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Xaar Develops Inkjet Printed Memory
Applications
Xaar and Thin Film Electronics ASA have entered in to an agreement to jointly develop industrial inkjet methods and processes that can be used for producing printed memory applications.
Xaar and Thin Film Electronics ASA, a provider of non-volatile polymer memory technologies, have entered in to an agreement to jointly develop industrial inkjet methods and processes that can be used for producing printed memory applications The development agreement is built on TFE's intellectual property for printable memory materials and Xaar's intellectual property, equipment and systems for printing functional materials
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 13 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The collaboration is a continuation of TFE's and XAAR's previous collaboration leading up to the successful development, realisation and announcement of what was claimed to be the world's first printed ferro-electric memory array at Ipex '06 held last April.
Johan Carlsson, chief executive officer of Thin Film Electronics, said: "Last year we demonstrated the world's first functional, fully printed memory together with Xaar.
We will now, in this joint effort, prove our technology's capability to be manufactured using industry standard inkjet equipment for high volumes." He continued: "Xaar is an ideal partner for us given its technology and market leadership in inkjet technology.
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Furthermore, the collaboration with Xaar will open up new and exciting opportunities for the printed electronics industry, including many long sought after applications, such as RFID-based electronic product codes." Werner Zapka, head of Xaar's advanced applications technology team, commented: "We have together with TFE already demonstrated a fully printed functional memory with unique characteristics using our inkjet 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 inkjet systems for production of printed electronics products in general." He explained: "In this joint effort with TFE, we will demonstrate that our industrial ink-jet manufacturing technology is capable of controlling material properties to produce devices with desired electronic functions.
To verify this, we are under this joint development agreement planning to produce thousands of product samples at our manufacturing and development site in Jarfalla in Sweden." Xaar said that printed electronics is a rapidly emerging industry that takes advantage of high-speed and low-cost printing technologies to manufacture electronics in a variety of form factors, including on thin, 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.
The company added that the new enabling technology will permit electronic functionality to be embedded in to products that were previously considered incompatible due to cost, performance or form-factor limitations.
Thin Film Electronics is said to be pioneering the use of polymer materials for non-volatile memory applications.
TFE's solution based and printable material, architecture and process is the only known and demonstrated implementation of printed memories, believes Xaar.
Previously, dense functional memories have been demonstrated by TFE, using traditional silicon-based chips processing methods.
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