David Savastano, Editor04.12.11
There has been increasing interest in printed electronics (PE), with new applications and research ongoing. Many of the presentations given during Printed Electronics Europe 2011 and Photovoltaics Europe 2011, organized by IDTechEx and held April 5-6, 2011 at the Dusseldorf Congress Center in Dusseldorf, Germany, illustrated these advancements.
Raghu Das, CEO, IDTechEx, Inc., opened the conference with his overview of PE, "Printed Electronics 2011-2021 - the Latest Progress." Das was followed by Herbert Goes, packaging innovation project manager, Mars Nederland bv, who discussed the importance of having your product be noticed on the shelf n his talk on “'Being Seen is Being Sold' - The Future of Retail Ready Displays."
Dr. Darryl Cotton, researcher, Nokia Research Centre, looked into the future with his talk on "Stretchable Electronics for Mobile Applications," covering current research at Nokia. Dr. Ross Bringans, VP and director, Electronic Materials & Devices Lab, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), then covered "Printed Electronics: Starting to Build an Ecosystem." Metro Store’s Frank Rehme then presented a talk on "From Challenge to Chance: Next Level Retailing,"
New PE developments was the focus of the presentation by Sascha Voigt, managing director, Printechnologics GmbH, who discussed "Aircode: Near Field Communication by a Touch." Dr. Karsten Danielmeier of Bayer MaterialScience AG followed with "Enhancing The Experience: Fidelity Haptics and Light Management with Polycarbonate Films."
MIT Prof. Karen K Gleason discussed "Paper-Thin, Organic Photovoltaic Circuits Fabricated Directly on Ubiquitous, Everyday Substrates," offering insight on the ability to produce arrays of OPV monolithically fabricated directly on ultra-lightweight substrates, including papers, which can be used to power electronics such as small-format LCD displays.
Dr. Bonwon Koo, research staff, display laboratory, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, closed the keynote presentations with "The World First 4.8-in. Active Matrix Full-Color PDLC Display Driven by Printed Organic TFT on Plastic Substrate."
Dr. Koo noted that flexible displays would be favored by customers, and that Samsung has successfully fabricated a 4.8'' QVGA color reflective PDLCD driven by ink-jet printed polymer TFT array on plastic substrate.
The conference broke into three tracks after lunch. Track 1 looked at the role Interactive Printed Media (IPM) in PE. Andrew Ferber, co-chairman of T-Ink Inc., led off with his talk on "Tapping the Huge Variety of Applications with Today's Printed Electronics" Eric Penot, digital media director, JCDecaux, followed with "Digital Out-of-Home Advertising: Show Me Good Products."
Matthew Ream, vice president, marketing, Blue Spark Technologies, analyzed "The Role of Printed Carbon-Zinc Thin Film Batteries in Interactive Printed Media." Dr. Kate Stone of Novalia offered insights into Interactive Print Media, and Dr. David Sime, director of technology transfer for Soligie, discussed "Decisions and Drivers for Efficient Development of Printed Electronics Applications."
Track 2 featured talks on a range of printed electronics applications, beginning with textiles and wearable electronics. Dr. Axel Techmenr of Future-Shape GmbH and Dr. Werner Pessenhofer, manager of production for PLATINGTECH, Beschichtung GmbH, led off the session with "Large-area Printed Smart Textiles and Their Applications," a look at the printed smart textiles process. They were followed by Dr. Andreas Neudeck, representative head of R&D for TITV - Textilforschungsinstitut Thüringen.
Andreas Roepert, CEO at Interactive Wear, looked at "Wearable Electronics - Applications, Trends and Opportunities for Printed Electronics," offering his thoughts on opportunities for PE in fashion/sports, wellness/medical and safety/security. David Lussey, CTO for Peratech Ltd., closed the session with "Quantum Tunnelling Composites (QTC) in Textile and Film Touch-screens, Controls and Sensors," noting that QTC is being used under license in a rapidly growing range of commercial products, and that QTC has recently been developed in a printable electronic ink form. He added that QTC allows the construction of sensors, switches, touch controls and touch-screens without the need for air gaps or stand-offs.
Displays were the next area of interest in Track 2, with E-Ink, Polymer Vision and Kent Displays the featured presenters. Giovanni Mancini, director product management at E Ink, spoke about "Coloring the Future of ePaper," and the development of color ePaper for textbooks. Dr. Edzer Huitema, CTO at Polymer Vision, analyzed "Flexible Displays Development and Commercialization Efforts." Joel Domino, president of Kent Displays, closed Track 2 with "Flexible Bistable Reflex Displays and Applications."
