Photovoltaics Europe 2009
Photovoltaics Europe 2009
April 7-8 in Dresden, Germany.
Agenda
 

Tuesday, 07 Apr 2009

 Keynote
08:15IDTechEx
08:55Ravensburger Spieleverlag
09:20Centro Ricerche Fiat
10:10Coffee & Networking Break
11:25Interactive Wear
11:50SBf Spezialleuchten Wurzen
12:15NASA - Johnson Space Center
12:40Lunch & Networking Break
 Healthcare & Bionic Man
14:30Medixine
14:55CSEM
 Transit
15:20RATP (Paris Transport)
15:55Cubic Corporation
16:20Coffee & Networking Break
 Radical New Printed Electronics Products
16:50Kovio
17:15Bundesdruckerei
17:40HdM Stuttgart and Hirschmann Car Communication
18:30Day 1 Ends
 Conformal/Fexible Displays
14:30Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
14:55Sony Corporation
15:20Texas Instruments Deutschland
15:55QD Vision
16:20Coffee & Networking Break
 Smart Substrates & Stretchable Electronics
16:50Smartex
17:15TNO Science and Industry
 Sensors & Actuators
17:40NanoTecCenter Weiz Forschungsgesellschaft
18:05Future-Shape
18:30Day 1 Ends
 Photovoltaics
14:30Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
 Organic Photovoltaics
15:20Konarka Austria R&D
15:55Fraunhofer ISE
16:20Coffee & Networking Break
16:50Heliatek
17:15University of Potsdam
18:05IAPP - TU Dresden
18:30Day 1 Ends

Wednesday, 08 Apr 2009

 E-readers
08:30Prime View International
08:55Bridgestone Corporation
 Thin Film Transistor Circuits
09:45Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia
10:10Coffee & Networking Break
 Roll-to-Roll Fabrication Challenges/Opportunities
11:25SWG - S臘hsische Walzengravur
 Conductive Materials
11:50Applied Nanotech
12:40Lunch & Networking Break
 Stretchable Electronics and Smart Textiles
08:30Daimler
08:55Embedded Systems Lab of University Passau
09:20Sefar - Filtration Solutions
09:45Philips Applied Technologies
10:10Coffee & Networking Break
11:00TEXSYS
11:25Fraunhofer FIT
 Thin/Flexible Printed Batteries
11:50UCLA
 Energy Harvesting
12:15University of Southampton
12:40Lunch & Networking Break
 Thin Film Inorganic Photovoltaics - CIGS & CDTe
08:30W・th Solar
08:55EMPA
 DSSC
09:20Universitat Jaume I
09:45Helsinki University of Technology
10:10Coffee & Networking Break
 Solar Textiles
11:00University of Michigan
11:25Power Textiles
11:50TITK Institute
 Photovoltaic Materials
12:15DuPont (UK)
12:40Coffee & Networking Break
 Organic & Inorganic Semiconductors, Dielectrics
14:15HTWK Leipzig
 Meta Materials
15:55Coffee & Networking Break
 RFID
14:15IDTechEx
14:40Schenker Deutschland
KSW Microtec
memsfab
15:05PolyIC
15:30PriMeBits
15:55Day 2 Ends
 Photovoltaics Manufacture
14:15imaging Technology international
14:40Ris・National Laboratory
 Barrier Materials
15:05ITRI
15:30Alcan Packaging
15:55Coffee & Networking Break
16:30IDTechEx
16:55Day 2 Ends
 
 
 

Tuesday April 07, 2009

Keynote (08:15 - 12:40)

IDTechEx, United Kingdom, Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman
08:15 - 08:30 "Printed Electronics - Hot Applications and Market Sizes 2009-2019"
  • The new products
  • Industry State-of-play
  • 2009-2019 forecasts revealed
 
Ravensburger Spieleverlag, Germany, Mr Clemens Tuerck, Chief Electronic Game Developer
08:55 - 09:20 "Past, Future and Requirements of Printed Electronics in the Games Sector"
  • Past experiences of combining paper board games with electronic components
  • Future plans of Ravensburger regarding electronics in games
  • Requirements for Printed Electronics in Games
 
Centro Ricerche Fiat, Italy, Prof Pietro Perlo, Director, Technology Division
09:20 - 09:45 "What Fiat needs from Photovoltiacs"
 
 
Interactive Wear, Germany, Dr Markus Strecker, CTO
11:25 - 11:50 "Wearable Electronics - Applications, Trends and Opportunities for Printed Electronics"
 
 
SBf Spezialleuchten Wurzen, Germany, Dietmar Czekay,
11:50 - 12:15 "Requirements for Organic LED Lighting in Train Applications"
Organic LEDs do have some nice features. They are the first areal light source.
But they're worthless without an application. For the use in trains, the OLED technology has to fulfill a number of standards.
Is is that far developed?
 
