Power into Paper - a New Paradigm (Printed Electronics and Photovoltaics Europe 2011)

Dr Philip Cooper is a Physicist and Engineer and has worked for De La Rue International Ltd for over 10 years and is currently Head of Research. He has degrees from Bristol and London and obtained his PhD at Exeter University. He has worked for many blue chip companies in roles from R&D, Manufacturing and Sales & Marketing and his passion is to restore global belief in UK manufacturing.

Göran Gustafsson got his PhD in Applied Physics at Linköping University. After that he spent two years working with Prof. Alan J Heeger in his start-up company Uniax which now is part of DuPont Displays. His research focus was OLEDs and he demonstrated the first "all plastic" LED (Nature 1992). 1993 he returned to Linköping University where he participated in starting up OLED research. In 1994 he got the position as group manager at Industrial Microelectronics Center and was among other things responsible for setting up production of multi-chip module substrates. 1998 he participated in starting Thin Film Electronics AB (TFE) which develops polymer memories. At TFE he served as the R&D manager. Since June 2005 he is CTO of Printed Electronics at Acreo AB.

De La Rue is the world's largest commercial security printer and papermaker, involved in the production of over 150 national currencies and a wide range of security documents such as passports, authentication labels and fiscal stamps.

 

We are also a leading provider of cash sorting equipment and software solutions to central banks, helping them to reduce the cost of handling cash.

 

De La Rue also pioneers new technologies in government identity solutions for national identification, driver's licence and passport issuing schemes and employs over 4000 people across 24 countries.

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