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    IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2015 Names Award Winners

    Light Tape, Vittoria, Konica Minolta, DuPont Teijin Films, Technische Universitaet Muenchen receive honors

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    To recognize and award outstanding achievement to those involved in the rapidly growing printed, flexible and organic electronics business, the annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics Awards are held each year. The awards were announced at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe event in Berlin, Germany.
     
    The entries were judged by Professor Gunter Hübner, Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart, and Dr. Christian Nielsen, Imperial College, London. A summary of the awards and winners are as follows:
     
    • Best Technical Development Materials Award - DuPont Teijin Films
    • Best Technical Development Manufacturing Award - Konica Minolta
    • Academic R&D Award - iwb Application Center Augsburg - Technische Universitaet Muenchen
    • Best Product Development Award - Light Tape
    • Best Commercialization Award - Vittoria Industries
     
    • Best Technical Development Materials Award - DuPont Teijin Films: The judges chose DuPont Teijin Films as the winner of this award for their development of a unique Clean-on-Demand polyester film, which enables barrier film producers to deposit barrier layers on a cost effective and inherently defect-free film surface, thus providing a significant advancement in the pursuit of high yield, long lifetime flexible electronic devices such as OLED, QD LCD, and OPV.
     
    The Clean-on-Demand film involves the co-extrusion of the functional optically clear polyester film layer, along with a thin sacrificial layer of a compatible polymer. Prior to its eventual removal, the sacrificial layer protects the film from both surface debris and scratches from downstream process steps. Key product design challenges have included: Identifying a polymer with the required rheological properties for co-extrusion with PET, and controlling the co-extrusion process to yield a two layer film which allows a smooth peel without tearing or leaving any debris deposits.
     
    • Best Technical Development Manufacturing Award - Konica Minolta: Konica Minolta won this award for construction of the world’s first mass production line of plastic substrate flexible OLED lighting panels. About €77 million was invested in the new plant. The new plant will introduce unique roll-to-roll manufacturing method, which can have much higher productivity and lower cost than batch method. The production capacity is approximately 1 million panels per month and manufactures plastic substrate flexible OLED lighting panels with white color and color tuneable functions.
     
    This year Konica Minolta has developed “OLED tulips” in collaboration with Huis Ten Bosch, which is one of the famous theme parks in Japan and is designed to look like the Netherlands. The OLED tulips have been introduced into its 2015 tulip festival. In “Flower Road,” which is one of three special events, the park set up a luminescent tulip garden with as many as 5,000 OLED tulips, and the OLED tulips welcome the visitors with dazzling and hearty light.
     
    • Academic R&D Award - iwb Application Center Augsburg - Technische Universitaet Muenchen: Iwb Application Center of Augsburg won this award for combining 3D printing with printing electronics. Assembling steps as well as space can be saved due to the compact design of the circuits. In addition, a protection of the conductive paths is given automatically by the casing of the part.
     
    To achieve this aim, the university implemented two mechanisms into a 3D-printing machine. One enables the user to remove powder locally from the powder-bed and to create cavities as well as thin channels, the other mechanism allows the deposition of a conductive material into the created channels. As a positive side effect, the powder-removing tool can also be used as pick and place tool in order to handle and deposit for example electrical components (SMTcomponents). Regarding the state-of-the-art of creating conductive paths during a powder-bed based printing process, the chosen approach is unique and leads, compared to the known publications according to the university, to reproducible results. Using the mechanism allows the creation of two- and three-dimensional conductive paths with a height of approx. 300 μm and a width of approx. 400 μm.
     
    • Best Product Development Award - Light Tape: Light Tape won this award for its patented process of backlighting large format outdoor advertising billboards with Light Tape thin film electroluminescent panels, offering two novel solutions to traditional out of home advertising - selective backlighting and day/night backlighting.
     
    The company reports, “With selective backlighting, we give our clients the option to choose which graphics to highlight and illuminate at night. This is achieved by using a base layer of Light Tape panels positioned seamlessly next to one another and a top layer of double sided printed translucent vinyl. The front side of the graphic is printed normally while the reverse is printed in black out, the inverse of the graphics to be illuminated. Day/night backlighting allows one image to appear by day, and a second image in the same space to appear by night along with the ability to create texture or definition, using layers of shading on the vinyl. This is achieved by printing a ghost image behind the first image. At night, a secondary image is visible when the Light Tape is illuminated.”
     
    • Best Commercialization Award - Vittoria Industries: Vittoria Industries won this award for using graphene in traditional but high-end products to offer improved performance. Vittoria Industries is an industrial company operating in the high end of the sport and race bicycle market being one of the largest producers of premium tires and wheels. The company used very pure and high grade graphene from Directa Plus: 3 to 7 layers only.
     
    “We were very successful with both products: our carbon wheels show a dramatic improvement of heat dissipation and significant increased material strength,” Rudie Campagne, president and founder of the Vittoria Group, said. “Tires: we were able to develop a tire with much lower rolling resistance (fastest tire in the world) whilst improving grip and traction. Since September we are the first and only company producing and selling our carbon wheels with graphene in increasing numbers all around the world. Some are already used as service wheels in the big professional bike races. We will launch coming September a full range of road race and MTB tires with graphene. This will/should create a revolution for traditional and mature products: the bicycle tire. Also in this category will Vittoria be the first in the world.”
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