thursday December 03, 2009
Zinc Oxide Transistors become Popular (08:30 - 11:40)
08:30 - 08:55 "Development of Solution-Processed Oxide TFT Backplane and its Application to AMOLED"- Soluble oxide precursor
- Solution-processed oxide-TFT
- AMOLED fabrication
and semiconductors
- Highly stable ZnO thin film transistors (TFT) were fabricated using
Pulsed Laser Deposition technique
- Very high current drive capabilities (800mA/mm), excellent on/off
characteristics (1E12), and microwave signal amplification was demonstrated
- Printed inorganic electronics - an overview
- Status at Merck
- Future perspectives
- The structure of the TFT devices will be presented including the choice of gate dielectric and the variation of the properties of the indium zinc oxide with oxygen content.
- A comparison of performance with equivalent amorphous silicon devices in terms of mobility (which is an order of magnitude greater) and threshold voltage.
- Finally, the influence of the gate dielectric and thermal post-processing on the device properties will be detailed.
- Discuss metastable effects in oxide devices
- Produced stable devices at processing temperatures
- Created oxide transistors using roll-to-roll imprint lithography
New developments with Organics (11:40 - 14:50)
11:40 - 12:05 "Printable Electronic Materials"- Overview of Printable Semiconductors
- Overview of Printable Conductors
- Dielectric and Interfacial Materials
- Polyethylenedioxythiophene-polystyrenesulfonate (PEDOT/PSS, CLEVIOS™ P) is a versatile inherently Conductive Polymer and a Solution-Processable alternative to ITO and metal powder-filled inks for Printed Electronics 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. New Ready-to-Use coating Formulations having outstanding Visible Light Transmissivity, Electrical Conductivity and Environmental Stability will be introduced.
- Improvements in the "basics"
- New inks for high brightness AC EL
- ORGACON developments in OLED light
- Examination of some factors affecting functional material design
- Review of the current state-of-the-art materials and performance
- Addressing reproducibility and lifetime issues
Metamaterials & Memristors (14:50 - 16:45)
14:50 - 15:15 "Developments with MetaMaterials"- We have demonstrated a flexible, solution-processed, nonvolatile, low power, inexpensive, TiO2-based flexible memory component.
- The electrical behavior of this component is consistent with a memristor, an electrical device that has recently been declared to be the missing fourth circuit element.
- The memory device has operation voltage of less than 10 V, on/off ratios greater than 10,000:1, exhibits memory potential that is nonvolatile for over 1.2x106 s, and is operational after 4,000 flexes.
- The science behind invisibility
- Perfect imaging without negative refraction
Future of Printed Electronics (16:45 - 18:00)
16:45 - 17:10 "Architecture in NanoSpace"Electronic paper is taking off in consumer products. While current eReaders satisfy the needs of linear reading tasks, frustration exists in the academic community because current eReaders don't provide the interactivity required for research and study. Ricoh Innovations has developed techniques for flipping pages quickly and marking up ePaper. The need for interactivity will be discussed and several advances in ePaper responsiveness will be demonstrated during Barrus's presentation.
- Like the silicon chip, printed electronics needs high volumes to reach the necessary low costs
- Programmability and modularity - déjà vu
- How basic hardware platforms saleable across all industries are necessary
- Examples of these and their potential
Displays (08:30 - 12:05)
08:30 - 08:55 "Quantum Light(TM) Optics: Delivering Warmth and Color to LED Lighting"- Introduction to quantum dots for solid state lighting
- Quantum LightTM optic performance and value proposition
- Early product adoption
- Effect of transfer printing on device performance will be discussed.
- Reflex display technology basics and background
- Flexible displays - manufacturing, development, and status
- Product lines and applications
- OLED as a breakthrough technology - for lighting and displays
- Market penetration - from niche to broad adoption
- Hurdles to broad commercialization - from vapor deposition to solution processing
- Addressing technology challenges - from hybrid approaches to full solution processing
- Design and Manufacturing of EL Signage
- User Interface Solutions
- Medical and Energy Storage Solutions
Carbon Nanotubes & Graphene (12:05 - 16:05)
12:05 - 12:30 "Developments with Hybrid Graphene-Carbon Nanotube Material (G-CNT)"- synthesis of a nano-composite
- counter-ion formation stabilizes both components
- spectroscopy observations
- controlling the nano-scale morphology produces results ideal for printed electronics
- example in a polymer solar cell
- how further improvement was achieved
- Completely printed nanotube supercapacitors with ultrahigh specific energy and power.
- Completely printed nanotube current collectors for batteries.
- Stretchable, flexible and wearable naotube energy storage devices.
