OSC-05 Conference programme
Conference overview



Conference programme













main sponsor:

Aixtron

sponsors:

Cambridge Display Technology

Plextronics logo

Polymer Vision logo

printed systems

media sponsor:

organic semiconductor analyst direct

exhibitors:

Kurt J Lesker

cintelliq logo

Day one: Tuesday 27 September

Time Presentation
08:30 Overview: Technology roadmapping

Craig Cruickshank, Principal Analyst, cintelliq
08:45 The LEP value chain - building and sustaining a competitive advantage
  • Evolution of the PLED supply chain
  • Advances in ink jet printing of PLED displays
  • Progress on the development of large format printers
  • The need for standardisation of material specifications and testing
  • Latest LEP material performance summary and comparison with commercial requirements
Jonathan Halls, Strategic Technology Planner, Cambridge Display Technology
09:15 Status of high efficiency OLEDs for lighting
  • OLED lighting systems
  • New developments for high efficiency devices
  • Challenges for further increase in efficiency
  • Market requirements
Dr Dietrich Bertram, Manager OLED development, Philips Lighting
09:45 The OLLA project: Europe's route towards OLED lighting
  • OLEDs for lighting applications
  • Challenges for OLED lighting industry
  • Overview and first results of the OLLA project
  • Other OLED lighting initiatives
Peter Visser, Programme Manager, OLLA Project
10:15-10:45 Break
10:45 Rollable displays based on organic transistors
  • Fabrication and characterization of a 100 micron thick active-matrix electrophoretic display
  • TFT performance - effect of dual gate
  • Display properties
  • Integration of transistors: shift registers
  • Design considerations and present status
Dr Gerwin Gelinck, Chief Technology Scientist, Polymer Vision
11:15 Printed plastic electronics
  • The Plastic Logic manufacturing process
  • Flexible displays - progress to date
  • Plastic Logic's prototype facility
  • Other developments at Plastic Logic
Catherine Ramsdale, Group Leader – Materials, Plastic Logic
11.45 Recent developments towards printed 13 MHz RFID tags
  • Applications and markets for printed electronics
  • Material and fabrication requirements for printed RFID Tags
  • Results on fast and stable integrated circuits based on polymers
  • 13 Mhz rectifier
Andreas Ullmann, Senior Scientist, PolyIC
12:15-13:30 Lunch
13:30 Fully printable RFID tags
  • Latest developments in polymer and printed electronics
  • Implications for printed chips
  • Current technical limitations
  • Future possibilties
Klaus Dimmler, CEO, OrganicID
14:00 Requirements for flexible photovoltaic products
  • Flexible PV product definition
  • Basic concepts for flex PV
  • Material & production aspects for OPV
  • Technical status and update on device performance and production progress
Dr Jens Hauch, Head of OPV Production and Packaging, Konarka
14:30 Development of organic PV modules by screen printing
  • Large-area OPV production
  • Screen printing organic materials
  • Flexible OPV modules
  • Latest results and future plans
Tom Aernouts, Senior Scientist, Polymer and Molecular Electronics, IMEC
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30 A new class of sensors: Organic photonic sensors
  • NanoIdent
  • Fundamentals of organic photonic sensors
  • Advantages of organic sensors
  • The organic photonic sensor market
Dipl.-Ing. Franz Padinger, CTO, NanoIdent Technologies
16:00 Organic transistor integrated circuits for large-area electronics
  • New circuit concepts with organic transistors
  • New applications
  • Large-area sensors: pocket scanner & e-skin
  • Inkjet printing & screen printing
Takao Someya, Assistant Professor, Quantum-Phase Electronics Centre, University of Tokyo
16:30 MHz organic semiconductor nano-devices made by single-step lithography
  • Planar nano-diodes and nano-transistors
  • One step lithography
  • High-frequency performance
  • Applications for RFID at 13.56 MHz
Dr Aimin Song, Manchester University
17:00 Large area organic electronics - from printed electronics to plastic solar cells
  • Large area, printed organic electronics for displays and information processing
  • Printed electronic/electrochemical hybrids on paper- a very slow oscillator
  • Organic photovoltaics from polymer/fullerene blends
  • Low bandgap polymer solar cells -photocurrent generation out to 1 µm
Professor Olle Inganäs, Director, Centre of Organic Electronics, Linköping University
17:30 End of presentations
18:00-18:45 Chauffeured punting on the River Cam
18:45-21:00 Drinks reception followed by gala dinner


Day two: Wednesday 28 September

Time Presentation
08:45 Overview: Patents

Craig Cruickshank, Principal Analyst, cintelliq
09:00 Developing materials for LEDs
  • Electronic peptides – a new material family
  • Synthesis by design – The LEGO concept
  • Some device properties
Professor Nir Tessler, Electrical Engineering Dept, Technion
09:30 A versatile platform technology to improve performance in organic electronic devices
  • Plexcore™ as active layer technology in organic electronic applications such as OLEDs and Organic Semiconductors
  • Impact of polymer design, formulation, morphological control and processing on device performance
  • Opportunities for new applications in printed electronics
  • Requirements for broad market commercialization
Dr Troy Hammond, GM Engineering and Product Development, Plextronics
10:00 Elamates: A turn-key solution to OLED manufacturers
  • New electron transporter which doubles the lifetime and increases the efficiency of OLEDS
  • New buffer (hole injector) which doubles the lifetime of OLEDS
  • Novel hosts for fluorescent and phosphorescent dopants
  • Novel hole transporters
Professor P Kathirgamanathan, CTO, NUKO 70
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00 Organic Semiconductors - a materials platform for applications from OPC drums to solar cells
  • OPC - where it all started
  • From OPC to OLED - history and trends
  • Evaporated and printable material classes
  • Importance of partnerships for material suppliers
Olaf Gelsen, Managing Director, Sensient Imaging Technologies
11:30 OVPD - Paving the way to full colour OLED display mass production
  • High performance OLEDs made on OVPD
  • Advanced high resolution mask technology
  • White OLED for backlighting and full colour displays
Bastian Marheineke, Head of Sales and Marketing, Aixtron
12:00 Progress in building the first in-line PLED manufacturing system
  • In-line manufacturing philosophy
  • Display roadmap
  • PLED in-line production line
  • SMOLED in-line production line
Bas van Rens, CEO, OTB Display
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00 Electronics produced by mass printing - State of the art and challenges
  • Source-Drain for an oFET
  • Technical opportunities for small channel length
  • What are the main problems printing Source-Drain
  • The all mass printed ring oscillator
Arved Hübler, CTO, printed systems
14:30 Experience with high precision X-Y inkjet systems
  • Flatbed inkjet printers: an overview
  • Technical issues in design and operation
  • Similarities and differences in requirements for printing cf. microdeposition
  • Commercial considerations
  • How can experience from printing be used to benefit microdeposition?
Bill Baxter, CEO, Inca Digital
15:00 The latest developments in substrates for flexible electronics
  • The properties of DuPont Teijin Films' polyesters that are important in flexible electronics
  • How the film property requirements differ across several applications
  • Early experiences of using polyester films in displays and other flexible circuitry
Julie Friend, Market Development Specialist, DuPont Teijin Films
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00 Barix technology: Thin film encapsulation for flexible electronics
  • Vitex technology and strategy in the Flexible Electronics market
  • Improvement of Barix multilayer barrier process towards mass manufacturing
  • Encapsulation of PM full color devices and flexible AM displays
  • Barix applications in other flexible electronics fields
Dr Lorenza Moro, Director Barix Encapsulation Processing, Vitex Systems
16:30 End of presentations