written by FERNANDO ZICARELLI (Printed Electronics Product Manager) E2ip Technologies manufactures Flexible Heaters using Screen Printing Technology. We use flexible and conformable inks for the manufacturing of our heaters. Printed heaters can be manufactured in high volumes using print processes such as flatbed, rotary, and roll-to-roll presses. The size of the order and complexity of the device determines the equipment that we would use. Typical applications are Airplane/Automotive interiors, Battery and fuel cell heating, Hand tools, De-icing, Defogging, Medical, Display panels or touchscreens, Food and drink tempering, Heating for trains, mobile homes, and caravans. Thermal Management Solutions is a hot topic of discussion in recent months; we at e2ip Technologies have multiple solutions for every application. We currently make 4 types of heaters: Serpentine (left picture), Resistive, PTC (right picture) and Transparent heaters (see below). Each type has its advantages and disadvantages which are highlighted below: A. Serpentine heaters are made with metallic pastes which are screen printed with materials such as silver, copper, silver/carbon, graphene, and our own Silver Salt Minks. They are a very cost-effective solution since most of the time you only need one single printed layer of a serpentine pattern (as electricity flows through the conductive traces by applying specific voltage levels will cause the metal to heat up). These types of heaters are usual...

Microprinting Workshop in Dresden? Our partners Jonas Jung and Dominik Gronarz from OES - Organic Electronics Saxony are organizing this exciting workshop on Microprinting in Dresden. TechBlick is a happy member of OES - Organic Electronics Saxony 📢 Microprinting Workshop Conference Program Now Online! 📢 We are thrilled to announce that the conference program for the eagerly anticipated Microprinting Workshop is now available online! Dive into a comprehensive schedule packed with insightful presentations, cutting-edge research, and innovative applications in the realm of microprinting. 🔍 Discover the lineup of distinguished speakers, explore the topics they will address, and plan your participation in sessions that promise to broaden your understanding and spark your curiosity. What's in store? From advanced materials and techniques to groundbreaking industrial applications, the program is designed to cater to a wide range of interests within the microprinting community. 📅 Make sure to check out the program and mark your calendars for the sessions you don't want to miss. 📋 View the program here: https://microprinting.de/ Join us for what promises to be an enlightening and inspiring event, bringing together the brightest minds in microprinting. Let's connect, learn, and innovate together! #MicroprintingWorkshop #ConferenceProgram #Innovation #Technology #Networking...

Photovoltaics - manufacturing capacity reaches 1000GW? Photovoltaics are growing at breakneck pace. and that is important for printed electronics. According to the IEA, in 2022, global PV manufacturing capacity increased by more than 70% to nearly 450 GW, with China accounting for more than 95% of new additions across the supply chain. The growth continued at an unabashed pace, with the IEA expecting the global manufacturing capacity in 2024 to reach an incredible 1000 GW. Source: click here Screen printing silver pastes has a near complete market share for metallising silicon photovoltaics. The amount of silver per cell - and consequently per watt - for front and rear metallization has declined. In 2023, it stood for PERC photovoltaics (the dominant technology) at around 10 tonnes per GW. Given the expected manufacturing capacity in 2024, this could translate to around 10,000 tonnes of silver (and more of paste depending on loading etc) per year! This is also an incredibly advanced printing technology. This field can already execute ultra fine line printing at scale. In 2022, the linewidth of the printed fingers were around 30 um with ca. 10um alignment precision as standard in manufacturing. This is projected to be further narrowed, reaching a linewidth of 15um with 5um alignment precision in 2032 to reduce the amount of expensive silver per cell. In R&D and pilot settings, such screen printed linewidths are already being demonstrated with printed bus bars exhibiting inc...

