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12-13 October 2020, Divani Caravel Hotel, Athens, Greece

The Hellenic Organic & Printed Electronics Association (HOPEA) and the Nanotechnology Lab LTFN co-organize the 10th Conference & Exhibition on Flexible & Printed Electronics Industry. The event will bring together Key Industrial Players, End-Users, Entrepreneurs, Investors, Top-class Scientists, Engineers, Policy Makers and Representatives from the National, European and International Authorities to discuss, network and establish the Strategy and Policy for boosting the rapidly evolving Flexible & Printed Electronics (FPEs) hundred-Billion euros Industry. FPEs revolutionizes applications in Green Energy, Energy Autonomous Systems, Lighting, Electronics and Communications, Automotive, Smart Buildings, Smart Cities, Greenhouses, Intelligent Packaging and Security, Health Care, Wearables, IoT, etc. all contributing to a Clean, Green and Circular Economy and the Digital Tranformation of industry, economy and society.

The Conference & Exhibition will be a Hybrid event, combining both Live (On-site) and Virtual (On-line) presentations and participation.

Topics include:

  • Flexible & Printed Electronics and Photonics
  • 3D Printing Electronics in System Integration of Functional Products and Solutions
  • Advanced materials, Semiconductors, Electrodes, High Barrier Films, Inks, Bioinks
  • Energy and Energy Autonomous systems, in Consumer Electronics, Tourism, Buildings, Agriculture, Defense, etc.
  • Manufacturing and Processes of Flexible Organic & Printed Electronics
  • Energy and Lighting for Smart Buildings, Automotive, Greenhouses, Healthcare, etc.
  • Smart Cities, Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Smart Textiles, Fashion and Wearables
  • Sensors, Biosensors in Wearables, IoT, Health, Agriculture, etc.
  • Intelligent and Smart Packaging, Safety and Security
  • Automation Systems and Robotics for Zero-Defect Manufacturing
  • Printed Organic Electronics and Automation
  • Tools for the Digital Transformation of the Industry
  • Clusters and Associations in Flexible & Printed Electronics Worldwide
  • Flexible & Printed Electronics Entrepreneurial activities
  • Funding and Commercialization Opportunities

Startup Competition for the Year Awards

Startups, SMEs and early growth-stage companies will get to pitch their businesses to a panel of funding organizations and strategic partners. Any startup, SME and early growth-stage company that has just brought or is about to bring a product or solution in the field of FPE to market will be applied and considered. The most successful pitches will be awarded by the Business Committee.

Poster Session and Awards

R&D organizations, research institutes and academic laboratories are welcome to submit a poster of their research and innovation activities and/or funded research projects in the field of FPE. Each poster will be provided with presentation space within the Conference & Exhibition’s room at a maximum size of A0. The Posters with the most promising achievements will be awarded by the organizing committee.

Find out more here.

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Workshop's Poster

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Download the workshop's poster from here.

The Zero defect manufacturing workshop was held on 24 October in Brussels and brought together key stakeholders to shape the future landscape of European manufacturing.

During this workshop, Prof. S.Logothetidis Director of Nanotechnology Lab LTFN - AUTh, gave a presentation as the coordinator of the EU project Smartline.

 

LTFN, together with OET, and HOPE-A participated in the Workshop on “Smart Bioelectronic and Wearable Systems” that took place on 22-23 October in Brussels. This two - day EC workshop presented topics covering smart systems across Key Digital technologies. Great emphasis was given on bio-electronics, bio-photonics, and flexible and wearable electronics. This event also highlighted the role of Bioelectronics and Flexible & Wearable Electronics in the context of the Digital R&I Agenda, such as Edge Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Cybersecurity.
Furthermore, in the properly formed exhibition area, running and completed EU-funded projects had the chance to present their results via demonstrators and visuals. Dr. Argiris Laskarakis, LTFN presented among others the results and actions of Smartline Project.

  

AUTh - Nanotechnology Lab LTFN and OE-Technologies participated in the IDTechEx Show 2019, held on April 10-11, at Berlin, Germany. Dr. Argiris Laskarakis (AUTh) gave an interesting invited talk about "Enabling Artificial Intelligence in Nano-manufacturing of Printed Electronics by In-Line Metrology and Control". We would like to thank all of you that visited us!

  

Smartline Project together with NANOTEXNOLOGY Organizing Committee organizes the Workshop on In-line & Real-time Metrology and Quality Control for Nano-Manufacturing, during NANOTEXNOLOGY 2019. The objective of the Workshop is the reveal the huge potentiality of in-line and real-time metrology methods (tools, measurement/analysis methodologies, protocols, integration concepts) to revolutionize the digital manufacturing of advanced materials, devices, components, processes and products based on Organic & Printed Electronics.

