Printed Electronics Award Winners Announced at Printed Electronics Europe
Compare this to an LCD touch screen which consumes the same amount of power irrespective of the image produced.
The judges are impressed that key market players have expressed an interest in pSEL Hybrid, underlining both its market viability and its production feasibility.
Best Technical Development - Materials - Merck
Organic semiconductors OSC currently being commercialised with not much more than 0.1 cm2/V-sec mobility - a low number compared with the needs of the marketplace, for example, for higher frequencies of operation of printed transistors. Consequently, rapid commercialisation of printed electronic applications has been inhibited by the continuing lack of availability of a semiconducting polymer that, when printed from solution, can combine the necessary properties of high charge carrier mobility and ambient stability along with the additional mechanical advantages of a polymer. The researchers identified the limitations of the currently available OSC materials. Through a rational molecular design strategy they developed a self-assembling crystalline polymer that achieved the desired performance criteria. These easily processable materials exhibit the highest charge mobilities demonstrated to date by a polymeric semiconductor. This work has been recognized by a number of leading researchers in the field, in particular, Dr. Alan Heeger, the Nobel Laureate. This development represents a major breakthrough in making printed electronics a reality and supports the emergence of a several billion dollar market.
