Conference Agenda

Tuesday, 08 Apr 2008

 Keynote
08:30IDTechEx
08:55Polymer Vision
09:20LG Display
09:45Hewlett Packard Laboratories
10:10Exhibition and Networking Break
10:45University of Cambridge
11:10Nanosolar
11:35Thorn Lighting Ltd
12:00Lunch and Networking Break
 Applications
13:30CPI
13:55Cubic Corporation
14:20The Compliers Group B.V.
14:45University of Cambridge
15:10Exhibition and Networking Break
15:50Osmotronic
 Paper & Packing
16:15Abo Akademi University
16:40Stora Enso
17:05Sensible Solutions - Mid Sweden University
Mid Sweden University
17:30Printed Systems GMBH
17:55Day One Ends
 Logic & Memory
13:30Sony Corporation
13:55Philips Applied Technologies
14:20University of Minnesota
14:45Sunchon National University
15:10Exhibition and Networking Break
15:50Oregon State University
16:15Motorola
 Printed RFID & Anti-Counterfeiting
16:40PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG
17:05InkSure
17:30Menippos GmbH
17:55Day One Ends

Wednesday, 09 Apr 2008

 Photovoltaics
08:45Heliatek GmbH
09:10Univ. of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland
09:35Konarka Austria R&D GmbH
10:00CEA
10:25Exhibition and Networking Break
 Printed Electronics Manufacture
11:00ImageXpert
11:25FUJIFILM Dimatix
11:50Optomec Inc
12:15Trident Industrial Inkjet
12:40Lunch and Networking Break
14:00Seiko Epson Corp
14:25Pixdro/OTB
14:50MAN Roland
15:15Exhibition and Networking Break
16:00Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating
 Modelling, Testing, Reliability
16:25sim4tec GmbH
16:50Beltronics
17:15Conference Ends
 Conformal & Large Area Electronics
08:45SiPix Imaging Inc.
09:10Plastic Logic GmbH
 Displays
09:35iSuppli
10:00MicroEmissive Displays
10:25Exhibition and Networking Break
11:00Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
11:25Novaled AG
11:50NTERA
 Lighting
12:15Schreiner Group GmbH & Co
12:40Lunch and Networking Break
14:00Institut fuer Angewandte Photophysik
14:25TNO/Holst Centre
 Batteries & Sensors
14:50University of California
15:15Exhibition and Networking Break
16:00NANOIDENT AG
16:25Prelonic Technologies OG
16:50Conference Ends
 Materials
08:45Chisso Petrochemical Corporation
09:10Merck Chemicals Ltd
09:35BASF Future Business GmbH
10:00DuPont MCM (UK) Ltd
10:25Exhibition and Networking Break
11:00NanoMas Technologies
11:25Cima NanoTech
11:50Plextronics Inc
 Replacing Rare Materials
12:15HC Starck
12:40Lunch and Networking Break
14:00University of Augsburg
 Progress in Biggest Territories
14:25Invest in Germany GmbH
14:50UK Displays & Lighting Network
15:15Exhibition and Networking Break
16:00Organic Electronics Association (OE-A)
16:25IDTechEx
16:50Conference Ends
 
 
 

Tuesday April 08, 2008

Keynote (08:30 - 12:00)

08:30 - 08:55 "The Global Market for Printed Electronics"
  • Market by sector 2008-2028
  • Market drivers
  • Breakthroughs and setbacks
  • Big company vs small company
  • West vs East
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    08:55 - 09:20 "Rollable Displays:The Start of a New Mobile Device Generation"
  • History of Polymer Vision Ltd.
  • Rollable display technology
  • Specification of the first rollable display generation
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    09:20 - 09:45 "Development of the World's Highest Resolution 14.3" Flexible Colour e-Paper Display"
  • TFT development on a thin metal foil for high resolution EPD
  • CF development on a plastic substrate for high resolution EPD
  • Image quality Improvement using colour algorithms
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    09:45 - 10:10 "Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Electronics on Flexible Substrates using Self-Aligned Imprint Lithography"
  • Self-Aligned Imprint Lithography (SAIL) a R2R process for electronics fabrication that solves the key challenge of alignment
  • Demonstration of the first active matrix backplanes made exclusively with roll-to-roll processes
  • Challenges and benefits of roll-to-roll manufacturing
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    10:45 - 11:10 "Enhancing the Performance of Printed Organic Transistors"
  • Downscaling, high resolution printing
  • Ambipolar transport
  • Reliability
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    11:10 - 11:35 "Printed Photovoltaics - Cost-Efficiency for Ubiquitous Deployment"
  • Printing is most suitable for mass-production
  • Nanosolar's proprietary process technology
  • Thinner solar cells at high throughput
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    11:35 - 12:00 "Project Topless: Grand Challenges for Organic General White Lighting Applications"
  • Project Topless: aims and expectations
  • Lighting challenges for organic solid state lighting
  • Customer expectations
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    Applications (13:30 - 16:15)

