Seminar with focus on Energy Technology and Energy Efficiency at NANOFAIR 2008
13 March 2008
Austria
Organic Materials make various new devices for the information technology possible. Displays based on organic light-emitting diodes are already established on the market. Further applications are among others OLED lighting solutions, signage, organic solar cells or memories.
In the last years Dresden has developed to a research center for organic materials and systems. In order to transfer the results to production further improvements in the production process and the establishment as well as the testing of first pilot-production lines are necessary. That is why a Center of Organic Materials and Electronic Devices Dresden (COMEDD) was founded at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS). COMEDD combines research and development activities for the production, integration and technology of organic devices. The mission of COMEDD is the customer and application specific research, development and pilot production of novel device concepts and production methods for vacuum deposited organic materials. The aim of this center is actually the creation of a production-related and European-wide leading research and development center for organic semiconductors focussing on organic light-emitting diodes and vacuum technology. The activities are supported by the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the Free-State of Saxony, the German State as well as by the EU with additional investments of 25 millions Euros for the infrastructure.
The center offers research, development and pilot production especially for the following fields of application:
1. OLED lighting and signage
2. OLED on CMOS integration
3. Organic Solar Cells
COMEDD of Fraunhofer IPMS shows exhibits at NANOFAIR 2008 dealing with:
1. Transparent OLED light sources and displays
OLED displays are featured by a high contrast, low power input and minor thickness. Due to the minor thickness of the OLED layer the production of transparent displays is also possible. Information on such displays can be read from both sides and in the off-state they are transparent. Applications of these highly transparent displays are in the field of the automotive industry and in the medical science – displays with three-dimensional appearance, transparent or two-way displays. Furthermore, they can be used as design elements and due to their variability in shape and size there is a wide range of application. During the fair the Fraunhofer IPMS will present novel displays with a very high level of transparency for the automotive industry.
2. OLED on silicon integration
So far there is no technology capable in combining monolithic integration of highly efficient and stable light sources into standard silicon CMOS. For the first time the OLED technology allows both large-area deposition and micro-patterning of light emitters on top of uppermost metal layers of CMOS chips. Therefore CMOS active area space below the OLED electrode is available for additional circuitry in a System-on-Chip setup, including OLED driving (as minor part of it). The OLED processing is performed by post-processing at wafer-level, a return of the wafers into CMOS processes is not required. Major applications are expected for microdisplays and optoelectronics (organic microsystems).
Applications for microdisplays:
- electronic viewfinder
- projection
- head mounted displays (mobile communication,
consumer electronic, ...)
- optical inspection
- patterend illumination
Opto electronic applications:
- light barriers (reflection type)
- opto-couplers
- optical sensors (chemical, medical fluorescence,
photoplethysmography, ...)
- communication (chip-to-chip, board-to-board,
chip-to board)
The Fraunhofer IPMS offers developments in these innovative fields of application. During the fair, the Fraunhofer IPMS will present highly efficient OLEDs integrated into silicon backplanes in the form of rows or arrays for opto electronic and microdisplay applications.
This year directly following on from the Nanofair on 13. March 2008 together with two other Fraunhofer Institutes in Dresden (Materials and Beam Technology; Ceramic Technologies and Systems) the Fraunhofer IPMS is inviting guests for a day of seminars combined with laboratory visits. Three parallel running seminar programmes will focus on Energy Technology and Energy Efficiency:
1. Thin layer organic devices for energy
saving and production
2. Coating and plasma processes for energy
efficiency and photovoltaics
3. Materials for fuel cells and photovoltaics.
Registration for the seminar programme is via e-mail:
nanofair@iws.fraunhofer.de (Birgit Heinz).
The one day programme and seminar topics on the seminar programmes will be available at:
http://www.nanotechnology.de(opens in new window).
Please note that there will be no additional fee for this programme but participation is limited to a total of 50 persons.
In the last years Dresden has developed to a research center for organic materials and systems. In order to transfer the results to production further improvements in the production process and the establishment as well as the testing of first pilot-production lines are necessary. That is why a Center of Organic Materials and Electronic Devices Dresden (COMEDD) was founded at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS). COMEDD combines research and development activities for the production, integration and technology of organic devices. The mission of COMEDD is the customer and application specific research, development and pilot production of novel device concepts and production methods for vacuum deposited organic materials. The aim of this center is actually the creation of a production-related and European-wide leading research and development center for organic semiconductors focussing on organic light-emitting diodes and vacuum technology. The activities are supported by the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the Free-State of Saxony, the German State as well as by the EU with additional investments of 25 millions Euros for the infrastructure.
The center offers research, development and pilot production especially for the following fields of application:
1. OLED lighting and signage
2. OLED on CMOS integration
3. Organic Solar Cells
COMEDD of Fraunhofer IPMS shows exhibits at NANOFAIR 2008 dealing with:
1. Transparent OLED light sources and displays
OLED displays are featured by a high contrast, low power input and minor thickness. Due to the minor thickness of the OLED layer the production of transparent displays is also possible. Information on such displays can be read from both sides and in the off-state they are transparent. Applications of these highly transparent displays are in the field of the automotive industry and in the medical science – displays with three-dimensional appearance, transparent or two-way displays. Furthermore, they can be used as design elements and due to their variability in shape and size there is a wide range of application. During the fair the Fraunhofer IPMS will present novel displays with a very high level of transparency for the automotive industry.
2. OLED on silicon integration
So far there is no technology capable in combining monolithic integration of highly efficient and stable light sources into standard silicon CMOS. For the first time the OLED technology allows both large-area deposition and micro-patterning of light emitters on top of uppermost metal layers of CMOS chips. Therefore CMOS active area space below the OLED electrode is available for additional circuitry in a System-on-Chip setup, including OLED driving (as minor part of it). The OLED processing is performed by post-processing at wafer-level, a return of the wafers into CMOS processes is not required. Major applications are expected for microdisplays and optoelectronics (organic microsystems).
Applications for microdisplays:
- electronic viewfinder
- projection
- head mounted displays (mobile communication,
consumer electronic, ...)
- optical inspection
- patterend illumination
Opto electronic applications:
- light barriers (reflection type)
- opto-couplers
- optical sensors (chemical, medical fluorescence,
photoplethysmography, ...)
- communication (chip-to-chip, board-to-board,
chip-to board)
The Fraunhofer IPMS offers developments in these innovative fields of application. During the fair, the Fraunhofer IPMS will present highly efficient OLEDs integrated into silicon backplanes in the form of rows or arrays for opto electronic and microdisplay applications.
This year directly following on from the Nanofair on 13. March 2008 together with two other Fraunhofer Institutes in Dresden (Materials and Beam Technology; Ceramic Technologies and Systems) the Fraunhofer IPMS is inviting guests for a day of seminars combined with laboratory visits. Three parallel running seminar programmes will focus on Energy Technology and Energy Efficiency:
1. Thin layer organic devices for energy
saving and production
2. Coating and plasma processes for energy
efficiency and photovoltaics
3. Materials for fuel cells and photovoltaics.
Registration for the seminar programme is via e-mail:
nanofair@iws.fraunhofer.de (Birgit Heinz).
The one day programme and seminar topics on the seminar programmes will be available at:
http://www.nanotechnology.de(opens in new window).
Please note that there will be no additional fee for this programme but participation is limited to a total of 50 persons.