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2006 Fall Technical Conference

The Fall Conference program is divided into two sections:

Select One:  Coating/Laminating and Vacuum Web Coating.

These provide options focusing on different aspects of the Industry.

PRELIMINARY AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Vacuum Web Coating Sessions

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Sunday, October 22

12:00pm-
7:00pm
Conference Registration
1:00pm-
3:00pm
CEMA Board and Committee Meetings
3:00pm-
5:00pm
AIMCAL Board and Committee Meetings
6:00pm-
7:00pm
Keynote Address:
Moth-eyes, Lotus leaves, Sharkskin and Gecko feet - functional surfaces inspired by nature, made on a coating machine.

Professor Steve Abbott
MacDermid Autotype Ltd.
7:00pm-
8:30pm
Welcome Reception and TableTop Exhibition
Sponsored by CMM

Monday, October 23

7:00am Conference Registration Opens
7:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast
7:45-8:00 Conference Welcome

Session 1B
Session Leaders: Reiner Kukla and Bob Bakish

8:00 - 9:00 Metallized Papers & Films - Developments in The Global Market
Bill Llewellyn
AWA Alexander Watson Associates
9:00 - 9:30 Comparison Between Vacuum And Non -Vacuum Processes
Roger Phillips
JDSU-Flex Products Group
9:30 - 10:00 Some Practical Constraints, Rules Of Thumb, And Physical Limits To RFID Antennas As We Know Them Now
Richard Swisher
Swisher & Assoc.
10:00 - 10:30 Break


10:30 - 11:00 TBA


11:00 - 11:30 Additive versus Substractive Processes for Flex. Microelectronic
Wolfgang Decker
Vast Films, Ltd.
11:30 - 12:00 Gains in Metallizing Economics through Improved Evaporator Boat Design
Ramamoorthy Ramasamy
GE Advanced Materials, Quartz
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch


Session 2B
Session Leaders: Bernard Henry and Adrian May

1:00 - 1:30 Process Stabilisation And Control Via Intelligent Sensing
Dr. Dermot Monaghan
Gencoa
1:30 - 2:00 A Flexible Active-matrix Electronic Paper Display Driven with Amorphous Oxide Semiconductors
Manabu Ito
Toppan Printing Company, Ltd.
2:00 - 2:30 Sputter Metallizing of Polyimide Film for Flexible Printed Circuit
Hans Maidhof
Applied Films GmbH & Co. KG
2:30 - 3:00 New Evaporation Boat
Jun-ichi Susaki
Denki Kagaku Kogyo K.K.
3:00 - 3:30 Break


3:30 - 4:00 Metal Adhesion on Polyester Films
Ed Culbertson
Mitsubishi Polyester Film, Inc.
4:00 - 4:30 Chemical Analysis Of The Polyester/Metal Surface Of A Delamination Failure
Eldridge Mount
EMMOUNT Technologies
4:30 - 5:00 Vacuum Coated Products - Environmental Saint or Sinner
Bill Llewellyn
AWA Alexander Watson Associates
5:00pm - 7:00pm TableTop Exhibition & Reception
Sponsored by GfE Metalle + Materialien GmbH

Tuesday October 24

7:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast

Session 3B
Session Leaders: Richard Swisher and Eldridge Mount

8:00 - 8:30 Ink Jet For In-Vacuum Patterning - A Look At The Feasibility
Bernard Henry (for Charlie Bishop)
Oxford University
8:30 -9:00 Metallizing Machine Vacuum Pumps - Operation Principles and Maintenance Considerations
Greg Tullo
Bobst - General Vacuum
9:00 - 9:30 Metallizer Performance Evaluations - Capacity Improvements
Eldridge Mount
EMMount Technologies
9:30 - 10:00 Electron Beam Induced Bias for High Speed, High Quality Coating of Ultra Thin Capacitor Web
Dr. Stephan Kueper
Leybold Optics GmbH
10:00 - 10:30 Break


10:30 - 11:00 Contribution of Plasma in Vacuum Al Metallized Polyester Film
B. N. Gupta
PolyPlex Corporation Ltd.
11:00 - 11:30 Aluminum Wire in Metallizing
Kevin Hunter
Shaped Wire / Solon Specialty Wire
11:30 - 12:00 Vacuum Metallization of Paper and Outgassing Materials
Fabiano Rimediotti
Galileo Vacuum Systems, Inc.
Tuesday afternoon and evening are free.

Wednesday, October 25

7:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast

Session 4B
Session Leaders: Jerry Noblin and Fabiano Rimediotti

8:00 - 8:30 The Mechanical Properties of Metal Oxide Coated Polyester Films
Bernard Henry
University of Oxford
8:30 - 9:00 High Rate Deposition of Silicon Dioxide Coatings by New Plasma Enhanced CVD Source Technology
J. Madocks
General Plasma Inc.
9:00 - 9:30 Metallized Aluminum with Superior Corrosion Resistance
Angelo Yializis
Sigma Technologies International, Inc.
9:30 - 10:00 Permeation Analysis Of Ultra-thin Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Gas Barrier Coatings On Polymers
Bandeep Singh, Letterier
EPFL-Tetra Pak (Suisse) SA
10:00 - 10:30 Break


10:30 - 11:00 Highly Efficient Solar Absorbers Produced by Large Area Electron Beam Deposition
Jörg Faber
VON ARDENNE Anlagentechnik GmbH
11:00 - 11:30 Clear Barrier Films - Process, Performance and Opportunity
Andrew Skinner
Amcor Flexibles Camvac
11:30 - 12:00 Reactive Sputtering Of Al2O3 With A Rotating Magnetron And The Associated Hysteresis Behaviour
Roger de Gryse
University Gent
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch


Session 5: Joint Session
Session Leaders: John Fenn and Ed Cohen

1:00 - 1:30 Multilayer Films and Platelets for Biomedical Applications
Kent Coulter
Southwest Research Institute
1:30 - 2:00 Continuous R2R Coating Methodology to Manufacture Precision Microstructures for Displays, High-Brightness LEDs,Traffic Signs, Solar Concentrators and other Light Management Products
Robert Pricone
10x Technology
2:00 - 2:30 Novel Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing Techniques for Patterning Conductive Layers
Robert Praino
MicroContinuum
2:30 - 3:00 Doped Ceramic Thin Films: A New Approach to In-Line Depositions
John Felts
Nano Scale Surface Systems, Inc
3:00 - 3:30 Break


3:30 - 4:00 Nano-Composite Polymer Optical Coatings
Tom Faris
Vampire Optical Coatings, Inc.
4:00 - 4:30 Challenges and Requirements for Flexible Displays and Microelectronics
Paul Wickboldt
CAMM at University of Binghamton & USDC

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