OPE journal - No 1 2012

Pooling resources
Cooperation may be one way to get organic photovoltaics to a marketable position

Innovation
for the records
The most efficient organic solar cell was not printed but produced using vacuum deposition

Precious rays of light
How OPV research and helping people in developing countries can go hand in hand

“We can imagine anything”
Outsourcing R&D projects works in the pharmaceutical industry and may well work in OPE

Scalability as a key to success
In emerging technologies like organic and printed electronics, laboratory lines need to be transferable to mass production says Miguel Friedrich of nTact

One system – limitless possibilities
Can completely different products such as battery electrodes and organic solar cells be processed on the same coating system? OPE journal asked a leading coating system manufacturer, Hamburg-based KROENERT GmbH & Co KG to comment

The better alternative
Sometimes old knowledge paves the way for new technologies

Helping the industry to get mature
How nanoparticle based liquids can enhance your products

Atom by atom
Atomic layer deposition is showing its strength where barrier properties are needed in flexible electronics

Mind the substrate
The role to be played by smooth films is sometimes still underestimated in organic and printed electronics so DuPont Teijin Films UK set out to educate this industry before it experienced problems downstream when it came to processing

All from one hand
A hybrid approach may be one way to ensure fault free production

Enabling the “Internet of Things”
Addressable memory make interaction with everyday objects possible

The future is already here
At LOPE-C in Munich you can take a look at fascinating new ideas and tomorrow’s solutions of the organic and printed electronics industry

A very fishy story
Head of Kroenert Group’s Technology Centre, Dr Wolfgang Neumann, seeks adventure in the land of the midnight sun