Track 3 focused on a variety of issues related to photovoltaics, beginning with “Products with Integrated Printed Photovoltaics,” presented by Dr. Hadjar Benmansour, R&D at Total.
Dr. Benmansour was followed by Dr. Mauro Morana, program manager oBHJ for Europe for Konarka Austria, who discussed "Technical Progresses and Commercial Directions for OPV." Dr. Frederik Krebs, senior scientist, manager solar cell research at Riso National Laboratory, analyzed "Product Integration of Polymer Solar Cells. From Circuitry to Functional Units."
Dye sensitized solar cell technology was the focus of the presentation by Dr. Mark Spratt, senior development manager, G24 Innovations Limited, who covered "Dye Sensitized Solar Cells: Technology and Future Applications." Dr. Martin Pfeiffer, chief technology officer, Heliatek GmbH, followed with "Vacuum Deposition of Organic Photovoltaics"
Reaching high volume and high yields was the subject of Dr. Noel Clark, senior research scientist at CSIRO Australia, who spoke on "Gravure Printing of Polymer Solar Cells," which emphasized the printing of polymer solar cells. Dr. Harald Hoppe, research assistant at TU Ilmenau, closed the PV session with "Slot-Dye Coating for R2R-Processing of Polymer Solar Cells."
The second day of PE Euope 2011 featured four concurrent sessions. Track 1 began with talks centered on paper electronics. Dr. Philip G. Cooper, manager, technology applications at De La Rue Group, and Dr, Goran Gustafsson, manager, printed electronics applications for Acreo AB, opened the session with "Power into Paper - a New Paradigm." Dr. Juha Maijala, manager, intelligent solutions for Stora Enso Packaging Boards, followed with "Wireless Healthcare Solution using Printed and Conventional Electronics."
Prof. Elvira Maria Fortunato of Uni of Lisbon Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia focused on "Transparent Electronics: From n - to p-type Oxide Thin Film Transistors," noting that the good performance achieved precludes a promising future integration of these devices. Prof. Arved C Hubler, Institute for Print & Media Technology, followed with his talk on "Printed Solar Cells on Paper? Why and How."
Printed silicon was the next key area of discussion, with talks by Dr. Carl Taussig, program manager for Hewlett Packard Laboratories, who analyzed “Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Displays on Plastic Substrates using SAIL (Self-Aligned Imprint Lithography); Recent Developments," who noted opportunities for infrastructure development as displays move to roll-to-roll processing. Dr. Neil Morrison, team leader R&D web PECVD coating products at Applied Materials GmbH & Co KG, discussed roll-to-roll thin film processing equipment development in his talk on "Silicon-Based Flexible TFT Device Technologies."
Dr. Andrew Flewitt, University of Cambridge, focused on "Sputtering of Metal Oxides at Low Temperatures and High Rates for Large Area Electronics,” a look at a novel sputtering technology (HiTUS).
Printed memory, an important topic, was the next focus in Track 1. Dr. Davor Sutija, CEO, Thin Film Electronics, analyzed "From Stand-Alone Memory to Printed Systems." Thermistors, another key area of interest, were covered by Prof. Margit Harting, Department of Physics at University of Cape Town, who talked about "Printed Silicon in Electronics."
Dr. Volker Zoellmer, head of department functional structures, Fraunhofer IFAM, covered "INKtelligent Printing of Sensor Structures.” Laurent Jamet, director business development, ISORG, followed with "Organic Photodetectors and Image Sensors, Highly Innovative Products for New Markets and Attractive Business Opportunities for the Printed Electronics Industry." Prof. Emil List, scientific director, NanoTecCenter Weiz, covered "Printed Sensor Devices and Electronic Applications."
Track 2 covered a wide range of topics, including radios, RFID, displays and other products printed roll-to-roll. Prof. Werner Jillek of Georg-Simon-Ohm-University of Applied Sciences analyzed "Functional Inkjet Printing of Nano-Particles for Manufacturing Electronic Devices." Prof. Gyou-Jin Cho, Sunchon National University, covered "Fully Roll-to-Roll Gravure System for Printing 13.56 MHz Operated 32 Bit RFID Tags," an Analysis of factors in enhancing reliability and stability of gravure printed RFID tags.
