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6th Framework Program FP6 The application of polymer electronics towards ambient intelligence The objective of the European research project PolyApply is to lay the foundations of a scalable and ubiquitously applicable communication technology. A key issue is to lower the production costs by moving to a new manufacturing technology: going from batch processing to in-line manufacturing technology. The semiconductor system envisaged to this end is based on polymers. Type of project : Integrated project, Thematic area : Information Society Technologies Project coordinator: STMicroelectronics S.r.l. Start date: 2004-01-01 End date : 2007-12-31
Flexible Displays The FlexiDis consortium will work on the development of materials and process technologies, with a connection to industrial equipment and handling, for flexible active-matrix displays. The consortium's goals are to further the research into rollable electrophoretic displays and full-color, ultra-thin OLED video displays. Type of project : Integrated project, Thematic area : Information Society Technologies Project coordinator : Philips Research Eindhoven. Molecular orientation, Low Band Gap and New Hybrid device concepts for the Improvement of Flexible Organic Solar Cells The goal of the MOLYCELL project is to overcome crucial obstacles for large-scale production of plastic solar cells. The project will focus on the development of two types of photovoltaic devices : all-organic solar cells and nanocrystal/organic hybrid solar cells. Type of project: Specific Targeted Research Project Thematic area : Energy Project coordinator : CEA Commissariat pour l’Energie Atomique. Start date: 2004-01-01 End date : 2006-6-30
Towards a permanent European advanced displays platformThe mission of ADRIA project is to strengthen the advanced displays (AD) community in Europe by creating a permanent European platform on AD technology and application, with the following objectives:
Type of project: Coordination action Action line: Advanced displays Project coordinator : VDMA Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Start date: 2004-10-01 End date : 2006-09-30
OLEDs for ICT & Next Generation Lighting Applications With a number of breakthroughs in materials, optics and production technology, OLEDs could become the ultimate light source for many applications, especially LCD backlighting, signage, signaling, advertising, emergency lighting. In the long term OLEDs will become the next generation light sources, replacing in about 10 years time the currently used incandescent and fluorescent lights. OLLA is the first step towards reaching this goal. To reach this challenging target, project partners will develop new high-efficient materials, research in parallel the most suitable architecture and cost effective processing technology and will build demonstrators, to demonstrate the full spectrum of opportunities with OLEDs. Type of project: Integrated Project Thematic area : Information Society Technologies Project coordinator : Philips Research Eindhoven. Start date: 2004-10-01 End date : 2008-6-30 SHIFTSmart High-Integration Flex TechnologiesThe objective of the project is the development of smart, high-integration, mechanically flexible electronic systems, for a wide variety of applications. “Smart” means that the flexible multilayer laminate has embedded components, and that the different flex layers in the multilayer structure can have different functions, meaning that it might be necessary to combine layers of different base material in the laminate. Compactness of the resulting circuit will be boosted in two ways : by using the third dimension for electronic component integration (not only on front and back side, but potentially on every conductive layer) and by drastically increasing the wiring density through the introduction of new flex manufacturing and lamination techniques. Type of project: Integrated Project Thematic area : Information Society Technologies Project coordinator: IMEC Interuniversitair Micro-Electronika Centrum vzw Start date: 2004-01-01 End date : 2008-12-31 NAPAEmerging Nanopatterning MethodsThe Emerging Nanopatterning Methods (NaPa) consortium integrates the new patterning methods into one project, both anticipating and responding to the increasing need for technologies, standards and metrology required to harness the new application-relevant properties of engineered structures with nm-scale features. NaPa brings together 35 leading academic and industrial European institutions with a vast amount of recent know-how on nanofabrication, partly developed within FP5 (35 partners). Type of project: Integrated Project Thematic Area: Information Society Technologies Project coordinator: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Start date: 2004-03-01 End date : 2008-02-29
CONTACTContact printing of electronics and opto-electroniCONTACT brings together a diverse team of researchers and engineers to develop a flexible and industrially compatible process for the fabrication of organic electronic arrays, by investigating gravure printing of the various components within the device. The potential of our results will be demonstrated as a proof of principle by the realization of two test displays, namely an optical triple-cell liquid-crystal display (LCD) and an all-plastic LCD. CONTACT will deliver a horizontal platform that allows the fabrication of a range of devices, from transistors to solar cells, sensors, light-emitting diodes and plastic displays. This will provide a significant enhancement of thin-film electronics in terms of cost, throughput, substrate choice and consistency, and reduce time to market as well as developing European precursor markets. Type of project: Specific Targeted Research Project Action line: Advanced displays Project coordinator Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Start date: 2004-07-01 End date : 2007-03-31
IMPROVEImproving Display and Rendering Technology for Virtual EnvironmentsThe aim of this project is to improve lightweight near-to-the-eye displays and tiled stereoscopic large size displays. The improvements on the hardware level consist in developing a unique stereoscopic head mounted display (HMD) using emerging display technology such as OLEDs. For tiled stereoscopic large screen displays improved calibration techniques will be developed to ease and accelerate their use. On the software level improvements comprise the fidelity of the content to be displayed (rendering quality), the interfacing between the user and the displays through innovative 2D/3D interaction techniques for mixed realities and advanced tracking systems. Two application scenarios will be considered: collaborative product design in the car industry and architectural design. Type of project: Specific Targeted Research Project Action line: Advanced displays Project coordinator Fraunhofer Gesellshaft zur foerderung der angewandten foreshung E.V.
