Our vision for next-generation electronics
Paper is produced and converted into a vast array of products using continuous flow production processes, often in a reel-to-reel manner at very high speed. Various protective layers and ink materials are added to paper surfaces via coating or printing processes with extraordinary good registration and resolution characteristics.
Imagine exchanging the inks and coating materials with solutions of organic insulators, semi-conductors and conductors using the same cartridges and coaters to print electronic circuits on webs of paper or other flexible films.
The vision for the development of organic electronics at Acreo is to take printing technology into production of electronic functions.
A group of chemists, physicists, electronics engineers and printing experts are broadly concerned with manufacturing of electronics on large area flexible substrates by using ink formulations based on electroactive polymers. The previous and ongoing projects are covering a wide field of future applications such as Displays, ID-functions, Indicators, Security functions etc. The activities span from basic research towards development of in-line production processes for R2R low-cost large-scale production.
Read about PaperDisplay: www.paperdisplay.se.
(Simple address to this page: www.acreo.se/Printed_electronics)