Dr. Jani-Mikael Kuusisto, business development manager, printed intelligence at VTT, discussed "Roll-To-Roll Printed Technologies - a Business Development Perspective." Prof. Kee Hyun Shin, Konkuk University (Dept. Of Mech. & Aero Eng.), followed Dr. Kuusisto.
The potential for gravure was analyzed by the next two speakers. Udo Dittmar, president, Daetwyler R&D Corp., covered "Layer to Layer Micro Gravure Applications for Printed Electronics and More," while Dr. Dongsoo Kim, principal researcher, Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM), discussed "Fine Pattern Printing Via Roll-to-Roll Process."
High-speed inspection as the focus of the next two talks. Peter Johansson, area sales manager, In-Core Systemes, talked about "New Mass Processing Breakthroughs." Johansson was followed by Andreas Fritzsche, business and strategy planning, Bosch Rexroth, who covered "Motion Control for High-End R2R Web Processes."
Progress with OLED displays and lighting was the focus after lunch, led off by Prof. Takuya Komoda, research director, Panasonic Electric Works Co. Ltd., who analyzed "High-Quality White OLEDs and Resource Saving Fabrication: Processes for Lighting Application." Prof. Komoda discussed a new printing process with a slit coating technology that has been developed.
Dr. Rui-Qing Ma, department manager flexible OLED displays, Universal Display Corporation, followed with "Phosphorescent OLEDs for Display and Lighting Applications," a discussion of the benefits of OLED in display technology and lighting, AMOLED displays and scaling-up challenges.
Mary Boone, director - ink business development at Plextronics Inc, gave the next presentation, "OLED Technology - Where It's Going and How to Get There."
Holst Centre, Dr. Mary Kilitziraki, project manager- Fast2Light Programme at the Holst Centre, followed Boone with her talk on "Fast2light: OLED Lighting on a Roll," which covered flexible OLEDs for lighting and roll-to-roll technologies for OLED lighting foils.
Track 3 focused on photovoltaics, beginning with Daniel Tomlinson, senior sales manager, Ascent Solar, who discussed "Flexible Monolithically Integrated CIGS Solar Cells." Michael Chambers, senior manager of production at Q-mo solar AG, gave a talk centered on "High-Efficiency Solar Modules for Energy Harvesting Systems."
Steve Liker, sales and marketing director, Trident Industrial Inkjet, covered "Use and Benefits of Ink Jet for Selective Emitter Front Contacts on pc-Si." Dr. Oliver Lang, CTO at Lang Consulting Engineering, focused on "Novel High Efficiency Solar Module Based on a Luminescence Concentrator."
Barrier technology was the topic for Track 3’s next two presentations, beginning with Senthil Ramadas, CTO, Tera-Barrier Films Pte. Ltd., whose topic was "Total Barrier Solutions for Solar and Plastic Electronics Applications." Marion Schmidt, scientist at Fraunhofer IVV, analyzed "Accumulating Gas Chromatography Based Permeation Measurement Method for Ultra-low Water Vapor Transmission Rate (WVTR) Measurement."
Sealants and adhesives were covered in the next two talks. Rainer Doerfler, product manager for DELO, covered "Lamination of Organic Solar Cells with UV-Curing Adhesives," while Dr. David Briers, senior development chemist at Henkel, discussed "Moisture Barrier Sealants For Use In Emerging Electronic Applications."
Breakthroughs with OPV materials and design were the focus of Dr. John De Mello, senior lecturer, Imperial College London, who discussed "Organic Semiconductors for PV Applications," and Dr. Mike Holmes, industrial liaison manager, Organic Materials Innovation Centre, whose topic was "Development of Novel Materials for Printed Electronic Devices."
Dr. Harry Zervos, technology analyst for IDTechEx, concluded with an overview on "Emerging Markets and Applications for
Dr. Kari Ronka, technology manager, VTT Finland, closed Track 3 with "FACESS - Flexible Autonomous Cost Efficient Energy Source and Storage," a look at printed, rechargeable and stretchable batteries.
Track 4 focused on inks, manufacturing and innovative new products. Copper-based conductive inks was the focus of the first three talks, beginning with Dr. Kazunori Yamamoto, senior manager, high performance materials DC at Hitachi Chemical Co. Ltd., who discussed "Cu Ink for Inkjet Printing - Low Temperature Sintering."
