Masterclass Programme

These fourteen optional expert-led masterclasses are interactive consultancy sessions. At each masterclass you will have the chance to handle many samples, and take away printed copies of presentations. They will ensure you get the most from the conference and leave with answers to your questions.

Tuesday - 16 April 2013 Morning session - 9.00am to 12.00 noon (choose one class only) 1 Introduction to Printed Electronics 2 Introduction to Energy Harvesting 3 Printing Technologies for Electronics Applications 4 Electric Vehicles: Markets, Opportunities, Energy Storage & Infrastructure		Friday - 19 April 2013 Morning session - 9.00am to 12.00 noon (choose one class only) 10 Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes - Science, Technology and Markets 11 Flexible Substrates, Transparent Conductors & Barriers for Flexible Electronics
Afternoon session - 2.30pm to 5.30pm (choose one class only) 5 Energy Storage: Batteries and Supercapacitors 6 Materials 7 Printed Electronics - Materials & Technologies (German) 8 Wireless Sensor Networks, RTLS and Active RFID 9 Creating New Products / End Users Forum		Afternoon session - 2.30pm to 5.30pm (choose one class only) 12 Thin Film Photovoltaics: Principles, Technologies and Markets Off Site 13 Displays & Lighting 14 RFID and Its Progress Towards Being Printed

DAY 1: Tuesday - 16 April 2013

	Tuesday 16 April - Morning Introduction to Printed Electronics
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Designed for those who are new to this disruptive technology or need to understand the big picture to assess the challenges and opportunities, this masterclass will arm you with the latest knowledge of the applications and technology developments involving printed electronics. Led by experts, it is the ideal time to voice your questions as part of the interactive session and learn of the technologies that are available and emerging. The class will cover:

Introduction

• Current market size and future market opportunity, with ten year forecasts for 2013-2023
• Actual uses of printed electronics so far
• Trends by territory
• Value and supply chain and market drivers

Technology Appraisal
For each technology below analysts will cover how each technology option works, the advantages and disadvantages of each, ten year forecasts, case studies, suppliers, technical and market challenges and opportunities.

• Displays (OLEDs, electrophoretic, electroluminescent, electrochromic)
• OLED Lighting
• Thin film transistor circuits (organic, inorganic semiconductors, thin film silicon)
• Sensors
• Conductive inks
• Batteries and actuators
• Photovoltaics

Manufacturing

• A review of manufacturing techniques for printed, organic and flexible electronics

Forecasts and trends

• Historic sales data
• Outlook for 2012-2022
• New emerging disruptive technologies

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2	Tuesday 16 April - Morning Introduction to Energy Harvesting

Energy harvesting is the generation of electricity from the environment, which can be used to power electronic and electric devices. Different technologies can be employed depending on the energy source. For movement, mechanical harvesters can be used (which can work from electrostatic, piezoelectric and electromagnetic movement). Other energy sources include light, heat, EM transmission, biological energy sources and more. Some versions are now even printed. Coupled with new forms of energy storage and lower power electronics, these energy harvesters can negate the need for small batteries in many applications enabling new markets, such as wireless sensors that last for decades or charging of consumer electronics devices.

This masterclass covers all the technologies involved, how they work, and appraisal of their strengths and weaknesses, relative costs and development paths. Case studies and paybacks are referenced. The leading developers are given as are market needs and ten year IDTechEx forecasts by technology, application and territory. It gives you the big picture from an unbiased viewpoint based on years of extensive global research conducted by IDTechEx.

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3	Tuesday 16 April - Morning Printing Technologies for Electronics Applications

This masterclass assesses the range of printing and non printing manufacturing and handling options for the new printed, organic and flexible electronics. It covers printing technologies and related materials, the synthesis of conductive building blocks based on silver, copper and aluminium will be highlighted in more details, as well as their formulation into jettable inks.

A number of sintering technologies will be evaluated with respect to their ability to transform printed ink patterns into highly conductive functional structures, and their physical principles will be explained. Also, their applicability for R2R processing will be demonstrated, and, initial LOTUS project results on device integration and calculations on the ecological impact of the productions techniques will be presented. Furthermore, application types, suppliers and the market opportunity will be addressed. This masterclass will be hold in collaboration with the EU FP7 LOTUS project "Low cost highly conductive high resolution strucTUres for flexible large area electronics by high trhoughput low temperature processing". The LOTUS project aims at developing materials and technologies for the fast, inexpensive and energy-efficient production of large area printed electronics on plastic foils.

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4	Tuesday 16 April - Morning Electric Vehicles: Markets, Opportunities, Energy Storage and Infrastructure

This masterclass addresses the latest progress with electric vehicles and includes the relevance of small and mid scale energy harvesters and storage with vehicles. Commercial and academic activities are covered as are the impediments and opportunities. It addresses the options of energy storage for electric and hybrid vehicles, looking at the companies involved, roadmaps of battery technology, and activities of automotive companies. Electric vehicles are the future of automotive transport and there is a gold rush to create the energy storage solutions to enable this. The masterclass will also look at uses of energy harvesting on vehicles, such as powering wireless sensors for parking or thermal energy harvesters to supply car electrics. Progress of companies and the suitability and performance of the technologies are given.

