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Printing electronics is an emerging technology and future fields of application are automotive, healthcare, intelligent textiles, illumination, displays and packaging.

This paper focuses on printed electronics in packaging, a continuously growing market as predicted by research institutes.

How printed electronics can add value to packaging? The answer must be differentiate according to the product value as well as the packaging design. Key issues here are on the one hand the benefits of the printed electronics to attract customers and on the other hand the additional costs. Premium packaging can tolerate higher additional costs as convenient ones and are the target for implanting printed electronics.

These days the packages with integrated printed electronics are rare to find on the shelves. The added value to available packages will be discussed in detail as well as the technologies behind, as electrochromic, thermochromics, electroluminescent and OLED displays. The different technologies will be compared according to their state-of-the-art, performance, integration options, potential and costs.

Finally, the potentials of the different technologies will be discussed and according to them the opportunities for new packages enhanced by printed electronics in the short to long term future.

Since 2008

Professor for Printing Technologies at the University of Applied Sciences Munich

2002 - 2008

Senior Product- and Process Manager at Group GmbH & Co. KG, Oberschleißheim

1998 - 2002

Scientific Officer at Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging, Freising

1994 - 1997

Ph.D. Student „Plasma Pretreatment of Polymers" at

• the University of Regensburg and

• Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging, Freising

1988 - 1994

Student of Physics at the University of Regensburg

1991 - 1992

Exchange Student (DAAD Scholarship) at University of Colorado in Boulder, USA

Munich University of Applied Sciences is the second largest university of applied sciences in Germany. Located at the heart of a European high-tech and economic metropolis, our mission is to remain firmly focused on practical application - both in teaching and in research.

Special project classes fulfill both objectives. There, the students learn about printed electronics by developing and producing demonstrators. Students from California Polytechnic State University also joined the project groups and their demonstrator was rewarded by the Organic and Printed Electronics Association.