3D Printing Electronics Conference welcomes Printed Electronics Netherlands as Bronze Partner
About Printed Electronics Netherlands
Since 2014 an Ecosystem for Printed Electronics has been built in the Netherlands consisting of research institutions, SMEs, Universities, Corporates, governmental institutions and technology consultants.
This successful collaboration is the start of the Printed Electronics Netherlands organisation, an independent platform for all stakeholders active in Printing Electronics in The Netherlands.
We unite, represent and support companies, research institutions, governments and stakeholders. Printed Electronics Netherlands is open for companies and organizations interested in Printing Electronics applications. Within our network, we will always find relevant contacts to help you with your technology / business challenge.
What is printed electronics?
Printed electronics is a set of printing methods used to create electrical devices on various substrates. Printing typically uses common printing equipment suitable for defining patterns on material, such as screen printing, flexography, gravure, offset lithography, and inkjet. By electronic industry standards, these are low cost processes. Electrically functional electronic or optical inks are deposited on the substrate, creating active or passive devices, such as thin film transistors; capacitors; coils; resistors. Printed electronics is expected to facilitate widespread, very low-cost, low-performance electronics for applications such as flexible displays, smart labels, decorative and animated posters, and active clothing that do not require high performance.
The term printed electronics is often related to organic electronics or plastic electronics, in which one or more inks are composed of carbon-based compounds. These other terms refer to the ink material, which can be deposited by solution-based, vacuum-based or other processes. Printed electronics, in contrast, specifies the process, and, subject to the specific requirements of the printing process selected, can utilize any solution-based material. This includes organic semiconductors, inorganic semiconductors, metallic conductors, nanoparticles, and nanotubes.
For the preparation of printed electronics nearly all industrial printing methods are employed. Similar to conventional printing, printed electronics applies ink layers one atop another. So the coherent development of printing methods and ink materials are the field’s essential tasks.
The most important benefit of printing is low-cost volume fabrication. The lower cost enables use in more applications.[5] An example is RFID-systems, which enable contactless identification in trade and transport. In some domains, such as light-emitting diodes printing does not impact performance. Printing on flexible substrates allows electronics to be placed on curved surfaces, for example, printing solar cells on vehicle roofs. More typically, conventional semiconductors justify their much higher costs by providing much higher performance.
See further explanation on Wikipedia.
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