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Thin Film Electronics ASA (“Thinfilm”)

Affordable Scaling of Sensor Manufacturing with Printed Electronics

Davor Sutija, Chief Executive OfficerTSensors 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

1-1.5Personal 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 of Everything"

10+

Devices

Software

Cloud

~2bn

Trillionsof 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 timersbring 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 enablesactive, dynamic smart objects

About Thinfilm: Key Product Families

►2014 CTIA Wireless, Emerging Technology AwardAlongside 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 15Alongside Nest, Fitbit, Apple, Samsung

►Industry awards from IDTechEx, FlexTech Alliance, etc.

Thinfilm Innovation in Printed Electronics

Memory and LogicFundamentals 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

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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 R2RHigh-volume manufacturing

• R2R system

HVM printing S2SHigh-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

TemperatureSensorLabelw/ Display

TimerLabelw/ Display

TemperatureThresholdSensorLabelw/ NFC

OTFT Temperature Threshold label

Battery

Temp sensor

Threshold detector w/ or 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 on 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 tagNFC Barcode IC activated by 13.56MHz (NFC standard) RF power transmitted by mobile phone

2. NFC Barcode transmitsUnique ID + sensor data to phoneLabel transmits 128-bit code = Unique ID + sensor bits followingEnables full audit chain by connecting sensor data reads with fixed, universally Unique ID

3. Mobile app takes actionbased on tag ID and sensor dataApp provides intuitive user interface and may connect to cloud database server to unlock personalized/customized user experience

4. Cloud services record & analyzeAggregate 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 ok0011 Temp high1100 Temp low

Smart packaging builds loyaltywith mobile-first customers

• Recommendations/alerts based on sensed data

• Personalizedcross-sell, up-sellcontent & offers

• Loyalty & contest integration

• Recall andexpiration alerts

• Multimedia tips & tricks from celebrity experts

• Contextual,multi-lingual info

• Authenticity check toverify 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 offresh 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 20109% CAGR

500,000,000 color changing labels sold per year

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Simple Tracker

Colorchanginglabels

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 trackedin-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 dynamicallyallocate 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 foodsfirst (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 IDSensorData

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, CEOdavor.sutija@thinfilm.no

+47 94 84 98 86