Organic semiconductors move from lab to fab
17 September 2008
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More than 500 engineers, researchers, business leaders and investors from all over the world are expected to meet in Frankfurt at the end of September to report progress and discuss future directions in the organic electronics and organic semiconductor industries, at the 2008 edition of the Organic Semiconductor Conference (OSC-08).
Over the past eight years, more than $1500 million has been invested in this technology by US and European VCs and governments. In some areas of the technology, Europe is outspending the US by 3 to 1. This investment has created a number of European companies such as Polymer Vision, Plastic Logic, Konarka, and Nanoident, which are in the process of launching their first products based on organic electronics. Historically this funding has been directed towards technology development, but an increasing proportion is being used to establish large-scale manufacturing capability. Last year alone, Plastic Logic received more than $100 million in investment to build the first organic transistor fab.
With an increasing number of applications now moving towards commercialisation, the theme of this year’s conference is ‘From Lab to Fab’. Industry keynote speakers include Gildas Sorin, CEO of Novaled, Jeremy Burroughes, CTO of Cambridge Display Technology, Edzer Huitema, CTO of Polymer Vision, and Christoph Brabec, CTO of Konarka Technologies, each of whom will present details on technical and commercial progress.
Hosted by cintelliq, OSC-08 offers eight new pre-conference seminars covering a range of topics, including overviews of organic semiconductor technology, printing processes, manufacturing issues, and a review of IP activities in organic photovoltaics and organic lighting. Conference presentations will cover a broad range of topics, not only organic semiconductor technologies, but also organic electronics, printed electronics, flexible electronics, etc. Applications to be discussed will include OLEDs, organic lighting, organic photovoltaics, organic RFID, organic memory, organic sensors, organic integrated circuits and smart packaging.
For more information visit www.osc-europe.com
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