Optomec® is the world-leading provider of additive manufacturing systems for high-performance applications in the Electronics, Photovoltaic, and Aerospace & Defense markets. Optomec's M3D® Aerosol Jet Deposition System is a breakthrough additive technology enabling finer feature sizes than traditional ink-jetting and screen printing processes. The M3D system utilizes an innovative aerodynamic focusing technology that produces electronic and physical structures with feature sizes down to 10 microns. The M3D system supports a wide variety of materials including nanoparticle inks and screen-printing pastes, conductive polymers, insulators, adhesives, and even biological matter that can be accurately deposited by M3D onto non-planar substrates.

 

M3D is a registered trademark of Optomec, Inc.

Agfa Materials has a leading position in producing film and related products at low cost for the graphical and healthcare industry. Agfa Materials holds a strong position in niche markets such as PCB, Aerial, and Cine-film. In the business of 'e-consumables' (Identity and Safety documents - ORGACON Electronic Materials) AGFA Materials commercializes conductive polymer based products (ORGACONTM) as inks, films and coating solutions.

 

The Ito Group is a technology-centric sales and service organization based in Japan, but active in all major world markets. We focus on high density board and flat panel display assembly technologies, particularly on how these technologies can be employed to increase efficiency on the factory floor. Ito America Corporation has a long history of helping North American companies achieve high-volume production through the materials, components, and assembly technologies that Ito America sells.

BASF Future Business GmbH, a 100 percent subsidiary of BASF SE, was founded in April 2001. It aims to open up new business areas with above-average growth rates for the BASF group. Working closely with internal R&D-units as well as external cooperation partners to develop products, solutions, and new business models, the company focuses on areas such as energy, electronics and health. Through its subsidiary, BASF Venture Capital GmbH, it provides startup companies with capital to support their development.

 

Ciba is a leading global company dedicated to producing high-value effects for its customers' products. We strive to be the partner of choice for our customers, offering them innovative products and one-stop expert service. We create effects that improve the quality of life - adding performance, protection, color and strength to plastics, paper, automobiles, buildings, home and personal care products and much more. Ciba is active in more than 120 countries around the world and is committed to being a leader in its chosen markets.

Founded in 2002, cintelliq focuses exclusively on providing information services and strategic consulting based on independent analysis of the emerging organic semiconductor industry. Its range of services aims to address the needs of both individuals and organisations with an interest in the development of technologies and applications across the whole of the organic semiconductor industry. cintelliq invests its resources in: monitoring and tracking commercial and technology developments; attending exhibitions and conferences; conducting independent research; codifying its analysis.

Coding Products, a division of ITW, is a manufacturer of thermal transfer printer ribbons, hot stamp foils and hot ink rolls that are used in a broad range of applications. Located in northern Michigan, Coding Products has been a supplier to the printing industry since 1977 and is primarily focused on meeting marking/decorating needs with specialized requirements (e.g. high durability, color matching, sterilization, etc.). Coding Products participates in a variety of key markets including medical devices, card personalization, outdoor signage and pipe/cable markings. The core technologies of Coding Products are new formulation development, milling, ink mixing, coating and custom slitting. Coding Products and Printexs have collaborated to develop a ribbon suitable for use in thermal transfer printers capable of digitally printing conductive traces and images. The prints produced by this ribbon exhibit excellent conductive properties. While our early interests in this new technology were focused on the fabrication of electroluminescent signage for Coding Products' core signage market, we have come to recognize that the ribbon developed has the potential to meet the needs of many applications in both consumer and industrial applications.

Daetwyler understands the tolerances required for printed electronics. We have been designing and building high-precision, sub-micron machines for the gravure printing industry for 25+ years. Our R&D division in Dayton, Ohio focuses on creating new uses for our specialty software and high-resolution engraving units. This dedicated focus ensures maximum accuracy through the use of the latest controls including temperature monitoring, laser-based position feedback, and advanced linear induction drives. Headquartered in Switzerland, Daetwyler is a global leader in the development of prepress software and equipment for the printing industry.

DuPont Microcircuit Materials has 40 years of experience in the development, manufacture and sale of specialised ink compositions for a wide variety of electronic applications in the display, photovoltaic, automotive, biomedical, industrial and telecommunications markets. This division holds a lead position in these markets with a success based on DuPont's close working relationship with its customers and a comprehensive worldwide support infrastructure.

