Market Research Report

Conference Agenda

Wednesday, 30 Sep 2009

 Radical New Printed Electronics Products
09:00IDTechEx
09:25T-INK
 Printed Electronics in Healthcare
09:50Imperial College London
10:15Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
10:40Coffee & Networking Break
 Transistors
11:25Cambridge University
11:50Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia
12:15Tokyo Institute of Technology
12:40Lunch
14:00Sony
14:25Toppan Printing
14:50Dai Nippon Printing
15:15Coffee & Networking Break
 E-Readers
16:00Bridgestone Corporation
 Graphene & Carbon Nanotubes
16:25Fujitsu Laboratories
16:50NEC
17:15Vorbeck Materials
17:40Day 1 Ends

Thursday, 01 Oct 2009

 Flexible Displays & Lighting
09:00Liquavista
09:25University of Tokyo
09:50Kodak Japan
10:15Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
10:40Coffee & Networking Break
 Memory
11:20Thin Film Electronics
 Processing
11:45Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
12:10Nottingham Trent University
12:35Nano ePrint Ltd
13:00Lunch
 Transparent Electronics
14:25Agfa Materials
14:50H.C. Starck Clevios
 Conductive Inks
15:15Hitachi Chemical
15:40Coffee & Networking Break
 RFID
16:10Mighty Card Corporation
16:35Sunchon National University
17:00Day 2 Track 1 Ends
 Photovoltaics
09:00IDTechEx
09:25centrotherm photovoltaics
09:50Solarmer Energy
10:15imaging Technology international (iTi)
10:40Coffee & Networking Break
11:20PixDro
11:45Fluxim
12:10University of Manchester
12:35University of Surrey
13:00Lunch
14:25Trident Industrial Inkjet
 Energy Harvesting & Storage
14:50CSIRO
 Barrier Layers
15:15Vitex Systems
15:40Coffee & Networking Break
16:10Alcan Packaging Singen
16:35A*Star / Nanyang Technological University
17:00Day 2 Track 2 Ends
 
 
 

Wednesday September 30, 2009

Radical New Printed Electronics Products (09:00 - 09:25)

IDTechEx, Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman
09:00 - 09:25 "The Market for Printed Electronics 2009-2019"
  • Major advances in the last year
  • Major technical advances expected in the next 10 years
  • Rollout of new market sectors
  • Market size 2009-2019
 

Printed Electronics in Healthcare (09:25 - 10:15)

Imperial College London, Dr John De Mello, Senior Lecturer
09:25 - 09:50 "Medical Diagnostics using Printed Lighting and Photo-Detectors"
 
 
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Dr Tina Ng, Research Scientist
09:50 - 10:15 "Flexible Printed Sensor Tape for Diagnostics of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury"
  • The sensor tape will integrate pressure and acceleration sensors, signal-processing electronics, non-volatile memory, and a thin film battery.
  • For low-cost disposable tapes, we are targeting fabrication techniques such as inkjet printing, laser machining and lamination that are compatible with roll-to-roll manufacturing.
  • This talk will discuss the progress in organic materials performance and electronics stability to meet the requirements of this sensor application.
 

Transistors (10:15 - 14:50)

Cambridge University, Dr Flora Li, Research Associate
10:15 - 10:40 "Fabrication and Stability Characterisation of Thin Film Transistors Based on Indium Zinc Oxide Deposited at Low Temperature"
  • The deposition of metal oxides (e.g., indium zinc oxide, zinc oxide, hafnium oxide, aluminium oxide) using a high rate sputtering technology will be described.
  • Thin film transistors fabricated using amorphous indium zinc oxide as the channel layer will be shown to have a field effect mobility of 10 cm2 V-1 s 1, which is an order of magnitude better than amorphous silicon technology.
  • The results of stressing metal oxide thin film transistors will be presented to allow assessment of stability.
 
Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Prof Elvira Fortunato, Professor
11:25 - 11:50 "From e-paper to paper-e"
 
 
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr Hideo Hosono, Professor
11:50 - 12:15 "Development of Inorganic Thin Film Transistors"
 
 
Sony, Mr Toshio Fukuda,
12:15 - 12:40 "Ink Formulation and Printing Technique for OTFTs"
 
 
Toppan Printing, Mr Toru Okubo, Research Leader
14:00 - 14:25 "Development of Printed Organic Thin Film Transistors"
  • Printing techniques for organic TFTs
  • Challenges to organic TFTs with high performance and reliability
  • Printed organic TFT backplane for electrophoretic displays
 
Dai Nippon Printing, Dr Hiroki Maeda, Director
14:25 - 14:50 "Flexible Electronics by Printed Circuits"
  • Printed Electronics in DNP
  • Flexible TFTs for printed electronics
  • Flexible displays with Flexible TFTs
 