Dr. Yamamoto was followed by Dr. Ian Clark, Sales & Marketing Director for Intrinsiq Materials Ltd., who analyzed "New Low Temperature Copper Screen Print Product is a Low-Cost Alternative to Silver Pastes." Dr. Karl Martin, NovaCentrix’ director/vice president, then analyzed "Reducing Screen-Printed Copper Oxide to Copper on Paper Substrates at Industrial Speeds in Air."
Carbon nanotubes was the focus of the next talk by Dr. David Brown, CEO of Canatu Oy, who discussed "Low Cost, High Performance Carbon Nanomaterials Films for Energy, Electronics and Beyond."
Track 4 shifted next to manufacturing, leading off with David Ramahi, president and CEO of Optomec, who talked about "Aerosol Jet: Produces Fine Pitch Interconnects for Advanced 3D Semiconductor." Peter Diepens, COO of PixDro b.v., followed Rahami. Joseph Schweiger, Unigraphica AG’s owner, discussed "Mass Production of Smart Media."
ITO replacement was the subject of Dr. Detlef Gaiser, applied technology manager, Heraeus Clevios GmbH, whose talk centered on "Advanced Conductors and Hole Transport Materials for Organic LED and Organic Solar Cells."
Dr. Anja Henckens, development scientist at Henkel, covered UV curing in "Innovations in Electrically Conductive Inks and Nano Ink Technology." Simon Gibbs, strategic market development manager, Europe at Integration Technology Ltd, discussed "UV Curing: The Solid State Solution."
Novel flexible and printed products were the focus of the final two talks of Track 4. Eduard Loscos, business developer manager R&D for CETEMMSA, presented "Printed Electronics Applied to the Development of Flexible Devices." Dr. Harry Igbenehi, product development manager, Flexible Electronics Concepts, closed Track 4 with "The Unmet Need: How Flexible Electronics Concepts is Driving Commercialization of Printed Electronics."
The final talks brought together the four tracks. These were led off by Robert Koeppe, CSO, isiQiri interface technologies GmbH, who discussed "The Touch of Light - Man-Machine-Interfaces Based on the Q-Foil Technology.” Koeppe covered large area, flexible photosensors using the Q-Foil technology. Dr. Peter Harrop, chairman of IDTechEx, closed off the session with "Printing Electric Vehicles for Land, Sea and Air."
Raghu Das, CEO, IDTechEx, Inc., opened the conference with his overview of PE, "Printed Electronics 2011-2021 - the Latest Progress." Das was followed by Herbert Goes, packaging innovation project manager, Mars Nederland bv, who discussed the importance of having your product be noticed on the shelf n his talk on “'Being Seen is Being Sold' - The Future of Retail Ready Displays."
Dr. Darryl Cotton, researcher, Nokia Research Centre, looked into the future with his talk on "Stretchable Electronics for Mobile Applications," covering current research at Nokia. Dr. Ross Bringans, VP and director, Electronic Materials & Devices Lab, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), then covered "Printed Electronics: Starting to Build an Ecosystem." Metro Store’s Frank Rehme then presented a talk on "From Challenge to Chance: Next Level Retailing,"
New PE developments was the focus of the presentation by Sascha Voigt, managing director, Printechnologics GmbH, who discussed "Aircode: Near Field Communication by a Touch." Dr. Karsten Danielmeier of Bayer MaterialScience AG followed with "Enhancing The Experience: Fidelity Haptics and Light Management with Polycarbonate Films."
MIT Prof. Karen K Gleason discussed "Paper-Thin, Organic Photovoltaic Circuits Fabricated Directly on Ubiquitous, Everyday Substrates," offering insight on the ability to produce arrays of OPV monolithically fabricated directly on ultra-lightweight substrates, including papers, which can be used to power electronics such as small-format LCD displays.
Dr. Bonwon Koo, research staff, display laboratory, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, closed the keynote presentations with "The World First 4.8-in. Active Matrix Full-Color PDLC Display Driven by Printed Organic TFT on Plastic Substrate."
Dr. Koo noted that flexible displays would be favored by customers, and that Samsung has successfully fabricated a 4.8'' QVGA color reflective PDLCD driven by ink-jet printed polymer TFT array on plastic substrate.