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5	Tuesday 16 April - Afternoon Energy Storage: Batteries and Supercapacitors

This masterclass assesses the options for energy storage, looking at the range of batteries, their relative strengths, weaknesses, costs and roadmaps. Over the last 100 years battery technology has fallen far behind the rate of development seen by other technologies, but that is now changing thanks to urgent requirements such as in electric vehicles. New technologies are being developed which are applicable to energy storage for small devices, matched with energy harvesters. This masterclass teaches these options covering both technical and market aspects. Developments with flexible, transparent, printable etc batteries are also covered. Challenges and opportunities are appraised. In addition, the masterclass looks at other options such as super and ultra capacitors and super-cabatteries. Details of players are given as is global progress and market forecasts for 2013-2023.

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6	Tuesday 16 April - Afternoon Materials

The new electronics world uses many materials including organic semiconductors, inorganic semiconductors, metallic conductors, nanoparticles, nanotubes, conductive organic materials, dielectrics and more. This technical masterclass looks at the full range of these different materials, comparing for each one the available chemistries, performance, cost, printability, lifetime, suppliers, applications and multiple other parameters. In particular, the masterclass covers:

Materials Assessed:

• Semiconductors – organic (including carbon nanotubes and graphene), inorganic (including metal oxides and silicon), and dielectrics
• Metallic conductors (silver, copper and other metal nanoparticles, nanorods and nanowires)
• Organic conductors (including carbon nanotubes and graphene)

These materials are assessed for applications including:

• Photovoltaics
• Displays and lighting
• Touchscreens
• Logic and memory
• Actuators and sensors
• Conductors
• Batteries

Ten year forecasts are given for the material opportunity. The impact of using different print techniques (inkjet, gravure, etc) and substrates (paper, plastic, glass, etc) are also considered from the materials perspective.

Who are the major suppliers of materials by type? What are the biggest material challenges? What are the latest emerging materials capable of achieving? How are the design processes for electronic devices and systems affected by the new materials and technologies? It is all covered here by experts in materials, printing, and design.

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7	Tuesday 16 April - Afternoon Printed Electronics - Materials & Technologies (German)

This Masterclass is held in German
The new electronics world of printed electronics can utilize any solution-based material including organic semiconductors, inorganic semiconductors, metallic conductors, nanoparticles, nanotubes and more. This technical masterclass looks at the full range of these different materials, comparing for each one the available chemistries, performance, cost, printability, lifetime and multiple other parameters. The impact of using different print techniques (inkjet, gravure, etc) and substrates (paper, plastic, glass, etc) are also considered from the materials perspective.

Who are the major suppliers of materials by type?

What are the biggest material challenges?

What are the latest emerging materials capable of achieving?

What are the printing and coating technologies?

How are the design processes for electronic devices and systems affected by the new materials and technologies?

It is all covered here by experts in materials, printing, and design. From organic semiconductors to nano silicon, from inkjet to gravure printing - attend this masterclass to understand materials and technologies, their strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and much more.

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8	Tuesday 16 April - Afternoon Wireless Sensor Networks, Real Time Locating Systems, and RFID

This masterclass covers the technology and markets for Active RFID in all its forms, and where they are going over the next ten years. It addresses:

• Different types of Active RFID system, their cost structure and advantages and disadvantages for each choice.
• Traditional Active RFID, RFID enabled cellphones, Smart Active Labels/ Battery Assisted Passive tags, Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) and Wireless/Ubiquitous Sensor Networks (USN): technology choices, markets, standards.
• The largest orders and case studies by key market verticals.
• Lessons of success and failure.
• Trends and market size by territory and application type, now and in the future until 2022.
• Challenges to tackle and analysis of early adopters.

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9	Tuesday 16 April - Afternoon Creating New Products / End Users Forum

Printed and potentially printed electronics is creating many new products given the benefits of the technology compared to conventional electronics, such as thinness, flexibility, cost, ease of manufacture, fast production turn around, "green" technology, power efficiency and more. However there is a right way and a wrong way to do this. For example incremental improvements to existing products are usually failures or at least take a long time to turn profit.   There is increasing work to look beyond replacing conventional electronics such as competing with LCD displays and silicon chip RFID tags, where the price erosion makes the benefits of printed electronics less obvious. Instead we now have smart skin patches using printed batteries, e-book readers - creating a new market, audio paper, moving bill board posters and much more. This innovation will even apply to woven electronics and many other new applications.   This class will feature early adopters and successful suppliers and will cover:

• How lack of creativity is holding the market back.
• Key vertical industries and how they could benefit from the technology,
• The strategy your company should look at to go to market and assessment of timelines to market.

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DAY 2: Friday - 19 April 2013

10	Friday 19 April - Morning Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes - Science, Technology and Markets

This masterclass is designed for those who are new to graphene and carbon nanotubes, and looking for an overview of the science, technology and markets. We will give our assessment for each target market, listing the active companies, analysing value propositions, assessing the commercial opportunities, and forecasting market growth where appropriate. At the end of this class, attendees will understand the link between manufacturing techniques, material properties, and applications.

