IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2008 Awards Announced

Hewlett Packard and PowerFilm Solar won the award for best Technical Development in Manufacturing, after taking Self Aligned Imprint Lithography all the way into a fully roll-to-roll process. Bottom gate TFTs with both amorphous silicon and zinc tin oxide have been created. Winner Carl Taussig, from HP Labs, reports, “Not only does our solution eliminate the need for any alignments, but it eliminates the costly photolithography process which dominates the cost of conventional active matrix backplane manufacturing.”