Program at a Glance
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Keynote Speaker

Prof. Paul L. Heremans
Biography
Director at Holst Centre
IMEC Fellow
Professor at KU Leuven
“Flexible a-IGZO Thin-Film Transistors
and Applications in Thin-Film
Integrated Circuits”
Date / Time
September 6 (Tue) 9:30 – 10:30
Plenary Speakers

Mr. Yoneharu Takubo
Biography
CTO (Chief Technology Officer), JOLED Inc.
“The strategy of JOLED to challenge innovation”
Date / Time
September 7 (Wed) 9:30 – 10:30

Dr. Chih-I Wu
Biography
General Director
Electronics and Optoelectronics Research Laboratory
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)
“Flexible electronics in ITRI”
Date / Time
September 7 (Wed) 11:00 – 12:00

Dr. Akira Yoshino
Biography
Advisor, Asahi Kasei Corp.
President, Lithium Ion Battery
Technology and Evaluation Center (LIBTEC)
“Lithium Ion Battery – Current, Past and Future -“
Date / Time
September 8 (Thu) 9:30 – 10:30

Dr. Melissa E. Grupen-Shemansky
Biography
CTO, Flexible Electronics & Advanced Packaging
SEMI FlexTech
“Flexible Hybrid Electronics Opportunities and Ecosystem Development”
Date / Time
September 6 (Tue) 11:00-12:00
Invited Speakers
- Session 1
- Session 2
- Session 3
- Session 4
- Session 5
- Session 6
- Session 7
- Session 8
- Session 9
- Session 10
- Session 11
- Session 12
- Session 13
- Session 14
- Session 15
- Session 16
- Session 17
- Session 18
- Session 19
Session 1 ”Flexible & Printed Displays”
- Chair
- Yoshihide Fujisaki, NHK (Japan)
- Co-Chair
-
Chen-Chu Tsai
Deputy R&D Director
Display Technology Center (DTC)
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) (Taiwan)
Invited Speakers

Mr. Yoshiharu Hirakata
Advanced Film Device Inc. (Japan)
“High-Resolution Flexible OLED Display using CAAC-OS”

Dr. Chen-Chu Tsai
Deputy R&D Director
Display Technology Center (DTC)
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) (Taiwan)
“Ultrathin Foldable AMOLED with On-cell Touch Panel”
Dr. Manabu Ito
Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (Japan)
“Printing Technologies for Flexible Organic TFT Array”
Session 2 ”Printed and Flexible Integrated Circuits”
- Chair
- Romain Gwoziecki, CEA Liten (France)
Invited Speakers
Dr. Gregory Whiting
Palo Alto Research Center (USA)
Prof. Jan Genoe
IMEC (Belgium)
Session 3 ”Fine Line Process & Equipment”
- Chair
- Jupiter Hu, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) (Taiwan)
- Co-Chair
- Cheng-Yao Lo, National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)

Invited Speakers
Mr. Satoru Kuramochi
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (Japan)
“Technology Trend of Fine Print Circuit Advances and Glass Substrate for Advanced Package”

Dr. Su-Tsai Lu
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) (Taiwan)
“Roll-to-Roll Fine Line Printing Solution for Flexible Electronics”
Session 4 ”OLED Lighting”
- Chair
- Yong-Jin Pu, Yamagata University (Japan)
- Co-Chair
- Sung Min Cho, Sungkyunkwan University (Korea)
Invited Speakers
Prof. Junji Kido
Yamagata University (Japan)

Prof. Sung Min Cho
Sungkyunkwan University (Korea)
“Roll-to-roll Processes for Flexible OLED Lighting”
Session 5 ”Hybrid Integration & Applications”
- Chair
-

Jukka Hast, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. (Finland)
Invited Speakers

Prof. Matti Mäntysalo
Tampere University of Technology (Finland)
“Integrating Printed and Silicon Electronics”
Session 6 ”R2R Process & Equipment”
- Chair
- Gyoujin Cho, Sunchon University (Korea)
Invited Speakers