NASA - Johnson Space Center, United States, Dr John Bacon, Systems Integration Engineer
12:15 - 12:40 "Printed Electronics at NASA"
  • What the World's largest space agency needs from printed electronics
  • Photovoltaics, Displays and Logic - our current progress with the new electronics
 

Healthcare & Bionic Man (14:30 - 14:55)

Medixine, Finland, Ms Jana Nyr駭,
14:30 - 14:55 "Preventive eCare using Printed Electronics, RFID and Communication Software"
  • Data acquisition and transfer
  • Application examples
  • Merging data to PHR (Personal Health Record)
  • Alerts, reminders and support
 
CSEM, Switzerland, Mr Jens Arnulf Krauss, Section Head Control and Signal Processing
14:55 - 15:20 "Wearable Optoelectronic Life Sign Monitors"
  • Wearable, non-intrusive opto-electronic sensing elements to monitor continuously the user's heart rate (HR) and blood oxygenation (SpO2).
  • Multi-channel (such as redundant emitters and receivers) and multi-sensor (such as auxiliary MEMS) approach to compensate artefacts due to body motion, ambient light and body contact.
  • Development and integration roadmap towards a wearable and continuous health status monitor.
 

Transit (15:20 - 16:20)

RATP (Paris Transport), France, Mr Michel Barjansky, Head of Marketing, RATP IT Dept
15:20 - 15:55 "Rail Ticketing in Paris - What we need from printed electronics"
 
 
Cubic Corporation, United States, Mr Walt Bonneau, Executive SVP / Chief Technologist
15:55 - 16:20 "Securing Public Infrastructure with Organic and Printed Sensors"
  • Security systems are in need of organic and printed sensor solutions
  • The state of technology and the challenges of applying nano-sensors within large security environments
  • Organic and printed electronic solutions in consideration
 

Radical New Printed Electronics Products (16:50 - 18:30)

Kovio, United States, Mr Amir Mashkoori, CEO
16:50 - 17:15 "A New Semiconductor Technology Paradigm - Printed RFID is now a Reality"
  • Turning vision into reality
  • From world's first all-printed silicon transistors (2007) to world's first silicon ink based RF tags (2008) to first applications (2009)
  • Partnering for success
 
Bundesdruckerei, Germany, Jg Fischer, Principal scientist
17:15 - 17:40 "Prospects and Challenges for ID Documents with Integrated Displays"
  • Flexible electronics and device requirements for secure ID systems
  • Technology description and security concept with e-paper and OLED displays
  • Application scenarios and roadmap
 
HdM Stuttgart and Hirschmann Car Communication, Germany, Ingmar Petersen,
17:40 - 18:05 "Integration of Screen-Printed Antennas in Plastic Body Parts"
  • Screen printing
  • Antenna
  • Antenna integration
 

Conformal/Fexible Displays (14:30 - 16:20)

Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea, Dr Bonwon Koo, Research Staff, Display Laboratory
14:30 - 14:55 "Latest Progress from one of The World's Largest Display Companies"
 
 
Sony Corporation, Japan, Mr Noriyuki Kawashima, Fusion Domain Laboratory - Materials Laboratory
14:55 - 15:20 "Printed Electronics at Sony"
 
 
Texas Instruments Deutschland, Germany, Mr Oliver Nachbaur, System Engineer Portable Power
15:20 - 15:55 "OLED, Flexible OLED, Flexible Batteries - Technologies and Power Supply/Charge/Discharge Requirements"
  • OLED and Flexible OLED Technology and Power Supply Requirements
  • Flexible Batteries - Technology and Charge/Discharge Requirements
 
QD Vision, United States, Seth Coe-Sullivan, Chief Technical Officer
15:55 - 16:20 ""
 
 

Smart Substrates & Stretchable Electronics (16:50 - 17:15)

