The development agreement is built on TFE's Intellectual Property for
printable memory materials, and Xaar's Intellectual Property, equipment
and solutions for printing functional materials.
his collaboration is a continuation of TFE's and XAAR's previous
collaboration leading up to the successful development, realisation and
announcement of the world's first printed ferro-electric memory array
at the 2006 IPEX trade show last year.
Werner Zapka, head of Xaar's advanced applications technology team
says: “Together we have already demonstrated a fully printed functional
memory with unique characteristics using Xaar's ink-jet technology.
“As the printed electronics market continues to evolve and expand, we
see numerous opportunities for products that include memory and with
that we see a market need for our ink-jet solutions for production of
printed electronics products in general.”
Johan Carlsson, CEO of Thin Film Electronics says the collaboration
with Xaar will open up new opportunities for the printed electronics
industry, including many long sought after applications such as
RFID-based electronic product codes.
Printed electronics is a rapidly emerging industry that takes advantage
of high-speed and low-cost printing technologies to manufacture
electronics in a wide variety of form factors, including on thin and/or
flexible substrates.
Through the use of printing techniques and functional materials,
electronic circuits can be manufactured very efficiently and in high
volumes as compared to traditional electronics fabrication methods,
Carlsson says.
“This new enabling technology will permit electronic functionality to
be embedded into products that were previously considered incompatible
due to cost, performance or form-factor limitations.”
Thin Film Electronics is pioneering the use of polymer materials for non-volatile memory applications.