The Workshop topics include:

  • In-line/In-situ/Real-Time characterization tools and methodologies
  • Non-destructive metrology methods and tools
  • Novel Instruments and Improvements
  • Optical, Electrical, Structural, Visual characterization
  • Characterization protocols and standards
  • Modeling and analysis approaches
  • Integration concepts in pilot and production lines
  • Defect inspection from nano- to macro-
  • Thin film monitoring and optimization of processes
  • Feedback, Quality Control and Automation
  • In-line Process in Roll-to-Roll, Vacuum and Gas Transport
  • Manufacturing & Applications

Workshop International Organizing Committee (tentative, tbc)

S. Logothetidis, Nanotechnology Lab LTFN, AUTh, Greece
N. Li Pira, Centro Richerche FIAT, FCA Group, Italy
M. Klein, Suragus, Germany
E. Malguth, Laytec, Germany
T. Burke, IBS, The Netherlands
G. Winroth, European Commission, Belgium

You can find more information here.

AUTh has participated at the 7th Korea-EU NanoWorkshop that took place at Seoul, S. Korea at 12 November 2018. Dr. A. Laskarakis (AUTh) presented an invited talk with title: Intelligent In-line Optical Metrology for the optimization of manufacturing of Flexible Organic Electronic Devices. With this presentation, he described the AUTh activities in the manufacturing of OEs and he presented the activities related to the development of in-line metrology tools for the optimization of OE device fabrication. Also, he discussed with representatives from KOPEA (Korean Association for Organic Electronics) for establishment of collaborations (also within the HOPE-A with which there is a singed Momerandum of Understanding-MoU).
Finally, it was discussed a roadmap for collaboration in relevant activities on flexible OEs with the Korean stakeholders and to network with EU entities with expertise in OEs.

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AUTh has participated at the IDTEchEx Printed Electronics USA 2018. Prof. S. Logothetidis r. A. Laskarakis presented an oral presentation for the innovations related to SmartLine regarding the the robust, non-destructive, ultra-fast and in-line Precision Metrology (optical, electrical, structural, etc) and the large experimentation data analytics for the quality control of large area printable & flexible & printable OE devices and the ultra-fast digital feedback to the pilot and production lines for the closed loop manufacturing of OE devices with tailored performance and high production yield.

Prof. S. Logothetidis had several discussions with representatives from industrial communities from USA, Canada, Europe and Asia and exchanged views and prospects about the implementation of in-line metrology and control tools for the digital nanomanufacturing of advanced products based on Organic Electronics. These discussions will benefit the SmartLine project since they create new links for the industrial adoption of the project results to different materials for manufacturing of mass-market products. Also, the innovations of the project were demonstrated by an exhibition booth at this event.

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AUTh has participated to the Industrial Technologies and presented the activities of AUTh in Organic and Printed Electronics at the exhibition booth. Several discussions with the event participants took place and several contacts and plans for further collaboration, which will benefit the SmartLine project were established.

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AUTh has participated to the 1st Workshop Nano – Greece-Turkey 1/10/2018 Istanbul, Turkey and presented the activities of AUTh in Organic and Printed Electronics. The participants presented the SmartLine project activities and targets as well as the prospects for further collaboration with the experts from Sabanci University (SUNUM) to commonly promote the field of OEs by the use of novel materials and device concepts.

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OET has participated at the 9th International Conference on Flexible and Printed Electronics, Grand Metropark Universal Dinosaur Town Hotel in Changzhou, China, September 25-28, 2018.
OET’s CEO Mr. V.Matskos held the company’s presentation “Tailored Fully Printed OPVs and OLEDs for Mass Market Entry: Towards Industry 4.0”. Specifically, the aim of the travel was to promote Smartline activities at Asia (M6-M12) under the umbrella of "Connections with Academic, Research and Industrial members worldwide" and Connection with Industrial entities worldwide.

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Project Information

call: H2020-FOF-08-2017

type of action: Innovation action

grant agreement no: 768707

acronym: SmartLine

title: Smart In-line metrology and control for boosting the yield and quality of high-volume manufacturing of Organic electronics

topic: In-line measurement and control for micro/nano-enabled high-volume manufacturing for enhanced reliability

duration: 39 months

starting date: 1 Sep 2017

This project has received funding from the European Union's HORIZON 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 768707.   eu flag