IDTechEx Announces Winners of the Printed Electronics 2008 Awards

Kovio was awarded with the Technical Development Materials Award after achieving outstanding material mobility from an inkjet printed thin-film transistor (TFT). The company has invented a printed electronics material and printed semiconductor process combining of printable silicon, dielectric, doped silicon, metal and insulator inks that enables the world’s first all-printed silicon high performance TFT. Kovio has demonstrated low-cost inkjet printed silicon TFTs with mobility of 80 cm2/Vs, significantly exceeding the performance of previously demonstrated all-printed TFT devices using organic and other inorganic semiconductors. The breakthrough provides a new axis for innovation and applications that will transform the silicon-based semiconductor industry.