UK Plastic Electronics Research Conference 2013
10th - 11th December 2013, Burleigh Court, Loughborough
The 1st UK Plastic Electronics Conference was co-organised by Electronics, Sensors, Photonics Knowledge Transfer Network and the Institute of Physics Printing & Graphics Science Group, with support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and +Plastic Electronics Magazine.
It was held over two days in December 2013 and saw 25 postgraduate students and 9 keynote speakers give presentations on the latest research and developments in the UK's plastic electronics sector.
Presentations covered a wide range of topics related to printed, plastic, organic and large area electronics including; materials, manufacturing & process development, applications, metrology, graphene and many more.
The event was held over two separately themed days:
- Day one was themed as 'Students meet the Industry'. It consisted of four sessions of concise, 10 minutes, talks from 14 students who presented their research highlights and 5 industry keynote speakers with poster presentations and an exhibition in-between sessions.
- Day two was the 'Plastic Electronics Research Seminar' and saw 11 students give 20 minute presentations on a variety of topics and 4 keynote speakers from leading members of academia and industry.
On this page you can download a selection of the presentations from this informative event.
If you would like further information about any of the presentations, or have any other queries regarding this event then please email us at: plasticelectronics@espktn.org
Agenda:
Day 1: Tuesday 10th December: 'Students meet the industry'
| 09.30 | Registration | |
| 10.30 | Welcome and Overview | Dr. Martyn Cherrington, ESP KTN Dr. Davide Deganello, IOP PGS |
| 10.45 | EPSRC & Plastic Electronics Research in the UK | Dr. Derek Gillespie |
| SESSION 1: | ||
| 11.05 | KEYNOTE: Plastic Logic | Sharjil Siddique |
| 11.25 | Conventional and Microwave Assisted Processing of Cu Loaded ICAs for Electronic Interconnect Applications | Geoffrey Qi, Loughborough University |
| 11.35 | Alkyl chain and polymer backbone modification in thieno[3,2-b]thiophene based diketopyrrolopyrrole polymers for high performance OPV and FET applications | Iain Meager, Imperial College London |
| 11.45 | Scalable Droplet Flow Techniques for the Controlled Synthesis of Semiconducting Polymers | James Bannock, Imperial College London |
| 11.55 | Poster Session, Exhibition & Refreshments | |
| SESSION 2: | ||
| 12.15 | KEYNOTE: National Centre for Printable Electronics, CPI | Dr. Jon Helliwell |
| 12.35 | Automated Spray Deposition for Plastic Electronics | Kirsty Roy, Imperial College London |
| 12.45 | Controlling Large Area film Formation and Drying for Printed Polymer OLED Devices | Ben Mogg, Swansea University |
| 12.55 | Laser Additive Manufacturing of 3D Embedded Plastic Circuit Board Using Holographic Optics | Adam Hou, Loughborough University |
| 13.05 | Manufacturing multilayer thin films for photovoltaics | Ruth Cherrington, Warwick University |
| 13.15 | Lunch, Poster Session & Exhibition | |
| SESSION 3: | ||
| 14.15 | KEYNOTE: Novalia | Chris Jones |
| 14.35 | Dynamics of Polymer Blend Film Formation During Spin Coating | Youmna Mouhamad, Sheffield University |
| 14.45 | Enhanced Light-Harvesting in Organic Optoelectronic Devices via ‘Nano-Pinballing’ and Polymer Refractive Index Patterning | George Richardson, Imperial College London |
| 14.55 | Continuous Flow Synthesis of Fullerene Bis-Adduct Acceptors | Barnaby Walker, Imperial College London |
| 15.05 | The effect of interlayer work function on the recombination dynamics in OPV | Scot Wheeler, Imperial College London |
| 15.15 | Poster Session, Exhibition & Refreshments | |
| SESSION 4: | ||
| 15.45 | KEYNOTE: Merck Chemicals | Dr. Andromachi Malandrak |
| 16.05 | Truxenone-Based Non-Fullerene Acceptors for OPV | Sarah Holliday, Imperial College London |
| 16.15 | Controlling molecular orientation: exploiting the dipole-dipole interaction between molecules and ferroelectric substrates | Alexandra Ramadan, Imperial College London |
| 16.25 | In-situ Probing of Molecular Order in P3HT:PCBM Blends by Resonant Raman Spectroscopy | Joseph Razzell, Imperial College London |
| 16.35 | The use of superposition rheology in functional printing | James Claypole, Swansea University |
| 16.45 | Wrap-up | |
| 17.00 | Poster Session & Exhibition | |
| 19.00 | Conference Dinner | Speaker: Dr. Alan Hodgson, 3M / Chair of IOP PGS / Chair of IEC TC119 committee |
Day 2: Wednesday 11th December: Plastic Electronics Research Seminar
| 09.00 | Registration, Posters & Exhibition | |
| 09.30 | Welcome and Overview | Dr. Martyn Cherrington, ESP KTN Dr. Davide Deganello, IOP PGS |
| SESSION 5: Materials | ||
| 09.40 | KEYNOTE: EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large Area Electronics | Dr. Chris Rider |
| 10.00 | Organic semiconducting: insulating blends for field-effect transistors | Alberto Scaccabarozzi, Imperial College London |
| 10.20 | Singlet Exciton Fission in Unconventional Systems | Andrew Musser, Cambridge University |
| 10.40 | Flow synthesis of silver nanowires for low cost and high performance transparent conducting electrodes | Thomas Phillips, Imperial College London |
| 11.00 | Poster Session, Exhibition & Refreshments | |
| SESSION 6: Manufacturing | ||
| 11.30 | KEYNOTE: Printed Electronics Ltd | Dr. Neil Chilton |
| 11.50 | High precision inkjet printing of single nanowire field effect transistors for plastic electronics | Greg Rigas, University of Surrey |
| 12.10 | Novel room temperature laminate technology to enable the mass manufacture of flexible Organic Electronics | Daniel Bryant, Swansea University |
| 12.30 | Roll-to-roll Vacuum Fabrication of Organic Electronics | Ziqian Ding, Oxford University |
| 12.50 | Lunch, Poster Session & Exhibition | |
| SESSION 7: Applications | ||
| 13.50 | KEYNOTE: Welsh Centre for Printing & Coating, Swansea University | Dr. Davide Deganello |
| 14.10 | Spray Printed Nanoscale Materials for Large Area Flexible Touch-screens | Shrawan Kumar Jha, Imperial College London |
| 14.30 | Polymer Degradation in Inkjet Printing | Joseph Wheeler, Manchester University |
| 14.50 | A novel scanning technique for evaluating printed electrode performance | Peter Greenwood, Swansea University |
| 15.10 | Poster Session, Exhibition & Refreshments | |
| SESSION 8: Graphene | ||
| 15.40 | KEYNOTE: Haydale | David Gibbs |
| 16.00 | Graphene and layered nanomaterial inks for electronics | Richard Howe, Cambridge University |
| 16.20 | Development of graphene inks as transparent electrocatalysts for dye sensitised solar cells | Jenny Baker, Swansea Univeristy |
| 16.40 | Wrap-up, Poster Session & Exhibition | |
| 17.30 | Close |
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