Smartex, Italy, Ms Rita Paradiso, Scientific Director
16:50 - 17:15 "E-textile: essential instrumental functions (power supply, sensor, actuator, processor) implemented onto fabric substrates"
 
 
TNO Science and Industry, Netherlands, Mr Anton Kaasjager, Project Leader
17:15 - 17:40 "Printing Conductive Structures on Textiles and Membranes"
  • Pretreatment of the substrates in order to prepare it for metallization
  • New techniques to make selective metallization possible
  • Application of a variety of electroless techniques on a wide range of substrates
 

Sensors & Actuators (17:40 - 18:30)

NanoTecCenter Weiz Forschungsgesellschaft, Austria, Prof Emil List, Scientific Director
17:40 - 18:05 "Novel Concpts for Organic and Inorganic (Printed) Sensor Devices"
In this contribution we report on the design, realisation and characterization of novel active partly printed gas sensor and IR detectors. In particular we will present
  • a novel concept of an integrated optical oxygen probe, which is realised using a OLED device
  • a novel concept of a sub ppm ammoniac detector by means of a printed conducting polymer resistor
  • a novel concept of a printed IR detector utilising different inorganic nanoparticles.
 
Future-Shape, Germany, Ms Christl Lauterbach, CEO
18:05 - 18:30 "SensFloor(R) - A Large-area Sensor System Based On Printed Textiles"
  • Printed smart textiles
  • Textile sensor structures
  • SensFloor(R) applications
 

Photovoltaics (14:30 - 14:55)

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland, Prof Michael Graetzel, Professor of Chemistry, Inst of Physical Chemistry
14:30 - 14:55 "Power from the Sun: The Advent of Mesoscopic Solar Cells"
 
 

Organic Photovoltaics (15:20 - 18:30)

Konarka Austria R&D, Austria, Dr Christoph J Brabec, CTO
15:20 - 15:55 "Organic Photovoltaics - A Low Cost, Scalable Technology"
  • State of the art performance and future roadmap of OPV
  • Production technologies for OPV - what does it take to scale up
  • First applications and markets
 
Fraunhofer ISE, Germany, Dr Michael Niggemann, Dye & Organic Solar Cells, Dept Materials Research
15:55 - 16:20 "Flexible ITO-free organic Solar Cell Modules"
  • Upscaling of the production technology
  • Investigations on the longterm stability
  • Applications for small flexible organic solar cell modules
 
Heliatek, Germany, Dr Martin Pfeiffer, Chief Technology Officer
16:50 - 17:15 "Organic Based Photovoltaics"
 
 
University of Potsdam, Germany, Prof Dieter Neher, Professor
17:15 - 17:40 "Photovoltaic Performance of Polymer-Based Solar Cells with Non-Fullerene Acceptors"
  • Processes determining the efficiency of polymer-based solar cells
  • Tuning nanomorphology in polymer-polymer blend devices
  • Acceptors for polymer-based solar cells with high open circuit voltage and high fill factor
 
IAPP - TU Dresden, Germany, Dr Moritz Riede, Institute for Applied Photo Physics - IAPP
18:05 - 18:30 "Photovoltaic Research at the Institute of Photophysics at Dresden University"
 
 
 

Wednesday April 08, 2009

E-readers (08:30 - 08:55)

Prime View International, United Kingdom, Ian French, Principal Scientist
08:30 - 08:55 "Progress from Glass to Flexible e-Books"
  • 1st Gen glass e-Boooks are recognised for being pleasant to read and easy to use
  • 2nd Gen e-Books will be thinner, lighter and more robust due to the use of flexible displays
  • Our flexible displays use most of the same equipment and processes as glass displays, so we have a largely proven technology with reduced start-up costs
 
Bridgestone Corporation, Japan, Mr Yoshitomo Masuda,
08:55 - 09:20 "Electronic Paper QR-LPD by using Electronic Liquid Powder"
  • Electronic Paper
  • Flexible Display
  • Printed Color Filter
 

Thin Film Transistor Circuits (09:20 - 10:10)

Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal, Prof Elvira Fortunato, Professor
09:45 - 10:10 "Paper Transistors"
 
 

Roll-to-Roll Fabrication Challenges/Opportunities (11:00 - 11:25)

Optrex Europe GmbH, Germany, Dr Juergen Wahl, Director
"Printing for OLED and LC Display Manufacturing"
 
 
SWG - S臘hsische Walzengravur, Germany, Dr Lutz Engisch,
11:25 - 11:50 "New Area of Printing Forms - potentials, challenges, applications."
  • Challenges / problems for printing forms and makers in the new century.
  • Laser application - a versatile tool for print form makers.
  • New generation of printing forms.
  • Where? What? Why?: The need of characterization.
 