 

Utilising core expertise such as materials science, chemistry and fine particle technology, the inks are used on a wide variety of substrates, rigid and flexible, and are suitable for many new Printed Electronics applications.

Elumin8 is placing itself at the cutting edge of technology, setting new standards in the application of light as manufacturers of groundbreaking electroluminescent light solutions (EL).

For over 50 years, Emerson & Cuming has focused on providing high performance conductive inks and adhesives for the most demanding electronic industries around the world. Our state-of-the-art antenna inks provide the best solution for solvent and temperature-sensitive substrates, while our novel snap cure die attach adhesives enable low cost tag assembly at high production speeds. As RFID technology evolves, we remain at the forefront as a proven leader with exceptional antenna inks and die attach adhesives for RFID tag assembly.

Enfucell was founded in June 2002 after a decade of research on power sources for low power applications at the Automation Laboratory of The Helsinki University of Technology. The company's main product is the SoftBattery™, a flexible and thin battery made of low cost industrial environmentally friendly materials that are disposable with other household waste. The main fields of the SoftBattery™ applications are in RFID/logistics, cosmetics, and medical industry.

Five Star Technologies is a supplier of high-performance dispersions, inks and pastes used in semiconductor and microelectronic packaging, displays, photovoltaics and ceramic component applications. Combining its patented hydrodynamic cavitation process with innovative chemistry, Five Star produces precision dispersions of a wide range of materials, as well as the new ElectroSperse™ series of inks and pastes. The ElectroSperse line features a range of conductive pastes with excellent printability, high levels of conductivity, strong adhesion to a variety of substrates, and RoHS compliance. ElectroSperse grades can be tailored for a range of processing techniques, including screen, gravure, extrusion and ink jet printing. Targeted applications include display electrodes, photovoltaic contacts, sensors, and hybrid microcircuits.

FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of FUJIFILM Corporation, is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance ink jet printheads and components used in a broad range of industrial, non-impact imaging applications. The company is evolving jetting technology into a production process that lowers the cost, time and environmental impact of producing electronic circuits and functions for RFID tags, flat panel displays, circuit boards and other electronic and bioscience applications. FUJIFILM Dimatix products are designed to accurately dispense a wide range of fluid types in micro-amounts for demanding imaging and fabricating applications. With more than 20 years advancing the performance of drop-on-demand dispensing devices and applications, FUJIFILM Dimatix is the only developer and manufacturer in this industry with the technology, know-how, and creativity to lead the industry into the future.

H.C. Starck is an international group of companies with more than 3,400 employees at production sites in Europe, North America and the Far East. H.C. Starck produces an assortment of refractory metal powders that is unique in the world, including tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, niobium, rhenium as well as their compounds and chemicals for the electronics industry.

H.C. Starck provides technical solutions in innovative technologies with its transparent conductive polymer CLEVIOS™ P (PEDOT:PSS). This material was formerly marketed under the trade name Baytron®.

H.C. Starck will spotlight recently developed HIL materials for OLEDs and conductive CLEVIOS™ materials for printable applications. So far, successful applications of CLEVIOS™ include transparent antistatic-coated films and conductive polymer capacitors based on tantalum and aluminium.. New kinds of OLED displays, organic solar cells, electronic paper, and printed electronics are just a few of the many possible new applications.

IDTechEx provides independent analysis on the development and application of printed electronics, RFID and allied technologies.

 

You can trust IDTechEx to help you build your business. We provide consultancy, market research and executive-level events across the US, Europe and Asia.

ImageXpert Inc. is a leader in part inspection systems and tools for electronic imaging. Manufacturers rely on ImageXpert systems in R&D and in production. We have expertise in a wide range of printing technologies and have a long history of providing machine-vision based image quality measurement and part inspection systems to imaging companies worldwide. Our hardware configurations include 2-D camera-based systems, 3-D laser height profiling systems, and line scan camera-based systems, all of which use the same software to produce objective, repeatable data.

imaging Technology international Corporation (iTi) is a leading digital fabrication systems supplier. Established in 1992, headquartered in Boulder, CO with its European office in Cambridge UK, iTi designs, develops and manufactures high precision digital material deposition systems that incorporate inkjet technology. iTi's strategy is to support customers from Lab2Fab with a comprehensive range of R&D equipment, including the Drop Watcher and new MDS 300 materials deposition system, through to high volume fabrication systems such as the Versatile Jet and Digital Web Press. In partnership with Printed Electronics Ltd, iTi has established an Inkjet Development Lab in Cambridge, UK which is available on an 'open access' basis and includes a suite of iTi's inkjet development tools.

