Conference Programme

Monday 18 April 2005:
 

There are two optional pre-conference Masterclasses designed to ensure you get the most out of the event by bringing you up to date with the latest applications, technologies and company activities, giving you the big picture. Led by experts, it is the ideal time to voice your questions as part of the interactive session and learn of the toolkit of technologies that are available and emerging and their applications.

Masterclass 1: RFID and Smart Packaging

Monday 18 April 08:30-12:30

Presenters: Raghu Das & Dr Peter Harrop, IDTechEx Ltd, UK

RFID

• RFID Systems and components
• The benefits and payback of RFID, examples of RFID being used, how many have been sold and into which markets
• New applications and advice on entry to market
• Chip and chipless tag technology evaluations and their applications
• The place for printed electronics in RFID
• The Electronic Product Code (EPC) and other global initiatives
• Companies driving RFID adoption – the major and small players
• RFID forecasts and trends 2005-2020

Smart Packaging beyond RFID and EAS

• Mechanical, chemical, electrical and electronic smarts in packaging
• Non-electronic & electronic laminates for brand enhancement & diagnostics
• Organic and printed electronics – technologies and their impact
• The exploding market for smart medicine, food condition monitoring, brand enhancements, novelties
• Opportunities for packaging - combining electronics with packaging

All workshop attendees also receive 6 months access to Smart Labels Analyst and will be able to study RFID tag samples.

12:30-13:30 Lunch for delegates for both masterclasses

Masterclass 2:

Printed Electronics Introductory Masterclass

SOLD OUT IN 2004 WITH OVER 70 ATTENDEES!

Monday 18 April 13:30-17:30

Presenters: Dr Peter Harrop & Raghu Das, IDTechEx Ltd, UK,

Dr Bruce Kahn, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

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.

The session will cover:

• The need for printed electronics
• Applications of printed electronics – now and near future
• Lessons to be learnt from early successes and failures
• The value chain
• Market forecasts
• Key markets that need printed electronics – reasons why and their technology requirements
• Creating new markets versus competing with conventional electronics in existing ones
• Assessment of technologies, companies, strategies and progress so far, including
• Thin film transistor circuits (organic, inorganic semiconductors, thin film silicon)
• Displays (OLEDs, electrophoretic, electroluminescene, electrochromic and others)
• Sensors and conductive inks
• Batteries and actuators
• A discussion of printing techniques, their relevancy and challenges
• Challenges and the roadmap to the full printed electronics toolkit

All workshop attendees also receive 6 months access to Smart Packaging Journal and will be able to study some samples of printed electronics.

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Tuesday 19 April: Conference Day One

Speakers will cover early case studies, the potential for printed electronics and the requirements of the technology.

08:00 Registration

08:30 "New technologies and new markets: Welcome to the products of the future"
Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx, UK

• Existing markets for printed electronic components
• Progress from global companies for printed thin film transistor circuits
• Our latest market research - printed electronics 2005 to 2015: where, why and what next?
• Analysing the printed electronics value chain – share of income and opportunities

08:50 "Nokia’s requirements for printed electronics and what has
been done so far"
Seppo Pienimaa, Senior Research Manager, Nokia, Finland

09:15 “Printed sensors”

Dr Bruce Kahn, Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

• Why print sensors? What can be sensed?
• Types of sensors
• Applications for printed chemical sensors

09:40 Tea & Coffee Break & Exhibition

10:10 "Future applications of printed electronics technology"
Dr Jack Bacon, Johnson Space Center, NASA, USA

10:35 "The inadequacy of static printed signs - what we need from printed electronics"
Nigel Rix, Commercial Director, Episys, UK

• Signage within the retail environment and the current problems
• Our need for low power, flexible dynamic displays
• The potential and requirements for electronic signage

11:00 “The opportunities for dynamic displays in advertising”
Bill Wilson, Outdoor Advertising Association, UK

• outdoor advertising market size
• greater potential for electronic displays

11:25 "Paperboard Computers"
Marie Wall, VP Business Development, Cypak AB, Sweden

• Combining RFID, microcomputers and printable sensors for turning static packaging into disposable data capturing devices
• New low cost and printable contactless data transfer technology
• Case studies in pharmaceutical, courier and access security industry
• Future market uses

11:50 Lunch & Exhibition

12:50 "Case Study: Applying printed semiconductors"
Jukka Perento, Managing Director, Panipol, Finland

• Polyaniline based materials, products and applications
• Coating systems and inks and their applications
• Our experience : the challenges we faced and the results

Tuomas Mustonen, M-real Corp, Finland

• Case study

13:15 "Organic Semiconductors: Current Status, Early Applications and Beyond"
Craig Cruickshank, Managing Director, cintelliq, UK

• Significant progress to date
• Interesting early applications
• The future: many exciting possibilities

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Covering organic and inorganic semiconductors, progress and early applications.

