IDTechEx Printed Electronics Awards Winners Announced美國印刷電子（軟電）展頒獎表揚傑出廠商Attendance at the annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2008 event reached almost 700 people from 22 countries. The event hosted the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Awards to recognize outstanding achievement. The award categories and winners are:

Technical Development Manufacturing Award: NovaCentrixNovaCentrix wins this award for its PulseForge™ line of processing tools. PulseForge™ tools sinter in milliseconds metal and semiconductor inks, including on low temperature, flexible substrates such as PET and paper.

Technical Development Materials Award: PlextronicsPlextronics recently made available the Plexcore® PV 1000 and Plexcore® PV 2000 ink systems for use in research-scale printed solar cell development.

Technical Development Device Award: Plastic LogicPlastic Logic has made advances in plastic electronics that are enabling the worlds' thinnest, lightest, largest and most robust plastic displays. Plastic Logic had to develop methods for manufacturing high-resolution transistor arrays at low-temperatures.

Best New Product Development Award: KovioKovio wins the IDTechEx New Product Development Award for its printed silicon RFID platform for item-level intelligence.

Best Commercialization Award: EpsonEpson has invested substantially in developing inkjet printing technologies for electronics, and wins the IDTechEx Commercialization Award for commercializing the technology in large-scale deployments.

Academic R&D Award: University of St Andrews, ScotlandProfessor Samuel founded and leads the Organic Semiconductor Centre at the University of St. Andrews.

Printed Electronics USA Champion: Dr Vivek SubramanianThe Printed Electronics Champion Award is given to an individual that has done an extraordinary amount of work technically but has also participated in activities to promote and develop the industry.