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Panel III: What Is the Rest of the World Doing?
Panel III: What Is the Rest of the World Doing?
Pages 64-85
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As illustrations, he listed some "hybrid devices" supported by NSF that find application in key fields: Energy: organic photovoltaics, solid-state lighting, and batteries; Electronics: displays, e-paper, sensors, and actuators; Biomedical and health care: sensors, system on a foil; Communications: RFID; and Defense: various applications. He also reported that NSF supports a wide variety of flexible hybrid electronics research, including the following: Organic and polymer electronics and optoelectronics: OLEDS, organic field-effect transistors (OFETs)
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In addition to hybrid devices, he said, NSF provides research support and opportunities, including programs that encourage university-industrial partnerships. Depending on definitions, he said, the foundation supported about 200 projects in flexible electronics, including work on transistors, OLEDs, zinc oxide, and flexibly printed electronics research.
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: Establish a SEMATECH-like organization for hybrid flexible electronics to support precompetitive research involving multiple companies and universities. Nurture technologies until they are ripe for commercialization.
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He defined printed electronics as "organic electronics plus flexible electronics." In the case of Plextronics, the company makes printable inks for customers to use on substrates. When the inks are printed, they become thin, functional films that can be used to create many next-generation electronic devices, such as thin displays, organic solar films, or potentially RFID tags.
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In an integrated world when these things talk to each other, that becomes a reality. It is also an example of how business models can change." Today, he said, printable electronics represents a $2 billion market, with OLED lighting accounting for about half and other forms dividing the rest.
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Data on government spending in Asia, he continued, is very difficult to gather. For Taiwan, he said, the government intends to invest about $200 million in printed electronics from 2006 to 2013.
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In considering whether the United States has missed the opportunity for leadership in PE, he cited the LCD industry as a "cautionary tale." Referring to a chart of LCD industry growth over time, he said that the first operating LCD had been developed in 1968 -- by an American company, RCA. This was followed by the first demonstration of amorphous silicon-based, active-matrix LCD in 1988.
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The attributes of this technology category that are valued in Europe include robustness and flexibility, which allow for ubiquitous electronics, and its many "green" features, which include low carbon footprint, low materials consumption, low-impact manufacturing, and a substantial contribution to reducing energy consumption. He called the goal of low-cost manufacturing "a vision of the future," which was needed to bring the promise
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Beginning around 2005 this emphasis shifted to LCD panels and was moving to organic and printed electronics, with growth predicted to increase from 2015 to 2020. In Europe, a Lack of Startups and Entrepreneurs In Europe, Dr.
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The three large private partners were the dominant German lighting companies, Osram and Philips, and Applied Materials. One emphasis of the Innovation Alliance was machinery, led by Applied Materials, and another focused on special organic lighting applications, such as lighting applications, displays, illumination, signage, and automobiles.
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Leo, is responsible for activities in organic electronics. It is one of several business units and includes lighting, photovoltaics OLED microdisplays, and sensors.
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This network consists of collaborators who support the "full value chain" of activities "from materials and modeling to organic technology to tools to products." The network receives some "minor" funding from local government to help with management. His own project, named R2FLEX, is developing roll-to-roll fabrication of small-molecule OLEDs for lighting applications and organic solar cells on flexible substrates.
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As of January 2010, it had 5,852 employees, 1,126 of whom had Ph.D.s. The institute had spawned 10,132 patents and 158 startup firms, and had opened flexible electronics pilot labs to develop the areas of printed circuits, paper-like speakers, touch sensors, printed sensors, flexible lightings, and flexible PV films.
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One is the mobile lifestyle, and the other is green energy-saving display." He displayed some of the product areas in his technology portfolio, such as printed circuits, touch sensors, and printed sensors, but most importantly, he said, they all made use of the transition from rigid substrate to flexible substrate. This work was carried out in the well-equipped Flexible Electronics Pilot Lab.
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One of the products generated by this center was the "paper-like speaker" that won the 2009 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award, he said. Formally called the paper-thin fleXpeaker, it covers a large area, 2.2 meters by 50 centimeters, and consumes only a fifth to a tenth the power of a traditional speaker.
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FLEXIBLE AND PRINTED ELECTRONICS -- A KOREAN INITIATIVE Changhee Lee Seoul National University Dr. Lee, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Seoul National University (SNU)
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Another broad organization, the 21st Century Frontier Program, supported research in nextgeneration displays, and Seoul National University supported an InterUniversity Semiconductor Research Center Display Center and an OLED Center. In Daejeon City, the Electronics Telecommunications Research Center (ETRI)
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Lee showed a summary roadmap of the Korean display industry and government support. "In 1950 we had had nothing," he said, "all destroyed by Korean war." The electronics industry emerged rapidly in the late 1960s and 1970s, beginning with black-and-white television sets.
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Dr. Lee praised both KDIA and KoPEA for their role in moving the industry forward, saying they had "allowed the display industry to become strong." In addition, the government helped by asking industry, especially Samsung and LG, to support the Korean research institutes, while investing about $5 million per year in public funds.
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KoPEA did not have as much power as KDIA, he said, which has a longer history and more support from both Samsung and LG. KDIA also has a Printed Electronics Roadmap for both printed and flexible electronics.
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Mr. Hannah said that the LCD platform display industry moved to the Far East "because a lot of the drivers and backplane technology required to manufacture the devices were there." He said that he believed flexible electronics would have "a much simplified device structure" and could be manufactured and distributed locally.
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This is an opportunity where we can grow from virtually nothing in this industry to potentially a $300 billion industry over the next 20 years. In an industry of that size, you have to have your piece of manufacturing."
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