David Savastano, Editor04.16.13
As Printed Electronics Europe 2013 prepares to opens its doors on April 17 for its two-day conference at the International Congress Centrum (ICC) in Berlin, Germany, attendees will be hearing about the latest commercial and technological advances in the printed electronics industry.
IDTechEx, the organizers of Printed Electronics Europe 2013, noted that they anticipate attendance to set records again this year, and have put together a huge program that reflects the gains being made in terms of commercialization and research in the field of printed electronics (PE), with companies including Microsoft, Boeing, Abbott, Panasonic and Philips on hand to offer their insights.
In addition, IDTechEx has co-located a series of related sessions, beginning with Graphene LIVE!, spanning the material and process progress of graphene. Other key sessions include OLEDs LIVE!; TCF LIVE!, presenting developments of transparent conductive films, featuring touch surfaces; Energy Harvesting & Storage; and 5th Photovoltaics Thin-Film Week, a cooperative effort between Thin-Film Week and IDTechEx, which will be held April 18.
IDTechEx CEO Raghu Das will open the Keynote Session with his presentation on "Printed Electronics: Show Me the Money," a look at who is making money in printed electronics and how they are doing it.
Dr. Alex Butler, senior research hardware engineer, Microsoft Research, will then cover "The Future of Touch/Enabling Technologies." Dr. Sophie Laurenson, project lead for Abbott Diagnostics, will discuss "Printed Electronics for the Diagnostics Industry," an overview of the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) industry.
Jeff Duce, design engineer, Boeing Research & Technology, will follow with "Applications, Needs, and Requirements for Printed Electronics in Aerospace." Koen van Os, senior scientist intelligent at Philips Research, will analyze "Intelligent Textiles: Bridging the Gap from Technology Development to Product Manufacturing."
Eric Penot, digital media director, JCDecaux, will cover "Digital Of-Home Industry Needs," while Dr. Juha Maijala, manager, intelligent solutions for Stora Enso, will discuss "Packages with Additional Intelligent Functionality," with an emphasis on intelligent healthcare packaging. Dr. Simon Leigh, research fellow, University of Warwick, will close the keynote talks with "3D Printed Electronics."
After lunch, PE Europe will break into four concurrent sessions.
Track 1 features talks on Stretchable and Textile Electronics, Wireless Charging Systems and Internet of Things.
Stretchable and Textile Electronics begins with Christian Dalsgaard, founder - advice & development of Ohmatex, who will cover "Harvesting and Storing Solar Energy in Fibre Form." Dalsgaard will discuss transforming dye sensitive solar cells info a continuous fibre form.
Prof. Xiaoming Tao, chair professor of textile technology at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, will then cover "Soft Fabric Strain and Pressure, Sensors and Applications,” a look at Softceptor fabric strain sensors and sensing arrays for human-machine interaction. Prof. Tao will also offer application case studies, including an intelligent footwear system for diabetes patients.
Dr. Steve Beeby of the University of Southampton will present on "Screen Printing for Energy Harvesting: From Aeronautic to Textile Applications," a look at high performance printable piezoelectric materials and devices. Dr. Thomas McKay, research fellow at Auckland Bioengineering Institute, will discuss "A Walk Towards Wearable Energy Harvesters," featuring a presentation on the dielectric elastomer, which could harvest electrical energy from human movements, thus eliminating the need to recharge batteries.
Track 1 shifts to Wireless Charging Systems, covered by Yoshihiro Nii, delegator at Nissha Europe GmbH, whose talk is on "Applying Printing Technologies to Wireless Charging Systems," a discussion of its new wireless recharging technology.
The Internet of Things has become a topic of huge interest, and Track 1 finishes with a pair of talks on the subject, beginning with Dr. Davor Sutija, CEO of Thin Film Electronics ASA, whose topic is "Printed Sensor Tags and Smart Objects." Dr. Sutija will note how the introduction of printed addressable memory catalyzed the development of fully printed sensor tags, and will discuss the opportunities and applications for sensors in the healthcare, packaging, and logistics markets.
Dr. Andrey Somov of CREATE-NET will close Track 1 with his talk, "From Reality to 'Virtuality': Printed Storage Devices for the Internet of Things."
OLEDs LIVE! is the focus of Track 2, beginning with Dr. Norman Bardsley of Bardsley Consulting, whose topic is "OLED Lighting: Feast or Famine? 3-5 Year Challenges," which will offer LED and OLED lighting forecasts for the next decade.
Prof. Takuya Komoda, research director for Panasonic, will offer his thoughts on "Recent Progress and Future Trends of OLED Technologies for Lighting Applications." Dr. Peter Kruijt, process development engineer, Philips, Business Center OLED Lighting, will follow with "The Value Chain of Inkjet Printing Conductive Inks."