World-Class OLED Conference | 10 & 11 April 2024 | Online Event Agenda here This event focuses on innovations in materials, manufacturing, applications, and markets for OLEDs. OLEDs are already a commercial success for years and yet the the pace of incremental and radical technological innovations and breakthroughs is incredible, furthering device properties [color, stability, resolution, color gamut, brightness, etc], expanding applications, and opening new manufacturing and patterning techniques from photolithography to inkjet printing and beyond. These innovations could not only entrench the success of OLEDs further, addressing their weak spots, but also perhaps take away the selling points of challengers or alternatives like MicroLEDS, QD-LCDs, etc. Understanding the OLED market and industry dynamics is a must for microLED professionals. This event is curated by TechBlick and OLED-Info.com. It is part of the MicroLED Connect series - accessible witha Virtual or Hybrid Annual Pass...

TechBlick conference series on display technologies covering MicroLEDs, MiniLEDs AR, VR, OLEDs, QDs, Flexible Displays, etc...

Printed electronics or more specifically inkjet printing is already an established part of OLED display manufacturing, where industrial-scale inkjet printers are used to deposit the organic material in the multilayer thin film encapsulation (TFE) layer that protects OLEDs from oxygen and water ingress. Inkjet printing the RGB active materials in OLED displays, however, seems not to have succeeded in overcoming the technical hurdles despite significant investment and decades of development on both material and machinery sides. It appears that the material performance never bridged the gap with vacuum-processed ones, which kept on improving, whilst the potential manufacturing cost benefits proved insufficient to force a shift away from the incumbent processes. This is not the end of inkjet printing in manufacturing the active elements of the display though, thanks mainly to quantum dots (QDs) including QD-OLED and QLED displays. The idea behind QD-OLED displays is that a blue OLED layer is vacuum deposited, whilst the red and green colors are achieved by pixel-level inkjet-printed QD color conversion, giving the emissive display perfect contrast, high efficiency, as well as a very wide color gamut, beyond what all-OLED displays could achieve. Mastering the inkjet printing of QD-OLED displays could also offer a technical and manufacturing roadmap towards true emissive QLED displays. QD-OLED displays are already in production with 77-inch 4k QD-OLED being on the market for seve...

Start-up Showcase in micro- and mini-LED Technologies Start-up Showcase in micro- and mini-LED Technologies | 22 Feb 2024 | Online Event This is a MicroLED conference dedicated to promising microLED startups, who will showcase their latest development and technologies. A great opportunity to learn the latest cutting edge technologies and connect with early stage companies looking for partners, customers and investments. This event is curated by TechBlick and the MicroLED Association. It is part of the MicroLED Connect series - accessible with a Virtual or Hybrid Annual Pass. Register now and save 100 Euros * *apply the following discount code at check-out: Save100Euros ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Agenda 3:00 PM | Rayleigh Vision "Stacked MicroLED: The Ultimate Solution for Immersive XR" 3.20PM | Inziv "Emerging Trends in microLED Chip Architecture, Metrology, and Inspection" 3.40PM | Comptek Solutions "Atomic-scale passivation for microLED devices" 4.00PM | QustomDot "QustomGlow: Illuminating Excellence in Quantum Dot Innovation" 5.00PM | Terecircuits Corporation "Materials for novel microLED mass transfer" 5.20PM | iBeam Materials "Roll-to-roll Fabrication of LED Sheets for MicroLED Display Application" 5.40PM | KuraTech "AR headset development with MicroLED Technology" 6.00PM | NS Nanotech "From Quantum Dots to Nanowires" Agenda explore here -------------------------------------...

Saralon is going global with its distribution network, covering Europe, USA, and East Asia This is superb news for the Saralon team and for the industry We thus use this occasion to share the talk that Steve Paschky gave at TechBlick in Dec 2023 The level of Q&A shows the higher interest in these materials You can download the brochure here https://www.saralon.com/en/download-brochur-2022-c3d2y2fa3fge21p92c/ Copper Inks #CopperInk #CopperPaste #StretchableElectronics #InMoldElectronics #PrintedSensors #Heating #PrintedElectronics...