ROLLEDRoll-to-roll manufacturing technology for flexible OLED devices and arbitrary size and shape displaysOrganic light emitting devices (OLED) are developing rapidly towards high performance displays. However, they also have huge potential for new low cost applications e.g. in packaging and printing industry. The project's goal is the development of a cost-effective, volume-scale, roll-to-roll manufacturing technology for the realization of flexible OLED devices with arbitrary size and shape pixels and displays on web. This requires selection and modification of suitable materials, effective patterning technologies, development of the manufacturing processes and improved encapsulation technologies.. Technologies are tested and demonstrated in the manufacturing process of demonstrator displays. Type of project: Specific Targeted Research Project Action line: Advanced displays Project coordinator Valtion Teknillinen Tutkimuskeskus Start date: 2004-08-01 End date : 2008-07-31
5th Framework Program FP5 Self-Assembling and Self-Healing Electronic Devices Based on Mesomorphic Discotic Materials Most optoelectronic devices rely on inorganic semiconductors. Organic semiconductors, principally conjugated polymers (CP), have the advantages, over their inorganic counterparts, of easier processing methods leading to lower fabrication costs of electronic devices. Potential applications of existing organic semiconductors are limited by their current low performances. Our problem solving approach is to replace CP by functional discotic liquid crystalline (LC) materials. Indeed, recent studies have shown that they exhibit significantly improved semi-conducting properties. This should pave the way to more efficient devices, such as: solar cells, light-emitting display, and field effect transistors. Type of project: Fifth Framework Program Thematic area : RTD Activities of a Generic Nature : materials and their technologies for production and transformation and new and improved materials and production technologies in the steel field Project coordinator : Université Libre de Bruxelles Start date: 2002-02-01 End date : 2004-01-31
Development of novel conjugated molecular nanostructures by lithography and their transport scaling aspects New nanostructures of conjugated molecules exhibiting enhanced charge mobility are pursued by template growh of the active material onto nanopatterned field effect transistors (FET). Downscaling the electrode spacing in inter-digitised FETs from micrometers will results into: i) reduction of defects and grain boundaries in the active region, ii) higher molecular order as a consequence of the fact thetultra-thin films of the active molecule can be used; iii) control of order and anisotropy through the template features. Our experiments will bridge the gap between micro- and nanometer-scale transport, reveal the possible crossover between different transport regimes in conjugated materials, and assess the limit for the intrinsic material response. These are crucial for improving a wide class of materials relevant to plastic electronics. Moreover, correlation between transport and morphology, and optical properties on the nanoscale will be established. The device fabrication will be carried out by integration of unconventional parallel lithography techniques and growth, and will be up-scaled in view of industrial production of low-cost large number organic integrated circuits. Type of project: Fifth Framework Programme Thematic area : RTD Activities of a Generic Nature : materials and their technologies for production and transformation and new and improved materials and production technologies in the steel fieldProject coordinator : CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Start date: 2001-01-01 End date : 2003-12-31 FLEXLEDFlexible Polymer Light Emitting Displays The ultimate goal of the FLEXled project is to demonstrate reliable flexible displays (RGB colour passive matrix) for consumer electronics applications, based on polymer light emitting diodes (PLED). The displays will be enabled by:
Type of project: Fifth Framework Programme Thematic area : Information Society Technologies Project coordinator : Philips Research Eindhoven.
PHOTOLEDDPhotopatternable Light Emitting Polymer Microdisplays with Unique 3D Capability The primary aim of this 18-month project is to develop novel photopatternable organic light emitting diode (p-OLED) RGB emitter materials and associated fabrication processes as the basis for making full colour p-OLED-on-silicon displays. This unique p-OLED technology is based on a photopatternable liquid crystalline polymer blue emitter doped with red and/or green fluorescent dyes to generate the RGB emission. The developed p-OLED materials will also provide the basis for the development of a new display with a unique stereoscopic 3D effect. The novel 3D technology is based on polarised emission of the RGB emitter materials. If the project is successful, it will pave the way for the world's first stereoscopic 3D binocular system based on a single display format. Thematic area : Information Society Technologies Project coordinator : CRL OPTO Ltd. Start date: 2003-01-01 End date : 2004-06-30 STEPLEDSinglet and Triplet Emission in Polymers for Light-Emitting DisplaysOrganic light-emitting diodes have been developed successfully in recent years for application in a wide range of displays. However the ultimate energy efficiency (lumen/W) had been considered limited to 25% because only 25% of electron hole captures events could lead to light-emitting excited states. Recent discoveries, however, indicate that this limit can be greatly exceeded. If this is achieved in polymer LEDs this will greatly extend energy efficiency and hence the range of applications, including both small hand-held displays and also very large displays. The STEPLED programme will develop the basic science in close coordination with display development (display and drivers), and will deliver polymer displays with at least 50 lumen/W efficiency (double presently available performance with polymers). Type of project: FP5 Cost-sharing contracts Thematic area : Information Society Technologies Project coordinator : University of Cambridge Start date: 2002-07-01 End date : 2004-06-30 On November 20th 2003 the Descartes prize for outstanding scientific and technological achievements resulting from European collaborative research was awarded to the STPLED project.
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