The UK’s Centre for Process Innovation has released a video with a concept automobile that uses all sorts of printed electronic devices. There’s a nice OLED Lighting strip surrounding the car, and also flexible OLED panels on the dashboard.
The OLED prototype is designed to enable materials companies, device designers and end users to develop their technology within a fully automated, controlled environment. The system supports both small evaporised and soluble OLED materials, and the line uses slot die technology to allow the coating of substrates in a highly repeatable and reproducible manner with a uniform film thickness of under 50 nanometres.
CPI is a UK based R&D institute that helps companies develop and scale manufacturing processes. CPI caters for the pharma, food, chemical, energy, transportation and printable electronics markets. It is a non-profit institute funded by the UK government, the private sector (through contract R&D services) and matched-funding EU projects.
CPI hosts UK’s printed electronics technology center which includes an OLED/OPV prototype line that can produce up to 20 samples per day with a panel size from 100 mm to 200 mm square. The line has slot-die and spin coating modules, metal and organic evaporation and encapsulation and enables deposition of P-OLED and small molecule OLED materials.
