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he commercialization of the technology, covering broadly organic, inorganic, thin film and flexible nanotechnologies will take center stage at Printed Electronics Europe taking place from April 17–18 at the International Congress Centrum in Berlin, Germany. This event features over 200 presentations and 100 exhibiting companies. Attendees have access to all the conference tracks, and a combined tradeshow at their fingertips. A choice of 14 different Masterclasses covering Printed Electronics and all related technologies will be provided on April 16 and 19 in a morning and an afternoon session. The participant can choose only one class per session. The organizers are taking advantage of the Show being located in Berlin. On a first come, first serve basis two tours are being offered: On April 16, visitors can visit InnoZ. InnoZ specializes in analyses of transport, mobility and related areas. In conjunction with the Thin Film Photovoltaics masterclass scheduled for the afternoon session of April 19, a tour is being held of PVcomB, a new center for technology transfer in Thin-Film Photovoltaics, founded by the Helmholtz-Zentrum-Berlin. Co-located events are OLED Live!, TCF Live!, Graphene Live!, Energy Harvesting & Storage and the 5th Photovoltaics Thin-Film Week.
parent Conductive Films and featuring Touch Surfaces. The event brings together users, material providers, equipment makers, policymakers, academics and investors from around the world. Graphene LIVE! A global conference spanning all the material and process progress of graphene, along with assessing its applications and market opportunity. Energy Harvesting & Storage. This event addresses the exciting new progress of extracting energy from heat, light, motion, biology, RF and other means to power small devices to vehicles. It focuses on the uses, potential users and market forecasts as well as giving the latest technology trends. It is the meeting place for users, investors, suppliers, developers, system integrators and government representatives. 5th Photovoltaics Thin-Film Week. For the first time, the ThinFilm Week will cooperate with the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2013 event. The co-located SolarPraxis and IDTechEx Photovoltaics conference track on April 18 will form an additional part of the thin-film week, bringing together the solar and printed electronics industry in order to discuss the current issues of both sectors. THE CONFERENCE. In his keynote to kick-off the conference,
OLEDs LIVE! This show covers the market opportunities, challenges and technical progress from around the world, such as vacuum and solution processed OLEDs for displays and lighting: materials, deposition, TFT backplanes and scaling. TCF LIVE! The international conference and tradeshow covering all the applications and latest technology developments of Trans-
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Raghu Das, CEO of IDTechEx, will follow the money trail in printed electronics, shedding light on who is making money in Printed Electronics and how they are doing it as well as giving forecasts by component for 2013–2023 with a view of technology and territorial trends and opportunities. Next, keynotes will show in more detail where commercialization has been successful and what the further opportunities are: e.g. in the diagnostics industry, aerospace, textiles, packaging for health care and supply chain or 3D printed electronics. In the afternoon the conference will continue in four different simultaneous tracks dealing with such topics as stretchable and textile electronics, wireless charging systems, internet of things and OLEDs, sensor technology and graphene. The next day will bring more conferences held in four concurrent tracks. Highlights will be functional and conductive inks, organic and inorganic semiconductors, emerging new process-
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