On 25 April, we will hold our  FREE-TO-ATTEND  online Innovations Festival, focusing on aspects of additive, sustainable, flexible, hybrid, wearable, and 3D electronics.   Attendee places will be limited and assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. At our last Winter Festival, we had 700 unique actual attendees, so book now to secure your place. As always, this festival will take place on the unique TechBlick platform. You can use your avatar to meet the speakers, visit the exhibition, and network with fellow participants.  Agenda Track 1 1:00pm | Hangzhou LinkZill Technology | Innovating with TFT technology in both optoelectronic and biological ways 1:15pm | Smartkem | Organic Thin-Film Transistor Technology – from Lab to Fab 1:30pm | DoMicro | Inkjet Printed Interconnects on Bare Dies for Hybrid Electronics* 2:00pm | Fraunhofer IAP | Polymeric solid electrolytes* 2.00PM | Break/Exhibition 2:50pm | VTT | R2R Manufacturing of Flexible Electronics with Integrated Pick-and-Place* 3:05pm | Linxens | Scalable, customizable, multimodal electrode platform for biosensors and sensors 3:20pm | TNO | Advancing Medical Technology: Printed Electronics and Hybrid Integration Pave the Way for Next-Generation Medical Devices. 3:35pm | 3E Smart Solutions | Driving Reliability and Scalability in E-Textiles and Wearables via Embroidery Technology 3:50pm | Metafas | Going from Screen Printed Human Machine Interfaces to 3D Multi-Layer Electronics* 4:05 PM | Break/Exhibition 4:55pm |...

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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 usua...

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...

Disrupting Printed Electronics with a Dry Multimaterial Printing Technology? Author: Masoud Mahjouri-Samani, PhD | NanoPrintek | info@nanoprintek.com Modern technology and the move toward the Internet of Things have escalated the demand for innovative and efficient printing techniques, particularly in electronics and functional devices. Traditional ink-based printing methods have long been the standard, but now NanoPrintek’s dry multimaterial printing technology has emerged as a disruptive alternative, offering numerous advantages over its ink-based counterparts. The technology’s on-demand and in-situ nanoparticle generation and real-time sintering capability allow the printing of various electronics and functional devices with pure, multifunctional, hybrid materials printing. This thus opens the path to electronics printing and other applications ranging from energy and health to sensing devices. Figure 1. Dry printing process. On-demand/ in-situ nanoparticle generation and real-time laser sintering that enables the printing of various electronics and functional materials and devices. Unveiling a Universe of Materials Beyond the Limitations of Ink: Traditional inks can be restrictive regarding the materials they can accommodate. Dry printing, on the other hand, opens doors to a wider range of possibilities. From semiconductors and conductors to insulators and nanocomposites, dry printing can handle a broader spectrum of functional materials rapidly, enabling the creation ...

The Partnership - Coatema and Heliosonic are planning a partnership   Stay tuned for the launch of fuelcell2print , our high precision digital membrane coating system integrated into a world-class web handling infrastructure. Pre-registration for trial days coming soon!    Key highlights with our partner include a seamless integration of HELIOSONIC print head with  Coatema's cutting-edge web handling systems, digital fabrication for renewable energy tech, and a significant leap in printing capabilities, combining speed with unparalleled precision.    The fusion of Coatema's legacy with HELIOSONIC';s innovations is not just a partnership; it is a call to the future of industrial printing. We invite stakeholders, partners, and customers to join us in embracing this new era where potential meets realization.    The Companies      HELIOSONIC - Printing the Unprintable     HELIOSONIC uses and develops a laser-based digital printing technology suitable for material deposition with a large range of inks for several different applications. With this technology, inks that can so far not be printed digitally can be used, such as high viscosity inks or inks containing large particles.  The principle  A carrier belt is coated with a layer of the ink. A laser beam is focused into the ink from the opposite side of the belt. The laser creates a bubble, and, as a result, an ink jet is produced.  While the carrier belt is moving to continuously supply fresh ink to the printing area, the lase...

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...