4th EOS Annual Meeting (EOSAM 2012)
Aberdeen, Exhibition and Conference Centre, Scotland (GB), from 25 - 28 September 2012

Submission deadline approaching soon
In the EOS homepage www.myeos.org you will find all Topical Meetings listed. Click on the one for which you intend to submit. Abstracts can be submitted until 7 May 2012. 
Check the EOS abstract guidelines here. 

Topical Meetings and Workshop at EOSAM 2012 
TOM 1: Biophotonics
TOM 2: Silicon Photonics
TOM 3: Nanophotonics & Metamaterials
TOM 4: Micro-optics
TOM 5: Organic Photonics & Electronics
TOM 6: Nonlinear Photonics
TOM 7: Optical Systems for the Energy & Production Industries
Workshop on Continuing Education: Short Courses for Industry

The Final Announcement and Call for Papers is available at www.myeos.org/events/eosam2012. Click here to download the PDF version of the call.

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  General Chairs
-Hervé Lefèvre, iXBLUE (FR)
-Paul Urbach, Delft University of Technology (NL)
-John Watson, University of Aberdeen (GB)
 

This year EOS annual meeting featuring the conference on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, will take place in Aberdeen in September: http://www.myeos.org/events/eosam2012_tom3 . The meeting features the excellent line-up of plenary and invited speakers. The deadline for abstract submissions is 7 May 2012. On behalf of the Programme Committee I would like to invite you to submit your research to this meeting.

Young Researchers’ Exchange Programme

The Nanophotonics for Energy Efficiency Young Researcher’s Exchange Programme main objective is to foster collaboration between institutions working on Nanophotonics for Energy Efficiency. It provides funds for travel, accommodation and subsistence to cover the expenses of young researchers (PhD students and postdoctoral researchers) visiting another company or research group in order to carry out collaborative work or to explore new possible collaborations.

The conditions to be fulfilled for funding through this program are:

• Eligible costs are travel, accommodation and subsistence costs of young researchers (PhD students and postdoctoral researchers) from N4E Consortium members or Associate Members.
• Application form for funding should be submitted by a N4E NoE Consortium Member.
• Management of funds, payments and financial reporting is the responsibility of the Consortium Member that submits the application.
• 1-page report (minimum) of the visit must be submitted to N4E Office ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) within 4 weeks of the date of finalisation of the visit. A publishable summary (minimum half a page) must be provided.
• Maximum cost to be funded by the program: 2000€ per visit

Download here the application form ERP_ApplicationForm

Please contact n4e-office for further information,

Solvay, Holst Centre and several other partners demonstrate flexible 69cm2 30lm/Watt OLED lighting tiles

This achievement clearly demonstrates the potential for high efficacy OLEDs on flexible plastic foils, opening ways to a production of low-cost OLED lighting tiles

Solvay and Holst Centre have demonstrated high efficiency flexible Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) lighting tiles with a surface area of 69cm². These large-area demonstrators contain several layers deposited by solution processing at Holst Centre and additional layers applied by conventional vacuum deposition at Solvay.

The highly efficient flexible OLED stack was designed and optimized at Solvay. It is based almost entirely on organic functional materials developed at Solvay and integrates Plexcore© OC Hole Injector Layer (HIL) from Plextronics, Inc. The demonstrators include Holst Centre’s own thin-film encapsulation and large-area transparent anode technologies on plastic substrates from DuPont Teijin Films.

Using printing technologies on flexible substrates will enable large scale manufacturing of OLEDs for general lighting applications, and will bring some additional features: thin, flexible, and potentially transparent light sources that could be integrated in ceiling, walls, windows ...
Source: Holst Centre

These large-area, flexible, white OLEDs have been characterised at Philips Research Laboratories* and found to have an energy efficiency of 30 lm/W at 1000 cd/m², which is 2 to 3 times higher than common incandescent bulbs.

This measured value is on par with results measured on smaller (7mm2) equivalent devices made at Solvay on glass substrates, suggesting the device architecture and materials set used in these demonstrators translate very well from small scale, rigid substrates to larger area on flexible plastic substrates.

Spurred by the encouraging results the partners are already working on a second generation of demonstrators encompassing more solution-processed layers. This achievement clearly demonstrates the potential for high efficacy OLEDs on flexible plastic foils, opening ways to a production of low-cost, solution-processed OLED lighting tiles.

*Measurement made in an integrating sphere on the total lighting tile area.

www.solvay.com www.holstcentre.com www.plextronics.com www.philips.com www.dupontteijinfilms.com