Roll to Roll Manufacturing of Next Generation Devices & Ultra High Barriers (Printed Electronics Europe 2013)

Mr Tobias Stolley, Technologist R&D
Applied Materials WEB Coating GmbH
Germany
 
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  • Roll-to-Roll (R2R) production of thin film based display components (e.g. active matrix TFT backplanes & touch screens) combines the advantages of the use of inexpensive, lightweight & flexible substrates with high throughput production.
  • Recently, significant advances have been made in device patterning enabling the mass production of a variety of flexible electronic devices. These techniques are now so advanced that feature sizes of less than 40 nm can be produced on thin film layer stacks deposited on 50 µm thick polymeric substrates.
  • High performance R2R manufactured TFT devices have been demonstrated using both traditional amorphous silicon & IGZO channel materials indicating the readiness of the technology for the next generation of low cost, low resolution display devices for EPD devices (E-Readers, Digital Signage etc).
  • High oxygen and water barrier technologies are also required for commercialization of today's high end, organic electronics based consumer devices. R2R CVD technologies, today offer a route towards economic production of barrier layer stack structures with performance levels necessary for OPV device encapsulation. Further developments are required to provide the performance gains necessary for OLED display applications.

Speaker Biography (Tobias Stolley)

Tobias is a technologist and project manager for PECVD Web Coating at Applied's Technology Center in Alzenau, Germany with 18 years of experience.
He is engaged in the development and implementation program for flexible TFT backplanes for the next generation of thin film electronic devices. He was a researcher at `Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST´ in Braunschweig from 1995 to 1998. He switched jobs into the industry. He joined Leybold Systems and in 2006 Applied Materials.
 
He has worked with a wide variety of clients on start-ups of coating machines, research and development including architectural glass, display and web applications. He is skilled in project management, layer development and developing innovative solutions for coating machines.

Company Profile (Applied Materials Web Coating GmbH)

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Applied Materials, Inc. is the global leader in providing innovative equipment, services and software to enable the manufacture of advanced semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic products. Our technologies help make innovations like smartphones, flat screen TVs and solar panels more affordable and accessible to consumers and businesses around the world. At Applied Materials, we turn today's innovations into the industries of tomorrow.
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