13:40 "Printed Electronics - HP's Technology beyond Ink on Paper"
Thomas J Lindner, Hewlett Packard, USA

• Introduction of Hewlett Packard's Imaging and Printing Capability
• Brief Tutorial on Thermal Ink Jet
• Examples of Printed Devices and Novel Applications
• The next Horizon

14:05 "Trends in polymer electronics technology and low-cost applications"
Luigi Occhipinti, STMicroelectronics, Italy

• Research activities in materials and technologies for low-cost electronics
• PolyApply: an European Integrated Project on Polymer Electronics
• Future applications of polymer electronics

14:30 Tea & Coffee Break & Exhibition

15:00 "Inkjet-printed Polymer Thin Film Transistors at Epson"
Dr Thomas Kugler, Epson (UK) Ltd, Japan

• Short introduction to Epson's Microliquid Technology
• Application examples of inkjet printing to the fabrication of electronic devices at Epson: Colour filters, OLEDs, metal interconnects for PDPs
• Basic geometry and fabrication process of polymer TFTs
• Investigations of electronically functional materials for polymer TFTs and their influence on the device performance

15:25 “A new class of Thin-film transistors for Printed Electronics
Professor John Wager, School of EECS, Oregon State University, USA

• Inorganic thin-film transistors
• Performance and manufacturability

15:50 "Printed Electronics in Packaging"
Dr Tommi Remonen, Interconnect & Packaging Dev Engineer, ACREO, Sweden

16:15 "Getting to market with plastic electronics"
Dr Kieran Reynolds, Process Integration Group Leader, Plastic Logic, UK

• The Plastic Logic direct write process
• Lessons we have learnt and challenges still to address
• Our first applications: progress with Siemens

16:40 Tea & Coffee Break & Exhibition

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Enabling the full potential of the technology, speakers in this session will cover printed power, sensors, sound and photovoltaics.

16:55 “Flexible Polymer Battery Technology”
Dr. Alison Voice, Senior Lecturer, IRC in Polymer Science & Technology, University of Leeds, UK

• Reel to reel battery technology

17:20 “Invisible sound for Printed Electronics Products and Displays"
Geoff Boyd, Head of Technical Sales, NXT Sound, UK

• NXT Distributed Mode Loudspeaker (DML) Technology
• Why NXT DM loudspeakers ‘sound better’
• Application of NXT DM loudspeakers to displays, printed media and digital signage

17:45 "Latest Advances in Substrates for Flexible Electronics"
Dr Bill MacDonald, Business Research Associate, DuPont Teijin Films, UK

• Discuss and contrast the substrate properties relevant to flexible electronics
• Discuss modelling studies on mechanical properties of multilayer structures and the effect of moisture pickup on dimensional control
• Examples of the films in use

18:00 Close

A unique optional networking event at The University of Cambridge's oldest college - Peterhouse - founded in 1284.

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Wednesday 20 April: Conference Day Two

08: 00 Registration

08:30 Organic Electronics
Prof. Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Laboratories, The University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Friend is the key founder of both Cambridge Display Technology and Plastic Logic.

• the performance of organic semiconductors in electronic applications, covering LEDs, FETs, and photovoltaics
• the development of processing technologies

A wide range of displays are covered, with discussion oftheir progress and case studies, including electrophoretic, OLED, electroluminescent, electrochromatic etc displays

08:55 “Ink-jet printing of polymer LED displays”
Dr. Eric Meulenkamp, Principal Research Scientist, Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands

• status of ink-jet printing of polymer LED displays
• implications for device build-up and materials development

09:20 “Printed Electronic Displays: Progressing the Vision”
Chris Rider, Programme Leader, Display, Europe, Kodak, UK

• A vision for low-cost optoelectronics
• Manufacturing Technologies for first generation displays
• Progress in cholesteric liquid crystal displays
• Advanced manufacturing technologies for the second generation

09:45 “Transparent conducting screen-printing inks”
Dr Louis Bollens, Business Manager Advanced Materials, AGFA, Belgium

• The technology
• Exploring the obstacles to market
• Possible mainstream applications

