Printed Electronics - The Magic Arrives

Paper electronics and radically advanced packaging for everyone
Mr Keiichi Utaka is Managing Director of the multi-billion dollar Toppan Forms in Japan. It has demonstrated the e-shop, disposable electronic paper maps and Audio Paper now selling well in promotions. He will talk on "Possibilities and Influence of Printed Electronics". Packaging giant Stora Enso of Finland is also launching an impressive array of paper electronic products. They will speak on "Printed, Combined and Low Cost Intelligence for Consumer Applications". Northrop Grumman covers "Nanotube Radio Paper", the University of California Berkeley report success with electronic nose sensors for consumer packaging. Professor Elvira Fortunato from the New Lisbon University in Portugal describes her radically different printed paper transistor. Then there is ACREO of Sweden summarising what the multi-nation Sustainpack project has achieved in making electronic packaging that interfaces with many human senses. Paradoxically, there is also a path to replacing paper in books, catalogues and so on, and on products such as mobile phones and that is covered by E Ink which sits astride this new business by providing the low cost, flexible display front planes that only take electricity when the image is altered.