Conductive Materials (11:50 - 12:40)

Applied Nanotech, United States, Dr Zvi Yaniv, President/CEO
11:50 - 12:15 "Inkjettable Copper Nanoparticles Ink Breakthrough: a stab to replacing silver ink"
  • Stable dispersions
  • Piezo-electric and aerosole jetting capability
  • No need of inert atmosphere and processing temperatures under 100 degrees C
  • Obtained 30 micrometer wide traces with resistivities as low as 3 x 10(-6) ohm-cm
 

Organic & Inorganic Semiconductors, Dielectrics (14:15 - 14:40)

HTWK Leipzig, Germany, Prof Ulrike Herzau-Gerhardt,
14:15 - 14:40 ""
 
 

Meta Materials (15:05 - 15:55)

Stretchable Electronics and Smart Textiles (08:30 - 12:25)

Daimler, Germany, Mr Manfred Wagner, Research&Technology-PowerTrain & Cabin Electronics
08:30 - 08:55 "Application of Smart Textile Technology in Automotive Industry"
 
 
Embedded Systems Lab of University Passau, Germany, Prof Paul Lukowicz, Professor
08:55 - 09:20 "Wearable Electronics and Applications"
 
 
Sefar - Filtration Solutions, Switzerland, Dr Ivo Locher, Team Leader New Business Development
09:20 - 09:45 "Current Approaches to Bridge the Gap Between Electronics and Fabrics"
  • Fabrics as substrate for electrical circuits
  • Insight into heating fabrics
  • Pitfalls to market a smart fabric product
 
Philips Applied Technologies, Netherlands, Mr Giuseppe Coppola, Senior Director Business Development
09:45 - 10:10 "Smart Wearable Systems: Trends and Challenges"
  • Definition of Smart Wearable Systems and related main applications/trends
  • Challenges to be solved for the related timely introduction in the market
  • Related proof-points and activities carried out in Philips Applied Technologies
 
TEXSYS, Germany, Dr Hans-Walter Praas, Managing Director
11:00 - 11:25 "Wearable Electronic Solutions - mystic, challenging or reality explained at the first telecommunication glove G-cell and power heating"
  • Technical requirements on PCB, FPC and assembly for wearable applications
  • Electronic design and reliability studies for embedded glove and power heating solutions
  • Technology and product roadmap 2010/11
 
Fraunhofer FIT, Germany, Markus Klann,
11:25 - 11:50 "Printed Electronics; Weird Stuff: How people might come to use, hate, break, or love it"
  • How people relate to new technologies such as printed electronics
  • The case of designing new technologies for firefighters
  • Some considerations on creating technology that people use happily
 

Thin/Flexible Printed Batteries (11:25 - 11:50)

UCLA, United States, Prof George Gruner, Distinguished Professor, Dept Physics & Astronomy
11:50 - 12:15 "Printable Flexible Batteries using Nanotube Ink"
 
 

Energy Harvesting (11:50 - 12:40)

University of Southampton, United Kingdom, Dr Steve Beeby, Sr Research Fellow
12:15 - 12:40 "Printed piezo-electric energy harvesters"
 
 

RFID (14:15 - 15:55)

IDTechEx, Inc., United States, Mr Raghu Das, CEO
14:15 - 14:40 "RFID, the State of the Industry"
  • Progress with conventional RFID by vertical sector - the successes and failures
  • Numbers and values of tags sold to date and forecast
  • Requirements for printed RFID
  • Challenges for printed RFID to penetrate markets
  • End user views and acceptance of printed RFID
 
Schenker Deutschland, Germany, Mr Kai Herbst, Office Manager
KSW Microtec, Germany, Dr Frank Kriebel, VP R&D
memsfab, Germany, Dr Torsten Thieme, Managing Director
14:40 - 15:05 "An Innovative Combination of SMART RFID and MEMS Sensor - A Leading edge product for transport monitoring in the logistic"
Joint presentation: Schenker, KSW Microtec & memsfab
 
