Press Release

How to print OLEDs

OLEDs have huge market potential including 10% of the replacement market for lighting meaning 70 square kilometers per year. This is because they will be more energy efficient and have more freedom of form. That was the message of the Holst Research Center of the High Tech Campus of Eindhoven in the Netherlands at the world's largest conference and exhibition on printed electronics in Dresden Germany in April. This was the Printed Electronics Europe event of IDTechEx. It will now be leapfrogged by the sister event Printed Electronics USA in San Jose California being even bigger.

The Holst Center is jointly owned by IMEC of Belgium and TNO of the Netherlands - both formidable research centers in their own right. It has used piezo inkjet and gravure printing and will also examine roll to roll slot die coating for the manufacture of OLEDs.

The HTC already hosts over 50 collaborating companies and it is growing from 5000 to 8000 researchers sharing laboratory facilities (www.miplaza.com). It is one of three large centers of excellence in Printed Electronics in Europe, the other two being Dresden and Cambridge.