SmartKem, a leader in the design, synthesis and supply of high performance organic semiconductors and organic thin film transistor (OTFT) technology, has hailed the decision by one of the world’s largest display manufacturers to create a dedicated Gen 3.5 OTFT backplane production line as a landmark moment for the semiconductor industry.
Orbotech Ltd. (Yavne, Israel), a leading global supplier of yield-enhancing and process-enabling solutions for the manufacture of electronics products, announced a US$24M order with Xianyang Caihong Optoelectronics Technology Co. Ltd. (CHOT), a Chinese flat panel display manufacturer and part of the China Electronics Corporation (CEC).
SmartKem (Manchester, UK), a leading developer of organic semiconductors for the manufacture of low power, lightweight and conformal liquid crystal (LC) and OLED displays, has revealed further details of an innovative project to accelerate the production of a new generation of display-based products. FLEXTRANS is a two-year programme to support the transition to market of their truFLEX thin film transistor (TFT) platform for the manufacture of high performance active matrix display backplanes on glass or plastic.