Transparent Silver Inks, developed by InkTec with patented technology, are Ag-based conducting inks suitable to RFID Tag, PCB, reflective film, display, and EMI shielding, etc. Differently from other prior conductive inks based on nano-technology, InkTec inks are purely transparent silver inks which are not formulated by particle structure. The inks are stable even in long-term storage and applicable to various substrates because they enable ink sintering in low temperature for conductive trace. According to our business plan for electronic materials, it was completed the 2nd plant in March 2007 and this plant will be occupied by electromagnetic manufacturing facilities.

ISRA VISION provides in-line surface inspection systems that provide 100% inspection of printed, patterned, and un-printed materials. For printed electronics applications, the system inspects 100% of each repeat and detects defects to include mis-registration, shorts, opens, cracks, "mouse-bites", and substrate defects. Defects are classified by type and the location of each defect is mapped. Continuous web (reel to reel) or sheets can be inspected. ISRA is a global acting company and the leader in surface inspection with over 400 employees committed to providing in-line 100% inspection solutions for process improvement and quality assurance.

Multek Flexible Circuits is a high-volume flexible circuit manufacturer processing almost 20 million square feet of single and double-sided circuits annually. Multek's technology is based on low cost, high volume, reel-to-reel fabrication processes and techniques. With over 40 years of flexible circuit experience, Multek is a global leader in flexible circuit development and delivery. On the foundation of our Sheldahl Technical Materials business unit, we uniquely offer vertical integration to rapidly tailor our materials to meet the specific requirements of our customers.

NanoMas Technologies, Inc. is an innovative technology leader in nanomaterials development and commercialization. Our proprietary technologies integrate the art of precision nano-scale engineering with LOW COST mass production of functional nanomaterials; thereby, enabling the HIGHEST PERFORMING conductive and semi-conductive

nanoparticle inks and pastes for the emerging Printed Electronics industry.

 

NanoMas currently markets two products: NanoSilver(tm) ink and NanoGold(tm) ink, which are the highest performance printable

conductive inks, with finest particle size (~5 nm), highest conductivity (~4.3x107 S/m), lowest curing temperature (70-150ºC) and shortest curing time (~ 2 min).

 

In the product pipeline: semiconductor inks, dielectric inks, electroluminescent inks, low temperature conductive pastes and solders, high quality carbon nanotubes and nanowires ...

NovaCentrix delivers innovative products enabling new applications and performance in Printed Electronics. Our PulseForgeTM material processing tools are specifically designed to sinter metal inks, such as silver and copper, and anneal semiconductor inks on flexible materials such as foils, plastics, and papers. With processing times of only milliseconds, surface depositions can be heated to melting or crystallization temperatures without damaging low temperature substrates. Even copper-based inks can be sintered without oxidation. When integrated with existing print systems, the PulseForge toolset allows development and roll-to-roll production of new products in photovoltaics, RFID, displays, and flexible printed electronics. Contact us to arrange a demonstration of the improvement we can provide to your existing printed electronics system, or to see how PulseForge can be applied in the development of new applications. With NovaCentrix and PulseForge, Now You Can.

Organic & Printed Electronics serves professionals involved in the development, integration and utilization of organic and printed electronics products and technologies in North America. The publication provides a cost-effective way for vendors providing products and services for the organics and printed electronics marketplace to reach qualified buyers and specifiers with a magnitude that has not been possible before.

PixDro is an innovative company, specializing in the research & development of industrial inkjet applications and the manufacturing of advanced inkjet printing systems for research and industry. Our experience in the inkjet printing market has resulted in various innovative technologies and products.

Our products consist of printing modules embedded in an open system architecture allowing PixDro to customize our systems (LP 50 and LP 150) for client specific processes and applications. These building blocks enable easy integration and migration from entry-level single layer printing for R&D purposes to volume printing in an industrial system.

With these products and modules PixDro facilitates the development of applications and offers a migration path to a complete industrial production system.

As part of the OTB-Group, PixDro offers complete printing solutions including pre and post processing; thereby, providing a complete solution for your requirements.

