David Savastano, Editor04.29.09
The 2009 IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe and Photovoltaics Beyond Conventional Silicon conferences and exhibitions were held April 7-8 in Dresden, Germany. IDTechEx reported excellent attendance, as 760 people from 31 countries attended the annual event to learn about some of the leading-edge technologies being developed.
A large range of companies were on hand to present their most recent findings, with industry leaders such as Alcan, DuPont, Heliatek, Konarka, Kovio, Liquivista, Nokia, Novacentrix, Novaled, Philips Applied Technologies, Plastic Logic, PolyIC, Power Paper, QD Vision, Samsung, Soligie, Sony, Texas Instruments and Thin Film Electronics among the speakers.
As part of the show’s program, IDTechEx presented awards recognizing outstanding achievements. The following companies were honored:
• Printed Electronics Europe Champion: Germany Trade & Invest.
• Technical Development Manufacturing Award: Thin Film Electronics and InkTec.
• Technical Development Materials Award: Applied Nanotech.
• New Product Development Award: Kovio.
• Commercialization Award: Power Paper.
• Academic R&D Award: University of Massachusetts working with Brewer Science and Optomec.
Overall, attendees were pleased with the conference.
"PE 2009 Europe was a great forum for us to meet with a number of our European customers and prospects, and for us to continue to move forward in partnerships with other elements of the printed electronics supply chain,” said Stan Farnsworth, vice president marketing for NovaCentrix. “We see significant activity in the European market, and we are excited by it. Additionally, we see options for moving forward in the European market by working with regional economic development organizations chartered with strengthening growth in their districts by facilitating business relationships around emerging technologies. I have to say the tone we felt at the event was very positive and upbeat.”
“Printed Electronics 2009 Europe was good for us, as we got several new contacts and good response on our technology and products,” said Dr. Wolfgang Clemens, head of applications for PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG. Dr. Clemens added that LOPE-C 23-25 June in Frankfurt/Germany, where PolyIC will be Gold-Sponsor, will also be a key event, as the new Roadmap from the organic electronic association (OEA) will be presented
The conference opened with Raghu Das, CEO of IDTechEX, who spoke on “Printed Electronics - Hot Applications and Market Sizes 2009-2019.”
Das was followed by a series of end-users who discussed the viability of PE. Games were the topic of Clemens Tuerck, chief electronic game developer, Ravensburger Spieleverlag GmbH, “Past, Future and Requirements of Printed Electronics in the Games Sector.” Pietro Perlo, director, technology division, Centro Ricerche Fiat, spoke on “Photovoltaic and Other Printable Functionalities Enabling Efficient Electrical Mobility,” a look at the potential of Electrical Vehicles (EV) and the possible role of PV.
Dr. Paul Beecher, senior research engineer, Nokia Research Center, followed with “Morph - Transformable Mobile Device,” the futuristic transformable cell phone. Konrad Herre, vice president manufacturing, Plastic Logic,then discussed the progress being made in E-readers in “The E-Reader as a Product Application for Plastic Electronics Technology.”
After a short break, Dr. John Bacon, systems integration engineer for NASA – Johnson Space Center, discussed “Printed Electronics at NASA.” Dr. Dietmar Czekay, head of construction and development, SBf Spezialleuchten Wurzen GmbH, talked about “Requirements for Organic LED Lighting in Train Applications,” a look at the potential of OLED lighting for trains.
Two major PE innovators offered their insights next. Matthew Timm, president, Soligie, followed with “Printed Electronics in New Product Initiatives & the Path to Commercialization.” Amir Mashkoori, CEO, Kovio Inc., finished the morning session with “A New Semiconductor Technology Paradigm - Printed RFID is Now a Reality.”
After lunch, the conference broke into two tracks. Track 1 opened with a session on Radical New Printed Electronics Products, featuring talks by Sascha Voigt, managing director, Menippos GmbH; Gunter Huebner, professor, Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart; Joerg Fischer, principal scientist, Bundesdruckerei; and Manfred Wagner, research and technology – power train & cabin electronics, Daimler.
Track 1 continued with Healthcare & Bionic Man, led by Jana Nyrén, marketing manager, Medixine Ltd. UK; Jens Arnulf Krauss, CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA’s section head control and signal processing; and Dr. Ganesh Kathiresan, key account manager, Toumaz Technology Limited.