E-Readers (14:50 - 16:00)

Bridgestone Corporation, Mr Yoshitomo Masuda, Electronic Displays Manager
14:50 - 15:15 "Electronic Paper QR-LPD using printed technology"
  • Electronic Paper
  • Flexible Display
  • Printed Color Filter
 

Graphene & Carbon Nanotubes (16:25 - 17:40)

Fujitsu Laboratories, Dr Shintaro Sato, Senior Researcher
16:00 - 16:25 "Self-Organization of Novel Carbon Composite Structure: Graphene Multi-Layers Combined Perpendicularly with Aligned Carbon Nanotubes"
  • Successful synthesis of a new nano-scale carbon composite consisting of graphene and vertically aligned carbon nanotubes
  • Detailed structure and formation mechanism of the new nano-scale carbon composite
  • Applications of the new composite structure
 
NEC, Hiroyuki Endo,
16:25 - 16:50 "Print Fabrication of CNT Transistors on Plastic Films"
  • RF Operation of CNT Transistors
  • All-Printed CNT Transistors on plastic films
  • Switching Issues of CNT Transistors
 
Vorbeck Materials, Mr John M Crain, VP, Strategy & Business Development
16:50 - 17:15 "Opportunities for Graphene in Printed Electronics"
 
 
 

Thursday October 01, 2009

Flexible Displays & Lighting (09:00 - 11:20)

Liquavista, Mr Anthony Slack, VP Business Development
09:00 - 09:25 "Development of Electrowetting-Based Flexible e-Readers"
  • High brightness video electrowetting technology
  • Liquavista's eReader vision
  • Liquavista electrowetting technology on plastic substrates
 
University of Tokyo, Dr Tsuyoshi Sekitani, Assistant Professor
09:25 - 09:50 "Large-Area Stretchable Active-Matrix Organic EL Displays"
  • Printable elastic conductors
  • Organic transistor active matrix
  • Organic EL display
 
Kodak Japan, Mr Takatoshi Tsujimura, Senior Director
09:50 - 10:15 ""Scalable" White AMOLED Technology for Large TV Application"
  • OLED Technology Selection according to yield simulation
  • Secured manufacturing by the combination of "Scalable" approach
  • Proof of "Scalable" technology
 
Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Myung-Kwan Ryu, R&D Staff Member
10:15 - 10:40 "AMOLED Driven by Solution processed Oxide Semiconductor TFT"
 
 

Memory (11:20 - 11:45)

Thin Film Electronics, Dr Nicklas Johansson, Sales and Marketing
11:20 - 11:45 "Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Non-Volatile Printed Memories - A joint Thinfilm InkTec collaboration"
  • Why printed memories?
  • Thin film memory technology
  • R2R printing
  • Applications
  • Summary
 

Processing (11:45 - 13:00)

Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Mr Mutsumi Yasutake, General Manager
11:45 - 12:10 "Slot Die Coating Improvement"
  • The advantage of slot die coater used tugsten carbide lip
  • Gap adjustment by numerical control
  • Efficient cavity design by Fluid analysis
 
Nottingham Trent University, Prof Wayne Cranton
12:10 - 12:35 "Laser Processing of Inorganic Thin Films for Printed and Flexible Electronic Devices"
  • Summary of laser processing techniques used for low temperature modification of printed and deposited thin films
  • Use of excimer laser processing to enhance the conductivity of printed transparent oxides
  • Thin film enhancement for flexible electroluminescent displays.
 
Nano ePrint Ltd, Mr Scott White, CEO
12:35 - 13:00 "High Density Printed Electronics"
  • The problem with "large area"
  • Benefits of dense logic
  • Planar nano-transistors: density from simplicity
 

Transparent Electronics (14:25 - 15:15)

Agfa Materials, Mr Frank Louwet, Business Manager
14:25 - 14:50 "Orgacon(TM), the High Conducting and Stable PEDOT Electrode for Printable Electronics"
  • Improvements in the "basics"
  • New inks for high brightness AC EL
  • ORGACON developments in OLED light
 
H.C. Starck Clevios, Dr Stephan Kirchmeyer, Head of Production and Technology
14:50 - 15:15 "Materials for Organic Electronics Conductors and Semiconductors Designed for Wet Processing"
  • PEDOT is ready to replace indium tin oxide: high conductive PEDOT-grade with 1000 S/cm is commercially available
  • Progress on printing: Inks for fine line silk screen printing and ink jet
  • Learning from nature: Self assembled semiconductor monolayers from oligothiophenes
 

