Press release: Winners of OSIA 2007



Home Register Agenda Speakers Exhibition Sponsors Workshops Company tours Call for papers Travel and hotel Press Coverage Resources Contact Why OEC-07? Perspectives		Press release Top organisations recognised with Organic Semiconductor Industry Awards 2007 The winners of the Organic Semiconductor Industry Awards 2007 were announced on 25 September at the Organic Electronics Conference (OEC-07) in Frankfurt, Germany. The Organic Semiconductor Industry Awards (OSIA), sponsored by cintelliq and in association with OSA Direct, are open to all organisations operating in the organic semiconductor and organic electronics industry. The 2007 awards were presented by Craig Cruickshank, CEO of cintelliq and chairman of the awards panel, at the OEC-07 Gala Dinner. Craig Cruickshank (left) with the winners of the OSIA 2007 awards (left to right): Min-Joo Kim of LG Philips LCD, Edzer Huitema of Polymer Vision, and Scott Brown representing Cambridge Display Technology Craig Cruickshank said, "The companies receiving these awards are leading the development of organic semiconductor technology, they are true pioneers helping to set the foundations that will enable a whole range of new and exciting applications based on organic electronics." He added, "The breadth and quality of this year's nominations are a clear indication that a major new industry is on the brink of commercialisation." The winners of OSIA 2007, selected by the independent panel of judges, were as follows: Start-up of the Year award Polymer Vision, a developer of rollable display enabled mobile devices, won the Start-up of the Year award. The judges felt that Polymer Vision stood out from the other nominations in this category because it has: Shown great technical and commercial progress throughout the past year Demonstrated the necessary qualities of a good start-up, by raising money developing excellent technology finding a lead customer having the potential to become a market or technology leader Runners up: Menippos (creator of HurraFussball an electronic trading card game) and Novaled (technology provider in OLED technologies). Research and Development award Cambridge Display Technology won the Research and Development award for its development of Total Matrix Addressing (TMA) The judges were particularly impressed by TMA because it: is an innovative solution to a challenging problem has the potential to alter the economics for driving high-resolution passive-matrix will provide benefit to both small molecule and polymer devices Runners up: LG Philips LCD for the first 15" XGA AMLCD (86ppi) panel with OTFT backplane using solution-soluble organic materials; and OLED-T for Super K Layer. Best Peer-Review Paper award The award for the Best Peer-Review Paper at OEC-07 was won by Min-Joo Kim, Dae-Won Kim, Young Hoon Noh, Han Saem Kang, Hochul Kang, Chang-Dong Kim, and InByeong Kang from LG Philips LCD for the paper "Solution Processed Organic Thin-Film Transistors for Active Matrix Color Liquid Crystal Displays". The judges selected Kim's paper from all those submitted to the peer review track at OEC-07 because it demonstrated: Great technical achievement and was an excellent paper Commitment by a large consumer-led company Runners up: Tatsuo Hasegawa from the Correlated Electron Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (CERC-AIST) for the paper "On-Substrate Synthesis of Organic Metal Films, Electrodes, and Circuits"; and Jens Fuerst, D Henseler, S Tedde, and E Zaus, from Siemens AG for the paper "256 x 256 pixels active matrix photo detector combing an amorphous Silicon thin film transistor array with organic photo diodes". Cruickshank said, "cintelliq established the OSIA awards in 2006 to encourage and recognise the organisations and individuals who are leading the way in this emerging industry. cintelliq is committed to helping the industry develop, and rewarding innovation, good practice and achievement with the OSIA awards is just one of the ways in which we do this." The members of the OSIA 2007 judging panel were: Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge Dickon Pinner, McKinsey & Co Chris Smart, Acacia Capital Partners Klaus Hecker, Organic Electronics Association (OE-A) Michael Ciesinski, US Display Consortium (USDC) Craig Cruickshank, cintelliq Related Links: www.cintelliq.com/osia 8 October 2007