The possibilities for PE in transportation followed in the session on Transit, which featured Michel Barjansky, head of marketing, RATP IT Dept, RATP Paris, and Walt Bonneau, president, Cubic Transportation Systems Inc.
Track 2 consisted of Thin/Flexible Batteries, Conformal/Flexible Displays and E-readers. Thin/Flexible Batteries featured Dr. Boaz Nitzan, executive vice president R&D, Power Paper, and George Gruner, professor at UCLA.
Conformal/Flexible Displays featured top electronics companies. The session was led off by Dr. Bonwon Koo, research staff, display laboratory for Samsung, followed by Noriyuki Kawashima, Fusion Domain Laboratory - Materials Laboratory for Sony Corporation. Oliver Nachbaur, system engineer portable power at Texas Instruments Deutschland GmbH. Dr. Peter Kazlas, director, device development at QD Vision, and Simon Jones, vice president, marketing and sales at Liquavista UK rounded out the session.
Two talks on E-readers closed out the track, with Ian French, principal scientist, Prime View International Co.; and Yoshitomo Masuda, electronic displays manager at Bridgestone the presenters.
Photovoltaics Beyond Conventional Silicon Europe, a concurrent session, featured talks on PV and OPV. Photovoltaics were discussed by Dr. Dieter Bonnet, senior technology advisor, CTF Solar GmbH; Michael Graetzel, professor of chemistry, Inst of Physical Chemistry at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; and Dr. Oliver Lang, technical adviser, SOLARC.
Organic Photovoltaics featured Dr. Christoph J. Brabec, CTO, Konarka Technologies, Inc.; Dr. Michael Niggemann, dye and organic solar cells, Dept. Materials Research, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy ISE: Dr. Martin Pfeiffer, CTO for Heliatek GmbH; Dieter Neher, professor, University of Potsdam; Dr. Harald Hoppe, research assistant, TU Ilmenau; and Dr. Moritz Riede, Institute for Applied Photo Physics – IAPP, Institut fuer Angewandte Photophysik (IAPP).
There were three tracks on April 8. Track 1 featured talks on Transistors & Logic, Roll-to Roll Manufacture Challenges/Opportunities, Digital Printing and Stretchable Electronics for Clothing.
Transistors & Logic was led by Dr. Flora Li, research associate, University of Cambridge, Dept of Engineering; Elvira Fortunato, professor, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia; and Dr. Ari Alastalo, senior research scientist, PriMeBits. Roll-to Roll Manufacture Challenges/Opportunities featured Mark D. Kapsner, Soligie’s vice president operations and Dr. Lutz Engisch, head of research & development, SWG - Sächsische Walzengravur.
Processing featured Stan Farnsworth, vice president – marketing, Novacentrix Corp. Digital Printing featured talks by Dr. Yoon Park, senior engineer, Samsung; Steve Liker, business development manager, Trident Industrial Ink Jet; Peter Diepens, PixDro COO; Dr. Juergen Wahl, director, Optrex Europe
Stretchable Electronics for Clothing was a particularly interesting new field for PE. Presentations were given by Andreas Roepert, Interactive Wear CEO; Paul Lukowicz, professor, Embedded Systems Lab of University Passau; Dr. Ivo Locher, team leader new business development, Sefar AG - Filtration Solutions; Giuseppe Coppola, senior director business development for Philips Applied Technologies; Dr.Hans-Walter Praas, TEXSYS GmbH CEO; and the session was concluded by Markus Klann, head of situated computing lab, Fraunhofer FIT.
Track 2 began with a session on Conductive Materials, featuring Dr. Zvi Yaniv, president/CEO for Applied Nanotech Inc.; Frank Louwet, business manager for AGFA Gevaert; Mandy Grobosch, Department Electronic and Optical Characteristic, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research IFW; and Dr. John S. Lettow, Vorbeck Materials president.
Organic & Inorganic Semiconductors session featured Ulrike Herzau-Gerhardt, professor at HTWK Leipzig; Dr. David Mueller, senior scientist for Merck Chemicals.
