From OLEDs to steering wheels to sensors, seat belts, printed heaters, flexible and printed electronics are becoming ever more important in cars and trucks.
Sun Chemical, DuPont, Tekscan, Brewer Science and SEMI are among the presenters detailing the future of flexible and printed electronics and conductive inks.
It specializes in printing with conductive inks, including silver, copper, and carbon inks and serves the life sciences, automotive, and aerospace industries.
The SEMI Foundation partners with Foothill College, Ignited Education, and Krause Center for Innovation to develop microelectronics career training program.
Flexible hybrid electronics projects include additive packaging of RF components for hypersonic applications, wearable sensor systems for factory settings.
Fraunhofer SmartID project looks to develop a novel marking system that can determine the authenticity of products via smart devices even while offline.
Vestcom provides pricing and branded labeling solutions at the retail shelf-edge, and advances the opportunity to accelerate Intelligent Labels adoption.
The 15,700-square-foot Research and Innovation Laboratory (RAIL) will provide multipurpose lab space for energy efficiency and renewable energy research.
Such devices could eventually help computers process visual information more like the human brain and be used as sensors in things like self-driving vehicles.