Enthusiasm for New Printed Electronics Conference in Tokyo

Speaker Takashi Kobayashi, RFID manager in Marubeni Corporation, says, “IDTechEx Conferences are fantastic and I learned a lot. I believe Printed Electronics Asia will become a great event and I am really excited to join. We can get more about new technology at the event.”

For example, whereas use of carbon nanotubes, quantum dots or antimony indium oxide to replace ITO are speculative and unproven at present, speaker Ron Lubianez of H.C. Starck Inc in the U.S. says, “We believe that the impending indium shortage is serious and our high conductivity BAYTRON coating as an ITO replacement is a viable alternative.” Recently, it has been used successfully in OLED displays in the USA and in OLED lighting in Europe to replace ITO, and Fujitsu America has recently announced an organic ITO replacement in its new touch screens, available in volume in Q3 of 2007. The transparency/ conductivity compromise is not the same as ITO and this will be discussed at the conference.