Sensors & Actuators was led by Emil List, scientific director, NanoTecCenter Weiz; Christl Lauterbach, CEO, Future-Shape GmbH; Geoff Boyd, new business development director, NXT Technology; and Dr. Johan R. A .Carlsson, president & CEO, Thin Film Electronics.
The Graphene Carbon Nanotubes session featured Manish Chhowalla, associate professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The Lighting session featured Dr. Sven Murano, leader physics group, Novaled AG.
RFID featured a panel led by Kai Herbst, office manager for DB Schenker; Dr. Frank Kriebel, vice president R&D at KSW Microtec; and Dr. Torsten Thieme, managing director, memsfab. The panel was followed by talks led by Dr. Wolfgang Clemens, head of applications for PolyIC; and Panu Helisto, chief research scientist, team leader at VTT Technical Research Centre. Smart Substrates & Stretchable Electronics featured Rita Paradiso of Smartex and Anton Kaasjager, project leader, TNO.
The second-day Photovoltaics Beyond Conventional Silicon Europe 2009 session led off with Thin Film Inorganic Photovoltaics - CIGS & CDTe, featuring Dr. Georg Ritter, technical sales thin film division, centrotherm photovoltaics AG; Bernhard Dimmler, board member, Wurth Solar GmbH and Co. KG; and Ayodhya N. Tiwari, laboratory for thin films and photovoltaics, EMPA.
Ivan Mora-Sero, researcher, Universitat Jaume I and Janne Halme, research associate, TKK Finland discussed DSSC. Solar Textiles was the topic of Dr. Max Shtein, assistant professor, materials science & engineering, University of Michigan and John Wilson, co-director, Power Textiles. Photovoltaic Materials was the focus of talks by Dr. Steffi Sensfuss, Dept. of Functional Polymer Systems, Thuringian Institute for Textile and Plastics Research TITK; Vince Arancio, technical specialist - microcircuit materials for DuPont; and Dr. Matt Aldissi, directeur de recherche, XLIM.
Photovoltaics Manufacture featured talks by John Spiers, director, imaging Technology international (iTi) and Dr. Frederik Krebs, senior scientist, manager solar cell research, Riso National Laboratory. Energy Harvesting was the topic of Dr. Steve Beeby, reader, University of Southampton.
Barrier Materials closed the PV session, and was covered by Dr. Robert Lo, senior researcher, ITRI; Bertrand Jannon, marketing and business development manager, Alcan Packaging; and Harry Zervos, technology analyst for IDTechEx.
As part of the show’s program, IDTechEx presented awards recognizing outstanding achievements. The following companies were honored:
• Printed Electronics Europe Champion: Germany Trade & Invest.
• Technical Development Manufacturing Award: Thin Film Electronics and InkTec.
• Technical Development Materials Award: Applied Nanotech.
• New Product Development Award: Kovio.
• Commercialization Award: Power Paper.
• Academic R&D Award: University of Massachusetts working with Brewer Science and Optomec.
Overall, attendees were pleased with the conference.
"PE 2009 Europe was a great forum for us to meet with a number of our European customers and prospects, and for us to continue to move forward in partnerships with other elements of the printed electronics supply chain,” said Stan Farnsworth, vice president marketing for NovaCentrix. “We see significant activity in the European market, and we are excited by it. Additionally, we see options for moving forward in the European market by working with regional economic development organizations chartered with strengthening growth in their districts by facilitating business relationships around emerging technologies. I have to say the tone we felt at the event was very positive and upbeat.”
“Printed Electronics 2009 Europe was good for us, as we got several new contacts and good response on our technology and products,” said Dr. Wolfgang Clemens, head of applications for PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG. Dr. Clemens added that LOPE-C 23-25 June in Frankfurt/Germany, where PolyIC will be Gold-Sponsor, will also be a key event, as the new Roadmap from the organic electronic association (OEA) will be presented
Day 1 Sessions
The conference opened with Raghu Das, CEO of IDTechEX, who spoke on “Printed Electronics - Hot Applications and Market Sizes 2009-2019.”