The conference broke into three tracks after lunch. Track 1 looked at the role Interactive Printed Media (IPM) in PE. Andrew Ferber, co-chairman of T-Ink Inc., led off with his talk on "Tapping the Huge Variety of Applications with Today's Printed Electronics" Eric Penot, digital media director, JCDecaux, followed with "Digital Out-of-Home Advertising: Show Me Good Products."
Matthew Ream, vice president, marketing, Blue Spark Technologies, analyzed "The Role of Printed Carbon-Zinc Thin Film Batteries in Interactive Printed Media." Dr. Kate Stone of Novalia offered insights into Interactive Print Media, and Dr. David Sime, director of technology transfer for Soligie, discussed "Decisions and Drivers for Efficient Development of Printed Electronics Applications."
Track 2 featured talks on a range of printed electronics applications, beginning with textiles and wearable electronics. Dr. Axel Techmenr of Future-Shape GmbH and Dr. Werner Pessenhofer, manager of production for PLATINGTECH, Beschichtung GmbH, led off the session with "Large-area Printed Smart Textiles and Their Applications," a look at the printed smart textiles process. They were followed by Dr. Andreas Neudeck, representative head of R&D for TITV - Textilforschungsinstitut Thüringen.
Andreas Roepert, CEO at Interactive Wear, looked at "Wearable Electronics - Applications, Trends and Opportunities for Printed Electronics," offering his thoughts on opportunities for PE in fashion/sports, wellness/medical and safety/security. David Lussey, CTO for Peratech Ltd., closed the session with "Quantum Tunnelling Composites (QTC) in Textile and Film Touch-screens, Controls and Sensors," noting that QTC is being used under license in a rapidly growing range of commercial products, and that QTC has recently been developed in a printable electronic ink form. He added that QTC allows the construction of sensors, switches, touch controls and touch-screens without the need for air gaps or stand-offs.
Displays were the next area of interest in Track 2, with E-Ink, Polymer Vision and Kent Displays the featured presenters. Giovanni Mancini, director product management at E Ink, spoke about "Coloring the Future of ePaper," and the development of color ePaper for textbooks. Dr. Edzer Huitema, CTO at Polymer Vision, analyzed "Flexible Displays Development and Commercialization Efforts." Joel Domino, president of Kent Displays, closed Track 2 with "Flexible Bistable Reflex Displays and Applications."
Track 3 focused on a variety of issues related to photovoltaics, beginning with “Products with Integrated Printed Photovoltaics,” presented by Dr. Hadjar Benmansour, R&D at Total.
Dr. Benmansour was followed by Dr. Mauro Morana, program manager oBHJ for Europe for Konarka Austria, who discussed "Technical Progresses and Commercial Directions for OPV." Dr. Frederik Krebs, senior scientist, manager solar cell research at Riso National Laboratory, analyzed "Product Integration of Polymer Solar Cells. From Circuitry to Functional Units."
Dye sensitized solar cell technology was the focus of the presentation by Dr. Mark Spratt, senior development manager, G24 Innovations Limited, who covered "Dye Sensitized Solar Cells: Technology and Future Applications." Dr. Martin Pfeiffer, chief technology officer, Heliatek GmbH, followed with "Vacuum Deposition of Organic Photovoltaics"
Reaching high volume and high yields was the subject of Dr. Noel Clark, senior research scientist at CSIRO Australia, who spoke on "Gravure Printing of Polymer Solar Cells," which emphasized the printing of polymer solar cells. Dr. Harald Hoppe, research assistant at TU Ilmenau, closed the PV session with "Slot-Dye Coating for R2R-Processing of Polymer Solar Cells."
The second day of PE Euope 2011 featured four concurrent sessions. Track 1 began with talks centered on paper electronics. Dr. Philip G. Cooper, manager, technology applications at De La Rue Group, and Dr, Goran Gustafsson, manager, printed electronics applications for Acreo AB, opened the session with "Power into Paper - a New Paradigm." Dr. Juha Maijala, manager, intelligent solutions for Stora Enso Packaging Boards, followed with "Wireless Healthcare Solution using Printed and Conventional Electronics."
Prof. Elvira Maria Fortunato of Uni of Lisbon Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia focused on "Transparent Electronics: From n - to p-type Oxide Thin Film Transistors," noting that the good performance achieved precludes a promising future integration of these devices. Prof. Arved C Hubler, Institute for Print & Media Technology, followed with his talk on "Printed Solar Cells on Paper? Why and How."
