FlexEnable, a leader in the development and industrialisation of flexible organic transistors and optics, has won the 2025 Display Component of the Year Award by the Society of Information Display (SID) for its FlexiOM organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) materials, now shipping in flexible e-paper displays. The awards recognise the best displays, components, and applications introduced to the market during the previous calendar year.
“Our team is deeply honoured to receive the prestigious 2025 Display Component of the Year Award for FlexEnable’s high-performance FlexiOM OTFT materials,” said Chuck Milligan, CEO of FlexEnable. “After two decades of deep technology development, followed by an intensive programme of supply chain setup with our partners DKE, Giantplus and E Ink, our FlexiOM materials and OTFT technology entered mass production in 2024. The first consumer product – the Ledger Stax, has a unique 180-degree curved rugged e-paper display – with a form factor uniquely enabled by our organic transistor materials.”
Historic milestone
Chuck Milligan added: “This historic milestone – the world’s first ever mass-produced OTFTs – paves the way for incredible new product designs and use cases for flexible EPD and LCD displays as well as active optics applications, including ePrivacy modules, XR pixelated dimmers and tunable lenses.”
The FlexiOM materials set comprises organic polymer semiconductor and dielectric materials that together form high-performance, highly rugged and flexible OTFTs, which bring unique form factors and functionality to curved displays and active optics. The OTFTs can be curved down to 100 microns and can even be 3D biaxially curved without affecting performance. When combined with a front plane, the technology unlocks unique product form factors, such as displays wrapped around tight exterior curves.
Energy savings
FlexEnable’s OTFT backplanes are manufactured without exceeding 100°C, which provides energy savings in production compared to silicon TFTs. The manufacturing process is designed to be implemented in existing LCD flat panel display fabs, providing highly differentiated display and active optical modules from existing assets.