Dr. Christian May, Fraunhofer COMEDD, will focus on "Organic Electronics for Photovoltaics and Lighting." Dr. Ton van Mol, program manager, TNO Holst Centre, will cover "Flexible OLED Lighting."
New OLED Material Developments is the final topic of OLEDs LIVE! Dr. Silvia Janietz, head of polymers and electronics, Fraunhofer IAP, will present on "Integration of OLEDs in Textiles," including the integration of encapsulated glass OLEDs into textiles like spacer warp knitting. Cynora GmbH CEO Dr. Tobias Grab will close OLEDs LIVE” with his talk on "Optoelectronic Solutions for OLEDs."
TRACK 3 features TCF LIVE!, a look at the latest technology developments of transparent conductive films. The first topic will be Sensor Technology Developments, starting with Laurent Jamet, ISORG co-founder and director business development, whose talk is on "When Printed Electronics Meet Design and Usages for Highly Innovative Functionalities." ISORG offers a technology which transforms plastic, paper and glass into smart and interactive surfaces.
Peratech Ltd. CTO David Lussey will offer his insights into "Quantum Tunnelling Composites (QTC) in Switches, Sensors, Controls and Touch Screens," QTCs are produced as solids, powders and inks and have unique electrical qualities which form the basis for entirely new types of switches, sensors, controls and touch screens.
Linköping University associate professor Dr Isak Engquist, will cover "Printed Wireless Humidity Sensors for Moisture Detection in Buildings," discussing a humidity sensor label that is fully printed on a flexible substrate with a R2R-patterned antenna.
Prof. Margit Harting, Dept. of Physics at Cape Town University and PST Sensors, will offer her insights on "Printed Silicon in Electronics."
The next topic for TCF LIVE! is Bi-Stable Displays, beginning with Dr. Bernd Zimmermann, process integration manager for Plastic Logic, who will discuss "Flexible, Organic Bi-Stable Displays - Technology and Applications." Plastic Logic has developed a technology based on organic electronics to create fully flexible, bi-stable plastic displays.
Dr. Kars-Michiel H Lenssen, director/principal scientist, Philips Corporate Technologies, will offer his thoughts on "Bright e-Skin and Its Applications," which enables "Zero-Energy e-Skin," demonstrated for indoor photovoltaic cells and RF power.
Dr. Juergen Rawert, director, business development, ADT GmbH, closes TCF LIVE! with his talk on "Droplet Driven Display - The GREEN ePaper Display."
Track 4 is Graphene LIVE!, a focus on the potential of graphene. That topic will be covered by Dr. Khasha Ghaffarzadeh, senior technology analyst for IDTechEx, in "Graphene: Analysis of Technology, Markets and Players," which opens the session.
Dr. Ghaffarzadeh will be followed by Dr. Andy Lawrence, senior portfolio manager for EPSRC, who will discuss "The UK Initiative in Graphene Research and Commercialisation," analyzing the research being conducted by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Technology Strategy Board (TSB).
Prof. Barbaros Oezyilmaz of the Graphene Research Centre (GRC) follows with "Graphene R&D at the Singapore Graphene Research Center: From Tissue Engineering to Touch Panels," and Jon Myers, CEO and founder of Graphene Technologies, will cover "Graphene from CO2 - Learning to Love Carbon Emissions."
After lunch, Graphene LIVE! discusses a range of topics, beginning with Supercapacitor Markets. IDTechEx chairman Dr. Peter Harrop opens the session with "Markets for Supercapacitors 2013-2023," a look at the market growth in this field. Anthony Kongats, CEO of CAP-XX Ltd., will cover "Present and Future Markets for Thin, Prismatic Supercapacitors and Supercabatteries," including the use of supercapacacitors in small portable devices for peak power applications.
The next topic will be Improving the Performance of Supercapacitors with Graphene, with Ivica Kolaric of Fraunhofer IPA discussing "Graphene and Carbon Nanotube Supercapacitors." Dr. Chunhong Lei of the University of Surrey will analyze "Electrophoretic Deposition of Unfunctionalized Graphene for Supercapacitor Applications," covering electrophoretic deposition (EPD) from the graphene dispersion for EDLCs electrodes.
University of Manchester, Dr. Shuangyin Wang of the University of Manchester will present "Porous Graphene on Carbon Cloth for Flexible Supercapacitors," and Urszula Kosidlo, Fraunhofer IPA, will discuss "Graphene-based Electrodes for Application in Supercapacitors - Insights into ElectroGraph Project."