Prof. Kee-Hyun Shin
Toba Co., Ltd & Konkuk University (Korea)
“Manufacturing of Vitamin D Films using a Roll-to-Roll Coating Process”
Prof. Jukka Hast
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. (Finland)
“Roll-to-Roll Printed Large Area TOLED Modules”
Session 7 ”OTFT Physics”
- Chair
- Radu Sporea, University of Surrey (UK)
- Co-Chair
- Chao Jiang, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (China)
Invited Speakers

Prof. Jun Takeya
The University of Tokyo (Japan)
“High-mobility strained organic semiconductor single crystals”

Prof. /Dr. Xiaojun Guo
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
“Improving the Switching Efficiency of Fully-Printable Organic Field Effect Transistors”
Session 8 ”Printed OPV”
- Chair
- Tsukasa Yoshida, Yamagata University (Japan)
- Co-Chair
- Jingbo Zhang, Tianjin Normal University (China)
Invited Speakers

Prof. Xiao-Feng Wang
Jilin University (China)
“Low-temperature processed metal oxides as electron collection layer for efficient perovskite solar cells”

Dr. Zacharie Jehl
Researcher, The University of Tokyo (Japan)
“Design of energy selective contacts for hot carrier solar cells”
Session 9 ”Flexible Medical Sensors”
- Chair
- Takao Someya, The University of Tokyo (Japan)
- Co-Chair
- Naoki Matsuda, AIST (Japan)
Invited Speakers

Prof. Dae-Hyeong Kim
Seoul National University (Korea)
“Soft Bioelectronics for Surgical Endoscope and Diabetes Patch”
Prof. Tsuyoshi Sekitani
Osaka University (Japan)
“Ultraflexible organic amplifier with biocompatible gel electrodes”
Session 10 ”Conductive & Functional Inks”
- Chair
- Zheng Cui, Suzhou Institute of Nanotech (China)
- Co-Chair
- Zijian Zheng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (China)
Invited Speakers

Prof. Yanlin Song
Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
“Green Printing Nano-technology for Manufacturing Photonics and Electronic”

Prof. ⁄ Dr. Jianwen Zhao
Suzhou Institute of Nanotech and Nanobionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
“Printable functional inks and applications in printed electronics”
Session 11 ”Organic Semiconductor Materials”
- Chair
- Kazuo Takimiya, RIKEN (Japan)
- Co-Chair
- Antonio Facchetti, Polyera Corporation (USA)
Invited Speakers
Prof. Yen-Ju Cheng
National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan)
“Design and Synthesis of Organic Functional Materials for Solar Cell and Transistor Applications”

Dr. Yutaka Ie
Osaka University (Japan)
“Development of Electron-Transporting π-Conjugated Systems for Organic Semiconducting Materials”

Dr. Prashant Sonar
Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
“Fused Aromatic π-Functional Polymeric Semiconductors for Organic and Printed Electronics”
Session 12 ”Inorganic TFT Technology”
- Chair
- Yukiharu Uraoka, NAIST (Japan)
- Co-Chair
- Mitsuru Nakata, NHK (Japan)
Invited Speakers

Dr. Radu Alexandru Sporea
University of Surrey (UK)
“Performance uniformity and manufacturability of thin-film source-gated transistors”

Prof. Jae Kyeong Jeong
Professor, Hanyang University (Korea)
“Solution Processable Metal Oxide Field-Effect Transistors with Printing Copper Interconnectt”

Dr. Ryoichi Ishihara
Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands)
“Printed Poly-Si on Paper using Liquid-Si for Beyond Plastic
Electronics”
Session 13 ”Paper Electronics”
- Chair
- Masaya Nogi, Osaka University (Japan)
- Co-Chair
- Toshiharu Enomae, Tsukuba University (Japan)
Invited Speakers

