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Flexible partnership grows
BASF enters Holst Centre partner network on flexible electronics
BASF and Holst Centre, an open-innovation research initiative by imec (B) and TNO (NL), announced their partnership on research for flexible electronics. By entering the existing research network around shared roadmaps and challenges, BASF will contribute to and get insight in the progress on organic circuitry and thin-film transistors on flexible substrates.
Over the past years, organic and oxide transistors on flexible substrates have gained a lot of academic and industrial interest. Backplanes for displays and complementary-logic (CMOS) circuits are amongst the research domains that receive considerable attention. BASF is considered a leading global player in the enabling materials for such flexible electronic systems; for example n-type and p-type organic semiconductors and organic dielectrics
At Holst Centre, partners from across the value chain collaborate in shared programs to tackle the research challenges for next generation products. Already, over 30 leading materials suppliers, equipment builders and end-product manufacturers are actively involved in the mixed teams with Holst Centre researchers on the domains of flexible electronics and wireless sensor technologies. The recent partnership agreement with BASF adds another important player to the open innovation eco-system. Together with the consortium of partners, Holst Centre aims to upscale flexible electronics technologies towards large-volume compatible processes.
Paul Heremans, Program Manager Organic and Oxide Transistors: "In close collaboration between teams in Eindhoven and imec teams in Leuven, our program has delivered some globally recognized scientific results over the past years. We are very pleased to also see industrial interest growing. The partnership with BASF supports us in our ambition to bridge fundamental research with industrially relevant technology development."
"For BASF, Holst Centre's competences are an ideal fit with our own competences in printed and organic electronics," explains Dr. Stephan Klotz, Director Printed Electronics at BASF Future Business. "The cooperation will further enhance our ability to develop innovative and fit-for-purpose semiconducting materials for high end electronic applications."