    13:30 - 13:55 "How to Make Money from Printed Electronics"
     
     
    13:55 - 14:20 "Printed Electronics Meeting the Requirements of the Transit and Retail Industries"
  • Where can Printed Electronics take Transit?
  • Printed Electronics; Is the technology ready to meet the challenge of the Transit and Retail industries?
  • Where are the technical and business challenges to achieve success? How do we quantify success?
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    14:20 - 14:45 "Smart Blister - Anatomy and Prognosis: The use of RFID on Medicine Blister Packs"
  • Introduction to Adherence or Therapy Compliance and a brief intro to The Compliers Group.
  • The Smart Blister: self-adhesive active RFID labels for today's blister medication package, System-In-Foil, SIF solutions for industrial active RFID blister fabrication.
  • Applications: now and in the future, OtCM and NFC mobile telephones and other telemedicine devices.
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    14:45 - 15:10 "Skin-Like Electronics: Fabrication of Thin-Film Devices with Ultra-Low Temperature Process"
     
     
    15:50 - 16:15 "From Multi-Media to Merged-Media - Transforming Print in the Digital Age"
  • The medium is the method - Printed electronics or electronic print?
  • Differentiating for "digital natives"
  • Making the most of mass-media opportunities
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    Paper & Packing (16:15 - 17:55)

    16:15 - 16:40 "Low-Voltage all Printed Organics Transistors"
  • Towards low-voltage printed electronics on paper substrates
  • Novel device architectures needed
  • Report fully printed organic transistors operating below 2V
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    16:40 - 17:05 "Packaging Applications for Interactivity, Monitoring and Information Transfer"
  • Products and applications
  • Hybrid Media
  • Technology development
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    17:05 - 17:30 "Action Activated Sensor Solutions - Technology and Market"
  • Hybridzation of silicon intelligence and printed sensor functionality
  • Market aspects for disposible sensors in health care and environmental monitoring
  • Market drivers and show stops
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    17:30 - 17:55 "Paper Electronics - basics and applications."
     
     

    Logic & Memory (13:30 - 16:40)

    13:30 - 13:55 "Organic TFTs and Their Solution Processability"
     
     
    13:55 - 14:20 "Smart Wearable Electronics"
  • Options in smart wearable electronics applications
  • Assessment of technology scenarios
  • Philips Applied Technologies activities in this field
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    14:20 - 14:45 "Printable, High Capacitance Gate Insulators for Low Voltage Polymer Thin Film Transistors on Plastic"
     
     
    14:45 - 15:10 "The Way of Roll to Roll Printed 13.56 MHz RFID Tags"
  • Advantages and challenges of jet-printing electronic circuits
  • Novel approaches for all-additive printed circuits
  • Flexible electrophoretic displays using printed backplanes
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    15:50 - 16:15 "Ink Platform for Oxide Film Technologies"
     
     
    16:15 - 16:40 "Printed Electronics for Wireless Application and Services"
  • Motorola's Printed Electronics R&D activities in Europe
  • Creating an Ambient Environment with Printed Sensors
  • Developing Application and Services with Printed Electronics
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    Printed RFID & Anti-Counterfeiting (16:40 - 17:55)

    16:40 - 17:05 "Printed RFID - Status and First Applications"
  • Printed RFID tags realized (PolyID)
  • First applications of PolyIDs
  • Roadmap of printed RFID and smart objects
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    17:05 - 17:30 "Progress Report on Chipless RFID Applications SARcode™ Development By InkSure Technologies"
  • A Vision fro Low Cost RFID
  • InkSure Chipless Development Status
  • Target Applications
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    17:30 - 17:55 "Printed Electronics for the Game Market - Integrating and Testing New Technology"
  • Needed technology steps for the future
  • Imagination of new products
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    Wednesday April 09, 2008

    Photovoltaics (08:45 - 10:25)

    08:45 - 09:10 "Vacuum Deposited Organic Solar Cells for Mass Production"
  • organic p-i-n type tandem cells
  • lifetime and thermal stability
  • first modules with integrated series interconnection
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    09:10 - 09:35 "Experience with Thin Film Technologies in Switzerland"
  • State of the art in Switzerland
  • Intercomparison with c-Si technologies
  • BIPV with Thin Film
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    09:35 - 10:00 "OPV - challenges and chances"
  • Performance of printed solar cells - the organic PV roadmap
  • Performance requirements for first applications
  • New trends outlook to future innovations
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    10:00 - 10:25 "Thin Film Energy Devices With Organic Electronic as a Complementary Technology"
  • Benefits from the development of thin film technology
  • Technical and physical challenges
  • Recent advances compared to existing results
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    Printed Electronics Manufacture (11:00 - 16:25)

