innoLAE 2025 Topics

The innoLAE (Innovations in Large Area Electronics) conference focuses on new ways to make electronics, leveraging novel processes and new functional materials to provide electronic functionality in thin, flexible and transparent designs. If your work features any of the topics below, we encourage you to submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation for the next conference. 

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


Submit your abstract

innoLAE 2025 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.

If you have new technology, developments or research covering any of the topics above, we want to hear from you!