In the PriMeBits project, a printable electric low-voltage nonvolatile memory is developed for printed sensor, media and wireless-ID applications. The main strategy is to utilize printed technology where it has a competitive advantage compared to silicon technology. The project builds on basic research of new materials and components and takes the results into prototyping of new applications, e.g.

1. Logistics : Moisture alarm for the dry package supply chain
2. Retail Moisture Alarm: Enabling high quality customer services
3. Mildew Watch Dog: Ensuring a healthy, CO2 compliant home
4. ePIN: Secure protection leveraging your personal ePIN on paper
5. IQCard Games: Integrates brain jogging into playing cards
6. Loyalty Ticketing: Disposable Loyalty Solutions at conferences

To overcome the shortcomings of prior-art printed memory approaches,
• printable inorganic metaloxide nanoparticle-based ferroelectric FRAM memory (new printing inks based on, for example, barium titanate nanoparticles)
• resistive metallic-based write-once-read-many (WORM) memory customized commercial metal nanoparticle inks.
will be demonstrated.

Depending on the application, contact and contactless external devices are used for the reading and writing of the memory.

To learn more about the applications and demonstrators please join 

Primebits External Group on Linkedin.