    11:00 - 11:25 "Inspection Systems for Printed Electronics"
  • Interactive and automated systems for 2-D optical inspection
  • 3-D analysis though laser height profiling
  • Print head performance evaluation through analysis of drops-in-flight
  • Example applications
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    11:25 - 11:50 "Ink Jet Technology for Printed Electronics"
  • Technology status
  • Printed electronic applications
  • Ink jet equipment
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    11:50 - 12:15 "M3D Aerosol Jet for Photovoltaics"
  • M3D Aerosol Jet print solution
  • Printed electronic applications
  • Meeting PV metallization requirements
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    12:15 - 12:40 "Digital Fabrication using Flexible Inert Piezo Ink Jet"
  • Current Manufacturing Challenges
  • Ink Jet as Solution
  • Case Study Successes
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    14:00 - 14:25 "Inkjetted Metal Wiring"
  • Overview of Micro Piezo Technology
  • Application for LTCC substrate
  • Possibility for embeded package
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    14:25 - 14:50 "From Application Development to Industrial Production Equipment"
  • System development
  • Application cases
  • PixDro tools / modules
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    14:50 - 15:15 "The Important Role of the Printing Industry in RFID Integration in Consumer Packaging"
     
     
    16:00 - 16:25 "Printed Electronics by Flexography"
  • Flexography as a means of manufacturing printed electronics.
  • Compare and contrast with other printing processes.
  • Report on WCPC's research to produce flexible electronic devices.
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    Modelling, Testing, Reliability (16:25 - 17:15)

    16:25 - 16:50 "Electrical and Optical Simulation of OLED Devices"
  • Introduction to OLED device simulator SimOLED® for modeling electrical and optical properties of OLEDs
  • Methodologies for input parameter determination are presented
  • Electrical simulation results and calculated optical angular emission spectra of multilayer phosphorescent OLED are shown and compared to experiment
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    16:50 - 17:15 "Beltronics Printed Electronics Market and Technology"
     
     

    Conformal & Large Area Electronics (08:45 - 09:35)

    08:45 - 09:10 "Application Tailoring of Display Performance in Microcup Electrophoretic Displays"
  • Microcup electrophoretic technology for flexible display applications
  • Media platform performance tailoring for specific applications in display cards, retail signage, keypads, and ereaders
  • Advances in speed, reflectivity, low temperature performance, flexibility
  • Lifetime evaluation
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    09:10 - 09:35 "Challenges in Transferring a Technology to Mass Production"
  • Plastic Logic has developed an innovative technology for flexible displays for a range of new innovative products based on organic materials and a flexible substrate using low temperature processing.
  • For manufacturing, a production facility in Dresden, Germany was designed and construction is on progress for the ramp up in 2008. State of the art equipment has been selected and ordered for this production line.
  • An overview of the status of the facility and the challenges in transferring such a technology into mass production will be given.
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    Displays (09:35 - 12:15)

    09:35 - 10:00 "Flexible Displays Gaining Momentum - Technologies, Applications and Markets"
  • Why 2008 is special for flexible active matrix displays
  • A variety of technologies and applications
  • Market forecast to 2013
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    10:00 - 10:25 "Polymer OLED Microdisplay Technology"
  • What is a microdisplay
  • What are the applications and markets for P-OLED Microdisplays
  • How do P-OLED microdisplays work and how are they made
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    11:00 - 11:25 "Active Matrix E-paper using Printed TFT Array"
  • Paper like display
  • Programs for flexible display in SAIT
  • Future plan
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    11:25 - 11:50 "Redox Dopants in Organic Electronic Devices"
  • Introduction to redox doping approach
  • Device Aspects
  • Material Aspects
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    11:50 - 12:15 "Driving End User Adoption of Printed Electronics Applications Through the Introduction of Colour Changing Technologies and Visual Effects"
  • Historical perspective on how color has impacted product adoption.
  • The importance of color in the market today.
  • How color changing electro-optic effects will drive the adoption of printed electronic products and applications.
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    Lighting (12:15 - 14:50)

