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Thin Film Electronics ASA (“Thinfilm”)

Affordable Scaling of Sensor Manufacturing with Printed Electronics

Davor Sutija, Chief Executive Officer TSensors Summit Munich 2014

Using Printed Electronics to Create the Internet of Everything

The $100 Billion Market Opportunity

$315 billion1 $100 billion

5 – 10 trillion

# disposable items sold in 2012

(~23% of retail value)

(1% of retail value)

EXISTING MARKET MARKET GAP

Why hasn’t this gap been addressed?

I n t e r n e t o f E v e r y t h i n g

Lack of scalability in conventional electronics Cost of integration The solution?

Printed Electronics

Penetration of electronic intelligence in physical objects

1 Global semiconductor market (2013) Source: IDC; Gartner; World Bank; IMF; HIS; The Semiconductor Industry Association; OICA; IC Insights; MarketLine; Apparel Market; Planet Forward

Thinfilm Tags

Application 5-10 1-1.5 Personal health care Dynamic price display Interactive packaging 2-5 Monitoring of perishable goods 1-2 Market size ($ bn) 2-5 Anti-theft/ brand protection 2 Logistics NFC & "Internet

• f Everything"

10+

Devices Software Cloud

~2bn

Trillions

• f Sensors

Technology- differentiated solutions and service offerings for customers: Device Software Cloud

Compelling Opportunities for Printed Electronics

Thinfilm Memory Smart Labels - Display Smart Labels & NFC Barcode

Authenticate genuine products, validate refills, track gray market activity Sensors and timers bring local intelligence to everyday products Simple, effortless wireless link between everyday products and phones/tablets Unique electrical signature provides forensic-level protection with instant in- field testing (customs, in-store) Printed display for a clear, definitive digital readout Every item uniquely identifiable, cloud-linked for custom experiences Multi-bit rewritable memory to store supply chain info and track use Temperature, humidity, chemical, and other sensors possible Sensor integration enables active, dynamic smart objects

About Thinfilm: Key Product Families

►2014 CTIA Wireless, Emerging Technology Award

Alongside Samsung, VMWare, Nokia

►2014 All-Star Innovator, PharmaManufacturing.com ►2012 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award ►2012 World Technology Award

Sponsored by CNN, Time, Science and Technology Review

►2012 GigaOM Mobile 15

Alongside Nest, Fitbit, Apple, Samsung

►Industry awards from IDTechEx, FlexTech Alliance, etc.

Thinfilm Innovation in Printed Electronics

Memory and Logic

Fundamentals of Computer Design from the Printing Press

Printed memory

• rewritable and nonvolatile
• commericlized technology
• Roll-to-roll manufacturing

OTFT (Organic thin film transistors)

• Excellent material stack characteristics for

both p and n type materials

• High-volume manufacturing compatible methods

Memory + Logic

Printed Electronics Conventional Silicon

• Additive print processes,

based on inks

• Highly scalable
• CapEx orders of magnitude below

conventional silicon

• Quick turnaround
• Continous roll or high-efficiency

sheetfed processes

• Large area sensor
• Subtractive process,

based on photolithography

• Gradual capacity scaling not possible due to

‘megafab’ economics

• New factories $5-10B+
• Hundreds of production steps
• 8-12 week standard process time
• Relies on old/obsolete factories for

NFC/RFID, but 70 closed 2009-2013, 9 more in 2014

Manufacturing Options for the Internet of Everything

Organic thin-film transistor and PDPS performance

p-channel n-channel

G

Plastic foil Gate insulator

S D

Planarization Semiconductor

Schematic cross section

Top-gate, bottom-contact configuration

Schematic cross section

Transistor development roadmap

Traditional manufacturing – Base process

• Vacuum deposition
• Spin coating
• Photolithography

Small-scale printing

• Gravure plate printer
• Rotogravure printer
• Flexo printer

HVM printing R2R

High-volume manufacturing

• R2R system

HVM printing S2S

High-volume manufacturing compatible methods

• Rotogravure printer
• Screen printer

Production capable PE manufacturing equipment

Kroenert Roll-to-roll printing machine Ohio GT high sheet to sheet gravure print

Use Case: Brand Protection

Thinfilm Memory™ in market now to protect luxury goods against counterfeiters

Authentication labels

• Brand authentication
• Refill verification
• Dispenser tracking
• Grey-market identification

Transforming Print Technology into Products

Temperature Sensor Label w/ Display Timer Label w/ Display Temperature Threshold Sensor Label w/ NFC

OTFT Temperature Threshold label

Battery Temp sensor

Threshold detector w/

• r w/o latch

Display driver Display On-switch

Batteries – various technologies

• available. Current 9V drive voltage on

its way to 6V. On-switch compatible with need to activate label somewhere in use-case flow Printed NTC thermistor from PST OTFT based threshold circuitry based

• n print-compatible material sets

OTFT based display driver Electro-chromic display from ACREO

Sensing and Logic with Printed-Dopant Polysilicon

NFC-enabled smart label combines sensing + wireless communication

• NFC Barcode product ready with commercial yields
• Supported natively by Samsung Galaxy S5 and other

Google Android phones

• NFC well positioned as the glue for the Internet of

Everything beyond smart devices (Android, Apple, Windows Phone, etc.)