Das was followed by a series of end-users who discussed the viability of PE. Games were the topic of Clemens Tuerck, chief electronic game developer, Ravensburger Spieleverlag GmbH, “Past, Future and Requirements of Printed Electronics in the Games Sector.” Pietro Perlo, director, technology division, Centro Ricerche Fiat, spoke on “Photovoltaic and Other Printable Functionalities Enabling Efficient Electrical Mobility,” a look at the potential of Electrical Vehicles (EV) and the possible role of PV.
Dr. Paul Beecher, senior research engineer, Nokia Research Center, followed with “Morph - Transformable Mobile Device,” the futuristic transformable cell phone. Konrad Herre, vice president manufacturing, Plastic Logic,then discussed the progress being made in E-readers in “The E-Reader as a Product Application for Plastic Electronics Technology.”
After a short break, Dr. John Bacon, systems integration engineer for NASA – Johnson Space Center, discussed “Printed Electronics at NASA.” Dr. Dietmar Czekay, head of construction and development, SBf Spezialleuchten Wurzen GmbH, talked about “Requirements for Organic LED Lighting in Train Applications,” a look at the potential of OLED lighting for trains.
Two major PE innovators offered their insights next. Matthew Timm, president, Soligie, followed with “Printed Electronics in New Product Initiatives & the Path to Commercialization.” Amir Mashkoori, CEO, Kovio Inc., finished the morning session with “A New Semiconductor Technology Paradigm - Printed RFID is Now a Reality.”
After lunch, the conference broke into two tracks. Track 1 opened with a session on Radical New Printed Electronics Products, featuring talks by Sascha Voigt, managing director, Menippos GmbH; Gunter Huebner, professor, Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart; Joerg Fischer, principal scientist, Bundesdruckerei; and Manfred Wagner, research and technology – power train & cabin electronics, Daimler.
Track 1 continued with Healthcare & Bionic Man, led by Jana Nyrén, marketing manager, Medixine Ltd. UK; Jens Arnulf Krauss, CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA’s section head control and signal processing; and Dr. Ganesh Kathiresan, key account manager, Toumaz Technology Limited.
The possibilities for PE in transportation followed in the session on Transit, which featured Michel Barjansky, head of marketing, RATP IT Dept, RATP Paris, and Walt Bonneau, president, Cubic Transportation Systems Inc.
Track 2 consisted of Thin/Flexible Batteries, Conformal/Flexible Displays and E-readers. Thin/Flexible Batteries featured Dr. Boaz Nitzan, executive vice president R&D, Power Paper, and George Gruner, professor at UCLA.
Conformal/Flexible Displays featured top electronics companies. The session was led off by Dr. Bonwon Koo, research staff, display laboratory for Samsung, followed by Noriyuki Kawashima, Fusion Domain Laboratory - Materials Laboratory for Sony Corporation. Oliver Nachbaur, system engineer portable power at Texas Instruments Deutschland GmbH. Dr. Peter Kazlas, director, device development at QD Vision, and Simon Jones, vice president, marketing and sales at Liquavista UK rounded out the session.
Two talks on E-readers closed out the track, with Ian French, principal scientist, Prime View International Co.; and Yoshitomo Masuda, electronic displays manager at Bridgestone the presenters.
Photovoltaics Beyond Conventional Silicon Europe, a concurrent session, featured talks on PV and OPV. Photovoltaics were discussed by Dr. Dieter Bonnet, senior technology advisor, CTF Solar GmbH; Michael Graetzel, professor of chemistry, Inst of Physical Chemistry at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; and Dr. Oliver Lang, technical adviser, SOLARC.
Organic Photovoltaics featured Dr. Christoph J. Brabec, CTO, Konarka Technologies, Inc.; Dr. Michael Niggemann, dye and organic solar cells, Dept. Materials Research, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy ISE: Dr. Martin Pfeiffer, CTO for Heliatek GmbH; Dieter Neher, professor, University of Potsdam; Dr. Harald Hoppe, research assistant, TU Ilmenau; and Dr. Moritz Riede, Institute for Applied Photo Physics – IAPP, Institut fuer Angewandte Photophysik (IAPP).
Day 2 Sessions
There were three tracks on April 8. Track 1 featured talks on Transistors & Logic, Roll-to Roll Manufacture Challenges/Opportunities, Digital Printing and Stretchable Electronics for Clothing.
