Conference Agenda
Wednesday, 30 Sep 2009
| Thursday, 01 Oct 2009
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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 ""



