 This is the booth of iMac and the whole center presenting thin film transistor technology on flexible plastic film and Electronics thinner than paper as we call it. So these are playing cards, right? This are playing cards with our partner company Carter Moonsie So this is a famous company making playing cards the number one in the world or They you most likely know them more from their brands than from the company name. They make Monopoly uno Magical gathering and these kind of brands so it looks like normal cards, but there's pretty little electronics inside Yes, this is this is not not a normal card This is a connected card because in Each of these cars there is a small small plastic chip inside and actually the inside is looking like that So it's an RFID tag With a with a standard commercial RFID antenna and a plastic RFID chip Here is the chip. There is no silicon. It's all made of plastic and this is a 12-bit RFID Transponder chip that's cool So in this kind of chip they can communicate to a reader device that was specifically made for the purpose of this project so here you see the reader and Here you see the interaction of the reader is a is a game card From this side here is Here is the king What we show here just for the sake of this small demo we have a game of Higher or lower so you need to guess cars and you need to guess if the next card is going to be higher or lower than this card So let's say let's say we believe that the next card is higher higher than one I think it's higher than one. So King is higher. Let's do the king. What are no Not correct. Not correct. It's not guess right. I guess this is the game All right Actually, what the purpose of this game is just to show that Electronics can be inside the paper. You can't feel it. You can't see it. It's very important for the cards It feels like exactly like real playing cards. This is exactly like a real playing cards And therefore we say electronics thinner than paper. So the thickness of this technology is Below 50 micron. I think this is perfect for magic tricks for magic tricks. Absolutely. You can sell some The magician would know what's in the on the other side and what are we looking in here? Here's the way how we make this technology. So this is a plate sheet by sheet shut sheet to sheet processing and as you see here the very thin plastic film is laminated onto a temporary glass carrier substrate and this is this is the electronics So these are the different test structures and different sheets that you see in this area So it's processed on a plate and Anybody can hear in there These are the smaller samples. Actually, this is the most complex system that was made and this technology. This is an 8-bit microprocessor What 8-bit 8-bit microprocessor? So In a sense very very very similar to the first microprocessor of Intel that was made 40 years ago of arm. Oh, it's Intel like Intel Very similar spec to the first microprocessor of Intel 40 years ago 30 years ago, but now it's made of plastic So can you explain what kind of a shape what kind of a what's going on in there? So if you if you really look very closely in such you see these individuals all squares and the each square is a transistor So this is a circuit combining three to four thousand of thin film transistors It's a unipolar technology at low temperature on plastic foil Actually, this is a full microprocessor operations. It's a general purpose microprocessor. Of course, it's very slow compared to We don't need traditional silicon devices But there are applications where where it is simple small circuits can be can be used. Can it is it actually being used? I mean, are you are you able to run apps on the run software on this already or what? No, that's the technology demonstration now to demonstrate what the thin film technology is capable of at the moment We are looking actually for use case applications with these companies to Demonstrate this technology is many applications. So cars is the one of them. The next one will be smart packaging Smart sensors and these kind of things. This is all on the road map. How far is it very soon smart? The first product of RFID. This is something that we are now taking to a York actually bringing this maybe to millions of people RFID cards to millions of gamers. How about this? Processor Processor will go will go next So and if you can find applications in smart packaging and interactive interactive goods and interactive paper and Things like that. So we have a road map of products and we want to bring all of them to possible to Applications in very concrete cases, but also to manufacturing in volume But you need a flexible battery and a flexible display also. Can you do that? Yes, we have we have that we have an activity on flexible display as well Maybe I can show you some prototypes there So this is this is another application of the same technology So you see the film factor and everything is very similar, but this is a flexible AMOLED display on the plastic film AMOLED It's the future of flexible and foldable displays and imagine the phone that Unfolds like that. It comes twice bigger when you need to read something. Can you make it happen now? What do you need? Partners investments or no, we work with the display industry So I think realistically we can expect these products on the market when it's soon of course not from us We are there in the organization, but from our customers for the display industries. So you're an RFID organization Are you like universities or what are you? No, I'm I'm because it's actually world-largest independent R&D in microelectronics So we are we are with more than 2,000 people and this 600 companies in microelectronics partnering with us and This is this is the biggest commitment to R&D in microelectronics in partnership Where are you based? They're based in Leuven in Belgium. It's very close to Brussels. What are we doing over there? This is the same as we saw before but I'm going to show you this one as well This is an illustration of how the how the plastic technologies processed on In reality in the foundry, so it's laminated onto a rigid glass carrier for all the technology steps And then when devices are made we can we can just delaminate it like that So peel it off and put it for example in paper in plastic and smart package and things like that Nice and the peeling off is that something that can be automated and Put into something else that's flexible. What is this? This is the same. This is the same technology on a smaller scale So they have different variety of scales. This is the smallest scale. This is a lap lap process So we can we can be very very fast and very flexible and trying new things. This is a bigger scale This is more for prototyping. So if you want to make hundred or one thousand top devices This is the platform and eventually in a real foundry. It goes up to several meters by several meters So we hear the ID Tech X show. What do you think about this show and what do you think about all these technologies around here? This is a fantastic show. It's very good to see many end users this year Very very strong support from the end user companies and very strong application cases that are driven by concrete products So I think this is this is fantastic new new thing in printed electronics a lot of suppliers very active suppliers almost for any type of any type of material equipment that you might need in the wall chain of printed electronics and a lot of actually growing interest to the applications and What do you do? Do you make all this? What is your job? We are as organization I'm helping I'm helping technical people to bring to bring this to to real to real applications and to work with Application companies. Yeah, because there's a lot of awesome awesome stuff, but we want to see it in real things So you bring it over to those playing cards. This is the first. This is the first one The first right here. Please look please look at the news Follow the news of iMac and whole center. We will have more of that during the year So we are working on sensors We are working on NFC techs that can work with NFC enabled smartphones And we are working on on a smart packaging projects and so on so that does foldable display that you had over there It's right here, right? Yes What's the performance potentially is there how many pixels and How good does it look as Performance performance will be as as the customers want and customers always want large displays very high resolution Very nice brightness very low power consumption. These are all the things that we are helping our industry partners to to tackle That's gonna be possible flexible high resolution high contrast everything. Yes at the moment at the moment we are developing And the set of set of many many different technologies that actually need needed as building blocks to make it happen Because something has been showing flexible displays for five years, but there's no Just the edge, but it's like not really flexible But you see they they become more and more flexible from completely flat they became curved You said you see the same in in the industry And of course it takes some time to to move from rigid glass to a new substrate such as That is a reliable What's called Reliability mechanical properties and product these are all new things to be discovered. It's never been done before For Egypt for Egypt systems and glass