Call for Papers - Late News

OPEN FOR LATE News Poster Abstracts

Large-Area Electronics (LAE) is a new way of making electronics and includes printed, flexible, hybrid, plastic, organic and bio-electronics. LAE opens up new markets for electronics and expands existing products by adding new form factors, new functionality and enabling new cost structures. Applications abound in high growth industrial sectors such as healthcare and medical, sport and fitness, fast moving consumer goods, automotive, the Internet of Things, printing and packaging and smart wearables. The new form factors and flexibility possible with LAE allow electronic systems to be deployed in a wide variety of non-traditional situations: in and on paper, plastic, textiles, furniture, cars and buildings, as well as on packaging and even in and on the human body.

innoLAE 2024 represents a unique opportunity to hear the latest developments from academic and industrial teams active in LAE research and technology, including keynotes and invited talks from leading international organisations.

Our ninth annual conference, innoLAE 2024 will be on 21-22 February 2024, presenting a varied 2-day programme featuring contributions from academia and industry, highlighting the most recent and exciting innovations in LAE and new products incorporating LAE technologies. innoLAE 2024 will offer both plenary and parallel track oral presentations, a poster session with prizes awarded to the most promising scientific and technical developments, an exhibition with leading companies and organisations showcasing their latest products and developments, as well as extensive networking opportunities.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

We invite contributions to the conference programme on topics relating to LAE such as:

1. Manufacturing LAE components and systems

  • Addressing the challenges and opportunities of non-traditional substrates e.g. paper, plastics, metal, fabrics, living tissue

  • Improved and novel processes for LAE manufacturing offering higher throughput, sustainability, functionality, reliability, yield or lower cost

  • New approaches for LAE manufacturing including soft lithography, micro-contact printing, nano imprint lithography, self assembly

  • Roll-to-roll manufacture

  • Tackling the challenges of scale-up in LAE manufacturing, including metrology, yield, lean manufacture and design for manufacturing

  • 3D printing/in-mould printing/additive manufacture of electronics

  • Flexible hybrid electronics and novel interconnects - integrating organic or printed electronics with:

    1. thinned and unpackaged conventional semiconductor devices

    2. microscopic conventional components such as microLEDs

  • Stretchable and conformable electronics

  • Structural electronics

  • Integration of LAE components

  • Advancing the reliability and lifetime of LAE components and systems

2. High-performance materials for LAE including

  • Organic semiconductors

  • Metal oxides

  • Graphene, 2D and layered materials

  • Perovskite and perovskite-inspired materials

  • Quantum dots

  • Novel conductors and dielectrics

  • Stretchable and biocompatible materials

  • Biodegradable and recyclable materials

  • Discovery and design of new materials using machine learning

3. Novel devices and systems for LAE including

  • OLEDs for display and lighting

  • Near IR OLEDs and OPDs for medical applications

  • Transistors, diodes, sensors, detectors, etc.

  • Energy harvesting and storage using LAE (e.g. RF, piezo, thermal and solar harvesting, printable batteries, supercapacitors and wireless charging)

  • Third generation PV – organic, perovskite, QD, earth-abundant and other hybrids

  • Circuit elements e.g. amplifiers, A-D converters, multiplexers, microprocessors, microcontrollers etc.

  • Circuits incorporating LAE including multi-element LAE device arrays

  • LAE circuit design and modelling, including design automation

  • Flexible displays – both emissive and reflective

  • Gas sensors

  • Neuromorphic devices and circuits

4. Bioelectronics

  • LAE devices and systems for bioelectronics

  • New applications and business models for bioelectronics

  • Neural and neuromorphic electronics

  • Biosensors

  • Drug delivery devices

  • Wearable devices

  • Cutaneous and implantable devices

  • In vitro systems and printed organs

  • Printed scaffolds for bioelectronics

5. Applications of LAE including

  • Internet of Things

  • Smart textiles, E-textiles and smart garments

  • Displays

  • Automotive

  • Aerospace

  • Smart buildings / structural health monitoring

  • Security

  • Smart agriculture, agri-food sensors

  • Design of systems using LAE components for specific applications

  • Application case studies of new LAE systems used in market trials

6. Sustainability and energy efficiency

  • Contribution of LAE towards a sustainable economy and ‘net zero’

  • Use of LAE in devices/products for circular economy (batteries, solar, etc.)

  • Sustainable materials, end-of-life management, waste reduction

  • Recycling and reuse of LAE materials, components and systems and lifecycle analysis

Submissions

Abstracts for posters need to be submitted via email. For further submission instructions see the abstract guidelines. For more information about posters at innoLAE please see our poster guidelines.

In your email please provide the following information:

  • Poster title

  • Poster topic - please let us know which of the above topics your abstract falls under

  • Poster abstract - your abstract should be within the conference scope and topics listed above, it should be plain text, no more than 500 words, with a title of no more than 30 words

  • Poster figures (optional) - you can include up to 3 figures with your abstract

  • Author Photograph - please include a photograph of the author which will be used in the conference programme and on the website. The format should be .jpg, .bmp, .gif or .png, minimum 300x300 pixels.

  • Author biography - please include a short biography of the author, of no more than 150 words

  • Company/institution logo - Please include your company/institution logo which will be used in the conference programme and on the website. The format should be .bmp, .gif or .png, minimum 300x300 pixels.

If your files and information are too large for an email please send us a Dropbox link or use WeTransfer.

Email: info@innolae.org

  • Selection Criteria: The programme committee will check that late news poster submissions are within conference scope.

  • Conference Rates: Industry contributors whose papers are accepted for oral presentation may register for the conference at the discounted rate of £295 (£200 discount from the standard registration rate of £495). Academic contributors may also register for £295, and student contributors may register for £195.

Key dates

Now that the oral presentation submission deadline has passed, we are open for Late News Abstracts only which will be accepted as posters as long as they are within the scope of the conference.

Notification of oral presentations: We aim to notify contributors of the Programme Committee’s decision by 30 November 2023.

Late News Posters Deadline: We are open to submissions for Late News Posters until the day before the conference (20 February 2024).

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