- New material, Carbon NanoBuds(TM)
- New Carbon nanotube and NanoBud(TM) synthesis processes
- New component production method, Direct Dry Printing(TM)
- Spun out of Hersam Group at Northwestern University in early 2007
- Founded to commercialize technology for separating CNTs
- Sell purified, sorted carbon nanotubes
- Patents pending on materials, methods, and applications
Market Analysts (08:30 - 09:20)
08:30 - 00:00 "PV News at 8.30"- Renewable California
- Thin Film Solar company news
- Thin Film Stock Market
PV High Efficiency (09:20 - 09:45)
09:20 - 09:45 "Electric Energy Generation using Concentrating Photovoltaic III-V Solar Cell Technology"Inorganic PV (09:45 - 14:00)
09:45 - 10:10 "Solution Processing of Device Quality CIGS Absorber Layers"- non-vacuum deposition approach for chalcopyrite-based solar cells
- targeting low-cost high-efficiency thin-film PV
- 12+% efficiency devices achieved using spin-coated absorber layer
- New process completely automate projected for high productivity
- New method of CdS (cadmium sulfide) deposition: Sputtering in presence of
- Process completely dry
- Process without neither CdCl2 nor strong acid like HNO3 HPO3
- New back contact to assure a high stability
- No emission in the environment (gas and water)
CHF3 gas
- Overview of Thin Film Solar Cells
- Cost Reduction with Printed Solar Cell Technology
- Commercialization of Printed Inorganic Solar Cells
National Photovoltaics Initiatives (14:00 - 14:25)
14:00 - 14:25 "The State of Oregon's Renewable Energy Policies"- Oregon is in the top 10 states in both wind and solar energy; we will soon be in the top 5 in wind with the largest windfarm in the world.
- Our goal is also to be in the top 5 states in use of solar energy. We now have increasingly larger commercial use of solar energy.
- Oregon is one of the largest centers for manufacturing solar components in the United States, with SolarWorld, Sanyo, Solaicx, Peak Sun, PV Powered and Mr. Sun.
Printed Power (14:25 - 14:50)
14:25 - 14:50 "The Ubiquitous, High Power, Energy Storage Solution - The Flexible "PowerWrapper™""- Technology platform for a novel nanocomposite energy storage device
- Characterization of a scalable and flexible energy storage sheet with high power and voltage
- Production process and status
- Potential applications
- What are printed batteries
- Introduction to Interactive Printed Media
- Examples and Demonstration of IPM using printed electronics
Stretchable Electronics (15:15 - 16:05)
15:15 - 15:40 "Flexible Inorganic Optoelectronic Devices on Thin Plastic Sheets via Multilayer Transfer Printing"- Transfer printing technique for large area, flexible and stretchable devices
- Multilayer transfer printing technique, for use with Si, GaN, GaAs, InP and other inorganic nanomaterials
- Various flexible GaAs optoelectronic devices, ranging from MESFETs, to photodiodes and solar cells
- High performance inorganic semiconductors have no shortage of computing power, however, they are restricted to a flat, rigid form factor.
- Through novel mechanics, conventional materials and processes are used to produce high performance stretchy integrated circuit arrays
- Entirely new applications are enabled through the transformation of standard silicon electronics into flexible and even stretchable systems.
Producing Integrated Components (08:30 - 09:45)
08:30 - 08:55 "First Products Manufactured: PolyC's runs Pilot Production"- New Products: transparent conductive films out of high-speed roll-to roll production
- Printed memory: colaboration with TFE (Thin film electronics)
- Printed RFID: production and quality details disclosed
- Successfully developing products that solve challenging technical problems utilizing printed electronic technologies
- Bringing together manufacturing processes and technology development to push traditional boundaries
- Integrating technologies and delivering complex products that meet customer's functional requirements
- Delivering real solutions today while continuing to develop technologies for future integration
- Manufacturing fully functional active electronic devices utilizing printing processes has been demonstrated.
- Successful scale-up of device manufacturing has required a deep understanding of material science and process know-how.
- Further technical advancements and product development success is anticipated as additional devices are identified which require the advantages offered by printing technologies.
Manufacturing New Electronics at Room Temperature (09:45 - 11:40)
09:45 - 10:10 "High-Speed Curing of Copper and Other High-Temp Materials on Low-Temp Substrates" - Improved results with traditional and nano silver
- Effect of substrate selection
- Significance of transient thermal conditions
- Cu ink for inkjet printing process was developed.The feature of this Cu ink is low temperature sintering below 200 deg C, because Cu nanoparticles are not covered with organic materials which act as a dispersant as well as an oxidation inhibitor.
Printing Electronics. What you need to know (11:40 - 16:05)
11:40 - 12:05 "Slot Die Coating"- Materials and methods for printed electronics
- Challenges in jet-printing electronic circuits
- Printed display backplanes and sensor tapes
- A novel security approach to prevent shoplifting of optical media such as DVDs
- Integration of printed sensors and circuitry to enable point-of-sale activation; development of sensor chemistries, printing technologies and process scale-up
- Overview of related portable sensor devices where printing can make a significant impact
- Roll-to-roll nanoimprint on flexible and rigid substrates: method, material, and apparatus
- High speed Dynamic Nano-inscribing to create continuous nanogratings
- Wide range of applications, including LEDs, solar cells, displays, and optical metamaterials
- The inkjet print puzzle
- Application development
- Scaling from laboratory to production
- Avoiding the "killer application" trap
- Learning from silicon: programmability is key
- An architecture for printed programmability
America's largest event on printed and thin film electronics. With over 100 exhibitors and more than 800 delegates anticipated - the whole industry will be at this event. Will you?
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