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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:
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:
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:
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:
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