    12:15 - 12:40 "From Electroluminescence to Printed Electronics - Light, Functionality and More"
  • From label printing to functional printing - a sustainable way for a printing company
  • Electroluminescence - facts and possibilities concerning the integration of light and function
  • "Functional Ideas" - the next steps for a mid-sized company in the field of printed electronis
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    14:00 - 14:25 "Highly Efficient White OLED on Low-Cost Printed Electrodes"
  • ITO-free OLED using polymeric anodes are realized
  • Efficiencies are higher than for ITO-based OLED
  • Very high white efficiencies have been reached
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    14:25 - 14:50 "Printing Technologies for OLED Lighting Applications"
  • Inkjet printing thin, flexible OLED devices for signage applications
  • Gravure printing for OLED lighting applications
  • Comparison of characteristics of inkjet and gravure printed devices to traditional spin coating techniques
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    Batteries & Sensors (14:50 - 16:50)

    14:50 - 15:15 "Power Supply Considerations and Solutions for Printed Electronic Tags and Sensors"
     
     
    16:00 - 16:25 "Printed Sensors"
  • Introduction to printed Sensors
  • Semiconductor 2.0 platform Technology
  • Applications in Biometrics & Life Science
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    16:25 - 16:50 "The Integrated Printed Battery"
  • A battery is not a product
  • Battery mass production is missing - why?
  • The battery is one of the easiest printed electronic products - and it is complex.
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    Materials (08:45 - 12:15)

    08:45 - 09:10 "Chisso's High Functional Inks - Key Materials for Industrialization of Ink Jet Printing System"
  • Dielectric polyimide ink and high sensitive UV curable ink that are suitable for ink jet printing.
  • Extremely high concentrated polyimide ink, which is potentially applicable to thicker films.
  • Films that are prepared from the developed UV curable ink have significantly higher resistance properties.
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    09:10 - 09:35 "Printable Organic Semiconducting Materials and Formulations - Combining High Performance and Air Stability"
  • What is required from organic semiconducting materials and processes?
  • How can we print and process OSC's?
  • Examples of printed TFT performance we obtain.
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    09:35 - 10:00 "Progress in materials development for printed electronics"
  • BASF's involvement in printed electronics
  • Sepiolid (TM) product range
  • Application in CMOS circuitry
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    10:00 - 10:25 "DuPont Microcircuit Materials in Printed Electronics"
  • An introduction to DuPont Microcircuit Materials and the use of their inks in Printed Electronics.
  • Real life applications - inks for RFID, EL, Biomedical, Interconnects, PV and more.
  • Future directions - DuPont and Printed Electronics.
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    11:00 - 11:25 "Low-Temperature Sintering Nanoparticle Inks for Printed Electronics"
  • Printing highly conductive metal films with low-temperature sintering nanoparticle inks
  • Key issues that affect on performance and cost of nanoparticle inks
  • Applications using low-temperature sintering nanoparticle inks
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    11:25 - 11:50 "Self Assembling Nano-particle based Transparent Conductive Coatings"
  • Market Trends in Transparent Conductive Coatings
  • Application Examples
  • Cima Nanotech's Self Assembling Technology
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    11:50 - 12:15 "Plexcore® OC Ink for OLED HIL Addressing Core Technology Needs for Commercialization"
     
     

    Replacing Rare Materials (12:15 - 14:25)

    12:15 - 12:40 "Recent progress in PEDOT:PSS dispersions and oligothiophene based semiconductors"
  • Improvements in the conductivity of PEDOT:PSS polymer films
  • Recent examples for successful adaptation of the PEDOT:PSS polymers
  • Oligothiophene based organic semiconductors
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    14:00 - 14:25 "Essential Functional Metals for Printed Electronics - a Matter of Resource Strategy or of Mere Economy?"
  • Essential functional metals
  • Metal scarcity or availability
  • Resource strategy
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    Progress in Biggest Territories (14:25 - 16:50)

    14:25 - 14:50 "Printed Electronics - Germany's Next Top Industry?"
  • The business case for printed electronics in Germany
  • Application markets for next-generation technology
  • Commercialization and investment support
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    14:50 - 15:15 "A Review of Plastic Electronics in the UK"
  • The talk will review the status across the UK of research and development in the key applications of Plastic (printable) Electronics
  • Applications covered will include RFID, Electronic Paper, Communication accessories, Smart packaging and clothing
  • Case Studies of leading companies will be presented to outline current product development.
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    16:00 - 16:25 "Building a Global Network for a New Industry"
  • Vision and Mission
  • OE-A's Application and Technology Roadmap
  • Demonstrator projects
  • Global activities
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    16:25 - 16:50 "Progress into the Biggest Sector of all: Printed Electronics in East Asia"
     
     
     
    Attended by over 350 delegates in 2007! Printed Electronics Europe 2008 will be the biggest event covering the topic.