PolyIC produces printed electronics in a high-speed printing process. Printed electronics means that in a printing process electrical conducting and semi conducting plastics, so called polymers, are applied in several layers on a polyester film. The printing process is conducted in an exactly defined design so that electronic devices can be created. These devices are integrated, for example, into a RFID (radio frequency identification) tag. PolyIC's product line for RFID is called PolyID. Printed electronics makes low-cost RFID tags possible that can be used for mass applications. Furthermore, this new technology is also used in displays and complex systems, called smart objects. PolyIC sells smart objects under the name of PolyLogo.

 

PolyIC is a joint venture between Siemens AG and Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG and is located in Fuerth, Germany. PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 2003.

Plextronics, Inc. is an international technology company that specializes in printed solar, lighting and other organic electronics. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA., the company's focus is on organic solar cell and organic light emitting diodes (OLED), specifically the conductive inks and process technologies that enable those and similar applications.

 

With a vision of enabling 15 billion printed electronic devices by 2015, Plextronics is creating technology capable of commercial-scale manufacturability and performance. The company's device design, process technology and Plexcore® branded inks enable the formation of active electrical layers — the key drivers of printed electronics.

Printed Electronics World provides you with a daily update of the latest industry developments. Launched in May 2007, this free portal covers the progress to printed electronics in all its forms - from transistor circuits to power, sensors, displays, materials and manufacturing.

 

Hosted and written by IDTechEx, the leading printed electronics analyst and event organiser, articles provide commentary, analysis and give a balanced view of the issue. You can opt-in for an email to be sent to you every Wednesday listing the new articles posted in the previous week. We aim to make this service your most valuable tool for keeping up to date with the printed electronics industry.

Printexs Located in Mesa, Arizona, Printexs has established itself as a leader in custom digital, functional printing. Their specialty is applying EMI, RFI and conductive coatings. Printexs employs a broad range of high performance functional coatings which include EMI/RFI coatings (copper, silver, etc.), epoxy, polyurethane, acrylic and enamel coatings. The core strength of Printexs is the expertise of its technicians in their particular area of coating and printing applications. In addition to the above coatings, Printexs offers customized silkscreening, photo etching, CNC machining, Large format thermal and inkjet printing.

 

Printexs is working with partnering companies on digital thermal transfer conductive and non-conductive ribbons and substrates for functional printed electroluminescent lighting and printed electronic applications.

RadTech International is the trade association for UV & EB curing technology and is the authoritative source for information on the use of UV & EB curable materials for flexible and printed electronics. Visit our website to discover the possibilities in using UV & EB technology to cure inks, coatings, and adhesives in your flexible and printed electronics process.

Rieke Metals, Inc. is a world leader in supplying semiconducting materials for photovoltaic devices, printed electronics and OLED displays and lighting. RMI offers many polymers including 3-alkyl polythiophenes and water soluble polythiophenes in grams to kilograms. Many substituted monomers are also available including 3-hexyl thiophene and 2,5-dibromo-3-hexylthiophene. The company also supplies active metals and novel Grignard reagents.

The Durel Division of Rogers Corporation will showcase their Electroluminescent (EL) backlighting system (lamps and drivers). The company will feature thermal transfer technology that enables the digital printing of selected lighting. Ideal for the out-of-home (OOH) advertising market, Durel EL technology is used by companies in illuminated billboard, mass transit and display advertising applications as well as in wireless communications, portable electronics and automotive backlighting.

 

Celebrating its 175th anniversary, Rogers Corporation (NYSE:ROG) is a global technology leader in the development of high performance specialty-materials-based products for a variety of applications in diverse markets. The company operates facilities in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Soligie is the leading company to utilize printing techniques to manufacture products with integrated, printed electronics in a thin, flexible form-factor. Soligie's proprietary techniques enable the development of reliable, custom solutions using a full range of functional inks and specialized substrates. Soligie is now in production with products that utilize nano-particle and conventional inks. Soligie forms partnerships at any phase from concept to high volume production to make our customers successful. Soligie is also investing in the development of processes for printed thin-film transistors that can be used in products such as smart labels and chipless RFID tags. If you need a manufacturing partner to get your "printed electronics" product to market - let us "Deliver your Vision".

SonoPlot designs and sells picoliter-scale ultrasonic fluid dispensing systems and chemically functionalized substrates. SonoPlot's products are aimed at applications such as biological microarrays, polymer-based and printable electronics, embedded passive components, and semiconductor packaging. The SonoPlot GIX Microplotter Desktop is a bench top picoliter fluid dispensing system capable of drawing spots, lines, or arcs as narrow as 5 microns. The patented ultrasonic fluid ejection enables the deposition of a wide range of fluids, including high-viscosity solutions, while minimizing dead volume. Integrated digital video and precise positioning allow for targeted dispensing on MEMS or other complex surfaces.

Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, is a leading provider of materials to packaging, publication, coatings, plastics, cosmetics, and other industrial markets. With annual sales over $3 billion and 11,000 employees, Sun Chemical operates in 110 countries worldwide. Leveraging 50 years of experience as a supplier to the printed circuits industry, Sun Chemical has recently commercialized a range of new products for membrane switch, RFID and photovoltaics markets. Through an ongoing commitment to developing innovative products that provide value to our customers, Sun Chemical is investing in facilities and technologies targeted at the evolving printed electronics market.

Manufacturer of LASER ABLATION, UV STEPPERS, UV SCANNERS and MASK ALIGNERS. Tamarack supplies photolithography and laser micromachining systems. We specialize in applications including: Displays, RFID, Solar Cells, Organic Electronics, MEMS, Medical Devices and HDI. Our Excimer ablation systems are ideal for direct pattern etching thin metals from various organic substrates to form transistors or other electronic circuits. In addition, these systems are used to via drill most types of polymers with selective material removal, down to 1um. Systems designed for Roll-to-Roll, Reel-to-Reel and Sheet handling. Resolution capabilities to 1um. Machines are designed for 24/7 production environments.

The Organic Electronics Association (OE-A) is a working group within the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) and was founded in December 2004. OE-A is the international key industry association for organic and printed electronics and represents the entire value chain of this emerging industry. Our members are international leading companies and institutions, ranging from component and material suppliers, equipment and tool suppliers, producers / system integrators and end-users to R&D institutes. More than 85 companies from Europe, the US, and Asia work together to promote the establishment of a competitive production infrastructure for organic electronics. The vision of OE-A is to build a bridge between science, technology and application. More than 3000 member companies from the engineering industry make VDMA the largest industry association in Europe.

Thin Battery Technologies, Inc. is the leading supplier of thin, flexible, printed power solutions. Thin Battery's products are integrated into innovative solutions created by the leading developers of RFID, RF-linked sensors, transdermal patches, and other thin, flexible, electronics. Providing eco-friendly power sources to printed electronics systems, the TBT leadership team combines a track record of entrepreneurial accomplishment with deep domain experience in printing and high volume, low cost batteries. The technical team is rooted in battery development and has over 250 years of battery design, development, and production experience. Based on a patent estate acquired from the Eveready Battery Company (now Energizer), Thin Battery is expanding its portfolio of products, technology and applications to create market changing solutions.

Thin Film Electronics is providing non-volatile printed memories. By using the physical, chemical and electrical properties of advanced polymers TFE can add new functionality to printed products. Thin Film Electronics technology can be used in many different applications, ranging from high security anti-counterfeit application to children's toys. In fact, TFE's unique polymer memory technology can be used in any printed electronics application were a non volatile random access memory is desired, e.g., to store information on a package that can later be displayed to the customer

Unidym is a leader in the development, manufacture, and application of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for electronic devices. Unidym's CNT-based transparent conductive film delivers both process simplification and mechanical robustness for touch screens and display applications. When CNT-based films are compared to current ITO/IZO transparent electrode materials, Unidym's products offer valuable features such as uniform transmission across the entire visible light spectrum, mechanical flexibility, reduced reflectivity and are more cost effective to manufacture. In addition to its product applications, Unidym has an expansive IP portfolio, with over 200 foreign and domestic patents and patent applications on CNTs and their applications.

UniJet Co. Ltd is a total solution provider of inkjet printing systems and technology, especially for electronic material deposition. UniJet supplies everything from R&D printing systems to mass production printing systems in LCD, PDP, OLED, PLED, Solar Cell, PCB, RFID, Semiconductor Packaging, and Various Coating applications. Mass production systems are customised for the customer purpose to meet the application requirement and specification with R2R printing system. Also UniJet offers process know-how of the various application developments as well as application specific inks.

Xennia Technology Ltd is a leading industrial inkjet integrator and developer of printers and inks. Headquartered near London, with a US operation in San Antonio, Texas, Xennia provides state-of-the-art inkjet solutions for a wide variety of industrial applications including printed electronics and displays. In 2005, Xennia launched the XenJet range of inkjet development tools and high accuracy production printers for functional materials deposition. In addition to printing systems Xennia also offers a full fluid development service, implementing customer's proprietary materials into reliable and robust inkjet solutions.