Organic and Large Area Electronics Cluster Meeting 2009
The Organic and Large Area Electronics Cluster Meeting 2009 was held at EC premises in Brussels on 13 -14 January 2009. This event, which brought together all active EC-funded projects in this field, aimed to:
- Encourage the exchange of information and best practices among projects
- Identify synergies and relevant topics for further cooperation
- Improve the performance of individual projects
- Build a critical mass of activities in the field of Flexible, Organic and Large Area Electronics
More than 70 attendees representing 23 different projects participated in this concertation meeting, which was opened by Augusto de Albuquerque, who analysed the evolution experienced in this area during both FP6 and FP7, the current situation and the challenges for Europe in the coming years.
The Organic and Large Area Electronics Project Portfolio collects the EC-funded projects in this domain in FP6 and the first ICT Call in FP7 (1.654KB)
The first day of the Organic and Large Area Electronics Cluster Meeting 2009 was structured in four sessions:
- "Lighting and displays", chaired by Henri Rajbenbach;
- "Flexible and large area electronics", chaired by Marc Boukerche;
- "Energy cost-efficient photovoltaics", chaired by Pedro Pires;
- "OLAE scenario: the projects structuring the area", chaired by Thomas Reibe.
The projects’ contributions were focused on presenting the objectives of the projects; their major technological challenges and solutions; and their results, exploitation potential, and benefits.
Special attention was given to topics which may benefit from cooperation within this cluster. To this end, three fruitful roundtable discussions on the key areas were held. Mary Kilitziraki chaired the one on "Encapsulation, Passivation, Barriers, Measurement"; Jose Magarino chaired the one on "Contacts and interfaces"; and Wilfried Loevenich chaired the one on "Transparent Conductors".
Finally, the Organic and Large Area Electronics Cluster Meeting 2009 concluded with presentations of the R&D ICT objectives in this domain - " Flexible, organic and large area electronics " by Thomas Reibe; and " Organic Photonics and other disruptive photonics technologies " by Michael Hohenbichler.