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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.
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
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
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
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"
The 2007 judging panel consisted of:
- 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, OSA Direct
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