Speacker: dott. Valerio Beni, Senior scientist presso il Department of Printed Electronics del RISE-Research Institue of Sweden

Abstract: 

The continuous demands for increasing in added values, novel areas of application, reduction in environmental impact and in manufacturing costs are the major driving forces for innovation in sectors as healthcare, logistic and smart building. These challenges boosted the need for the development of alternative and more cost-effective fabrication and integration processes; organic printed electronics, when combined with state-of-the-art integration solutions, have been demonstrated to have high potentialities in this area. In this lecture some successful stories on the application of organic printed electronic and hybrid printed electronics will be presented as a way to introduce printed electronics and to highlight its potentialities. In the first part examples of the use of organic printed electronic for components development (e.g. display, sensors, actuators and energy storage units) will be presented. Finally, it will be presented how pick and place technology could be used to integrate different functional components, printed and Si-based (hybrid-printed electronic), for the development of use-and-throw systems and their application in biosensing and the safe storage and distribution of temperature sensitive goods.