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Printed electronics products offer many new possibilities because they can be flexible, stretchable, low cost enough to be disposable, improve existing electronics such as displays, be integrated with fabrics, are more environmental, and improve safety and much more...

For the first time, cheap electronic features enhance products such as packaging, blister packs, bill board posters and clothing. Over 3000 global organizations are developing the technology and now radical new products have emerged.

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Land, Sea & Air Mobility

Healthcare

Architecture & The Build Environment

Moving away from bulky, intrusive photovoltaic panels, printed electronics technologies have lead to the creation of flexible, light, building-integrated solar cells that can conform to different surfaces, have different colours and thus, enhance the pallet of architectural features available to building designers. Interior design is also given a range of technologies that will liven up living spaces, surface emitting lighting, electroluminescent wall paper, semi transparent windows that turn into lighting elements at night, occupancy sensors are just some of the possibilities.

Your pass enables you to visit all the conference presentations and not just those recommended below. In addition to these, other presentations will feature case studies from leading adopters illustrating how this technology can add brand enhancements and new features to your products. You will also have the opportunity to visit the Tradeshow where you will see demonstrations of printed electronics in action.

Relevant Presentations

		Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Dr Bonwon Koo, Principal Engineer, Display Laboratory 11:05 - 11:30 "Organic Thin Film Transistors for Flexible Electronics" Recently, demanding issues evolved from flat panel displays (FPDs) system are concerned with development of high-performance and low cost thin-film transistors (TFTs) backplanes on desired substrates by easy-to-process yet highly integrated system. In particular, even though active-matrix display with printable, novel semiconductors is attractive among FPDs, it is not realized because new organic semiconductors comparable to conventional a-Si TFT technologies are not developed. For the production of well-defined and very uniform printed OTFT arrays, we have molecularly designed ambient processable functionalized conjugated copolymers with liquid-crystalline nature, enabling the high-performance OTFTs. Our approaches enable the realization of polymer based flexible color-display, and offer a promising solution for the advance of future display.
		National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Dr Maikel van Hest, Sr Scientist 11:30 - 11:55 "Transparent Conductive Oxides and use of Atmospheric Processing for Photovoltaics" Use of transparent conductive oxides in inorganic photovoltaics Direct write approaches for metallization (Ag, Cu, Ni, and Al) Atmospheric processing of thin film solar cells
		Panasonic Corporation, Prof Takuya Komoda, Research Director 17:10 - 17:35 "Recent Progress and Future Trend of OLED Technologies for Lighting Application" Reduction of the energy consumption in Lighting is a very important challenge in order to conserve our Earth. By fluorescent blue / phosphorescent green & red hybrid structure, 56 lm/W / CRI > 91/ LT50 > 150,000 h was achieved in large panels. All phosphorescent white OLED has the great potentiality in efficacy up to 128 lm/W, which would be the highest value ever reported on WOLED. Panasonic launched OLED lighting business last year and would like to expand rapidly this year.
		Synaptics, Inc., Mr Bob Mackey, Sr. Scientist 14:45 - 15:10 "Novel Materials and Trends in Capacitive Touch Sensing"
		Peratech Ltd, Mr David Lussey, CTO 15:10 - 15:35 "Quantum Tunnelling Composites (QTCs) in Printable Electronics" QTCs are a new class of electronic materials in solid, powder and ink forms They are anisotropic, non-linear, intrinsically safe and can carry large currents Bespoke resistance ranges covering more than 16 orders of magnitude Used for sensing a range of stimuli or to make printable switches
		Stantum, Mr Pascal Joguet, CTO 15:35 - 16:00 "Multi-Touch Technologies"
		PARC a Xerox company, Dr Janos Veres, Area Manager 09:45 - 10:10 "Merging Technologies into Commercial Opportunities" PARC is demonstrating new solutions for integrating functionalities such as logic, memory, and sensors on the same substrate. Beyond the applications made possible by these integration advances, this work demonstrates what it takes to move from early-stage concept to commercial reality. What are the key factors for process compatibility and operational compatibility? What gaps need to be addressed when faced with expectations from mature industries? What are the tradeoffs we need to pay?
		Bayer MaterialScience AG, Dr Julia Hitzbleck, Program Manager Functional Films R&D 12:05 - 12:30 "ViviTouch: Electro-Active Polymers Make Printed Electronics Move"
		Soligie, Dr John Heitzinger, President 10:50 - 11:15 "Designing, Developing and Delivering Customer Solutions" • Successful implementation of Additive Manufacturing of Electronics (AME), which includes printing and other additive methods of production, starts with a detailed understanding of customer needs and translating those into product specifications. • Analysis of the available technologies and manufacturing approaches results in the determination of a realistic path for product development and production. • Examples showing where AME is capable of meeting requirements and where it falls short will be discussed. • Success can often be achieved by combining AME with traditional electronics.
		Soltecture Solartechnik, Dr Alexander Meeder, Head of Process Integration Department 14:50 - 15:15 "Progress in CIS-based Thin-Film Solar Module Development" History and current status of the CIS technology Production issues Products and applications
		Konica Minolta Material Technology R&D Laboratorie, Mr Toshihiko Iwasaki, Senior Researcher 15:15 - 15:40 "Latest Trends and Challenges in OLED Lighting Technologies" Konica Minolta's OLED lighting activities World's first all-phosphorescent OLED product Technical approach for R2R coating for OLED lighting
		SOLVAY SOLEXIS, Mrs Corinne Duffie, Business Development Manager 11:40 - 12:05 "Solvene™ Electro Active Polymers for Printed Electronics"
		University of Cambridge, Dr Andrea Ferrari, CAPE 08:55 - 09:20 "Graphene for Printed, Flexible and Transparent Electronics" Introduction to Graphene Production and Processing of Graphene Optoelectronic Properties of Graphene Printed, Flexible and Transparent devices based on graphene inks and solutions
		Heliatek GmbH, Dr Martin Pfeiffer, Chief Technology Officer 15:40 - 16:05 "Efficient and Stable Organic Vacuum-Deposited Solar Cells and Modules" • p-i-n tandem cells with 9.8% certified efficiency on 1cm² with superior low-light and high-temperature performance • Efficient modules on glass and PET foil • Towards roll-to-roll production
		IDTechEx, Dr Harry Zervos, Technology Analyst 16:45 - 17:10 "Photovoltaics: New Markets - Technologies - Challenges" New markets for solar cells beyond rooftop installations and solar farms Technology options beyond crystalline silicon Challenges and adoption barriers
		Philips Corporate Technologies, Dr Kars-Michiel H Lenssen, Director / Principal Scientist 08:30 - 08:55 "Bright Zero-Energy e-Skin" Bright e-Skin technology enables (green) novel applications Ultra-low power consumption, also for gray scale This enables "Zero-Energy e-Skin", demonstrated for indoor photovoltaic cells and RF power
		Nanosolar, Mr Christian Pho Duc, Vice President Sales Europe 14:25 - 14:50 "Printing Solar Power"
		Infinite Power Solutions, Mr Timothy Bradow, VP, Marketing 11:40 - 12:05 "THINERGY Micro-Energy Cell (MEC) Products & Applications Overview"
		Novaled, Dr Steffen Pfuetzner 17:10 - 17:35 "Advanced Charge Transport Materials for Small Molecule Organic Solar Cells" Novaled position in the OPV market Novaled PIN technology and materials OPV tandem devices