Where Will Paper Electronics Find Success Next?

Professor Elvira Maria Fortunato of the New University of Lisbon will speak on “Paper as a Substrate and Functional Component in Logic.” Her discovery is that paper can form the gate dielectric in printed transistors and she will report how this is progressing to commercialization.

There will also be presentations by the companies Enfucell and Blue Spark, which have many sales successes based on thin, flexible batteries made by patterning and impregnating paper in plastic film. Indeed, both will focus on applications in their presentations. P&G’s Braun division presents on introduction of electronics into the Pampers paper products and consumer goods giants Mars and the Metro Group and Abbott Laboratories in healthcare diagnostics will detail their needs.