Organic Semiconductor Industry Awards (OSIA)

OSIA Winners 2007

The 2007 Organic Semiconductor Industry Awards (OSIA), sponsored by cintelliq and in association with OSA Direct, were presented by Craig Cruickshank, cintelliq CEO, at the Organic Electronics Conference and Exhibition (OEC-07) Gala Dinner in Frankfurt, Germany, on 25 September 2007.

Craig Cruickshank (left), and the winners of the OSIA 2007 awards: (from left to right) Min-Joo Kim of LG.Philips LCD, Edzer Huitema of Polymer Vision, and Scott Brown representing CDT

The winners, selected by the independent panel of judges were as follows:

Research & 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

Dr Scott Brown, Executive VP of Sumation, accepted the Research and Development award on behalf of Cambridge Display Technology.

Runners up:

LG Philips LCD, for the first 15" XGA AMLCD (86ppi) panel with OTFT backplane using solution-soluble organic materials
OLED-T, for Super K Layer.

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

Dr Edzer Huitema, CTO of Polymer Vision, accepted the Start-up of the Year award on behalf of Polymer Vision.

Runners up:

Menippos, the creator of HurraFussball an electronic trading card game
Novaled, a technology provider in organic light-emitting diode technologies

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

Min-Joo Kim accepted the Best Peer-Review Paper award on behalf of LG.Philips LCD.

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"
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"