Printed silicon was the next key area of discussion, with talks by Dr. Carl Taussig, program manager for Hewlett Packard Laboratories, who analyzed “Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Displays on Plastic Substrates using SAIL (Self-Aligned Imprint Lithography); Recent Developments," who noted opportunities for infrastructure development as displays move to roll-to-roll processing. Dr. Neil Morrison, team leader R&D web PECVD coating products at Applied Materials GmbH & Co KG, discussed roll-to-roll thin film processing equipment development in his talk on "Silicon-Based Flexible TFT Device Technologies."
Dr. Andrew Flewitt, University of Cambridge, focused on "Sputtering of Metal Oxides at Low Temperatures and High Rates for Large Area Electronics,” a look at a novel sputtering technology (HiTUS).
Printed memory, an important topic, was the next focus in Track 1. Dr. Davor Sutija, CEO, Thin Film Electronics, analyzed "From Stand-Alone Memory to Printed Systems." Thermistors, another key area of interest, were covered by Prof. Margit Harting, Department of Physics at University of Cape Town, who talked about "Printed Silicon in Electronics."
Dr. Volker Zoellmer, head of department functional structures, Fraunhofer IFAM, covered "INKtelligent Printing of Sensor Structures.” Laurent Jamet, director business development, ISORG, followed with "Organic Photodetectors and Image Sensors, Highly Innovative Products for New Markets and Attractive Business Opportunities for the Printed Electronics Industry." Prof. Emil List, scientific director, NanoTecCenter Weiz, covered "Printed Sensor Devices and Electronic Applications."
Track 2 covered a wide range of topics, including radios, RFID, displays and other products printed roll-to-roll. Prof. Werner Jillek of Georg-Simon-Ohm-University of Applied Sciences analyzed "Functional Inkjet Printing of Nano-Particles for Manufacturing Electronic Devices." Prof. Gyou-Jin Cho, Sunchon National University, covered "Fully Roll-to-Roll Gravure System for Printing 13.56 MHz Operated 32 Bit RFID Tags," an Analysis of factors in enhancing reliability and stability of gravure printed RFID tags.
Dr. Jani-Mikael Kuusisto, business development manager, printed intelligence at VTT, discussed "Roll-To-Roll Printed Technologies - a Business Development Perspective." Prof. Kee Hyun Shin, Konkuk University (Dept. Of Mech. & Aero Eng.), followed Dr. Kuusisto.
The potential for gravure was analyzed by the next two speakers. Udo Dittmar, president, Daetwyler R&D Corp., covered "Layer to Layer Micro Gravure Applications for Printed Electronics and More," while Dr. Dongsoo Kim, principal researcher, Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM), discussed "Fine Pattern Printing Via Roll-to-Roll Process."
High-speed inspection as the focus of the next two talks. Peter Johansson, area sales manager, In-Core Systemes, talked about "New Mass Processing Breakthroughs." Johansson was followed by Andreas Fritzsche, business and strategy planning, Bosch Rexroth, who covered "Motion Control for High-End R2R Web Processes."
Progress with OLED displays and lighting was the focus after lunch, led off by Prof. Takuya Komoda, research director, Panasonic Electric Works Co. Ltd., who analyzed "High-Quality White OLEDs and Resource Saving Fabrication: Processes for Lighting Application." Prof. Komoda discussed a new printing process with a slit coating technology that has been developed.
Dr. Rui-Qing Ma, department manager flexible OLED displays, Universal Display Corporation, followed with "Phosphorescent OLEDs for Display and Lighting Applications," a discussion of the benefits of OLED in display technology and lighting, AMOLED displays and scaling-up challenges.
Mary Boone, director - ink business development at Plextronics Inc, gave the next presentation, "OLED Technology - Where It's Going and How to Get There."
Holst Centre, Dr. Mary Kilitziraki, project manager- Fast2Light Programme at the Holst Centre, followed Boone with her talk on "Fast2light: OLED Lighting on a Roll," which covered flexible OLEDs for lighting and roll-to-roll technologies for OLED lighting foils.
Track 3 focused on photovoltaics, beginning with Daniel Tomlinson, senior sales manager, Ascent Solar, who discussed "Flexible Monolithically Integrated CIGS Solar Cells." Michael Chambers, senior manager of production at Q-mo solar AG, gave a talk centered on "High-Efficiency Solar Modules for Energy Harvesting Systems."