Prof. Hongli Zhu
Northeastern University (USA)
“Flexible Transparent Nanopaper Electronics”
Mr. Keiichi Kajita
Oji Holdings Co. (Japan)
“Development of Transparent Cellulose Nano Fiber Film for Flexible Displays”
Session 14 ”Chemical & Bio Sensors”
- Chair
- Osamu Niwa, Saitama Institute of Technology (Japan)
- Co-Chair
- Tsuyoshi Minami, The University of Tokyo (Japan)
Invited Speakers
Dr. Chao-Min Cheng
Associate Professor, National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)
Prof. Kohji Mitsubayashi
Tokyo Medical and Dental University (Japan)
“Cavitas sensors for bio⁄chemical monitoring : Soft-contact lens & Mouthgurard sensors”
Session 15 ”Flexible Substrate & Barriers”
- Chair
- Mitsuhiro Koden, Yamagata University (Japan)
- Co-Chair
- Tzeng-Yow Lin, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) (Taiwan)
Invited Speakers

Dr. Tzeng-Yow Lin
Industrial Technology Research Institute, (ITRI) ⁄ Center for Measurement Standards (Taiwan)
“Overview of Taiwan Standards Harmonization on Flexible Displays”

Prof. Kazukiyo Nagai
Meiji University (Japan)
“Gas barrier for encapsulation of flexible and printed electronic devices”
Session 16 ”Frontier Energy Devices”
- Chair
- Takao Ishida, AIST (Japan)
- Co-Chair
- Satoru Konabe, Tokyo University of Science (Japan)
Invited Speakers

Dr. Tsuyohiko Fujigaya
Associate Professor, Kyushu University (Japan)
“Fabrication of air-stable thermoelectric materials based on single-walled carbon nanotubes”

Dr. Ruoming Tian
Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute (Japan)
“Scalable inorganic/organic hybrid film towards flexible thermoelectric modules”
Session 17 ”Measurement & Evaluation”
- Chair
- Hiroyoshi Naito, Osaka Prefecture University (Japan)
- Co-Chair
- Furong Zhu, Hong Kong Baptist University(Hong Kong)
Invited Speakers

Prof. Takaaki Manaka
Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
“Visualization and analysis of carrier behavior in organic semiconductor thin films”

Prof. Ronald Österbacka
Åbo Akademi University (Finland)
“Charge Extraction by a Linearly Increasing Voltage in the Doping-Induced Capacitive Regime”
Session 18 ”OE-A: New Technologies and Applications for Printed Electronics”
- Chair
- Klaus Hecker, OE-A (Germany)
- Co-Chair
- Reinhard R. Baumann, TU Chemnitz (Germany)
Invited Speakers

Mr. Stan Farnsworth
Nova Centrix (USA)
“Enabling Printed Electronics : Photonic Curing of Inkjet Printed Conductors”

Dr. Giovanni Nisato
CSEM S.A. (Switzerland)
“Towards next generations OPV: key results of the Sunflower EU project”

Prof. ⁄ Dr. Reinhard R. Baumann
Technische Universität Chemnitz (Germany)
“Inkjet Material Deposition Beyond Color”
Dr. Fabrice Domingues Dos Santos
Arkema – Piezotech (France)
“Fluorinated Electroactive Polymers for Printed Electronics”
Session 19 ”German Flexible Electronics from Saxony”
- Chair
- Dominik Gronarz, Organic Electronics Saxony – OES (Germany)

Invited Speakers

Dr. Stefan Mogck
Fraunhofer FEP (Germany)
“Flexible Substrates for Toll-to-Roll OLED Manufacturing”

Dr. Johannes Widmer
IAPP and IAP, TU Dresden (Germany)
“Vertical organic field effect transistors – novel devices”

Dr. Andreas Willert
Fraunhofer ENAS (Germany)
“Tailoring of Printed Primary Batteries”