Dr. Negar Amini, MAST Carbon International, will close Graphene LIVE! with "Phenolic Resin-based Activated Carbons for Supercapacitors,’ investigating the effect of different levels of activation on pore size and volume of the prepared carbon materials.
IDTechEx, the organizers of Printed Electronics Europe 2013, noted that they anticipate attendance to set records again this year, and have put together a huge program that reflects the gains being made in terms of commercialization and research in the field of printed electronics (PE), with companies including Microsoft, Boeing, Abbott, Panasonic and Philips on hand to offer their insights.
In addition, IDTechEx has co-located a series of related sessions, beginning with Graphene LIVE!, spanning the material and process progress of graphene. Other key sessions include OLEDs LIVE!; TCF LIVE!, presenting developments of transparent conductive films, featuring touch surfaces; Energy Harvesting & Storage; and 5th Photovoltaics Thin-Film Week, a cooperative effort between Thin-Film Week and IDTechEx, which will be held April 18.
IDTechEx CEO Raghu Das will open the Keynote Session with his presentation on "Printed Electronics: Show Me the Money," a look at who is making money in printed electronics and how they are doing it.
Dr. Alex Butler, senior research hardware engineer, Microsoft Research, will then cover "The Future of Touch/Enabling Technologies." Dr. Sophie Laurenson, project lead for Abbott Diagnostics, will discuss "Printed Electronics for the Diagnostics Industry," an overview of the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) industry.
Jeff Duce, design engineer, Boeing Research & Technology, will follow with "Applications, Needs, and Requirements for Printed Electronics in Aerospace." Koen van Os, senior scientist intelligent at Philips Research, will analyze "Intelligent Textiles: Bridging the Gap from Technology Development to Product Manufacturing."
Eric Penot, digital media director, JCDecaux, will cover "Digital Of-Home Industry Needs," while Dr. Juha Maijala, manager, intelligent solutions for Stora Enso, will discuss "Packages with Additional Intelligent Functionality," with an emphasis on intelligent healthcare packaging. Dr. Simon Leigh, research fellow, University of Warwick, will close the keynote talks with "3D Printed Electronics."
After lunch, PE Europe will break into four concurrent sessions.
Track 1 features talks on Stretchable and Textile Electronics, Wireless Charging Systems and Internet of Things.
Stretchable and Textile Electronics begins with Christian Dalsgaard, founder - advice & development of Ohmatex, who will cover "Harvesting and Storing Solar Energy in Fibre Form." Dalsgaard will discuss transforming dye sensitive solar cells info a continuous fibre form.
Prof. Xiaoming Tao, chair professor of textile technology at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, will then cover "Soft Fabric Strain and Pressure, Sensors and Applications,” a look at Softceptor fabric strain sensors and sensing arrays for human-machine interaction. Prof. Tao will also offer application case studies, including an intelligent footwear system for diabetes patients.
Dr. Steve Beeby of the University of Southampton will present on "Screen Printing for Energy Harvesting: From Aeronautic to Textile Applications," a look at high performance printable piezoelectric materials and devices. Dr. Thomas McKay, research fellow at Auckland Bioengineering Institute, will discuss "A Walk Towards Wearable Energy Harvesters," featuring a presentation on the dielectric elastomer, which could harvest electrical energy from human movements, thus eliminating the need to recharge batteries.
Track 1 shifts to Wireless Charging Systems, covered by Yoshihiro Nii, delegator at Nissha Europe GmbH, whose talk is on "Applying Printing Technologies to Wireless Charging Systems," a discussion of its new wireless recharging technology.
The Internet of Things has become a topic of huge interest, and Track 1 finishes with a pair of talks on the subject, beginning with Dr. Davor Sutija, CEO of Thin Film Electronics ASA, whose topic is "Printed Sensor Tags and Smart Objects." Dr. Sutija will note how the introduction of printed addressable memory catalyzed the development of fully printed sensor tags, and will discuss the opportunities and applications for sensors in the healthcare, packaging, and logistics markets.
Dr. Andrey Somov of CREATE-NET will close Track 1 with his talk, "From Reality to 'Virtuality': Printed Storage Devices for the Internet of Things."
OLEDs LIVE! is the focus of Track 2, beginning with Dr. Norman Bardsley of Bardsley Consulting, whose topic is "OLED Lighting: Feast or Famine? 3-5 Year Challenges," which will offer LED and OLED lighting forecasts for the next decade.
Prof. Takuya Komoda, research director for Panasonic, will offer his thoughts on "Recent Progress and Future Trends of OLED Technologies for Lighting Applications." Dr. Peter Kruijt, process development engineer, Philips, Business Center OLED Lighting, will follow with "The Value Chain of Inkjet Printing Conductive Inks."