Steve Liker, sales and marketing director, Trident Industrial Inkjet, covered "Use and Benefits of Ink Jet for Selective Emitter Front Contacts on pc-Si." Dr. Oliver Lang, CTO at Lang Consulting Engineering, focused on "Novel High Efficiency Solar Module Based on a Luminescence Concentrator."
Barrier technology was the topic for Track 3’s next two presentations, beginning with Senthil Ramadas, CTO, Tera-Barrier Films Pte. Ltd., whose topic was "Total Barrier Solutions for Solar and Plastic Electronics Applications." Marion Schmidt, scientist at Fraunhofer IVV, analyzed "Accumulating Gas Chromatography Based Permeation Measurement Method for Ultra-low Water Vapor Transmission Rate (WVTR) Measurement."
Sealants and adhesives were covered in the next two talks. Rainer Doerfler, product manager for DELO, covered "Lamination of Organic Solar Cells with UV-Curing Adhesives," while Dr. David Briers, senior development chemist at Henkel, discussed "Moisture Barrier Sealants For Use In Emerging Electronic Applications."
Breakthroughs with OPV materials and design were the focus of Dr. John De Mello, senior lecturer, Imperial College London, who discussed "Organic Semiconductors for PV Applications," and Dr. Mike Holmes, industrial liaison manager, Organic Materials Innovation Centre, whose topic was "Development of Novel Materials for Printed Electronic Devices."
Dr. Harry Zervos, technology analyst for IDTechEx, concluded with an overview on "Emerging Markets and Applications for
Dr. Kari Ronka, technology manager, VTT Finland, closed Track 3 with "FACESS - Flexible Autonomous Cost Efficient Energy Source and Storage," a look at printed, rechargeable and stretchable batteries.
Track 4 focused on inks, manufacturing and innovative new products. Copper-based conductive inks was the focus of the first three talks, beginning with Dr. Kazunori Yamamoto, senior manager, high performance materials DC at Hitachi Chemical Co. Ltd., who discussed "Cu Ink for Inkjet Printing - Low Temperature Sintering."
Dr. Yamamoto was followed by Dr. Ian Clark, Sales & Marketing Director for Intrinsiq Materials Ltd., who analyzed "New Low Temperature Copper Screen Print Product is a Low-Cost Alternative to Silver Pastes." Dr. Karl Martin, NovaCentrix’ director/vice president, then analyzed "Reducing Screen-Printed Copper Oxide to Copper on Paper Substrates at Industrial Speeds in Air."
Carbon nanotubes was the focus of the next talk by Dr. David Brown, CEO of Canatu Oy, who discussed "Low Cost, High Performance Carbon Nanomaterials Films for Energy, Electronics and Beyond."
Track 4 shifted next to manufacturing, leading off with David Ramahi, president and CEO of Optomec, who talked about "Aerosol Jet: Produces Fine Pitch Interconnects for Advanced 3D Semiconductor." Peter Diepens, COO of PixDro b.v., followed Rahami. Joseph Schweiger, Unigraphica AG’s owner, discussed "Mass Production of Smart Media."
ITO replacement was the subject of Dr. Detlef Gaiser, applied technology manager, Heraeus Clevios GmbH, whose talk centered on "Advanced Conductors and Hole Transport Materials for Organic LED and Organic Solar Cells."
Dr. Anja Henckens, development scientist at Henkel, covered UV curing in "Innovations in Electrically Conductive Inks and Nano Ink Technology." Simon Gibbs, strategic market development manager, Europe at Integration Technology Ltd, discussed "UV Curing: The Solid State Solution."
Novel flexible and printed products were the focus of the final two talks of Track 4. Eduard Loscos, business developer manager R&D for CETEMMSA, presented "Printed Electronics Applied to the Development of Flexible Devices." Dr. Harry Igbenehi, product development manager, Flexible Electronics Concepts, closed Track 4 with "The Unmet Need: How Flexible Electronics Concepts is Driving Commercialization of Printed Electronics."
The final talks brought together the four tracks. These were led off by Robert Koeppe, CSO, isiQiri interface technologies GmbH, who discussed "The Touch of Light - Man-Machine-Interfaces Based on the Q-Foil Technology.” Koeppe covered large area, flexible photosensors using the Q-Foil technology. Dr. Peter Harrop, chairman of IDTechEx, closed off the session with "Printing Electric Vehicles for Land, Sea and Air."