Organic R&D In Sweden
The national Foundation for Strategic Research (SFF) is giving SEK31mn in funding over five years to a Centre for Organic Electronics (COE).
This site will develop methods for printing electronic components in the same way as ink on paper, which makes inexpensive large-scale production possible. Self-organising nanostructure techniques - polymers that organise themselves in different layers as they dry from a liquid to a solid phase - will also be studied.
Applications include low-cost printed solar cells that can be fastened to the roofs of buildings as easily as tar paper. Another is low-voltage light emitting plastic materials that in laboratory tests have been able to generate as much light as a fluorescent lamp.
In connection with COE, Linköping University has also been granted SEK3.8mn by the Swedish Research Council. This grant is earmarked for a printing press for electronic paper.
