Printed Electronics Asia 2009 to Return to Tokyo

IDTechEx says it is again staging its annual Printed Electronics Asia event in Tokyo, Sep 30-Oct 1, 2009, with a "solar twist" this year: The collocation of "Photovoltaics Beyond Conventional Silicon" that will satisfy the increasing interest in photovoltaics technologies.

Amidst economic instability, printed electronics events are still growing as they map the next generation of products essential for users and manufacturers, fighting recession with innovation, the organizer said.

New products and components will take the spotlight once more; transparent, stretchable, biodegradable electronics, adding electronic functionality where it was previously unavailable. Deposition of successive layers will lead to integration of different functions, allowing for new applications in e-packaging, healthcare, consumables, etc. Wider adoption of plastic substrates is leading to flexible, more robust designs and electronics with new, unexpected features.

New this year are laminar batteries that harvest energy, printed LCDs, flexible electrophoretic displays, lasers and other devices integrating many printed and thin film components.

"The subject of Printed Electronics has moved to the next phase with a great deal of commercialisation," says Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman of IDTechEx, "and we are flying in global experts, academics and industrialists alike, to give the latest on such things as biodegradable, foldable paper electronics, barrier layers, essential to organic photovoltaics and OLEDs, logic and memory developments, just to name a few of the applications."

The unprecedented growth of the photovoltaics sector has led to the collocation, for the first time this year, of Photovoltaics beyond Conventional Silicon alongside Printed Electronics Asia. Japan, one of the countries that lead the solar revolution is still one of the focal points for solar developments and leading companies, universities and institutes will highlight their progress on technologies utilizing non-conventional platforms at the event. Thin film technologies are bound to represent almost 20 percent of the overall solar industry in 2009; the major implementers will be speaking about how they are moving forward with deployments & research and development towards improved performance and lower costs.

To facilitate the transfer of knowledge, attendees from the West (Europe and the USA) and the East (Japan and East Asia) will have the opportunity to attend presentations from East Asian companies as well as Western ones, providing the fusion of cutting edge developments that always characterizes the event.

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