Plastic Logic and the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden (IPF) announced that they are extending their long-standing cooperation as part of a project sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research. The extension of their collaboration is set for three years.

The main focus is the joint development of new methods for analyzing organic electronic components, as well as supporting the development of organic dielectric materials. These materials, for example, are used in flexible displays such as those manufactured by Plastic Logic.

Plastic Logic will use the ongoing R&D collaboration in the highly-regarded scientific center of Dresden, in order to further strengthen its position as technology leader in the development of polymer based electronics. The organic semiconductor network in Dresden has grown immensely over the past three years and is fast becoming a center for this new and seminal technology in Europe and worldwide. The IPF brings specific competencies in the area of analysis and targeted formation of functional polymer interfaces to the project.

“We warmly welcome this opportunity to continue and strengthen our great cooperation with the IPF on a long-term basis,” Konrad Herre, vice president, manufacturing and managing director of Plastic Logic GmbH, said. “This represents a further milestone in our long-term strategy for the development and expansion of our production here in Dresden. The IPF is a very important partner for us because of its decades of experience in the characterization of organic polymers”.

Prof. Dr. Manfred Stamm, project manager and deputy scientific director at the IPF, enthusiastically supports this cooperation.

“We are delighted to work together with Plastic Logic, one of the worldwide leading companies in the field of polymer organic electronics,” Dr. Stamm said. “This cooperation is the perfect combination of basic research and application, whereby the adoption of the most modern technologies make an innovative product development possible.”