10:10 Tea & Coffee Break & Exhibition

10:40 “A new generation of flexible displays”
Chris Barnardo, Creative and New Business Director, Pelikon, UK

• Experience from printing millions of printed electroluminescent displays
• A new innovative passive multiplexed drive

11:05 “Rethinking markets for light technology”
Richard Kirk, Managing Director, elumin8, UK

• Incorporating the use of light as form
• Incorporating lighting into building structures

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The progress to high speed printing for electronics

11:30 “Industrial printing capabilities for organic electronics”
Robert Weiss, Head of Business Development, MAN Roland, Germany

• Reel to reel printing of organic electronics
• Printing systems for electronics components

11:55 Reel to reel manufacturing of printed electronics and systems
Dr Karlheinz Bock, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany

• In-line manufacturing processes for flexible electronics
• application oriented processing
• from electronics to multi-functional flexible plastic systems
• possible first applications and market penetration

12:20 Lunch & Exhibition

13:20 The role of inkjet in the future of printed electronics
Dr Philip Bentley, Senior Scientist, Xennia Technology, UK

• Current use of inkjet technology for printed electronics
• Disadvantages of inkjet vs other printing techniques such as offset and gravure
• Does inkjet have a sustainable long-term future in this industry?

13:45 “Inkjet Print Head requirements for Manufacturing Printed Electronics"
John Attard, Business Development Manager, Xaar, UK

• Meeting demanding requirements
• Technology roadmap and initial test results

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State of the art in materials

14:05  "Printed electronics in medication dispensing & monitoring"
Thomas R. Grinnan, MeadWestvaco Corp, USA

• The global problem of patient non-compliance
• Use of RFID in healthcare packaging, including impact on retailers
• Novel approaches to retail RFID enablement at the item-level
• Technological approach to interactive, consumer packaging

14:30 "Advances in printable inorganic electronic materials"
Chuck Edwards, General Manager, Printable Electronics and Displays, Cabot Superior MicroPowders, USA

• The applications and future direction of printable inorganic electronic materials
• The roles of different printing technologies - IJ, Flexo, Gravure...
• Printable nanoparticle Nickel offers unique device functionality
• The development of printable resistors and passive materials

14:55 "Flexo Printing with Conductive Ink: An overview of Printed RFID Antenna and Intelligent & Active Packaging Applications"
James Neilson, Product Manager, Xink Labs, Canada

• flexo printing overview / aqueous conductive ink for flexo
• printed antenna vs copper vs aluminium thinfilm: a side by side comparison
• adapting the antenna design for printing applications
• other applications (e.g. anti-tamper sensors, smart labels, games, medical
• disposables)
• XINK philosophy on ASI (application specific inks)

15:20 Tea & Coffee Break & Exhibition

15:50  "Polyester films for printed electronics"

Stefano Perversi, Coveme S.p.a., Italy

16:10 "Is Plastic Electronics Ready for Manufacture?"
Rebecca Feay, Commercial Manager, Avecia, UK

• Recent progress with OSC materials
• Roadmaps for material development
• Roadmaps for process development
• What is the critical path for Plastic Electronics?

16:35 "New solution processable polymers for organic electronics"
Dr Maxim Shkunov, Merck Chemicals, UK

• New p-conjugated polymers: high charge carrier mobility and solution processability
• Air stability and molecular design for tepthiophene polymers
• Ambipolar blends for integrated circuits and photovoltaic applications

17:00 Close

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Thursday 21 April:

As part of the conference, IDTechEx has arranged tours to Cambridge Display Technology Ltd  and Xaar plc. Tour places are very limited and only available on a first come basis - book early to guarantee your place.

The tours are now fully booked

Tour schedule:

Tour 1:

08.30 Coach departs from: Peterhouse College, Trumpington Street (Collection point 1)

08.45 Coach departs from: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0DS (Collection point 2)

Visits to:

• Cambridge Display Technology  ( www.cdtltd.co.uk )
• Xaar plc ( www.xaar.co.uk )

12.15 Coach returns to: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

12.30 Coach returns to: Peterhouse College

Tour 2:

10.10 Coach departs from: Peterhouse College, Trumpington Street (Collection point 1)

10.25 Coach departs from: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0DS (Collection point 2)

Visits to:

• Cambridge Display Technology  ( www.cdtltd.co.uk )
• Xaar plc ( www.xaar.co.uk )

1.45pm Coach returns to: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0DS

2.00pm Coach returns to: Peterhouse College

Tour places are very limited and only available on a first come basis - register early to guarantee your place.