IDTechEx Announces Printed Electronics Awards Winners
December 10, 2008
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By Raghu Das, CEO, IDTechEx
Attendance at the annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2008 event reached almost 700 people from 22 countries. The event hosted the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Awards to recognize outstanding achievement. The award categories and winners are:
1. Technical Development Manufacturing Award: NovaCentrix
2. Technical Development Materials Award: Plextronics
3. Technical Development Device Award: Plastic Logic
4. New Product Development Award: Kovio
5. Commercialization Award: Epson
6. Academic R&D Award: University of St Andrews, Scotland
7. Printed Electronics USA Champion: Dr. Vivek Subramanian
Technical Development Manufacturing Award: NovaCentrix
NovaCentrix wins this award for its PulseForge™ line of processing tools. PulseForge tools sinter in milliseconds metal and semiconductor inks, including on low temperature, flexible substrates such as PET and paper. Where ovens can require minutes or hours of processing time, the PulseForge tools require less than a second. The key element of the tools is the patented pulsed light technology which uses proprietary lamps to deliver the energy required to effect the desired material changes. Tools are available ranging from process development to full roll-to-roll processing, the latter being demonstrated for the first time at the Printed Electronics event.
The PulseForge tools are a significant step in allowing printed electronics to be manufactured at commercial scale and cost, overcoming many limitations. As a result, NovaCentrix were chosen by the judging panel as the winner of the IDTechEx Manufacturing Award.
Technical Development Materials Award: Plextronics
Plextronics recently made available the Plexcore® PV 1000 and Plexcore PV 2000 ink systems for use in research-scale printed solar cell development. In Q2 of 2008, Plextronics' organic photovoltaic technology achieved a world record in the conversion of solar light to power efficiency. The 5.98% result, achieved on a 50 mm x 50 mm substrate, established a new world record for single layer organic solar cells and was certified by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Plextronics wins the award for this material development.
Technical Development Device Award: Plastic Logic
Plastic Logic has made advances in plastic electronics that are enabling the worlds' thinnest, lightest, largest and most robust plastic displays. Plastic Logic had to develop methods for manufacturing high-resolution transistor arrays at low-temperatures. The company developed a process that uses coating methods on flexible plastic substrates that enable completely flexible active matrix displays that are thinner, lighter and more robust than glass.
Attendance at the annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2008 event reached almost 700 people from 22 countries. The event hosted the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Awards to recognize outstanding achievement. The award categories and winners are:
1. Technical Development Manufacturing Award: NovaCentrix
2. Technical Development Materials Award: Plextronics
3. Technical Development Device Award: Plastic Logic
4. New Product Development Award: Kovio
5. Commercialization Award: Epson
6. Academic R&D Award: University of St Andrews, Scotland
7. Printed Electronics USA Champion: Dr. Vivek Subramanian
Technical Development Manufacturing Award: NovaCentrix
NovaCentrix wins this award for its PulseForge™ line of processing tools. PulseForge tools sinter in milliseconds metal and semiconductor inks, including on low temperature, flexible substrates such as PET and paper. Where ovens can require minutes or hours of processing time, the PulseForge tools require less than a second. The key element of the tools is the patented pulsed light technology which uses proprietary lamps to deliver the energy required to effect the desired material changes. Tools are available ranging from process development to full roll-to-roll processing, the latter being demonstrated for the first time at the Printed Electronics event.
The PulseForge tools are a significant step in allowing printed electronics to be manufactured at commercial scale and cost, overcoming many limitations. As a result, NovaCentrix were chosen by the judging panel as the winner of the IDTechEx Manufacturing Award.
Technical Development Materials Award: Plextronics
Plextronics recently made available the Plexcore® PV 1000 and Plexcore PV 2000 ink systems for use in research-scale printed solar cell development. In Q2 of 2008, Plextronics' organic photovoltaic technology achieved a world record in the conversion of solar light to power efficiency. The 5.98% result, achieved on a 50 mm x 50 mm substrate, established a new world record for single layer organic solar cells and was certified by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Plextronics wins the award for this material development.
Technical Development Device Award: Plastic Logic
Plastic Logic has made advances in plastic electronics that are enabling the worlds' thinnest, lightest, largest and most robust plastic displays. Plastic Logic had to develop methods for manufacturing high-resolution transistor arrays at low-temperatures. The company developed a process that uses coating methods on flexible plastic substrates that enable completely flexible active matrix displays that are thinner, lighter and more robust than glass.
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