Transistors & Logic was led by Dr. Flora Li, research associate, University of Cambridge, Dept of Engineering; Elvira Fortunato, professor, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia; and Dr. Ari Alastalo, senior research scientist, PriMeBits. Roll-to Roll Manufacture Challenges/Opportunities featured Mark D. Kapsner, Soligie’s vice president operations and Dr. Lutz Engisch, head of research & development, SWG - Sächsische Walzengravur.
Processing featured Stan Farnsworth, vice president – marketing, Novacentrix Corp. Digital Printing featured talks by Dr. Yoon Park, senior engineer, Samsung; Steve Liker, business development manager, Trident Industrial Ink Jet; Peter Diepens, PixDro COO; Dr. Juergen Wahl, director, Optrex Europe
Stretchable Electronics for Clothing was a particularly interesting new field for PE. Presentations were given by Andreas Roepert, Interactive Wear CEO; Paul Lukowicz, professor, Embedded Systems Lab of University Passau; Dr. Ivo Locher, team leader new business development, Sefar AG - Filtration Solutions; Giuseppe Coppola, senior director business development for Philips Applied Technologies; Dr.Hans-Walter Praas, TEXSYS GmbH CEO; and the session was concluded by Markus Klann, head of situated computing lab, Fraunhofer FIT.
Track 2 began with a session on Conductive Materials, featuring Dr. Zvi Yaniv, president/CEO for Applied Nanotech Inc.; Frank Louwet, business manager for AGFA Gevaert; Mandy Grobosch, Department Electronic and Optical Characteristic, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research IFW; and Dr. John S. Lettow, Vorbeck Materials president.
Organic & Inorganic Semiconductors session featured Ulrike Herzau-Gerhardt, professor at HTWK Leipzig; Dr. David Mueller, senior scientist for Merck Chemicals.
Sensors & Actuators was led by Emil List, scientific director, NanoTecCenter Weiz; Christl Lauterbach, CEO, Future-Shape GmbH; Geoff Boyd, new business development director, NXT Technology; and Dr. Johan R. A .Carlsson, president & CEO, Thin Film Electronics.
The Graphene Carbon Nanotubes session featured Manish Chhowalla, associate professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The Lighting session featured Dr. Sven Murano, leader physics group, Novaled AG.
RFID featured a panel led by Kai Herbst, office manager for DB Schenker; Dr. Frank Kriebel, vice president R&D at KSW Microtec; and Dr. Torsten Thieme, managing director, memsfab. The panel was followed by talks led by Dr. Wolfgang Clemens, head of applications for PolyIC; and Panu Helisto, chief research scientist, team leader at VTT Technical Research Centre. Smart Substrates & Stretchable Electronics featured Rita Paradiso of Smartex and Anton Kaasjager, project leader, TNO.
The second-day Photovoltaics Beyond Conventional Silicon Europe 2009 session led off with Thin Film Inorganic Photovoltaics - CIGS & CDTe, featuring Dr. Georg Ritter, technical sales thin film division, centrotherm photovoltaics AG; Bernhard Dimmler, board member, Wurth Solar GmbH and Co. KG; and Ayodhya N. Tiwari, laboratory for thin films and photovoltaics, EMPA.
Ivan Mora-Sero, researcher, Universitat Jaume I and Janne Halme, research associate, TKK Finland discussed DSSC. Solar Textiles was the topic of Dr. Max Shtein, assistant professor, materials science & engineering, University of Michigan and John Wilson, co-director, Power Textiles. Photovoltaic Materials was the focus of talks by Dr. Steffi Sensfuss, Dept. of Functional Polymer Systems, Thuringian Institute for Textile and Plastics Research TITK; Vince Arancio, technical specialist - microcircuit materials for DuPont; and Dr. Matt Aldissi, directeur de recherche, XLIM.
Photovoltaics Manufacture featured talks by John Spiers, director, imaging Technology international (iTi) and Dr. Frederik Krebs, senior scientist, manager solar cell research, Riso National Laboratory. Energy Harvesting was the topic of Dr. Steve Beeby, reader, University of Southampton.
Barrier Materials closed the PV session, and was covered by Dr. Robert Lo, senior researcher, ITRI; Bertrand Jannon, marketing and business development manager, Alcan Packaging; and Harry Zervos, technology analyst for IDTechEx.