IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2008 Awards Announced

The independent panel of judges comprised of Prof. Bill Milner, Director, Centre for Advanced Photonics & Electronics - University of Cambridge; Prof. Karl Leo, Institut fuer Angewandte Photophysik; Prof. Edgar Dorsam - Technische Universitat Darmstadt; and Dr Peter Harrop, IDTechEx.

LG Displays won the IDTechEx Technical Development Device Award for the World’s highest resolution 14.3-inch flexible color e-paper display. It has a resolution of 2560 by 1600 sub-pixels and the ability to display nearly 16.7 million colors. This display uses electronic ink between Thin-Film Transistors (TFT) on a thin stainless-steel-foil substrate and Color Filter Array coated onto the plastic substrate, allowing it to recover its original shape after being bent as well as to produce color images. To make this new display possible proprietary processing technologies that minimize panel deformation and prevent circuit structure change during high-temperature processes were developed.