Printed electronics is a term used to encompass printed and potentially printed electronics and electrics. Indeed, with these new technologies, electronics and electrics are merging, an example being the planned window that gathers energy from the sun and can be switched to become a light or a cinema screen. The devices involved constitute a market of around $1.5 billion today that will grow exponentially to about $300 billion in twenty years. It will stretch the virtuosity of the chemical industry and create a market for over $25 billion of premium priced, specialty chemicals by 2018 and approaching $200 billion in 2028.

Huge growth of Printed Electronics Asia conference

Printed Electronics Asia is the leading conference on printed electronics in the region. It is set to double in size when it is staged on October 8-9 in Tokyo. Analyst IDTechEx, which owns the conference, has a unique ability to attract speakers and organise visits to local centers of excellence that are not generally available. The leading company in the world that is printing Dye Sensitised Solar Cells (DSSC) reel to reel is the secretive G24 Innovations of the UK and Professor Shozo Yanagida of G24i has now agreed to present at the conference. There will be Masterclasses led by global experts and visits to Toppan Printing, Toppan Forms, Sony, the University of Tokyo and Dai Nippon Printing. The latest manufacturing technologies from across the world will be on display in the exhibition and presented in the lectures. The stand of OTB Engineering/ Pixdro of the Netherlands is one example.

Materials breakthroughs

Materials companies are heavily involved in this subject and, unusually, they are represented this year by lecturers from Asahi Kasei Chemicals and Hitachi Chemicals. From the USA, we shall hear DuPont, Kodak, E-ink and the less known Frontier Carbon Corporation which develops fullerene for printed photovoltaics. The German chemical companies BASF, HC Starck and Merck will also present. Indeed, the famous Professor Iain McCulloch of Imperial College London UK will speak. He has recently won awards for his record breaking printable organic semiconductors.

Device breakthroughs

Important new technical aspects will be covered such as invisible electronics and Kovio’s breakthrough in nanosilicon printed transistors in Silicon Valley USA. Although these transistors can meet the world’s most popular RFID specification ISO 14443, the technology will also be important in photovoltaics. Hewlett Packard will reveal how it is printing electronics by self-aligned nanolithography in the USA. We shall hear Gifu University, Toppan Printing, the University of Cambridge in the UK and others that are working on the hot topic of zinc oxide semiconductors that greatly outperform organics. Nano-ePrint of the UK will describe its single layer printed transistors that can outperform silicon chips. Organic and inorganic versions are available. The leading European company printing memory – Thin Film Electronics AB of Sweden – will describe how it is now approaching commercialisation with partner Solvay, the chemical giant in Belgium. It prints ferroelectric organic materials.

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