Conductive Inks (15:15 - 16:10)

Hitachi Chemical, Mr Yasushi Kumashiro, Senior Researcher
15:15 - 15:40 "Materials for Printed and Ambient Electronics Device"
  • Hitachi Chemical's business categories
  • Materials for the ink-jet fabrication
  • Other related materials
 

RFID (16:10 - 17:00)

Mighty Card Corporation, Mr Tadahiko Hirano, Director
16:10 - 16:35 "RFID Technology and its Applications"
  • What is RFID technology?
  • The various Applications of RFID Technology
  • The Development of RFID Technology
 
Sunchon National University, Prof Gyou-Jin Cho, PROFESSOR
16:35 - 17:00 "Roll-to-Roll Printed RFID Tags"
 
 

Photovoltaics (09:00 - 14:50)

IDTechEx, Dr Harry Zervos, Technology Analyst
09:00 - 09:25 "Organic Photovoltaics & DSSCs: Overview of recent developments & Forecasts"
  • Bulk Heterojunctions, Titania networks and dyes
  • Advances/ Challenges
  • Leading companies
  • Organic photovoltaics and DSSCs 2009-2019
 
centrotherm photovoltaics, Dr Georg Ritter, Technical Sales Thin Film Division
09:25 - 09:50 "Turn-Key-Production Line from centrotherm photovoltaics AG for High Efficient and Low-Cost CIGS Thin Film Modules"
  • CIGS technology from centrotherm
  • CIGS turn-key production lines offered by centrotherm
  • Roadmap of conversion efficiencies and production cost for CIGS-modules
 
Solarmer Energy, Dr Gang Li, Senior Research Fellow
09:50 - 10:15 "Printing Plastic Solar Cells"
  • Plastic solar cell material challenge
  • Recent progress on material development: towards 7% OPV
  • Scale up and printing of plastic solar cell
 
imaging Technology international (iTi), Mr Toshifumi Komatsu, VP/General Manager Japan
10:15 - 10:40 "Inkjet as a Digital Fabrication Process for Photovoltaic Applications"
  • Wide variety of functional materials and substrates
  • Additive Process
  • Non-contact deposition technology
 
PixDro, Mr Peter Diepens, COO
11:20 - 11:45 "Inkjet Printing in Industrial Solar Cell Production"
  • From research to production
  • Core technology
  • Advanced Research Tools
  • (Solar cell) applications
  • Scaling IJ printing into production (ELEMENTS.IJP concept)
 
Fluxim, Dr Daniele Rezzonico, Manager
11:45 - 12:10 "Design of Multilayer Solar Cells and Light-Emitting Devices"
  • Optical modeling of arbitrary coherent/incoherent layer systems
  • Device performance tuning with parameter optimization and fitting algorithms
  • Transient and steady-state simulation of charge transport in organic solar cells
 
University of Manchester, Prof Mike Turner, Academic
12:10 - 12:35 "Printing and Polymers for Solar Cells"
 
 
University of Surrey, Dr Maxim Shkunov, Lecturer
12:35 - 13:00 "Developments in Organic Photovoltaics"
  • Organic solar cells and device challenges
  • Carbon-based nanomaterials for OPVs
  • Modification of interfaces
 
Trident Industrial Inkjet, Mr Steve Liker, Business Development Manager
14:25 - 14:50 "Overcoming Photovoltaic Fabrication Challenges through Scalable, Inert, Piezo Ink Jet Technology"
  • Manufacturing Challenges
  • Jetting Etchants and Resists
  • Jetting Conductive Silver Contacts
 

Energy Harvesting & Storage (14:50 - 15:15)

CSIRO, Dr Matthias Hilder, Research Scientist
14:50 - 15:15 "Printed Electronics: Thin film Batteries and pH Sensors"
  • Market opportunities for electroactive materials
  • CSIRO's printed flexible, thin-film battery
  • challenge to monitor the quality of foods packaged in sealed boxes
  • security and solar cell applications
 

Barrier Layers (15:15 - 17:00)

Vitex Systems, Mr Chyi-Shan Suen,
15:15 - 16:10 "Barix Multilayer Barrier for Protection of Environment Sensitive Devices"
  • What Barix multilayer is and how it works
  • Barix application in OLED
  • Barix application in thin film photovoltaic
 
Alcan Packaging Singen, Mr Bertrand Jannon, Marketing and Business Development Manager
16:10 - 16:35 "Barrier Solutions and Printed Electrodes for Flexible Electronics"
  • industrial scale high barrier film based on packaging technology
  • printing technology for transparent conductive films
 
A*Star / Nanyang Technological University, Prof Beng Ong, Professor
16:35 - 17:00 ""