  • Transport monitoring
  • Combinations RFID and mems
  • Roll-to-Roll procedure
 
PolyIC, Germany, Dr Wolfgang Clemens, Head of Applications
15:05 - 15:30 "Printed RFID and more for New Applications"
  • Electronic ticketing with PolyID
  • Printed smart objects with PolyLogo
  • Status and roadmap for applications
 
PriMeBits, Finland, Dr Ari Alastalo, Senior Research Scientist, Team Leader Nanosensors
15:30 - 15:55 "PriMeBits EU FP7 Project on Printed Memories"
  • Printable memory solutions for sensor, ID, and media applications
  • Motivation and objectives of the project
  • Targeted application areas
  • Technical approaches taken
 

Thin Film Inorganic Photovoltaics - CIGS & CDTe (08:30 - 08:55)

W・th Solar, Germany, Mr Bernhard Dimmler, Board Member
08:30 - 08:55 "Thin films in PV already penetrating the market, status and perspectives and in detail the CIS technology"
Keywords:
  • What is thin film CIS, CdTe and a-Si
  • penetration of the PV market by thin films
  • status and perspectives and potentials
  • CIS technology of Wurth Solar
 
EMPA, Switzerland, Prof Ayodhya N Tiwari, Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics
08:55 - 09:20 "High Efficiency Flexible Solar Cells Based on CIGS and CdTe Thin Films"
  • Current status of flexible CIGS and CdTe technology
  • Challenges of monolithic interconnection
  • Advantages of high efficiency and roll-to-roll manufacturing
  • Manufacturing challenges
  • Future prospects
 

DSSC (09:20 - 10:10)

Universitat Jaume I, Spain, Ivan Mora Sero,
09:20 - 09:45 "Pushing up the Performance of Colloidal Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells"
  • Sensitized solar cells
  • Quantum dots
  • Cadmium Selenide
 
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, Mr Janne Halme, Research Associate
09:45 - 10:10 "Performance Limiting Factors in Flexible Dye Solar Cells"
  • How to understand and predict them by simple device modeling
  • How to measure them with impedance and light modulation techniques
  • How to minimize them though better materials and device architecture
 

Solar Textiles (11:00 - 11:50)

University of Michigan, United States, Dr Max Shtein, Asst Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
11:00 - 11:25 "Solar textile research update"
 
 
Power Textiles, United Kingdom, Prof John Wilson, Co-Director
11:25 - 11:50 "Development of Flexible Solar Cells on Textiles"
  • Solar cells on textiles: structure and challenges;
  • Microwave plasma enhanced CVD of silicon;
  • Characterisation of Si films and devices on polyester
 
TITK Institute, Germany, Dr Steffi Sensfu゚, Dept of Functional Polymer Systems
11:50 - 12:15 "Comparison of Thienopyrazine-based Low-Bandgap Polyphenylene Vinylenes with MDMO-PPV under the Viewpoint of Polymer Solar Cell Applications"
 
 

Photovoltaic Materials (12:15 - 12:40)

12:15 - 12:40 "Advanced Screen-Printable Thin-Film PV Front-Side Silver Conductor Compositions"
 
 

Photovoltaics Manufacture (14:15 - 14:40)

imaging Technology international, United Kingdom, Ms Debbie Thorp, VP EMEA Operations
14:15 - 14:40 "Inkjet as a Digital Fabrication Process for Photovoltaics Applications"
  • Inkjet process development
  • Implementing inkjet for printed electronics - application examples
  • Digital fabrication equipment for printed electronics using inkjet technology
 
Ris・National Laboratory, Denmark, Dr Frederik Krebs, Senior Scientist, Manager Solar Cell Research
14:40 - 15:05 "Roll to Roll coating for photovoltaics"
 
 

Barrier Materials (15:05 - 16:55)

ITRI, Taiwan, Dr Robert Lo, Senior Researcher
15:05 - 15:30 "Breakthroughs in Barrier Materials for Flexible Electronics"
  • ITRI's work on flexible barriers
  • Performance, cost
 
Alcan Packaging, Germany, Mr Bertrand Jannon, Marketing and Business Development Manager
15:30 - 15:55 "Barrier Materials for Printed Electronics"
 
 
IDTechEx, United Kingdom, Dr Harry Zervos, Technology Analyst
16:30 - 16:55 "Needs and Requirements for Barrier Layers for Flexible Electronics - The Big Opportunity"
  • Needs by device type
  • Comaprisons of existing solutions
  • What is still needed
 

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