The overall €2.65million project will accelerate the adoption of organic semiconductors as a universal thin film transistor (TFT) backplane platform for the mass manufacture of flexible and curved mobile, embedded and large area OLED and LCD displays.
“This funding boost which will accelerate our current work to industrialise the development of our truFLEX TFT platform technology,” commented SmartKem CEO Steve Kelly. “Flexible OLED and LCD displays will be integral to a new generation of display based devices for mobile, automotive, industrial and large area applications. The demand we are seeing for our technology emphasises the strength of the EU chemicals industry and of materials innovation in generating the growth of new markets.”
SmartKem will lead the two-year project, which will focus on the industrialisation and transfer of their organic semiconductor platform over large area plastic substrates using standard slit coat processing. According to the company, the main objective will be to maintain electrical and physical uniformity and quality of transistor performance over large area formats for mass production on existing production lines in Asia.