Dr. Christian May, Fraunhofer COMEDD, will focus on "Organic Electronics for Photovoltaics and Lighting." Dr. Ton van Mol, program manager, TNO Holst Centre, will cover "Flexible OLED Lighting."
New OLED Material Developments is the final topic of OLEDs LIVE! Dr. Silvia Janietz, head of polymers and electronics, Fraunhofer IAP, will present on "Integration of OLEDs in Textiles," including the integration of encapsulated glass OLEDs into textiles like spacer warp knitting. Cynora GmbH CEO Dr. Tobias Grab will close OLEDs LIVE” with his talk on "Optoelectronic Solutions for OLEDs."
TRACK 3 features TCF LIVE!, a look at the latest technology developments of transparent conductive films. The first topic will be Sensor Technology Developments, starting with Laurent Jamet, ISORG co-founder and director business development, whose talk is on "When Printed Electronics Meet Design and Usages for Highly Innovative Functionalities." ISORG offers a technology which transforms plastic, paper and glass into smart and interactive surfaces.
Peratech Ltd. CTO David Lussey will offer his insights into "Quantum Tunnelling Composites (QTC) in Switches, Sensors, Controls and Touch Screens," QTCs are produced as solids, powders and inks and have unique electrical qualities which form the basis for entirely new types of switches, sensors, controls and touch screens.
Linköping University associate professor Dr Isak Engquist, will cover "Printed Wireless Humidity Sensors for Moisture Detection in Buildings," discussing a humidity sensor label that is fully printed on a flexible substrate with a R2R-patterned antenna.
Prof. Margit Harting, Dept. of Physics at Cape Town University and PST Sensors, will offer her insights on "Printed Silicon in Electronics."
The next topic for TCF LIVE! is Bi-Stable Displays, beginning with Dr. Bernd Zimmermann, process integration manager for Plastic Logic, who will discuss "Flexible, Organic Bi-Stable Displays - Technology and Applications." Plastic Logic has developed a technology based on organic electronics to create fully flexible, bi-stable plastic displays.
Dr. Kars-Michiel H Lenssen, director/principal scientist, Philips Corporate Technologies, will offer his thoughts on "Bright e-Skin and Its Applications," which enables "Zero-Energy e-Skin," demonstrated for indoor photovoltaic cells and RF power.
Dr. Juergen Rawert, director, business development, ADT GmbH, closes TCF LIVE! with his talk on "Droplet Driven Display - The GREEN ePaper Display."
Track 4 is Graphene LIVE!, a focus on the potential of graphene. That topic will be covered by Dr. Khasha Ghaffarzadeh, senior technology analyst for IDTechEx, in "Graphene: Analysis of Technology, Markets and Players," which opens the session.
Dr. Ghaffarzadeh will be followed by Dr. Andy Lawrence, senior portfolio manager for EPSRC, who will discuss "The UK Initiative in Graphene Research and Commercialisation," analyzing the research being conducted by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Technology Strategy Board (TSB).
Prof. Barbaros Oezyilmaz of the Graphene Research Centre (GRC) follows with "Graphene R&D at the Singapore Graphene Research Center: From Tissue Engineering to Touch Panels," and Jon Myers, CEO and founder of Graphene Technologies, will cover "Graphene from CO2 - Learning to Love Carbon Emissions."
After lunch, Graphene LIVE! discusses a range of topics, beginning with Supercapacitor Markets. IDTechEx chairman Dr. Peter Harrop opens the session with "Markets for Supercapacitors 2013-2023," a look at the market growth in this field. Anthony Kongats, CEO of CAP-XX Ltd., will cover "Present and Future Markets for Thin, Prismatic Supercapacitors and Supercabatteries," including the use of supercapacacitors in small portable devices for peak power applications.
The next topic will be Improving the Performance of Supercapacitors with Graphene, with Ivica Kolaric of Fraunhofer IPA discussing "Graphene and Carbon Nanotube Supercapacitors." Dr. Chunhong Lei of the University of Surrey will analyze "Electrophoretic Deposition of Unfunctionalized Graphene for Supercapacitor Applications," covering electrophoretic deposition (EPD) from the graphene dispersion for EDLCs electrodes.
University of Manchester, Dr. Shuangyin Wang of the University of Manchester will present "Porous Graphene on Carbon Cloth for Flexible Supercapacitors," and Urszula Kosidlo, Fraunhofer IPA, will discuss "Graphene-based Electrodes for Application in Supercapacitors - Insights into ElectroGraph Project."
Dr. Negar Amini, MAST Carbon International, will close Graphene LIVE! with "Phenolic Resin-based Activated Carbons for Supercapacitors,’ investigating the effect of different levels of activation on pore size and volume of the prepared carbon materials.