Science and physical characteristics Chemical structure Optical characteristics Mechanical properties Single vs. multi-layered graphene Single vs. multi-wall nanotube Semiconducting vs. conductive, etc...		Assessment of target markets Composites Adhesives Energy storage Electronics and memory Sensors Touch screens, etc...
Manufacturing techniques An overview of the manufacturing techniques will be presented, including liquid-phase exfoliation, chemical vapour deposition, arc discharge, etc... For each manufacturing technique, we will outline the process flow and critically assess the pros and cons. We will detail the input material set, resultant material quality, equipment, cost, scaling issues including bottlenecks, active companies, etc.

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11	Friday 19 April - Morning Flexible Substrates, Transparent Conductors & Barriers for Flexible Electronics

This technical Masterclass explains the needs, the options and the future trends for the chemical structure and processing of flexible materials that are required to enable flexible electronics. In particular, it addresses the following flexible components for displays, lighting, PV, touchscreens, logic and sensors:

Flexible Substrates

• Plastic, paper and inorganic substrate options
• Temperature performance, barrier performance, latest progress, suppliers, costs, matching inks
• New smart substrates, including electroactive polymers
• Application relevancy
• Market opportunity

Barrier Films

• Requirements, technology options and their appraisal and suppliers
• Companies which are active in the development of high barrier films and their achievements on the field to date.
• Surface smoothness and defects (such as cracks and pinholes) and the effect that these characteristics would have on the barrier behavior of the materials studied.
• Performance measurement
• Forecasts for barriers for 2012-2022 for OLED Displays and Lighting and OPV

Transparent Conductive Films

This section will cover the role of metal oxides, organic materials, and emerging alternatives including inorganic meshes, carbon nanotubes, graphene and more for transparent conductive films. It compares these to the market for ITO. The penetration of these options into applications such as displays, photovoltaics and touch screens, and others, is given for the next 10 years. Work from more than 50 organizations is summarised – including academic research institutes and companies, with commercial progress so far appraised.

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12	Friday 19 April - Afternoon Thin Film Photovoltaics: Principles, Technologies, Markets

* The Thin Film Photovoltaics Masterclass will be held at the PVcomB facility in conjunction with a company tour. We will be providing transport to and from the ICC in Berlin. You will need to be at the ICC at 12.15pm in order to get the bus for this masterclass.

This masterclass is designed to give an overall picture of photovoltaic technologies, from basic principles all the way to current advances, in addition to commercial trends and considerations and forecasts. The masterclass is structured as follows:

• Photovoltaics: basic principles and operation.
• Photovoltaic technology assessment, players, market focus, covering

• organic and hybrid organic/inorganic photovoltaics
• Dye-sensitized solar cells
• Thin film technologies (e.g. amorphous silicon, CdTe, CIGS)
• III-V/ II-VI multijunctions, crystalline silicon.

• Latest new applications and case studies.
• Progress with PV over the past decade - sales, subsidies, other trends and drivers.
• Market analysis with ten year forecasts to 2020.

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13	Friday 19 April - Afternoon Displays & Lighting

Displays will be one of the largest market segments in printed/organic electronics. For example, Samsung has invested over $500 million in developing next generation OLED displays. Already 70% of the MP3 flash memory music devices use an OLED display. However, OLEDs are just the tip of the iceberg with electroluminescent, electrophoretic and electrochromic displays with unique benefits being commercially used now.  Five micro thick LEDs are also in prospect which will be compatible with printed components though not printed;  LCDs are being printed on flexible substrates. Within ten years we will also see another major development - conventional lighting being replaced with lighting that is laminar and flexible, although several technologies vie for this.
This masterclass, led by experts in the field, will guide you through:

• The full range of technologies, market opportunities and challenges.
• The issues to be resolved. The IP situation will also be covered.
• The companies in the value chain, along with their positioning and strengths.

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14	Friday 19 April - Afternoon RFID and Its Progress Towards Being Printed

RFID is rapidly taking off for a wide range of applications, with the 2.3 billion tags shipped in 2010 rising to over 124 billion tags in 2020. The endgame is the item level tagging of ten trillion items every year and Ubiquitous Sensor Networks USN with at least billions of tags yearly but both call for ultra low-cost. In the case of item tagging they will cost little more than a barcode does today. For Ubiquitous Sensor Networks they must be self powered and under 50 cents each. Printed RFID is one of the most promising technologies to achieve these objectives - that includes printed transistors, sensors, batteries, microwave reflecting data carriers and antennas where needed. Today, we already have fully printed sub one cent RFID tags. These do not use thin film transistor circuits though and have various performance compromises. Additionally, over 50 companies are developing printed thin film transistor circuits which can mimic the silicon chip and be used as a printed RFID tag. This class will cover:

• What technologies are involved and how do these compete with the reducing cost of silicon chips.
• What benefits beyond cost are offered by this new electronics.
• What are the enabling technologies, progress of the leaders, market sizes and timelines? Which are the most suitable applications for printed RFID initially.

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