Awards
Outstanding manuscripts among all the submitted papers to IMID 2009 will be selected for the awards of Minister of Science and Technology (Republic of Korea) and Merck. They will be selected by the award committee based upon their originality and the technical significance to information display industry. In addition, Conference Chairman Awards for excellent poster presentation will be presented.

* Award Date, Time & Place will be announced later.
The awardees will be selected from papers submitted to IMID 2009 based upon their originality and technical significance to information display industry.



1. Award of Minister of Science and Technology (Republic of Korea)
 
1) Grand Award
- 4¡°E-ink Active-matrix Displays based on Ink-jet Printed Organic Thin Film Transistors
 
  Bonwon Koo, Dohwan Kim, Hyunsik Moon, Jungwoo Kim, Eunjeong Jung, Joo-Young Kim and Sangyun Lee (SAIT, Korea)
2) Excellent Award
- Developments of Transparent ac-PDPs
 
  Hak-Nyun Choi, Seog-Young Lee, and Yong-Seog Kim (Hongik Univ., Korea)
- Downscaling of Self-aligned Inkjet Printed Polymer Thin Film Transistors
 
  Yong-Young Noh (ETRI, Korea), and Henning Sirrinhaus (Univ. of Cambridge, UK)
- A New Areal Selective Dimming Method of Mercury-free Flat Fluorescent Lamps for LCD Backlighting
 
  Jae-Chul Jung, In Woo S´ë, Byung Joo Oh, Hyuck Kim and Ki-Woong Whang (Seoul Nat¡¯l Univ., Korea)
 
2. Merck Award
 
1) Merck Grand Award
- Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Electronics on Flexible Substrates Using Self-Aligned Imprint Lithography (SAIL)
 
  Han-Jun Kim, Marcia Almanza-Workman, Alison Chaiken, Richard Elder, Bob Garcia, Warren Jackson, Albert Jeans, OhSeung Kwon, HaoLuo, Ping Mei, Craig Perlov, Carl Taussig (Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA), Frank Jeffrey, Kelly Beacom, Steve Braymen, Jason Hauschildt, and Don Larson (PowerFilm InC., Ames, IA, USA)
- A high Efficiency Green Phosphorescent OLED with Simple Double Emission Layer Structure
 
  Sun Young Kim, Tae Jin Park, Woo Sik Jeon, Rachamdra Pode, Jin Jang, and Jang Hyuk Kwon (Kyung Hee Univ., Korea),
- Development of Narrow Viewing Angle Mode TFT LCD and Application of Advanced Gray Compensation (GC) Algorithm
 
  S. H. Kim, K. J. Lee, Y. C. Jung, D. G. Lee, J. S. Baek, B. C. Ahn and H. C. Choi (LG Display, Korea)
2) Merck Young Scientist
- Direct Formation of Bi-level Microstructures for Wide-viewing Liquid Crystal Displays with Plastic Substrates
 
  Jong-Ho Hong, Seong-Min Cho, Yun-Tae Kim and Sin-Doo Lee (Seoul Nat¡¯l Univ., Korea)
- Fast Response Time PDP Phosphors for 3D Display Application
 
  Jay Hyok Song, Yumi Song, Ji Hyun Kim, Min Ju Kim, Ji Hyun Kim, Seon Young Kwon, Do Hyung Park, Yoon Chang Kim and Dong Sik Zang (Samsung SDI, Korea)