Call for Papers - Plastic Electronics 2011 Conference & Exhibition, 11 - 13 October 2011

First announcement Call for Papers Deadline July 15, 2011

Dear Colleagues,

The Plastic Electronics 2011 Conference & Exhibition will be organized for the 7th consecutive year and will take place in Dresden, Germany, from October 11 to October 13, 2011. The event will be co-located with the Semicon Europa Exhibition & Conference at the Messe Dresden`s exhibition venue.

The Plastic Electronics Conference & Exhibition brings together worldwide expertise with leading global research scientists and top-class industry partners. The program will include an opening plenary forum with a panel including high level representatives from IAPP, STM, IMEC, and BASF to mention just a few. The program includes speakers from Princeton University, Philips Lighting, Merck, Cambridge University and Tokyo University – to mention just a few! Additionally, there will be more than 100 further lectures from prominent experts recognized for their outstanding achievements in this field.

The Plastic Electronics Exhibition will be co-located to the SEMICON Europe exhibition for the second year in a row and we expect up to 10,000 visitors. Therefore this exhibition will become the World’s largest showroom for organic electronics and will combine the silicon semiconductor industry with the newest developments of plastic electronics. Join this excellent opportunity for both, visitors and exhibitors!

Call for Papers: Deadline July 15, 2011
Please use the online abstract submission form

You are invited to submit an abstract of your paper until 15 July 2011. Please choose one of the 4 topic areas of the conference:
§ OLED’s for Displays and lighting
§ Flexible Photovoltaics
§ Organic Sensors & Actuators
§ Integrated Smart Systems: OLAE & CMOS CO-integration

Topic Area OLED’s for Display and Lighting
Major and continued investments have been made in the development of OLEDs for displays and lighting over the last decade. Major and continued investments have been made in the development of OLEDs for displays and lighting over the last decade. OLEDs for flat panel display application, mainly in smaller form factors such as for cell phones and smart phones, are now reaching volume. Manufacturing [TFT] for FPD is mainly concentrated in Asia, where Samsung, LG and Sumitomo are in the lead. Commercial OLED FPD products [reaching an expected volume of USD 10 Bn in 2011] are mainly based on smOLED material deposition on glass and are not yet printed nor flexible. Materials and cost-down processing are the main drivers for both the development and commercialization of larger format TFT AMOLED FPD as for OLED lighting applications. Further development towards higher efficacy and long term stability the materials and for packaging are demanded to meet lifetime standards in lighting. Large scale production and commercialization of OLED lighting, although negligible today, appears to be just around the corner.
Committee:
Dr. Bruno Smets (Chair), Director External Relations, CTO Office, Philips Lighting, The Netherlands
Dr. Mike Hack, Vice President of Strategic Product Development, Universal Display Corporation, U.S.A.
Mr Barry Young, Managing Director, OLED Association, U.S.A.

Topic Area Flexible Photovoltaics
Flexible photovoltaics offer unique possibilities in terms of manufacturing and applications, such as roll-to-roll processing and light-weight roofing elements. Over the past years impressive progress has been made in both organic and inorganic technologies. Prominent examples are polymer-based, silicon-based and chalcopyrite-based solar modules (“foils”). Scientific and technological challenges are to achieve efficiency and stability levels close to those for non-flexible, glass-based technologies. This session provides an overview of state-of-the-art in the lab and in (pilot) production, focusing on scientific and technological aspects that are specific for flexible photovoltaics. Flexible photovoltaics offer unique possibilities in terms of manufacturing and applications, such as roll-to-roll processing and light-weight roofing elements. Over the past years impressive progress has been made in both organic and inorganic technologies. Prominent examples are polymer-based, silicon-based and chalcopyrite-based solar modules (“foils”). Scientific and technological challenges are to achieve efficiency and stability levels close to those for non-flexible, glass-based technologies. This session provides an overview of state-of-the-art in the lab and in (pilot) production, focusing on scientific and technological aspects that are specific for flexible photovoltaics.
Committee:
Prof. Dr. Wim Sinke (Chair), Senior staff member Program and Strategy, ECN Solar Energy, The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Iain McCulloch, Professor of Polymer Materials, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
Prof. Dr. Ayodhya Tiwari, Head of the Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Testing and Research) Dubendorf, Switzerland

Topic Area Organic Sensors & Actuators
Among the advantages of chemical and biological micro and nano systems there is the versatility offered by the peculiar material and device structure, including field-effect based systems. Moreover, the rapidly progressing area of bio-molecular electronics has also provided the important knowledge and tools for the assembling of bio-molecules at the sensing interface. This symposium will focus on the processing, characterization and modeling of functional organic interfaces and their use as active elements in sensing systems, including proteins, bio-receptors, and specific units endowing specificity toward specific gas and liquid detection. Complex architectures, including proteins and bio-receptors for the development of label-free detection will be of major interest. Actuating systems will be part of the symposium activities too as well as regulation of biological systems.
Committee:
Professor Dr Luisa Torsi (Chair), Dipartimento di Chimica, Centro di Eccellenza TIRE, Universita di Bari, Italy
Professor Dr George Malliaras, Head of the Department of Bioelectronics, Ecole des Mines Superieure de St. Etienne, Centre Electronique de Provence, France
Professor Dr Magnus Berggren, Professor in Organic Electronics, Linköping university, Sweden Director of the Strategic Research Centre for Organic Bioelectronics, Sweden

Topic Area Integrated Smart Systems : OLAE & CMOS Co-integration
The integration of systems will have a huge impact on most business activities from automotive, packaged goods and security to healthcare, textiles, advertising and fashion markets. A great advantage of plastic electronics is the possibility to integrate multiple devices to so called smart objects. The integration is possible due to the improvement and development of innovative materials and components as well as by one or multi processes or by an hybrid combination of several separately produced devices. This allows the integration of different devices like sensors, transistors, memories, batteries or displays onto one single plastic substrate. Commercialisation can and should take place in very disparate applications, creating a huge new opportunity for those in chemicals, electronics, processes, equipment and integration sectors.
Committee:
Dr. Nello Li Pira (Chair), Project Manager, Centro Ricerche Fiat S.C.p.A., Italy
Prof. Dr. Arto Maaninen, Technology Manager Printable Electronics, VTT, Oulu, Finland
Dr. Uwe Vogel, Business Unit Manager, Fraunhofer IPMS, Germany

Call for Papers: Deadline July 15, 2011
Please use the online abstract submission form

If you do not want to fill out the on-line submission form then please submit the following information in an e-mail:

§ Specify which topic area your presentation addresses
§ Presentation title
§ Abstract of 200-400 words (descriptive paragraph identifying issue addressed and solution)
§ Short biography of the author(s)
§ Main author contact details (Job title, company, address, telephone/e-mail)
§ Contact person details i.e. Personal Assistant (Job title, company, address, telephone/e-mail)

Registration for the conference
Use the online registration form and take advantage of the attractive registration fees.

Registration for a booth at the exhibition
Please click on link for information about exhibiting at Plastic Electronics 2011: http://www.semiconeuropa.org/PE2011/Exhibition

Further details to the conference can be found on our website www.pe2011.org ,which will be updated regularly. We are looking forward to meet you in Dresden!

With best regards from the organizers:

Prof. Dr. Karl Leo
PE2011 Conference Chair
President Plastic Electronics Foundation
Institute of Applied Photo Physics
Technical University Dresden
Germany
leo@iapp.de

Mr. Ed van den Kieboom
PE2011 Conference Director
Chief Executive Plastic Electronics Foundation
Eindhoven
The Netherlands
ed.vandenkieboom@plastic-electronics.org

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