Printed Electrochromic Film for Architectural and Automotive Applications (Printed Electronics Europe 2014)

Smart window technologies have numerous applications in architectural and automotive applications. Existing smart window technologies such as electrochromics use slow vacuum deposition processes making them very expensive for most high volume applications. In this talk we present smart window film based on printed electrochromic materials and compare its performance with traditional vacuum deposited electrochromic technologies. Recent progress on roll to roll process development will be reviewed and examples of devices suitable for architectural and automotive applications will be presented.

Damoder Reddy, Founder and CEO of Argil, Inc., is a serial entrepreneur who also founded Solexant, a printed nanocrystal thin film solar cell company and Nuelight, a mixed signal IC developer for AMOLED displays. He was COO of Opsys, an OLED materials/devices developer and COO of Lite Array, a china based TFEL display manufacturer. He held technical management roles at Raychem on Polymer dispersed liquid crystals, Rockwell on optical thin films, and Dow Chemical on thin film membranes. He obtained his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Osmania University (India) and postdoctoral researcher at University of Denver and Princeton.

Argil, Inc. is a Silicon Valley based start-up developing printed electrochromic devices on flexible substrates for wearable, automotive and architectural applications.

Argil plans to make and sell flexible switchable electrochromic film for (1) for wearable devices such as adjustable tint eyewear, goggles and visors, (2) laminated glass for automotive dynamic glazing, and (3) insulated glass (IG) for architectural applications.