Printed System Printed NFC

Internet of Everything

NFC Smart Label

NFC Temp Threshold Tag

Battery Temp sensor Threshold detector NFC interface On-switch

Batteries – various technologies

• available. Current 6V drive voltage on

its way to 3V. Proprietary on-switch to activate label at customer’s command Printed or conventional thermistor PDPS based threshold circuitry NFC interface made by PDPS – readable with Android phones

NFC Smart Label: Temperature Sensor Operation

• 1. Phone RF energy activates tag

NFC Barcode IC activated by 13.56MHz (NFC standard) RF power transmitted by mobile phone

• 2. NFC Barcode transmits

Unique ID + sensor data to phone

Label transmits 128-bit code = Unique ID + sensor bits following Enables full audit chain by connecting sensor data reads with fixed, universally Unique ID

• 3. Mobile app takes action

based on tag ID and sensor data

App provides intuitive user interface and may connect to cloud database server to unlock personalized/customized user experience

• 4. Cloud services record & analyze

Aggregate user activity can be mined for valuable insights and analytics.

• Logistics & brand protection: track counterfeiting and diversion,

sensors can identify weak links in temp-controlled supply chains

• Consumer marketing: optimize on-package digital promotions

and offers by leveraging user history, location, context data

0000  Temp ok 0011  Temp high 1100  Temp low

Smart packaging builds loyalty with mobile-first customers

• Recommendations/

alerts based on sensed data

• Personalized

cross-sell, up-sell content & offers

• Loyalty & contest

integration

• Recall and

expiration alerts

• Multimedia tips &

tricks from celebrity experts

• Contextual,

multi-lingual info

• Authenticity check to

verify genuine product

• Analytics gathered for

brand owner

Cloud Connectivity & the Printed Internet of Everything

/ NFC / RF

Printed Electronics Use Case: Fresh Food Monitoring & Cold Chain Transport

Need for cost-effective sensing

• Temperature excursions compromise food quality and safety every day
• 24% of food calories produced for human consumption are wasted
• 40% of losses in developing countries due to poor storage/monitoring
• Brief high temperature excursions can reduce shelf life of

fresh food by 40%+

• $8 Billion logistics market for temp-sensitive pharmaceuticals, including

$2.8 Billion of specialized packaging and instrumentation

• 40% of vaccines in UK kept at incorrect temperatures
• $20 Million in ruined vaccines annually in US Federal Vaccines for

Children Program

Temperature Sensor Label

Application Example: Time-Temperature Sensor Label

Sensor & Display Labels Temperature Monitoring for Perishable Goods

$1.4 billion in 2010 9% CAGR 500,000,000 color changing labels sold per year

Low High Low Cost per function System performance High

Data Loggers & Alarm Tags Simple Tracker Color changing labels

Printed Electronics Sweet Spot Printed Electronics Positioning

One sensor label for fresh foods – multiple touch points

Packaging Facility Retailer Consumer Verification Internet of Things, Connected Home

Label applied Temperature tracked in-line through processing Scans verify freshness before/after shipment Employee scans with phone or store-issued device to determine freshness and upload information to cloud for big data analytics/monitoring Stores can dynamically allocate inventory to discount safe food with limited shelf life – less waste Consumer uses their own NFC enabled phone to scan package in store and receive freshness sensor data (“Is this fish still good?”) Significant opportunity to introduce personalized mobile marketing Check in / check out items from smart refrigerator Alerts to eat expiring foods first (with recipe suggestions) Automated mobile alerts to rebuy expiring/depleted items (milk, eggs)

B2B B2C

Thinfilm NFC Sensor Label: Unique ID + sensor data structure

128-bit NFC Barcode data structure for Sensor Label applications Unique ID Sensor Data CRC 104+ bits Up to 8 bits 16 bits

Enables unique identification of each label. Unique database key for data recording and lookup to facilitate audit trail in logistics applications. Trillions of trillions of unique possibilities. For data integrity verification Digital sensor read data transmitted as part of tag data stream

Data transmission protocol notes & compatibility

• Highly efficient unidirectional

tag-talks-first protocol for fastest throughput

• Protocol compatible with subset of

ISO14443 standard

• Supported by NFC controllers from NXP,

Samsung, Broadcom, Qualcomm, INSIDE Secure/Intel, Sony, MediaTek, and others

Demonstration of NFC-Enabled Smart Label

Success Requires Partnership

“Our agreement with Thinfilm could make printed electronics a component of every package we manufacture.”- Henry Theisen, Chairman, Bemis

Contact info:

Davor Sutija, CEO davor.sutija@thinfilm.no +47 94 84 98 86