Next Chips: Organic Transistors and Memories and the Applications They Will Enable

One example of this is that at the Society for Information Display (SID) annual conference in 2006 there was much talk about OTFT backplanes could lower the costs for LCD display makers. But two years later, there are few if any OTFT backplanes for LCD displays. They are being aimed now primarily at OLED and especially e-paper displays. Similarly printed OTFT-based RFID tags are widely seen as the way to get prices for such tags down to the point where RFID technology can be widely deployed at the item level. But printed RFID development is perhaps a year behind schedule when compared to where it was expected to be a couple of years ago. The first printed OTFT RFID tags are beginning to appear, but they are very basic products indeed. It is perhaps symptomatic that some now believe that the first significant revenues for OTFT-based products will come not from relatively complex products such as RFID tags and backplanes, but from games and novelties.